Massive numbers of 17- and 13-year cicadas—likely the largest broods in centuries—are emerging in parts of the United States. Annoyed and confused by their loud high-pitched buzzing, some residents of… Read the rest of the article: Calling the cops about cicadas probably won't help you
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David Pescovitz In 1985, Mister Rogers was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. An audience member asked an excellent question: "Do you ever just cut loose and lose control? Do you… Read the rest of the article: Mister Rogers answers if he ever lost his temper and flipped out (video)
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David Pescovitz This is inspired. Waldo Jaquith created a Mastodon bot in response to the cliché email opening sentence of "I hope this email finds you well." "Twice a day it proposes… Read the rest of the article: I hope this email finds you… (a very funny bot)
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David Pescovitz Residents of Grassy Park—a suburban neighborhood in Cape Town, South Africa—sheltered in place on Sunday while a hippopotamus roamed the quiet streets. The massive beast was on the lam from… Read the rest of the article: Suburban neighborhood on lockdown due to roaming hippopotamus (video)
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David Pescovitz No, not the US state, but I could imagine that too. Lawmakers in the Eastern European country of Georgia enjoyed an exciting session of Parliament when member Mamuka Mdinaradze of… Read the rest of the article: A Georgian legislator sucker-punched another lawmaker, triggering a big brawl (video)
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David Pescovitz PaintCam is an armed home/office security camera that uses AI to spot trespassers and fires paintballs or tear gas projectiles at them. The company's promotional video looks like a parody… Read the rest of the article: This armed security camera uses AI to fire paintballs or tear gas at trespassers
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David Pescovitz In Southern California's Riverside County, a driver was racing down a residential street when they lost control and the car launched into the air. It flew across a home's front… Read the rest of the article: Incredible video of car flying over a pickup truck right into home's garage
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David Pescovitz Sicily's Mount Etna has been blowing perfect smoke rings. The video below is astonishing. To be clear, the rings aren't actually smoke but rather condensed water vapor. (And it's happened… Read the rest of the article: Volcano blows perfect smoke rings (video)
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David Pescovitz Above is an image taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LOR) of a "mystery" surfboard-shaped object orbiting the Moon. Quashing the conspiracy theories, NASA has identified the UFO. In fact,… Read the rest of the article: That strange UFO orbiting the Moon has been identified
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David Pescovitz Step inside the apartment that artist Ron Gittins transformed into a weird and wonderful fantasy world inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. Gittins, who died in 2019, lived in the… Read the rest of the article: Look inside this rented apartment secretly rebuilt into fantasy world by eccentric artist
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David Pescovitz A pack of wolf-dog hybrids is roaming the Northern California town of Shingletown and have managed to evade capture. According to the Shasta County Sheriff's Office, the animals are some… Read the rest of the article: Escaped pack of hybrid beasts evading capture in Northern California town
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David Pescovitz More than 2,000 years ago, the Tukano people of the Colombian Amazon may have documented the soundtracks to their hallucinogenic experiences in drawings on volcanic boulders. Carved into rocks at… Read the rest of the article: Psychedelic music depicted on ancient Peruvian rock art
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David Pescovitz A semi-truck carrying more than 100,000 living salmon crashed in northeast Oregon. Incredibly, the truck overturned into a roadside creek and the vast majority of the young fish were dumped… Read the rest of the article: Truck carrying 100,000 living salmon crashes, astonishingly spilling the fish into a creek
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David Pescovitz On Friday, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs signed House Bill 2477 declaring that that "Pluto is the official state planet." Thing is, Pluto isn't actually a planet. It used to be… Read the rest of the article: Arizona announces its official state planet, but it isn't actually a planet
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David Pescovitz A resident of suburban South San Francisco called police to report that their home surveillance camera captured footage of a gray mountain lion slinking across a wooden fence. The South… Read the rest of the article: San Francisco police warns against mountain lion that wasn't
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David Pescovitz A few weeks ago in the middle of the afternoon, this hunk of metal crashed through the roof and two floors of Alejandro Otero's home in Naples, Florida. Otero wasn't… Read the rest of the article: Dead battery from the International Space Station crashed through man's house
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David Pescovitz In 1900, English stage magician, inventor, and backyard astronomer John Nevil Maskelyne traveled to North Carolina to observe the total solar eclipse on May 28. Above is his film of… Read the rest of the article: This 1900 film of a solar eclipse may be the oldest footage of an astronomical event ever (video)
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David Pescovitz While Sharon Taffs of Essex England was dying from breast cancer, she made a special request for her memorial service. Taffs's friend jokingly suggested that he show up dressed as… Read the rest of the article: Grim Reaper attends woman's funeral service
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David Pescovitz Journalists have been scolded for swiping souvenirs from US president Joseph Biden's Air Force One airplane. According to the BBC News, the White House Correspondents' Association emailed reporters that the… Read the rest of the article: Journalists told to stop stealing Air Force One pillowcases and plates
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David Pescovitz At Willie Nelson's recent Luck Reunion concert, he welcome a very special guest to perform "Rainbow Connection" with him. Willie played guitar and Kermit picked the banjo. Video below. Kermit… Read the rest of the article: Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog sing "Rainbow Connection"