
No one can explain how this square-shaped fire started on a sofa in a closed shop in London. A passer by noticed it and called it on.
Clyde Johnson, from the shop, said: “We’re very thankful to Mrs Patel for phoning the fire brigade but we still have no idea how it started. It’s a fire resistant sofa luckily so it minimised the fire but we don’t know if it was caused by a laser pointer or maybe a magnifying glass or just the sun shining in oddly. The police can’t figure it out either.”
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A mass of sea creatures rained down on the Chinese city of Qingda during a storm last week. From Mysterious Universe: The phenomenon of “fish rain” or “animal rain” is a rare, but very real, weather phenomenon which has been documented for centuries. Reports of thousands of falling fish, frogs, and other animals that have […]
The mysterious black ring in Kazakhstan explains the mysterious sleeping sickness in Kazakhstan. Case closed.
It’s apparently Fortean Friday over at CNN where they share a handful of unusual natural curiosities and mysteries like “Magnetic Hill” in New Brunswick, spherical boulders in New Zealand, the “sailing stones” that creep along Death Valley, and the “Blood Falls” of Antarctica caused by an iron-rich lake below the ice. “Blood Falls and other […]
There’s hardly a business out there that doesn’t use cloud storage, and a growing number of private individuals are taking advantage of it as well. Suffice to say that word gets out pretty quickly about shoddy cloud services. And conversely, you can be sure that when sites like Techradar give the New Zealand-based MEGA high […]
There’s a great deal of opportunity out there in the tech world and an increasing amount of competition. So you know your way around Python? Great. So do a lot of other coders, and they’ve probably got Java, C++, and SQL on their resumes to boot. A career in programming requires up to date knowledge […]
Cue the “Psycho” violins. If you’re a true Halloween completist who’s wondering how to deck out your bathroom for the holiday, we have your accessory: The Bloody Bath Mat™. When it’s dormant, this devious prank is a nondescript, almost paper-thin (.03 inch thick) mat, white with a matte finish. Placed beside your shower, it’s the […]