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  • Allan Rose Hill
    2:55 pm Tue, May 6, 2025
    Watching Kojak at half-speed is like an opioid fever dream image: publicity photo

    The below clip from Kojak played back at half of the original speed is magnificently weird. In the scene Kojak gives a dope addict the business, and watching it makes… Read the rest of the article: Watching Kojak at half-speed is like an opioid fever dream

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    2:36 pm Tue, May 6, 2025
    Seven-year-old, craving Happy Meal, drove himself and his little sister ten miles toward McDonald's image: Sam SHT/Shutterstock

    One early morning last month, Salt Lake City police received reports of a "reckless driver" on the road from Clearfield, Utah to Ogden. The suspect turned out to be a… Read the rest of the article: Seven-year-old, craving Happy Meal, drove himself and his little sister ten miles toward McDonald's

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    12:39 pm Tue, May 6, 2025
    Bizarre video shows mysterious Mexican goblins dashing across the road illustration: John D. Batten /

    Some residents of León, Mexico are in a tizzy after seeing the security footage below they claim shows a goblin appearing on the side of the road and scurrying across… Read the rest of the article: Bizarre video shows mysterious Mexican goblins dashing across the road

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    10:42 am Mon, Apr 28, 2025
    Town convinced woman's massive four-foot dreadlock has magical powers (video) screenshot: Amarin TV/YouTube

    A 52-year-old Thai woman named Nutcha carries quite a weight around with her in the form of a 3.8 foot massive dreadlock. Around her village in the city of Trang,… Read the rest of the article: Town convinced woman's massive four-foot dreadlock has magical powers (video)

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:34 am Mon, Apr 21, 2025
    Why psychopaths are less susceptible to contagious yawning image: Hanneke Wetzer/Shutterstock

    Yawning is contagious, not just among humans but also animals. Contagious yawning is thought to be linked to mirror neurons—cells in the brain that fire both when we do something… Read the rest of the article: Why psychopaths are less susceptible to contagious yawning

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:02 am Mon, Apr 21, 2025
    Firing lasers into the retina reveals a brand new color image: UC Berkeley

    Olo is the name of a color that, so far, has only been seen by a handful of scientists. The UC Berkeley researchers fired laser pulses into their eyes to… Read the rest of the article: Firing lasers into the retina reveals a brand new color

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    9:07 am Fri, Apr 18, 2025
    Lucasfilm announces new Star Wars movie with Ryan Gosling

    Today at the Star Wars Celebration Japan conference, director Shawn Levy (Deadpool & Wolverine) took the stage with a surprise announcement. He's directing Star Wars: Starfighter, a brand new film… Read the rest of the article: Lucasfilm announces new Star Wars movie with Ryan Gosling

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    8:12 am Fri, Apr 18, 2025
    Eighty-two years ago, a weird and wonderful bicycle ride changed culture forever (video) image (manipulated): U2M Brand/Shutterstock

    On April 19, 1943, Albert Hofmann, a chemist working at the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz, swallowed 240 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and had the first intentional acid trip… Read the rest of the article: Eighty-two years ago, a weird and wonderful bicycle ride changed culture forever (video)

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:55 am Thu, Apr 17, 2025
    Two teens busted for smuggling 5,000 ants image: Kenya Wildlife Service

    Nairobi police nabbed two Belgian teenagers for wildlife piracy. Apparently they were caught with 5,000 ants—not in their pants but packed in test tubes at a guest house where they… Read the rest of the article: Two teens busted for smuggling 5,000 ants

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:37 am Thu, Apr 17, 2025
    Strongest sign detected of life on another planet image: A. Smith, N. Madhusudhan/University of Cambridge

    Researchers have detected what appears to be the strongest ever sign of life on another planet. The researchers from the University of Cambridge and colleagues announced this week that a massive… Read the rest of the article: Strongest sign detected of life on another planet

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    2:12 pm Wed, Apr 16, 2025
    Bookstore owner's ingenious method for moving 10,000 books into a new storefront (video) image: Google Maps

    Serendipity Books, a beloved shop in Chelsea, Michigan recently secured a lease on a larger space just 350 feet away. While that's a wonderful sign for independent bookstores everywhere, the… Read the rest of the article: Bookstore owner's ingenious method for moving 10,000 books into a new storefront (video)

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    12:10 pm Wed, Apr 16, 2025
    American Psycho director: "Wall Street bros" don't get that the story is "a gay man's satire on masculinity" image: American Psycho (publicity photo)

    On social media, many sigma bros continue to celebrate American Psycho's serial killer investment banker Patrick Bateman, played by Christian Bale in the film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's novel.… Read the rest of the article: American Psycho director: "Wall Street bros" don't get that the story is "a gay man's satire on masculinity"

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:11 am Wed, Apr 16, 2025
    New way for fighter pilots to pee at 750 miles per hour (video) image: AIRUS

    What happens if you're a fighter pilot cruising along at 750 miles-per-hour and you need to pee? Historically, you'd need to unbuckle your harness and try to position yourself to… Read the rest of the article: New way for fighter pilots to pee at 750 miles per hour (video)

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    10:34 am Wed, Apr 16, 2025
    The Star Wars that George Lucas didn't want you to see is coming to the big screen image: Star Wars poster detail

    Since its original 1977 release, George Lucas has tweaked the first Star Wars film many times. From enhancing the space battle special effects to adding a digital Jabba, there have… Read the rest of the article: The Star Wars that George Lucas didn't want you to see is coming to the big screen

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    1:11 pm Tue, Apr 15, 2025
    New sport of sperm racing is (ahem) coming to Los Angeles image: ninoon/Shutterstock.com

    A new kind of spectator sport will soon arrive in Los Angeles. A startup has raised $1 million to launch sperm racing. Yes, spermatozoa will shake their tales to the… Read the rest of the article: New sport of sperm racing is (ahem) coming to Los Angeles

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:19 am Tue, Apr 15, 2025
    UFO—unidentified falling object—crashes through roof and vanishes without a trace (video) image: Chatty G

    Residents of Magnolia, New Jersey were jolted awake at 2:30am last Wednesday to a loud mystery boom. The next morning, auto body shop proprietor Sebastian Leonardo arrived at work and… Read the rest of the article: UFO—unidentified falling object—crashes through roof and vanishes without a trace (video)

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    9:27 am Tue, Apr 15, 2025
    What is this mysterious huge tower at Area 51 spotted on Google Earth? image: Google Earth

    Around 83 miles northwest of Las Vegas lies Area 51, the classified military base where new aerospace technology is tested and—depending on your appetite for conspiracy theories—a high-tech facility where… Read the rest of the article: What is this mysterious huge tower at Area 51 spotted on Google Earth?

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    8:58 am Tue, Apr 15, 2025
    Skulls for $600, ribs for $35: Florida boutique busted for selling human bones image: Digital Storm/Shutterstock

    Human ribs or vertebrae for just $35 each? If you didn't already take advantage of the enticing prices at Florida boutique Wicked Wonderland, you missed your chance. Orange City police… Read the rest of the article: Skulls for $600, ribs for $35: Florida boutique busted for selling human bones

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    9:50 am Fri, Apr 11, 2025
    Garfield Minus Garfield is the perfect parody comic for today

    Dan Walsh's Garfield Minus Garfield is a brilliant parody of Garfield comics in which he has removed the crotchety cat from every panel. The result highlights "the existential angst of… Read the rest of the article: Garfield Minus Garfield is the perfect parody comic for today

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    9:11 am Fri, Apr 11, 2025
    A strange trick to silence an earworm image: Piscine26/Shutterstock

    Earworms are annoying. It's like a loop playing over and over, sometimes for hours or even days. Mostly, they're triggered by hearing the song, but sometimes my brain will just… Read the rest of the article: A strange trick to silence an earworm

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