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  • Allan Rose Hill
    7:42 pm Wed, Mar 12, 2025
    People are increasingly mistaking glue for eye drops. Try not to do that. image: Rohane Hamilton/Shutterstock

    According to the University of Colorado Health (UCHealth) system, a concerning number of individuals are confusing nail glue or eyelash glue for eye drops and, well, you can imagine the… Read the rest of the article: People are increasingly mistaking glue for eye drops. Try not to do that.

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    4:01 pm Wed, Mar 12, 2025
    Dozens of dinosaur footprints discovered in high school's main office image: University of Queensland

    For two decades, a big boulder sat in the corner of the main office at Bileola state high school in Queensland, Australia. Now, scientists discovered that the boulder boasts more… Read the rest of the article: Dozens of dinosaur footprints discovered in high school's main office

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    12:19 pm Wed, Mar 12, 2025
    Curious collection of movie clips that misrepresent looking through binoculars The Hit (1984) screenshot

    You've seen it countless times: A person in a movie holds binoculars up to their eyes and the scene shifts to show what they're supposedly seeing. But it isn't quite… Read the rest of the article: Curious collection of movie clips that misrepresent looking through binoculars

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    10:49 am Wed, Mar 12, 2025
    A round of applause for scientists who solved the mystery of clapping image: yayasya/Shutterstock

    Scientists have finally solved the mystery of the physics behind the sound you hear when you clap your hands! The mechanism at work is a Helmholtz resonator—the same effect you… Read the rest of the article: A round of applause for scientists who solved the mystery of clapping

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:23 am Tue, Mar 11, 2025
    US border patrol seizing more eggs than fentanyl Eggs. Zeedign.com / Shutterstock

    Since October 2024, US customs officials at the Canadian and Mexican borders have intercepted 3,768 shipments of poultry products, including eggs. That's compared to 352 seizures of fentanyl. Compared to… Read the rest of the article: US border patrol seizing more eggs than fentanyl

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    10:36 am Tue, Mar 11, 2025
    Listen to bizarre 1978 version of "Stairway to Heaven" with "Gilligan's Island" theme lyrics image: publicity photo

    In 1978, San Francisco band Little Roger & The Goosebumps released this bizarre single "Stairway to Gilligan's Island." It's essentially the music of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" with the… Read the rest of the article: Listen to bizarre 1978 version of "Stairway to Heaven" with "Gilligan's Island" theme lyrics

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    8:45 am Tue, Mar 11, 2025
    New 3D-printed penis enables impotent rabbits and pigs to have sex and reproduce image: Nature Biomedical Engineering

    Researchers 3D-printed a penis and implanted it in impotent rabbits and pigs, enabling them to have sex and reproduce. The animals had penile deformities. First, the bioengineers from the South… Read the rest of the article: New 3D-printed penis enables impotent rabbits and pigs to have sex and reproduce

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    1:21 pm Mon, Mar 10, 2025
    Supersized Lego Mario Kart rolls into town image: LEGO

    In celebration of MAR10 Day (March 10, get it?), Nintendo and Lego announced a supersized version of their Mario Kart set. The 1,972-piece model is 8.5 in. (22 cm) high,… Read the rest of the article: Supersized Lego Mario Kart rolls into town

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    9:43 am Mon, Mar 10, 2025
    Girl painlessly pops her kneecaps in and out of place like a a body horror movie scene (video) image: li23/YouTube

    For her entire life, a 19-year-old girl from Jiangsu, China has amused herself and others by popping her kneecaps in and out of place. Watch below! It looks like a… Read the rest of the article: Girl painlessly pops her kneecaps in and out of place like a a body horror movie scene (video)

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    9:11 am Mon, Mar 10, 2025
    Incredibly strange "before and after" vintage photos

    Venerable vernacular snapshot collector Robert Jackson shares a delightful gallery of unusual "before and after" photographs. It's fun to "wonder what went between," as Robert writes. See the full collection at… Read the rest of the article: Incredibly strange "before and after" vintage photos

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    8:57 am Mon, Mar 10, 2025
    Being high on MDMA during Hamas attack on music festival may have protected victims from trauma Couperfield/Shutterstock

    On October 7, 2023, Hamas attacked the Nova music festival, killing 360 innocent people and and kidnapping more than three dozen others. Many of the 3,500 people enjoying the music… Read the rest of the article: Being high on MDMA during Hamas attack on music festival may have protected victims from trauma

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    6:21 pm Thu, Mar 6, 2025
    Man allegedly swiped Tiffany earrings, police found them in his stomach image: Washington County Sheriff's Office

    Jaythan Lawrence Gilder, 32, reportedly visited a Tiffany & Co. store in Orlando, Florida where he claimed to be shopping on behalf of an Orlando Magic basketball player. A salesperson… Read the rest of the article: Man allegedly swiped Tiffany earrings, police found them in his stomach

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    5:53 pm Thu, Mar 6, 2025
    Roy Ayers, soul-jazz pioneer who sang "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," RIP Roy Ayers/publicity photo

    Vibraphonist and soul jazz pioneer Roy Ayers died on Tuesday at age 84. His stunning 1976 anthem "Everybody Loves the Sunshine" has been sampled hundreds of times by artists from… Read the rest of the article: Roy Ayers, soul-jazz pioneer who sang "Everybody Loves the Sunshine," RIP

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    2:05 pm Thu, Mar 6, 2025
    Why did someone pay $87k for a single Flamin' Hot Cheeto? image: Goldin

    Someone paid $87,840 for this Flamin' Hot Cheeto. The 3-inch-long spicy snack resembles the Pokémon character Charizard. Apparently, sports memorabilia company 1st & Goal Collectibles first found and made a… Read the rest of the article: Why did someone pay $87k for a single Flamin' Hot Cheeto?

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    11:35 am Thu, Mar 6, 2025
    Creepy clown caught after criminal capers image: SSP

    A creepy clown caused chaos in the Mexico city of Umán. Apparently, the clown hid behind the clock tower in the main square and jumped out to scare passers-by. Local… Read the rest of the article: Creepy clown caught after criminal capers

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    2:29 pm Wed, Mar 5, 2025
    Yes, that's a real giraffe in the back this Detroit pickup truck image: Chatty G

    A photo (below) of a giraffe in the back of a pickup truck purportedly in Detroit was making the rounds online, raising all kinds of questions about its authenticity, provenance,… Read the rest of the article: Yes, that's a real giraffe in the back this Detroit pickup truck

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    1:59 pm Wed, Mar 5, 2025
    Watch these brand new baby eaglets and their proud parents on a 24/7 livestream direct from the forest image: Friend of Big Bear Valley

    Congratulations to Jackie and Shadow, proud parents of two baby eaglets living in a treetop within San Bernardino National Forest! You can tune into their nest 24/7 via two livestreams… Read the rest of the article: Watch these brand new baby eaglets and their proud parents on a 24/7 livestream direct from the forest

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    12:39 pm Wed, Mar 5, 2025
    Massive "megalodon" goldfish found swimming in state park image: Matt Basista/USFWS

    US Fish and Wildlife Service researchers found this absolutely massive pet store goldfish swimming in Pennsylvania's Presque Isle State Park on Lake Erie. "Call me Megalodon," reads a USFW caption… Read the rest of the article: Massive "megalodon" goldfish found swimming in state park

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    12:15 pm Wed, Mar 5, 2025
    Watch stunning footage of private lunar lander beautifully stick its landing Sunday image: Firefly Aerospace

    On Sunday, a spacecraft named Blue Ghost beautifully stuck a lunar landing. It was the second private spacecraft to soft-land on the lunar surface. From Firefly Aerospace: Blue Ghost Mission… Read the rest of the article: Watch stunning footage of private lunar lander beautifully stick its landing Sunday

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  • Allan Rose Hill
    3:14 pm Tue, Mar 4, 2025
    E.T. is satanic. The Smurfs too, don't ya know (video) image; 360b/Shutterstock

    In this delightful 1980s news clip below from Twin Cities Live recorded at the Minnesota State Fair, we learn that E.T the Extraterrestrial is a satanist. Also the Smurfs. And… Read the rest of the article: E.T. is satanic. The Smurfs too, don't ya know (video)

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