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Wednesday June 5, 2024. 10:18 PM
The thigh bone, or femur, is recognized as the longest, heaviest, and strongest bone in the human body. Usually, it takes a horrific car accident, sports injury, or brutal fall to break that bone. Recently though, a 35-year-old man fractured it with the force of his cough. —...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a mysterious perfect hole on the surface of Mars. Does it lead to a Martian base? And if not, could it someday if we build one? Just a few meters across, the hole is located near the Red Planet's Arsia Mons dormant...
Convicted felon Donald J. Trump's latest Newsmax interview left the host unable to stop Don's blathering, and pundits claiming, 'I've seen this before in folks who OD on Adderall.' Surprisingly it is not Don Jr. this time, but rather his convicted felon, adjudicated...
James Kane's hobby is fishing in New York City's murky waterways with a powerful magnet. Recently he cast his line into the lake at Flushing Meadows Corona Park and pulled in a safe. Inside was a stack of slimy $100 bills. — Read the rest The post Man with magnet finds...
Nasa astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are in orbit this afternoon following the launch of Boeing's Starliner rocket, only the second manned U.S. mission to space since Space Shuttle Atlantis last took off in 2011. Jump to 4 hours and 10 minutes into the embed...
Hoping to become Trump's VP pick, Republican Congressperson from Florida Byron Donalds described slavery as an economic boon and good for the enslaved. Economists suggest he review ethics, not economics. Slavery was not good for slaves. The United States' history of slavery...
A white Wisconsin father jumped on stage and charged a Black superintendent during a high school graduation, preventing his graduating daughter from shaking the man's hand. And while the father was off stage with the school district employee, who could be heard off-camera...
On May 30, 1990, Garfied readers were shocked to see Jon Arbuckle, Garfield's owner, gulp down what he believes to be Liz the vet's coffee, only to be told he's going to give birth to a 'healthy litter of puppies.' Cue the collective double-take and gag reflex. — Read the...
After a Spirit Airlines passenger came up empty-handed at the Fort Lauderdale baggage carousel, she received a message from her Apple Watch, which was packed in her missing suitcase: her luggage was at a house 50 minutes away from the airport. — Read the rest The post Spirit...
If the Golden Arches look a little more droopy in Europe today, there's a good reason. AP reports that the EU General Court took away McDonald's claim to the Big Mac trademark, siding with Irish competitor Supermac's after a lengthy legal battle. — Read the rest The post...
China's Yuntai Mountain scenic area in Henan province uses a massive pipe to keep its 'highest waterfall' flowing during dry seasons. A Douyin user (China's equivalent of TikTok) captured footage of the pipe — which can't be seen from the viewing area — at the top of the ...
TL;DR: This 4K Dual-Camera Drone with obstacle avoidance is perfect for beginners and is now price-dropped to $69.97 (reg. $119) until June 9! Soaring to new heights has never been easier. How, you ask? Because of drone technology, which lets you appreciate your surroundings...
A giraffe scared a Texas family as much as the family scared the giraffe when it plucked a toddler right out of a pickup truck at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. The family had stopped to admire the graceful creature, and even offered it some snacks, with the two-year-old girl's ...
My favorite scenes in the Jodie Foster thriller Flightplan, set in-flight on a massive Airbus A380-like jetliner her character helped design, are when she heads into the bowels of the airplane to escape the smoothly beeping gaslit reality of the passenger cabin. — Read the re...
Tarzan was an unreleased Atari VCS/2600 game, sophisticated for the platform but coming as the industry's bubble burst and ultimately issued only for the newer Colecovision. The original materials disappeared, but copies of the game were ultimately found and preserved. —...
In this footage you may watch a tranquized black bear, stuck up a tree, flop into a tarp held up by several emergency workers. The bear-in-tree situation unfolded Tuesday in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. The bruin showed up around lunchtime in a residential area of Camp Hill,...
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs is an upcoming non-fiction book by Luis Elizondo, who allegedly served as the director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, the US government's dedicated department for the study of unidentified aerial...
Was Netflix's release of 'Lumberjack the Monster' made without announcement in the name of inscrutable marketing tactics or sheer laziness? The newest horror feature from Miike slowly lumbered onto Netflix in late May. Despite Miike's cult following and the film's guaranteed ...
Tuesday May 7, 2024. 06:34 PM
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney have developed a way to make velvety cold brew coffee in under 3 minutes — without sacrificing that distinctive smooth flavor. The typical cold brew process involves steeping the grounds in cold water for 12-24...
Sweet Liberty! Quitting Bluesky, Jack Dorsey has tweeted that Xitter is 'Freedom Technology.' Elon Musk has welcomed quite a few Nazis back to the bar. Nick Fuentes, Kanye West, Donald Trump were all banned for violating the Xitter's policies, but Jack Dorsey left of his...
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