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At least three people have died and more than 500 were hospitalized after a thunderstorm brought an unusually high amount of rainfall to a city in Egypt over the weekend, resulting in a flash flood that carried several deadly scorpions into people’s homes, The Washington Post reports. The city of Aswan is considered one of the driest cities in the world, […]
A woman very into a male chimpanzee living at a zoo in Antwerp, Belgium has been banned from said zoo because officials think the cross-species relationship they got going is bad for the chimp, and will negatively affect his ability to socialize with his own kind. “I love that animal and he loves me,” Adie Timmermans reportedly said to regional […]
During her time working on American Beauty in 1999, actress Mena Suvari said she had one particularly strange encounter with her co-star Kevin Spacey. In October 2017, Spacey was accused of making sexual advances towards actor Anthony Rapp when he was a minor. Spacey eventually addressed the allegations, but over a dozen others accused him of sexual […]
Police in Stillwater, Minnesota spotted a 10-year-old boy driving his parents’ car last week as he was en route to the grocery store to buy a box of Cheerios, KSTP-TV reports. Authorities were doing a routine patrol Sunday night when a young boy was seen behind the wheel of a Chrysler minivan that had stopped in the middle of the […]
The woman who held the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails finally chopped them off after nearly 30-years of never bringing them down an inch. CNN reported that Ayanna Williams grew her nails to a staggering 19 feet long when combined, giving her the honor of the world’s longest nails in 2017. It reportedly […]
From Jimi Hendrix to Prince to Kurt Cobain, guitarists of every genre have taken pride in their custom, one-of-a-kind instruments. Metal musician Prince Midnight is no exception. The Tampa based artist created one guitar that is truly unlike any other, using the bones of his beloved Uncle Filip to craft his new “Skelecaster.” As HuffPost […]
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department apprehended a man on Saturday after he successfully scaled the wing of an airplane as it prepared for departure. According to ABC, the incident took place in the afternoon at McCarran International Airport, as Alaska Airlines Flight 1367 from Las Vegas to Portland was getting ready for take-off. “Alaska […]
An investigation has been launched after surveillance video footage showed bags of mail getting dumped in a parking lot in Glendale, California. CBS Los Angeles reports that security camera footage from the 7Q Salon in the city shows a truck back into the parking lot, and then proceed to dump the contents of the truck onto […]
In what feels like something directly out of an episode of Black Mirror, Elon Musk took to YouTube on Friday night to reveal that he successfully wired a living pig’s brain with his Neuralink technology that is eventually meant to allow people to link their minds with computers. Yeah, we had to read that one again too. During the […]
A business associate of Jerry Falwell Jr. and his wife Becki Tilley has alleged that he had an affair with Becki over the course of several years. Reuters reports that Giancarlo Granda says he entered into a sexual relationship with her when he was 20, and Falwell watched them engage in sexual acts. “Becki and I developed an […]
