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Wed, 27 Jun 2018 04:00:12 +0530

Dolphins and whales can die from being crushed under their own...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:50:13 +0530

Dolphins and whales can die from being crushed under their own weight if on land. Without water to support their size, they can end up crushing their own organs.

Photo : Spencer Wright / flickr

A notorious 60 to 70-year-old robber called “Geezer Bandit” has...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 20:00:09 +0530

A notorious 60 to 70-year-old robber called “Geezer Bandit” has robbed at least sixteen banks in Southern California since 2009. Some members of law enforcement believe that he is using a mask to disguise himself as an old man, white male but actually may not be an elderly man. He is still not caught and is wanted by the FBI.

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A Boeing 737, a typical airplane for domestic flights, in front...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 08:00:22 +0530

A Boeing 737, a typical airplane for domestic flights, in front of an Airbus A380.

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Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:00:19 +0530

The Harvard University library collection has a book bound in...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 23:50:19 +0530

The Harvard University library collection has a book bound in human skin. It is Des destinées de l'ame by Arsène Houssaye.

Photo : WELLCOME LIBRARY via BBC

A woman crashed her own funeral after her husband hired hitmen...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:00:16 +0530

A woman crashed her own funeral after her husband hired hitmen to kill her. They let her go, telling her they didn’t believe in killing women. Five days later she appeared at her own funeral with her husband pleading for forgiveness.

There is a YouTuber in South Korea who has been posting 7-hour...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:00:20 +0530

There is a YouTuber in South Korea who has been posting 7-hour long videos of him just studying in silence and still managed to get hundreds of thousands of subscribers in just a couple of months.

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Mon, 25 Jun 2018 04:00:19 +0530

A woman from Edinburgh, Scotland had frequent nosebleeds which...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 23:56:32 +0530

A woman from Edinburgh, Scotland had frequent nosebleeds which she believed was because of a motorbike crash. While in the shower, she felt something poking out of her nose, and it turned out the reason of the nosebleeds was actually a 3-inch-long leech living in her nostril.

A low dose of alcohol improves your ability to speak in a...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:00:14 +0530

A low dose of alcohol improves your ability to speak in a foreign language that you recently learned.

The award-winning monument, Anthem Veterans Memorial, is...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 08:00:12 +0530

The award-winning monument, Anthem Veterans Memorial, is designed such that sun’s rays spotlight the Great Seal precisely on 11/11 at 11:11 AM every year.

Photo : view2az / flickr

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Sun, 24 Jun 2018 04:00:10 +0530

Your nipples are as unique as your fingerprints.

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 00:00:11 +0530

Your nipples are as unique as your fingerprints.

SIM cards are self-contained computers featuring their own 30...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 20:00:09 +0530

SIM cards are self-contained computers featuring their own 30 MHz CPU, 64kb of RAM, and some storage space. They are designed to run “applets” written in a stripped down form of Java.

In 2017, a deer walked into a store in Colorado and an employee...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 08:00:12 +0530

In 2017, a deer walked into a store in Colorado and an employee fed it a peanut bar to get it out. Later that day, the deer returned with its whole family.

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Sat, 23 Jun 2018 04:00:13 +0530

Mythbusters was going to do an episode which highlighted the...

Sat, 23 Jun 2018 00:00:15 +0530

Mythbusters was going to do an episode which highlighted the immense security flaws in most credit cards, but the Discovery Channel was threatened by, and eventually gave in to immense legal pressure from the major credit card companies.

Photo : Dave Fayram / Flickr / wikimedia

Seven years after the People’s Republic of China was...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:00:35 +0530

Seven years after the People’s Republic of China was established, Mao Zedong allowed people to express their opinions on the way the country was being run in a campaign called the “Hundred Flowers Campaign.” Once this happened, those who said things against the government were then jailed or unheard of since.

Green screens are green because it doesn’t match any natural...

Fri, 22 Jun 2018 08:00:10 +0530

Green screens are green because it doesn’t match any natural skin tone of the actors so no part of them will be accidentally edited out.

Photo : Yury Chernavsky / wikimedia