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If you’ve ever had a rough day, stumbled home after a bad commute, and immediately been snuggled up to by a pet, you’re not alone.  The benefits of pet ownership on emotional well being are well known, but not as well known are just how valuable those relationships are to the pet owners.  Dogs are […]

Guinness is on the lookout for a new world’s shortest man today after the current record holder, He Pingping of China, passed away.  Shockingly, He Pingping was only 21 years of age at the time of his death while doing publicity for Guinness in Rome.  He was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago with […]

Have you ever wondered just why every psychopathic serial killer that gets interviewed talks about the compulsion to kill?  That they felt compelled to slay others, to undertake their vicious crimes, regardless of the consequences?  Well, according to researchers from Vanderbilt University, their brain made them do it.  Specifically their dopamine reward system, which causes […]

Veteran actor Peter Graves, renowned for his distinctive voice, passed away yesterday at age 83.  He shot to fame as IMF leader James Phelps on the hit TV show Mission: Impossible (a role for which he won a Golden Globe), acted opposite Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter, provided the voice for the Emmy-winning […]

Every day, George Kaufmann takes his beloved golden retriever Sollie to work with him at Robert Bernard Jewellers in Rockville, Maryland.  Kaufmann’s business partner, Robert Rosin, never seemed to mind this, but that might have changed.  You see, during a meeting with a diamond dealer, someone dropped a $20,000 diamond and before anyone could retrieve […]

Police have been on the tail of the threesome for awhile.  Lukeisha A. Harris and two accomplices had a pretty good fraud ring going on.  Allegedly, they would obtain fake drivers licenses, then hit up banks and cash advance places for payday loans.  After a bank caught them using a stolen credit card and reported […]

Overnight, there was an outbreak of March Madness.  With the last games of various conference tournaments wrapping up, Selection Sunday lead to the official beginning of NCAA Tournament fever, as teams did their best to make the cut and get into the 65-team NCAA Tournament and vie for the national championship in college basketball.  Once […]

Would you like to taste a little of what is called Scotland’s liquid history?  Well, queue on up at your local liquor store and get your hands on Gordon and MacPhail’s Generations, the world’s oldest whisky.  Retailing for a mere £10,000, there will be 54 full-sized bottles will be available, while 162 of the £2,500 […]

 A boyfriend’s sweeping, grand romantic gesture turned out to be a horrible idea.  For several reasons, actually.  The plan itself was a good one.  He aimed to shimmy up the fire escape with a bouquet of flowers and a bottle of wine and surprise his girlfriend with a little romance.  Unfortunately, when she saw someone […]

Charles L. Stewart’s religious practices are a bit strange.  He claims that, as part of his religion, he had to illegally import a dangerously invasive species of Giant African Snail so as to protect his followers from illnesses.  Stewart, from Hialeah, Florida, maintains that drinking the mucus from living snails is a common practice to […]

Sometimes it’s really, really hard not to make a Polish joke.  For example, when a Polish guy robs a bank with a spoon.  Or, in this case, when a Polish great-grandmother gets banned from riding her bicycle after biking around while drunk.  However, while the concept is funny, the penalty is not.   Keystyna Patycka, a […]

Comedian and writer Conan O’Brien, the former host of Late Night and The Tonight Show, has succumbed to his bored state as a newly unemployed person contractually banned from being on television.  So, to cash in on his good will and to get out of the house (and his wife’s hair), Coco has decided to […]

It was only a matter of time before their two worlds collided.  Barbie made her debut in March 1959, and the world of Mad Men takes place circa 1960.  It wasn’t long before someone came up with the brilliant idea to tie the two together, and thus the Mad Men Barbie dolls were born.  Barbie’s […]

There’s rich, there’s really rich, and then there’s Carlos Slim.  The Mexican businessman, generally acknowledged as the richest man in his home country, has also managed to crawl his way to the top of the Forbes 20 richest people in the world list.  This marks only the second time since 1995 that someone has managed […]