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As the old saying goes, familiarity breeds contempt.  So does fan unhappiness, if you believe the folks at the Nielsen Company.  According to a new rating system developed by Nielsen to pore over website keywords, they’ve developed a formula to figure out a general gauge of fan reaction to teams measuring positive and negative comments […]

Charles Olsen had himself a serious prize.  The black bear he shot weighed in at a staggering 707 pounds, making it the largest trophy ever taken during Pennsylvania’s annual three-day bear-hunting season.  Unfortunately for Charles, fish and game officials were waiting for him.  As it turns out, he’d hunted the gigantic bear illegally, and the […]

Whatever you do, don’t call Anna Mae Godfrey fat.  She gets really mad.  Not like hitting mad, we’re talking biting mad.  Police say the 21-year-old woman bit a man’s ear off after he called her fat and made other insults.  Three men in their 20’s were causing problems at a house party, so they were […]

In a feat of gurgitation that would make the guy who ate 1.5 pounds of nails proud, 54-year-old Wang Xianjun has shown both longevity and prowess when it comes to his preferred snack.  Wang has eaten light bulbs since he was 12 years old.  In total, the 54-year-old man has eaten over 1,500 light bulbs.  […]

If you thought the United States Congress was bad when it came to partisan debate and general uncooperativeness between parties, then you know nothing about politics.  During a debate in parliment, things got a little out of hand in Ukraine.  Eggs got a little out of hand, as a debate on extending the Russian Navy’s […]

In the quaint medieval city of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, there’s a unique pharmacy.  Raeapteek, or the Town Hall Pharmacy in English, isn’t like a standard western pharmacy.  I mean, I’m sure they sell western medicine too, but Town Hall Pharmacy is famous for its aphrodisiacs and other folk medicines. Indeed, the pharmacy […]

Well, that was unexpected.  When news first leaked that Palm was looking for a buyer, like everyone else, I figured it’d be one of the obvious companies to buy them up.  You know, either a company that makes or sells smart phones, the types of which Palm made their name developing.  WhatI didn’t expect was […]

It must be awful to be an exceptionally tall teenager.  For example, take the case of young Billy-May Thorpe.  Despite being only 12 years old, she’s already 5’4.  Because of her unusual height, she was officially banned from the kids menu at China East restaurant in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK.  She was a staggering 9 inches […]

It’s taken years of searching, but researchers at the University of Idaho have finally discovered a very rare earthworm in the ground under the Palouse region of Idaho and Washington.  As such, they’re calling it the giant Palouse earthworm, or  Driloleirus americanus, one of the weirdest creatures I’ve ever read about.  Even as underground monster […]

You kind of have to admire the guy for his guts before laughing at him for his incompetence.  A man with no maps (besides a normal road map) wanted to do some traveling.  The aim was to travel from Gillingham to Southampton in Great Britain using only the coast as a guide.  He figured if […]

Heart attacks are often silent killers.  Sometimes, people don’t even know they have heart problems until they have their first heart attack.  Now, according to researchers from Northwestern University led by Dr Philip Greenland and Dr. Tamar Polonsky, there might be a key for detection in the form of coronary artery calcium deposits.   Traditional […]

Remember the early days of the Internet, when plain backgrounds, rotating .GIFs, and auto-starting MIDI files were all the rage?  Well, if for some reason you want to relive the Internet’s early, ugly history, then you need to turn only to the Geocities-izer from Wonder-Tonic.  The tagline is “Make Any Webpage Look Like It Was […]

“I’ve never seen anything like this in my 34-year-career,” said Friedrich-Wilhelm Lach, chief executive of German utility company Ueberlandwerke Leinetal GmbH.  “It’s incredibly dangerous and utterly stupid.”  Normally I’d stick the quote in the article a bit deeper, but this one is a great lede.  As for the incredibly dangerous and utterly stupid thing in […]

It was bad enough when the explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig claimed the lives of 11 of the 126 crew on board.  However, when the rig sank into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico two days later, the situation went from bad to worse.  With no rig on top of that oil […]

The story of Noah and his ark is one of the first stories kids learn in Sunday School.  He loaded the animals, two by two, onto the ark to preserve them, because God said he’d send a flood to punish the world for its wickedness.  Everybody laughed at Noah, until the rain started.  Now, a […]