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Is it the work of ghosts?  Is it a trick of lighting?  Is it the result of lightning strikes?  No one’s really sure why two status lights flickered to life on the Gamewell Alarm System in Mobile, Alabama’s, Central Fire Station.  After all, that console, built in 1925, hasn’t been used in 40 years and […]

At the Ouwehands Dierenpark Rhenen Zoo, staff had an unusual problem.  For most of their lives, the orangutans in the zoo lived in a standard, old-style cage.  They didn’t have a lot of room to climb around, swing from tree to tree, or do any of the other ape-like things that orangutans would do in […]

One of life’s simple pleasures is going to the park.  I mean, parks are just big, green spaces for people to enjoy.  That’s what they’re there for.  You go, sit on a bench, look at the sky, roll around on the grass… whatever, it’s a park, it’s fun!  However, Yantai Park in the eastern Chinese […]

North Korea, one of the world’s most restrictive dictatorships, doesn’t allow its citizens to use the Internet.  However, that doesn’t stop the government from using the Internet.  Weirdly, North Korea has taken to Twitter and YouTube to promote their official website, Uriminzokkiri.  You can follow North Korea’s state Twitter account at Twitter.com/Uriminzok if you so […]

Golf is a gentleman’s game, and as such, there are a lot of rules to follow.  There are rules regarding course conduct, ball placement, replacing divots, and any number of things that, in a different sport, might just get ignored.  However, golfers score their own cards and, as such, are expected to report everything.  Unfortunately, […]

In 1974, a  young man born in a Nepalese fishing village named Indra Tamang met poet and author Charles Henri Ford, brother of actress Ruth Ford.  The connection between the two was instant, and when he was offered passage to the United States, Tamang took it instantly.  “”I was always hearing about America,” said the […]

A recent scan of the murky Thames River has uncovered a surprise.  In the above photo, at the placement of the cursor, is a shadow no one can identify.  The British press has dubbed it a UFO, or Unidentified Fishy Object, and it’s right in the heart of London. Is it an old Nazi V-2 […]

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.  A 22-year-old Chinese inventor, known only as Maxpy (his online handle), wanted an iPhone.  However, like most people in China, the iPhone was just way too expensive for him to purchase on China’s burgeoning black market, so he got a little creative.  He invented an accessory that converts […]

Pucker up this weekend.  Not just because it’s fun to smooch your sweetie, but because it’s time to honor the greatest generation.  This Saturday, across the country, buglers will play Taps and couples in Times Square (and other places) will reenact one of history’s most famous kisses, the kiss that marked the end of WWII. […]

When 40-year-old Lanette Sansoni embezzled $500,000 from the company she worked for at the time, JRS Settlement Services Inc., she had to figure she’d get caught eventually, do some jail time, and that’d be it.  However, when she was caught and tried, she got a very unusual sentence.  Sansoni got a staggering 21 years of […]

It’s not a sequel to Trapped In The Closet, but it is a pretty funny story nonetheless.  Two men were working in the laundry facility at Charlotte, North Carolina-area hospital Carolina’s Medical Center.  As they were removing a load of bedding from the giant industrial dryer, one of the workers noticed that a bed sheet […]

Katie Owen is an early developer.  Like a lot of girls her age, she’s hit puberty fairly early, and as such, she’s significantly taller and older-looking than her former classmates at Hunters Hall Primary School.  She’s a robust 5 feet tall and a solid, but not portly, 110 pounds.  That was weight enough for her […]

Thanks to the wild success of 3D and various 3D movies, other industries are trying to keep up by finding a gimmick of their own.  For some theaters, it’s rumble seating to give the illusion of movement.  For greeting card companies, it’s cards that taste good.  For one utility company, it’s the stinkiest bill you’ve […]

There’s a war on between the east and west.  I’m not talking about physical wars, like in Iraq or Afghanistan, but ideological wars.  For example, Islamic immigrants are spreading across Europe as we speak, leading to a lot of culture clash as their particular religious belief systems run into traditional European laissez-fair.  It’s not just […]

It’s one of the most incredible finds in geology. In northern Canada, there’s an island chain called the Baffin Islands.  The most notable feature of those islands are their black basalt cliffs, made of super-hard magma rock.  Those cliffs, so easily visible to anyone passing by, have turned out to be a secretly important discovery:  […]