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It’s not often someone can be shot in the face and end up with only a nosebleed, but that’s what happened to a man in Clallam County, Washington, outside the town of Sequim.  While sitting in his backyard, a man felt a sharp stinging blow to his face and got a nosebleed.  As it turns […]

If you have a question about religion, you want to find yourself an atheist and give him or her a quiz.  If you can’t find an atheist, then turn to an agnostic.  Strangely, in a recent Pew Forums survey about religious knowledge, atheists and agnostics scored as knowing the most about religion.  Despite not believing, […]

Above all else, George Blanda was a football player.  He was drafted by the legendary George Halas of the Chicago Bears out of the University of Kentucky, and he served as the team’s quarterback, placekicker, and linebacker at various times.  That was in 1949.  Ten years later, he retired from the Bears, only to come […]

When a dyed-pink kitten was discovered in a backyard in the UK, people weren’t sure what to think.  Was it some kind of prank?  Was it some kind of animal cruelty stunt?  What turned the little kitten known as Pink into a little pink kitten?  After a nationwide search, the culprit has been discovered.  Natasha […]

The old record was 19 bungee jumps in an hour; James Field not only broke that record, he smashed it.  Dare-devil James Field of the UK Bungee Club fell from a tower in Central London a staggering 42 times in a single hour.  That’s a jump every 1.4 minutes for over an hour, with the […]

Edward Pimentel might not have been the winner of the World Karaoke Championships.  That honor belonged to two Fins, Sam Moudden in the men’s division and Maria Saarimaa-Ylitalo in the women’s division.  However, Pimentel, an American phone engineer, still managed to do all right for himself.  As the winner of the “audience favorite” award, Pimentel […]

Police in Cheyenne, Wyoming got a strange surprise when they showed up to investigate a domestic dispute at Brian Mattert’s home.  When they arrived, they found the man of the house covered in latex paint.  Mattert had hastily covered himself in white latex paint in an attempt to prevent the officers from using a Taser […]

Katy Perry’s just hanging out with puppets these days, apparently.  The singer, just a few days after her Sesame Street appearance was canceled because of too much cleavage and controversy, has found some new puppet pals to hang out with.  For Perry’s upcoming appearance on a December 5 appearance on The Simpsons, Perry has filmed […]

It’s like the New Orleans disaster, just farther north.  In Columbia County, Wisconsin, where the town of Portage meets the Wisconsin River, officials are urging everyone in certain areas to flee to higher ground or leave entirely.  Thanks to heavy rains driving the Wisconsin River some 3.5 feet above flood stage, a 120-year-old sand levee […]

A tourist visiting the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, Kansas, got an unexpected brush with Old West justice when he decided to pose for a picture with the noose dangling from the Hanging Tree display.  The 69-year-old visitor from Parks, Arkansas, saw that the noose had somehow fallen from its usual position (15 feet […]

When you buy a new car, every aspect of that car’s design has been tested by dozens of people.  Everything from the brakes to the engine to the interior has been designed, focus-grouped, and run through a litany of tests for comfort, quality, durability, and appeal factors before it even gets to the public.  You […]

In the hundreds of years since the Spanish landed in the New World and used their diseases to wipe out the native populations, untold numbers of indigenous languages have been lost among the sands of time.  Among these is a language from northern Peru spoken by a tribe of fishermen.  The language, known as Pescadora, […]

Facebook might be the most popular social network on the planet and may be starring in an upcoming movie, but it’s far from perfect.  As with anything based off the web, you’re depending a whole lot on coding and servers to keep your site online, and if one piece of code goes bad, the whole […]

It might be the unseasonably hot weather.  It might be the dryness of the season.  Whatever the cause, there’s an unusual insect infestation devastating portions of the East Coast at the moment, and believe me when I tell you that it stinks.  That’s because the Eastern seaboard is host to a massive population of brown […]

Eddie Fisher was a brilliant musician who scored a long string of hit albums in the 1950’s.  He also appeared in several popular television shows and movies during his time as a teen idol.  However, he’s more remembered for his famous marriages to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens, three of the biggest stars […]