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Lord Howe Island is a beautiful tropical island some 370 miles off the coast of Australia.  It was declared a World Heritage Site back in 1982 thanks to its pristine beauty and the wide variety of rare animals found there.  However, Lord Howe Island has a bit of a rat problem.  In 1918, a freighter […]

It took 27 years, but something has finally knocked the finale of MASH off the top of the TV ratings pyramid.  When the show, starring Alan Alda as a war-weary, wisecracking doctor in the Korean War, went off the air in 1982, it was watched by 105 million people throughout the United States.  Despite population […]

The ongoing soap opera surrounding the world’s tallest building just continues to swell.  The building, as you might remember, opened a month ago to great fanfare, despite not being completely booked up with tenants and not actually being finished.   Now, with the first tenants scheduled to move in this month, the building’s only officially […]

Right now, it’s snowing outside.  All day yesterday, I listened to people who were planning on running out to the stores to pick up three things:  milk, eggs, and bread.  Any time bad weather hits, or threatens, or is even suspected, the first three things anyone picks up are milk, eggs, and bread, as if […]

If you’ve always wanted to own a relic of the Cold War, a one-of-a-kind item was recently auctioned off.  The town of Skrunda, in what is now Latvia, is not on any map.  During the Cold War, it was known as Skrunda-1, and was one of Russia’s secret cities, serving as a Soviet radar base […]

Taking a page from the playbook of one Sho Kosugi, when a disgruntled former graduate student had a score to settle, he didn’t go for a gun.  No sir or ma’am, firearms are for fools.   Kshitij Shrotri went for the more civilized implement of death, the sword.  Police say he went back to Georgia […]

Thanks to my menial day job, I spend a lot of time being bored.  What I didn’t know was that being bored can kill you, according to a study from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London.  A longitudinal study was made of over 7,500 civil servants, ages 35-55, who were […]

It wasn’t exactly a classic Super Bowl, but it was the latest in a string of very good Super Bowls.  In the end, it was two surprise plays that won the game moreso than anything Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees did:  Peyton Manning’s win-sealing interception and an onside kick to start the second half.  Those […]

While we’ve not quite caught up with China’s 9-year-old mother, we’ve at least tied with Bulgaria’s 11-year-old mother for youngest recent child birth after an 11-year-old girl somewhere in the Northeastern United States gave birth to a healthy baby boy.  Even America has pregnant 11-year-old kids now, if only because we have to keep up […]

The United Kingdom has a drinking problem, and few places in the Isles are chugging down as much hooch as the Scottish.  The youth of Scotland are drinking so much that the Scottish Parliament is currently attempting to ban sales of a certain type of alcohol that’s taking the blame for a lot of social […]

Four years ago, he saved the dogs’ lives.  This year, they took his.  A 52-year-old doctor from Ljubljana, Romania, was found mauled to death by his own pet dogs in his backyard, which surprised no one save the man himself.  After all, at one point, his beloved bullmastiffs were going to be put down by […]

It was his second annual sledding party, but the first time an unnamed 62-year-old man tried to build a homemade rocket sled.  In theory, the idea was… okay, I’m not going to be kidding anyone here.  In theory, the idea was dumb.  The man wanted to build a rocket, then attach it to his sled […]

Robert Fidler had a dream; like a lot of people (me), he wanted to live in a castle.  As a farmer, he had plenty of land to build on, but for some reason, he could never get the permission of local government to undertake his project and build his perfect home.  So he studied the […]