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The HIV virus is one of the most deadly long-term diseases to ever be introduced into humanity, basically taking over where smallpox left off.  However, researchers may have discovered a secret weapon in the form of Donor 45, a gay black man in the United States who has lived with the HIV virus for over […]

Some countries have a particular food item just coming out of their ears.  In China, garlic is so abundant they have to smuggle it out by the ton.  In Russia, they have so much caviar they sell it in vending machines.  Seriously, in one of the most unusual vending machine payloads since the Persian Gulf’s […]

I’ve never heard of The Window, but the comic strip about the adventures of the two cats Sam and Maze is very popular among the residents of Lafayette, Indiana.  Basically, artist Ryan “Bids” Bidlack takes some of that window paint and draws a new strip in the windows on the corner of Fifth and Columbia […]

When it comes to garlic producers, there’s no country that’s even in China’s league.  If you combined all the other garlic producing countries up, they couldn’t even touch China, which produces an incredible 75 percent of the world’s garlic.  That makes China the world’s largest exporter of garlic, since there’s no way they can eat […]

When it comes to debunking conspiracies, the United States government isn’t exactly the best.  For every debunked theory (like the meaning of the Great Seal), they do something that’s sure to spark conspiracy theorist imaginations for years.  Namely, the newly-announced United States Cyber Command, a division of the government designed to take over several previously-existing […]

The future of energy is solar.  That means, the future of travel is also solar.  Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard have a history of adventure, with Piccard making the first trans-global trip in a balloon in 1999.  Since then, he and Borschberg have been working on a solar-powered airplane called the Solar Impulse.  Finally, after […]

If you’ve got a mullet, then feel free to go to the Pittsburgh Zoo.  However, if you value your locks and you’ve got a trailer-tastic haircut, then whatever you do, don’t go to Iran.  According to the men’s hairstyle guidelines issued by Jaleh Khodayar, director of the Hijab and Chastity Festival, the Islamic dress code […]

The purpose of zoos is to protect the endangered species, and no species is more endangered than the mullet.  We’re talking the haircut, not the fish.  Once, mullets roamed this great land, reveling in their business in the front, party in the back lifestyle.  Then, after the mid-90’s, when Billy Ray Cyrus cut off his […]

“Take me out to the ball game” became “take me out on a stretcher” for one fan of the Texas Rangers (or possibly their opponents last night, the Cleveland Indians).  The man was seated in the second deck of the three-tiered Rangers Stadium at Arlington in Arlington, Texas, when he spotted a foul ball coming […]

Bad news, Germany.  One of your own has betrayed you.  Paul, a sports-predicting octopus who lives at the Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, has turned against his German compatriots and predicted that Spain will win the World Cup Quarterfinals match between Spain and Germany.  Strangely, Paul the sports octopus has a pretty strong prediction […]

It isn’t often that I highlight a sad story here at PopFi, but there’s something about the story of Jean Stephens that kind of makes me sad.  Ms. Stephens, a 91-year-old woman from Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, was recently captured with the deceased bodies of the two people she loved best in the world, her husband (who […]

Russell Haas claims he was just doing his job, following his training, and enforcing federal law when he went onto a police officer’s property on the slopes of the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii’s Puna district to make sure the home’s owner received his 2010 Census forms.  However, the cop saw things […]

The Fourth of July and hot dogs go together like mustard and onions on a delicious dog, so it’s only natural that I enjoyed some delicious hot dogs over the weekend.  Specificially, I ate two Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs, the best commercial hot dogs on the planet.  Meanwhile, on Coney Island, Joey “Jaws” Chestnutt, Tim […]

Paul Baldwin is a veteran of the practices of the police department.  He ought to be wise enough to conduct training classes on them, seeing as he’s been arrested 154 times.  The 154th time, in Kittery, Maine, was for stealing some beer.  Specifically, he stole two 18-packs and a 12-pack of beer from a convenience […]

The greeting card industry, even more so than the music industry, has taken a serious beating thanks to the onset of email replacing traditional snail mail.  People still like greeting cards, but you need to do something to differentiate between those and emailed greetings with videos, click-through surprises, and all sorts of other interactive goodies, […]