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A common phrase in movies and television shows is to threaten to use someone’s skull as a drinking glass.  Apparently, this was more than just an idle threat in Ice Age Britain.  A team of palentologists led by Silvia Bello of the Natural History Museum in London have uncovered a 14,700-year-old skull that served as […]

If you told me this, I wouldn’t believe it.  Fortunately, lucky angler Kenny Williams has his catch verified by officials.  Apparently, the lucky Williams bagged a record-sized alligator gar, or Atractosteus spatula, while fishing in Issaquena County, near Jackson, Mississippi.  A 327-pound alligator gar was caught in Mississippi’s Chotard Lake by fisherman Kenny Williams on […]

Lasers are the future of pretty much everything, from heating up food to war, but there’s one problem with focused beams of light.  Once they cut through something, they keep on going until they run out of steam or reach something they can’t damage.  Professor Douglas Stone and a team from Yale University have developed […]

When it comes to chronic fatigue syndrome, there’s no one definitive statement on the disease, or even agreement if it is a disease.  According to a study published in The Lancet on Thursday, a combination of gradually-increasing exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy has shown success in treating chronic fatigue syndrome.  This is a feather in […]

Joel Northrup refused to wrestle Cassy Herkelman of Cedar Falls, Iowa, because of his religious beliefs.  The son of a minister, Joel Northrup believes that taking on a girl in a violent sport like wrestling is against his religion and decided to take the forfeit loss rather than compromise his beliefs in an attempt at […]

Well, in the end, it wasn’t even close.  Watson’s tenuous performance in the first round of Jeopardy was merely a little rope-a-dope, suckering in the marks before lowering the boom.  Watson’s gaudy second round of Jeopardy only set the stage for the third game, which Watson dominated.  Among meat contestants, Ken Jennings’ two-day total bested […]

Inventor of the Ponzi scheme Charles Ponzi would have been proud of Monroe Beachy.  Armed with classes from H&R Block and a tenth-grade education, 77-year-old Monroe Beachy quietly built up a $33-million-dollar financial empire by taking investments from his fellow Amish, but unfortunately for Beachy his investing skills are not nearly as good as his carpentry and […]

What started out as a joke has become a full-fledged movement.  Six days ago, a jokester suggested to Detroit Mayor Dave Bing that he erect a statue of RoboCop.  Bing politely rejected the idea, but the Internet grabbed it like a rabid dog.  Thanks to the hard work of Jerry Paffendorf, the RoboCop statue will […]

Lady Gaga is serious business, and she proves time and again just how successful and popular she is with every chart-topping hit.  For example, Gaga’s latest single “Born This Way” raced to the top of the Billboard charts this week, making it only the 48th song to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot […]

He started his career as the heavy, characters who were ususally out for blood and looking to bust heads.  Character actor Len Lesser took on roles in such Clint Eastwood classics as Kelly’s Heroes and The Outlaw Josey Wales.  He appeared alongside Steve McQueen in Papillon.  However, You’ll know Leonard King Lesser as Uncle Leo […]

There’s physically blessed, and then there’s just rubbing it in.  You have to give a hand (and a foot) to a toddler in Myanmar, whose parents believe she has the most digits of any living person.  Le Yati Min, a 16-month-old girl from Yangon, Myanmar, was born with 26 digits.  Now her family are ready […]

Anthony Dingle has had some problems with his boss at the Housing Authority, Manhattan Management deputy director Demetrice Gadson.  He’s complained about her on many occasions to her bosses at the Housing Authority in New York City.  Now, since complaining has only made the situation worse, his personality problems have become medical problems.  Anthony Dingle says […]

Cue the ominous feelings of dread.  If you had a flight on a United Airlines Boeing 757 today, you’re going to be on a different plane.  United has grounded its entire fleet of Boeing 757s, 96 planes in all, for unscheduled maintenance.  Flights have been cancelled or delayed starting last night and into today, and […]

Rebecca Wells was a devoted employee for the Los Angeles County Department of Internal Services.  She was a longtime compliance auditory for the county government, and apparently she was a hard worker who kept to herself.  I can guess this with some certainty because when Rebecca Wells died in her cubicle on Friday, no one […]

If it’s true, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer double-murderer.  Apparently, a little justice caught up with OJ Simpson behind bars, if you believe the rumors.  The word is that OJ was running his mouth behind bars about his history of dating white women, and he got overheard by a group of white supremacists […]