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In the song “Love Shack,” the B-52s sing about having a Chrysler as big as a whale.  Well, in Karachi, Pakistan, fishermen have recently reeled in a fish that’s as big as a whale.  The fish is known as a whaleshark or giant whaleshark, and it lives up to its name as pictures prove.  Pakistani [...]

Way back in 2005, an unusual rapper shot to fame in spite of his distinctive look.  Born Matthew Paul Miller, the rapper known as Matisyahu is an unusual combination of cultures:  he’s a white, Hasidic Orthodox Jew who also happens to be a reggae-inspired rapper.  Long story short, the guy is awesome and his album [...]

Remember Lindsay Lohan’s much-publicized Playboy photo shoot?  The one that had to be shot twice because Mr. Playboy himself, Hugh Hefner, wasn’t pleased with the initial results?  Well, the magazine will be hitting newsstands in January and the cover for Lohan’s Playboy issue has already been leaked online.  There’s Lindsay’s Playboy cover above, courtesy of [...]

Orphaned at 8 years old, Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares spent the next five years of her life in a convent with other orphans, where she trained to become a nun.  However, she didn’t end up there.  Colmenares won Miss Venezula and now at age 22, Miss Venezuela Ivian Sarcos has become Miss World after winning [...]

When it comes to animals, there’s nothing more interesting than a cross-bred hybrid animal.  Whether they are created, like the giant savannah cat, or accidents, like the zedonk, the liger, and the chupacabra, the end result is always interesting.  When Graeme Wallace bought a sheep farm in Taieri, New Zealand, he got a little more [...]

Being one of the founders of Apple should have its privileges, shouldn’t it?  Well, I’m sure it does, but Steve Wozniak is still the same geek he was back in 1975 when he designed, built, and programmed the very first Apple computer.  How do I know this?  Well, there’s nothing geekier than standing in line to [...]

See that horrible pink liquid in what looks like a normal Pepsi bottle?  Well, hold your nose for this story, because that’s a Pepsi that tastes like carbonated breakfast.  For once, turning something pink isn’t a breast cancer awareness thing; Pepsi Japan’s Pepsi Pink is actually a carbonated strawberry milk flavored take on Pepsi.  Seriously, [...]

Ten years after the hijacked planes struck the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers and forever altered the course of history, tributes and memorials have been created to honor the victims and the firemen, policemen and EMTs who worked so diligently in the disturbing aftermath. In addition to the humans searching initially for survivors and then [...]

When 86-year-old Leroy Luetscher went out to do some gardening, he had no idea what fate would befall him.  The man from Green Valley, Arizona, ambled on out to the garden with his pruning shears, and got to business.  Unfortunately, he dropped the shears.  As Luetscher bent over to pick up his pruning equipment, he [...]

Yesterday, the Virginia area was rocked by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake the likes of which haven’t been felt on the Eastern seaboard in… well, ever.  That’s right, it’s one of the strongest earthquakes to his Virginia, it was felt all throughout the East Coast, and has become a huge joke to Californians.  Not to be left out, [...]

When it comes to higher-level mathematics, things get pretty difficult.  I’m not a mathematician, and that’s with good reason because I abhor math and its various proofs and theorems and whatnot.  In fact, I’m not even sure I understand what a theorem is, but I do know what Fermat’s Last Theorem is.  In 1637, a [...]

When the Cardiff Botanical Gardens installed the statue known as “Magic Carpet Ride” along Highway 101 in Cardiff-By-The-Sea, California, way back in 2007, they didn’t know what they were getting into.  Over the years, the statue has been a frequent target for amusement-minded vandals, who last year had the Cardiff Kook attacked by a giant [...]

There is nothing like looking at vintage photographs to remind us of where we came from and our history. In 1918, Chicago photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas gathered 18,000 U.S. soldiers to create the image of Lady Liberty above. Patriotism was running high with the nation entering World War in 1917. Apparently [...]

Elvis is everywhere, according to Mojo Nixon. He’s in a Dutch version of his Graceland home and even has run for the governor’s office in Arkansas. And now one of the few remaining mysteries surrounding the King of Rock N Roll has been solved. The question of who was the vivacious woman touching tongues with [...]

The Bible says that the Lord works in mysterious ways.  If you believe a South Carolina couple, Jacob Simmons and Gentry Lee Sutherland, then Jesus appeared in an image on their Walmart cash register receipt.  Just like at Easter, Jesus appeared on the receipt three days after the food and whatnot was purchased from the [...]