CNN has an article about a woman who simply couldn’t wait until she landed for a nicotine rush. Apparently she at least had the courtesy to “step outside” because she walked over to a door and stayed fiddling with it in an attempt to open it. A flight attendant stoped her and helped her back [...]
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Mercedes likes to tout their new radar- assisted braking as the cutting-edge of car technology. They are so confident in this, that they arranged to do a demonstration on live TV.
The scenario was this: 3 Mercedes S-class vehicles are driving in a line. First one brakes. The next two slam right into the back [...]
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I saw this a while ago, but I thought it was a joke. It turns out it is real. UNICEF has created a TV ad showing the Smurfs getting annhialated.
The video is peacefully introduced by birds, butterflies and happy Smurfs playing and singing their theme song when suddenly out of the sky, bombs rain [...]
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Here are some funny laws on the books in Kentucky:
“No female shall appear in a bathing suit on any highway within this state unless she be escorted by at least two officers or unless she be armed with a club.”
Even funnier is the amendment to that law:
The law was later amended with: “The provisions [...]
One private school in Uniondale, N.Y. has had an ever-growing tradition of extravagent spending surrounding the Prom. Last year, some seniors put a down payment of $10,000 on a house in the hamptons for a post-prom party. Some parents rent out cruise boats for “booze cruises” after the prom.
One principle has had enough. This [...]
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Scientists have taught dolphins to combine both rhythm and vocalisations to produce music, resulting in an extremely high-pitched, short version of the Batman theme song.
The findings, outlined in two studies, are the first time that nonhuman mammals have demonstrated they can recognise rhythms and reproduce them vocally.
Maybe they were training these dolphins to swim [...]
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A Swedish hunter spent two days in bed after being knocked unconscious by a Canada goose that landed on his head moments after his son shot it dead, news reports said Wednesday.
The incident happened in Sweeden.
“It wanted exact its revenge, I assume. If it had gotten a better hit, it could have broken my neck.”
As [...]
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In Florida they take their softball seriously. So seriously, in fact, that one corrections facility recruited a former minor-league baseball player to join their team. Officially, he worked as a “librarian” - but he never actually showed up for work. That’s quite a problem.
It turns out that if you take pay for work you don’t [...]
A developer of dashboard widgets got an email from an employee at an Apple Genius bar saying the following:
My name is Derek Rose, and I work at an Apple Retail store in Nashville, TN. Just wanted to let you know that I just had a customer come in to the Genius Bar with fears [...]
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