A tragic misfire has claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy in Tremonton, Utah, reports Deseret News. The model artillery gun either blew up for fired a tin foil projectile into the face of Robby Ostberg as he was looking into the barrel of the .05-caliber toy cannon. Autopsy results pointing to the exact cause [...]
Parents of third-grade students at Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Norcross, Ga., were stunned to see math homework filled with painful reminders of America’s past. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, some students at the Gwinnett County school received worksheets including word problems referencing slavery. Slavery word problems leads to school taking a beating Beaver Ridge [...]
A 40-year-old woman in Birmingham, West Midlands, U.K., is the subject of a disturbing new report in the New England Journal of Medicine. MSNBC reports that during a violent coughing fit, the woman came as close as possible to coughing up a lung. The official diagnosis was herniated lung. Chest pains, coughs, cracks and pops [...]
Digital file sharing via torrent websites – what some call digital piracy – may not be popular with lawmakers and the corporate machine that controls them, but for 3,000 Swedish file sharers, it’s a higher calling, reports Wired. The group has banded together to form the Church of Kopimism, which has been recognized by Swedish [...]
Indiana state representative Bob Morris has caused a controversy for decrying the Girl Scouts as promoting “feminist, lesbian” and “Communist” ideals. Indiana Speaker of the House Brian Bosma began handing out Girl Scout cookies during a legislative session in reaction. Out of right field A state representative in Indiana has caused a stir for inflammatory [...]
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A recent viral video purports to show grainy footage of a Wooly Mammoth alive and well in Siberia. The footage has been revealed to be not only a hoax, but involved theft of a legitimate documentary filmmaker’s hard work. A mammoth hoax The Wooly Mammoth is one of the largest mammals to have walked the [...]
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