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African spur-winged geese become so toxic after feeding on blister beetles that if a human were to eat the bird’s meat, the result wou...
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Lights Out With Sylvia Shults
Explorations of the paranormal with your paranormal investigator Sylvia Shults.
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Instead of making loud alarm calls when a distrusted stranger enters their territory, cotton-top tamarin monkeys of Columbia often communica...
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A barn in Hesse, Germany, was badly damaged after a herd of 90 dairy cows passed so much gas that the resulting methane ignited and caused a...
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Poison from taipans, tiger snakes, and death adders that was collected by scientists and stored at the University of Melbourne’s Austr...
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Russian bank Sherbank offers a free cat with every mortgage. Customers choose their cat from one of ten breeds, but are not allowed to keep...
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Many people in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, leave their cars and houses unlocked in case pedestrians need to make a quick escape from polar...
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Sixty-eight year old Jean-Marie Sevrain was forced to obtain a letter from his doctor certifying that he was still alive after the French he...
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Before releasing 10,000 pigeons for the 2014 National Day celebrations in Beijing, officials examined the butts of every bird in case any on...
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Farmer Sying P’an, of Weinan, China, set up a zip line as a way to stop his pigs from running off when he takes them to market. He cre...
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The face of English composer Sir Edward Elgar was chosen to appear on the British 20-pound note for more than a decade because his distincti...
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In 2014, grasshopper swarms in Albuquerque, NM, were so large they showed up as rainfall on local weather radar. (from Ripley’s Believ...
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During World War II, anticipating heavy losses in taking mainland Japan, the United States produced so many Purple Heart medals that the sur...
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After losing a bet in a poker game, a 22-year-old man from Dunedin, New Zealand, has legally changed his name to Full Metal Havoc More Sexy...
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Since 2007, Peter Fletcher from Birmingham, England, has carefully logged every one of his sneezes — more than 4,000 in total. Wheneve...
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In 2019, first-year student Eimi Haga handed a blank sheet of paper to her professor and hoped for the best. She was studying ninja history,...
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Victoria’s Secret was named in honor of Queen Victoria, as a way to make people think of the elegance of the Victorian era. (The ̶...
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Birds have been observed intentionally lining their nests with cigarette butts. While the nicotine in them is toxic to the birds, it’s...
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Pistachio ice cream is about 2,000 years older than chocolate or vanilla ice cream. Persians were making a sort of ice cream as early as 500...
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When a caterpillar spins a cocoon and undergoes metamorphosis, it essentially liquefies itself before turning into a butterfly, a process ca...
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Chloroplasts are the organelles responsible for photosynthesis. There is an ocean creature called the emerald green sea slug (Elysiachloroti...
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