Amazing Things Found In People’s Backyards
December 31, 2018
You never know what you might fight out there, underneath the wood pile, next to the herb garden, or below the kids’ old swing-set.
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD
In 2010, a New Orleans man named Vincent Marcello got to work on digging the big hole nece...
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Only in Antarctica
December 26, 2018
Here’s a taste of what life is like on the bottom of the world.
Least populated
Of the seven continents, Antarctica is the least populated, but the fifth largest. It’s bigger than Australia and all of Europe.
Not one landmass
Antarctica i...
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Some Impurrrrfect Truths About Cats
November 26, 2018
96 percent of the internet consists of cute cat pictures and funny cat videos. Okay, that’s not true, and neither are these long-held myths about cats.
Myth: Cats love milk.
Truth: It’s one of things we most associate with cats — they lov...
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News That Just Blew In
November 22, 2018
Catch a whiff of these recent stories all about natural gas. (They’re about farts is what we’re saying.)
The Air Up Here
On a February 2018 flight from Dubai to Amsterdam on Transavia Airlines (a discount Dutcher carrier), an elderly man just c...
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Do You Recall That Book? These Books Were Recalled
October 8, 2018
Uncle John can barely fathom the agony doing all the work to make a book, get it out to thousands of bookstores…and then having to gather them all back up again. It occasionally happens to publishers, however—forced to recall a book because of a ...
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