The “Salish Sea feet” story involves detached human feet found along the Salish Sea coastlines of British Columbia and Washington, starting with the first discovery on Jedediah Island on August 20, 2007. Since then, at least 20 detached human feet have been recovered in the region, including finds on BC islands and in places like […]
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Anime isekai is a word that evokes many feelings. Stuck in a dead-end job or a pointless life? Turn that frown upside down because you end up in another world! From fantasy to frustration, isekai is the quintessential anime experience for modern fans. What is an Isekai? An isekai is, in simple terms, a framework
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Cloudflare’s latest outage briefly knocked parts of the internet offline on Tuesday, blocking access to services including X, ChatGPT, Canva and Grindr for thousands of users worldwide. The San Francisco-based web-infrastructure company, whose network carries roughly a fifth of global web traffic, said it began investigating “internal service degradation” around 6:40 a.m. ET after a
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A 12-year-old student at Granbury Middle School in Texas suffered serious burns when a science experiment went wrong. His teacher reportedly covered his hands in hand sanitizer and lit them on fire to demonstrate how quickly the flames would burn off. The fire did not go out as expected and the boy’s hands were badly
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In 2009, a 27-year-old man in Tokyo who goes by the online name “SAL9000” drew international attention after holding a wedding ceremony with Nene Anegasaki, a fictional character from the Nintendo DS dating simulation game Love Plus. Nene is portrayed as a cheerful, affectionate high school girl whose in-game responses shift depending on how the
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Starbucks lit up its 2025 holiday drop with a 20-ounce Glass Bearista Cold Cup shaped like a teddy bear in a green beanie and priced at $29.95, and the hype detonated on contact with reality as shelves emptied within minutes on launch day, November 6. The company acknowledged demand “exceeded even our biggest expectations” and
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A Spanish rental listing on Idealista attempted to market an apartment using The Sims 4 images photographed from a monitor, featuring bird’s-eye shots of an all-white space with staged props, including books, utensils, and a kitchen roll, as well as a random bedside table beside the fridge. A Twitter user flagged the post, and replies
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On April 12, 2016, a policeman in Karachi’s anti-terrorism court accidentally set off a grenade detonator while demonstrating it to the judge. Constable Liaquat Ali had just said the device was safe, then pulled the pin to show its simplicity. He injured his hands, court assistant Shoaib Ahmed was hit by shrapnel, and the judge
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Anthony Curcio arrived at the University of Idaho in 1999 as a promising wide receiver. A torn ACL ended his football path and led to painkiller dependence. He says losing his athletic identity made the slide worse. In 2008, during the financial crisis, he planned an armored-truck robbery in Monroe, Washington. He posted a fake
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Australian researchers are turning beetles and giant burrowing cockroaches into biohybrid “cyborg” scouts for future search and rescue. Tiny backpack circuit boards send pulses to the insects’ antennae to nudge their path while leveraging natural agility. “Only when it leaves the desired path that we want it to be on do we intervene,” says University
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