A woman in Columbia was caught having an affair she and her lover were picked up in an Uber that was driven by her husband.
China will begin construction of a replica of Shakespeare’s hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. The real town is one of the most popular destinations for Chinese tourists visiting England.
The media really piled it on Donald Trump. Even Scientific American couldn’t help themselves.
Animal scientists were busy. We now know how giraffes get their spots and why elephants have wrinkles.
In Arkansas, a hole opened up in the ground and shot flames 12 feet into the sky and burned for 40 minutes. No one knows why but officials have “ruled out” Satan. The flames erupted in front of a billboard advertising the Baxter Regional Medical Center’s Bone & Joint Clinic who were pleased with the free publicity.
A 1926 bottle of the Macallan 60-Year-Old whisky sold at auction for $1,100,000.
Thieves in Southern Germany harvested and made off with an entire vineyard of Riesling grapes. Police suspect a rival vintner.
An elderly couple lost their way home from a short trip to the hospital in Knoxville, Tennessee. The ordeal turned into a five day trip through three states ending in Atlanta, Georgia where they were discovered by police. They are recovering at home but their relieved daughter has decided to take the car keys away.
It is now against the law for mapmakers in the United Kingdom to put the Shetland Islands “in a box.”
A global study determined that between 2011 and 2017, over 250 people have perished in “selfie-related deaths.” The study noted a sharp increase in the death rate in 2016 concurrent with the release of the “selfie stick.”
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