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Month: January 2025

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Thief burgles Miami homes, loves Jesus

January 28, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Thief burgles Miami homes, loves Jesus

Hey, he may be a thief, but at least he’s a good Christian one. Miami police are looking for a man who robbed at least two homes in the Coconut Grove, Florida, neighborhood in the […]

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This alive, not dead woman just wants to renew her license

January 28, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on This alive, not dead woman just wants to renew her license

Proving that editors are the backbone of our society, a woman was legally declared dead because of a typo. According to NBC Washington, the very much alive Nicole Paulino took a trip to the DMV to renew her license, […]

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Man killed by stray weight at Colorado track and field meet remembered as dedicated husband, dad

January 28, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Man killed by stray weight at Colorado track and field meet remembered as dedicated husband, dad

Relatives of a spectator killed by an errant weight thrown at a youth track and field meet in Colorado say he was a dedicated father with a great sense of humor. Fifty-seven-year-old Wade Langston of […]

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Our nightmare jobs seem to be haunting our dreams

January 28, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Our nightmare jobs seem to be haunting our dreams

If you think your job’s a nightmare, you’re not alone. A new survey of 1,750 working Americans finds that 64% take our work home with us to such an extent that we even dream about it. That’s […]

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Reese Witherspoon was jury foreman because of Legally Blonde: ‘I played a lawyer in a movie once’

January 28, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Reese Witherspoon was jury foreman because of Legally Blonde: ‘I played a lawyer in a movie once’

What, like it’s hard? Reese Witherspoon famously played law student Elle Woods in the film Legally Blonde, and in a recent interview on The Graham Norton Show, she revealed members of a jury she was on thought she […]

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Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was in what restaurant commercial?

Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a famous international television commercial for Pizza Hut in 1997. The ad, which originally aired in 1998, was shot in Moscow and featured the former Soviet leader visiting a Pizza Hut restaurant in Red Square with his granddaughter.

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Who was Sherlock Holmes’s assistant?

Sherlock Holmes' legendary assistant, biographer, and roommate is Dr. John H. Watson. A former British Army doctor wounded in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Watson serves as Holmes’s emotional anchor, moral compass, and the first-person narrator for the vast majority of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.

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What popular toy was invented by taking empty pie plates are throwing them in the air?

The Frisbee is the popular toy you are thinking of. College students in the 1930s and 1940s (famously at Yale University) would toss empty pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The students would yell "Frisbie!" to warn others of the incoming tins. This popular pastime inspired inventor Walter Morrison to create a better-flying plastic version. The toy company Wham-O bought the design in 1955, and eventually released it under the name "Frisbee" as a tribute to the pie company that started the craze. 

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What reddish-colored ant common in the southern U.S. delivers painful, venomous stings that can cause severe allergic reactions?

The red imported fire ant (or simply the fire ant) is the reddish-colored ant common in the southern U.S. that delivers painful, venomous stings capable of causing severe allergic reactions.

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What is the only US state with an official jelly?

Louisiana is the only US state with an official state jelly. In fact, it has two: mayhaw jelly and Louisiana sugar cane jelly, which were both officially adopted by the state legislature in 2003. 

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