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Month: July 2025

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Lee Elia, former major league manager known for profane rant, dies at 87

July 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Lee Elia, former major league manager known for profane rant, dies at 87

Lee Elia, a former major league player and coach who was managing the Chicago Cubs in 1983 when he famously criticized the team’s fans in a memorable postgame rant, has died. He was 87. The […]

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Oddities

It was a dark and stormy night, and two emus were loose

July 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on It was a dark and stormy night, and two emus were loose

Despite just being flightless birds, a pair of emus managed to get loose from their Minnesota home. CBS News reports that the emus, named Sami and Ali, escaped their pen during a recent storm. They were eventually tracked down […]

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Oddities

Please stop sending this Scottish medical clinic pee

July 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Please stop sending this Scottish medical clinic pee

A medical clinic in Scotland sure is peeved about the amount of pee it’s receiving. According to the U.K.’s The Times, the practice Saltoun Surgery has put out a notice asking patients to stop submitting urine samples unless […]

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The circle of life: Fish skin saves eagle’s life

July 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on The circle of life: Fish skin saves eagle’s life

An eagle escaped death by the skin of its teeth. Or, rather, the skin of a fish. According to The Guardian, Dr. Kimberly Ammann,of the Winged Freedom Raptor Hospital in Wisconsin, healed an American bald eagle suffering from […]

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Lifestyle

Bought any yoga pants at Costco? Lululemon’s not happy about it

July 10, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Bought any yoga pants at Costco? Lululemon’s not happy about it

Lululemon is suing Costco, alleging the wholesale retailer knowingly sold dupes of its popular products and allegedly acted in bad faith. The Vancouver-based athleisure company filed its lawsuit on June 27 in California. The suit […]

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What do folks from Louisiana and Mississippi call sluggish creeks and marshy lakes?

In Louisiana and Mississippi, sluggish creeks and marshy lakes are primarily called bayous. This term refers to relatively small, slow-moving waterways found in flat, low-lying areas, generally characterized by an almost imperceptible current. 

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What is the collective name for chicken, ducks and turkeys in the wild?

Chickens, ducks, and turkeys are collectively known as fowl. In scientific classification, these birds belong to the superorder Galloanserae, which is further divided into two main orders: Galliformes (landfowl or groundfowl) and Anseriformes (waterfowl). 

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What Paris cathedral's bells were rung by Quasimodo?

Quasimodo is the fictional bell-ringer of the Notre-Dame de Paris (Notre Dame Cathedral). In Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo lives in seclusion within the cathedral's towers, where his primary duty is to ring its massive bells.

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Which videogame company originally brought Pac-Man to home consoles?

Atari, Inc. was the company that originally brought Pac-Man to home consoles. Although the arcade original was developed by Namco and distributed in North America by Midway, Atari secured the exclusive home console rights directly from Namco in late 1980. The first home adaptation was released for the Atari 2600 (then known as the Atari VCS) in March 1982.

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What type of wool can come from a rabbit?

Wool produced by rabbits is known as Angora wool (or Angora fiber). It is sourced primarily from various breeds of Angora rabbits and is renowned as one of the softest, lightest, and warmest natural fibers in the world

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