Sports
9/10 Sports Brief
49ers’ Brock Purdy a ‘long shot’ to play Sunday due to toe injury, could miss multiple weeks SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy is a “long shot” to play against […]
Year: 2025
Oddities
Anyone have a VHS player? Forgotten high school time capsule uncovered
A forgotten high school time capsule has been uncovered, showing an ancient world predating the advent of the smartphone. Students of the Smithtown Central School District in New York had started the capsule in 1973 and completed […]
Oddities
Houston, we have a scammer
They weren’t actually in outer space, but this fake astronaut has gone where many people have unfortunately gone before: scamming money from another person. As CBS News reports, a woman in Japan lost about $6,740 to an alleged fraudster […]
Oddities
Toucan play at that game (escaping bath time)
As it turns out, toddlers and toucans have something in common: they both hate bath time. At least, that’s the case for Chester the toucan, a pet bird who lives with his human, Maria, in the Washington, D.C., […]
Lifestyle
Using your phone on the toilet raises your risk of hemorrhoids, study suggests
People who use their smartphones while sitting on the toilet are at higher risk for painful, itchy hemorrhoids, according to new research published in the journal PLOS One. Researchers investigated the bathroom habits of 125 adults […]