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Forget the cracker, Polly wants coffee

November 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Forget the cracker, Polly wants coffee

This parrot did its best human impression by taking a sip of coffee. According to The Korea Times, a parrot flew into a Seoul coffee shop where it wet its literal beak in a customer’s beverage. Eventually, […]

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Oddities

Deer takes holiday trip in Santa Claus, Indiana

November 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Deer takes holiday trip in Santa Claus, Indiana

Grandma may have gotten run over by a reindeer, but this deer fell into a pool. ABC affiliate WHAS reports that the hapless animal stumbled through the safety netting covering a 14-foot-deep pool at Holiday World, a […]

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Lifestyle

Christmas tree pricing: Experts say this may be the year to buy a real tree

November 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Christmas tree pricing: Experts say this may be the year to buy a real tree

With the most wonderful time of the year around the corner, it may be worth it to consider buying a real tree to hide presents under this year. With tree supply steady, experts told ABC’s Good […]

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Science / Health

Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

November 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA’s Perseverance rover. The crackling of electrical discharges was captured by […]

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Science / Health

US-Russian crew of 3 starts 8-month mission on the International Space Station

November 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on US-Russian crew of 3 starts 8-month mission on the International Space Station

MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S.-Russian crew of three began a mission on the International Space Station after being launched there on a Russian spacecraft Thursday. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off at 2:27 p.m. from […]

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From what language did English borrow the word "ukulele"?

In the Hawaiian language the word ukulele roughly translates as 'jumping flea', perhaps because of the movement of the player's fingers. Legend attributes it to the nickname of Englishman Edward William Purvis, one of King Kalākaua's officers, because of his small size, fidgety manner, and playing expertise.

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On what show did Heather Locklear make her TV debut in a recurring role?

In 1982, Locklear began a long term association with television producer Aaron Spelling. First, she was cast in a recurring role as Sammy Jo Dean on Spelling's Dynasty. The following year, while still appearing on Dynasty, Locklear took on a starring role as Officer Stacy Sheridan on the police drama T.J. Hooker.

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Originally called pimento, what popular spice was first grown in Jamaica?

Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.

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Who recorded the song "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"?

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" is a song by the English pop rock band Tears for Fears from their second studio album Songs from the Big Chair (1985).

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Who wrote the book "Gone with the Wind"?

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel that was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind.

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