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Laid-off employees’ termination email includes extra duck-you

February 2, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Laid-off employees’ termination email includes extra duck-you

If you’re losing your job, a photo of an adorable animal probably isn’t going to help much.  Nonetheless, that’s what the payments-software company Stripe did when notifying 300 employees that they were being laid off. […]

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Man gives himself vasectomy on Instagram

February 1, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Man gives himself vasectomy on Instagram

This might be taking “do it yourself” a bit too far: A plastic surgeon in Taiwan just gave HIMSELF a vasectomy. Not only did Chen Weinong do it himself, he did it on camera — on Instagram, no less. […]

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Senior singers croon their way to a Guinness World Record

January 31, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Senior singers croon their way to a Guinness World Record

If you’re a music lover, you might file this one under “retirement goals.” Guinness World Records just certified a British choir of 17 as the world’s oldest, with an average age of 94. The Prime Timers, […]

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The adventures of Mittens, the high-flying cat

January 31, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on The adventures of Mittens, the high-flying cat

What was supposed to be a four-hour flight for an 8-year-old cat named Mittens turned into a full-on high-flying adventure — and a bit of a worst nightmare for her owner. You see, Mittens and her owner Margo […]

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Monkey business at Starbucks injures employee, lands owner in trouble

January 31, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Monkey business at Starbucks injures employee, lands owner in trouble

It sounds like something from Max’s Chimp Crazy documentary, but it really happened in Mobile, Alabama. On Jan. 10, a woman’s pet monkey jumped out of the car while in the Starbucks drive-thru line and attacked a barista. “I was […]

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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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