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Not for the faint of heart: London play keeps making people faint

April 24, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Not for the faint of heart: London play keeps making people faint

A play in England is making headlines for making people faint. As The New Yorker reports, performances of The Years at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London have had to pause on numerous occasions while ushers attend to audience members who’ve […]

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Contestants haul heavy sacks of coal in unusual Yorkshire tradition

April 24, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Contestants haul heavy sacks of coal in unusual Yorkshire tradition

YORKSHIRE, England (AP) — Contestants in Yorkshire competed on Monday in the “World Coal Carrying Championships,” racing with heavy sacks of coal on their back. Women carried 20 kilograms (44 pounds) while men carried 50kg […]

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This is a salmon’s brain. This is a salmon’s brain on anti-anxiety drugs

April 23, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on This is a salmon’s brain. This is a salmon’s brain on anti-anxiety drugs

There’s certainly a lot to be anxious about nowadays, including the possibility of all of our anti-anxiety medications having an effect on wildlife. As reported by The New York Times, a new study explores the impact […]

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An elephant never forgets … to protect its young

April 23, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on An elephant never forgets … to protect its young

Never forgetting isn’t the only skill elephants have. As The Associated Press reports, a herd of African elephants at the San Diego Zoo did a great impression of a football huddle in an effort to protect their […]

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It’s a turkey love story, baby, just gobble, ‘Yes’

April 23, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on It’s a turkey love story, baby, just gobble, ‘Yes’

A new epic love story is taking flight in New York City. Our plucky protagonist is Astoria, a wild turkey who, according to Gothamist, has flown from her usual home of Roosevelt Island to the Big Apple, landing […]

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Wednesday 5/27

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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