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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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Torn between two lovers: Married woman creates AI boyfriend

January 30, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Torn between two lovers: Married woman creates AI boyfriend

Is it cheating if your partner’s having an explicit relationship with a chatbot? That’s the interesting question raised by a recent New York Times article. The piece tells the story of a 28-year-old married woman known as Ayrin who’s […]

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‘Life-threatening nonsense’: Man clings to high-speed train for 20-mile ride

January 30, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on ‘Life-threatening nonsense’: Man clings to high-speed train for 20-mile ride

A 40-year-old Hungarian man managed to hang onto an InterCity Express train for 20 miles as it traveled 175 mph on its voyage from Munich to Lubeck.  According to the BBC, he’d gotten off to take a […]

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A food bank netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. The catch? The fish were still alive

January 30, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on A food bank netted a huge haul of 13,000 fresh salmon. The catch? The fish were still alive

AUBURN, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York food bank was offered more than 40,000 pounds of coho salmon — a bountiful feast. But there was a catch. The fish were still swimming in their […]

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A gift for the obvious helps send one woman to jail

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on A gift for the obvious helps send one woman to jail

It seems one Florida woman’s misguided confusion over irony and the obvious may have landed her in jail. Well, that, and the methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in her possession.  Thirty-one-year-old Teryn Acri was a passenger when the […]

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Tuesday 11/03

Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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What chili pepper is considered the world's hottest pepper?

The Pepper X is officially the hottest chilli in the world, averaging 2,693,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

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In Alaska, it's legal to shoot a bear, but illegal to do what to one?

In Alaska, it is legal to hunt or shoot a bear, but it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear up for the purpose of taking a photograph. 
    • The Rule: You cannot disturb, rouse, or wake a hibernating or sleeping bear just to get a picture.
  • The Contrast: While waking a bear for a photograph is prohibited, hunting regulations in certain areas or seasons do permit taking bears (including in some denning contexts where legal under specific state/federal guidelines).

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What is Rambo's first name?

Rambo's full fictional name is John James Rambo (commonly known as John Rambo).

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If a pregnant woman develops a condition called pica, what's wrong?

Pica is an eating disorder where a pregnant woman has a strong urge to eat non-food items with little or no nutritional value, such as dirt, clay, ice, chalk, or laundry starch.

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On Friends, David Schwimmer who played Ross, had what unusual pet?

Ross Geller had a capuchin monkey named Marcel.

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