Remember good ole VHS tapes? Yeah, me too…they were such a pain. In 2016, there are still a lot of people who have them, though they aren’t necessarily able to watch them. The only way to watch them these days is to either use an old VHS player or have their content converted into a…
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When Americans first landed on the moon back in 1969, it inspired a wave of excitement about space travel. Many believed that this excitement would lead to settlements on the moon, which would make mankind an interplanetary species. Sadly, that never happened. Could that be because the first men on the moon weren’t alone up…
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googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTBT_ATF’); }); Most of us would be lucky to live our entire lives without having to swim with a snake, accidentally or otherwise. However, not all snakes are like Sumatra, an eight-year-old Burmese python. Sumatra has been around children and small animals her whole life and she has never killed or harmed a…
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The airport is usually the last place you want to encounter any surprises. That goes double if you’re talking about surprises of the morbid variety, but that’s exactly what you’ll see if you ever fly into the Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport, in Savannah, Georgia. Thanks to a decision by the military during World War II,…
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The mantis shrimp, if you’re not familiar, is one of the deadliest ocean creatures in its weight class. Your average adult is around 10 inches long and has claws that really pack a punch. Some species of mantis shrimp smash prey with claws that can literally strike with the force of a bullet fired at…
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North Korea has a reputation for being the most reclusive country on Earth. Because of that, there’s so much about daily life in North Korea that we don’t know, and what little information we do gather comes from refugees and the very few tourists who are permitted to visit the country each year. One of…
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Cremation is becoming a popular alternative to burials, not just for the price point, but also because of the environmental impact of modern burials. However, even though cremation is better for the environment overall, the process is not without its drawbacks. For one, cremation releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is…
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Humans are very social creatures, so it only makes sense that we love having pets to care for and keep us company. While it might not make much logical sense to spend thousands of dollars and years of our lives loving a creature of a different species, we do it anyway. For some, though, when…
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googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘VN_PG_DTAT_ATF’); }); Remember in school when adults would tell you not to play near train tracks? They did this for a reason: Because trains can be really dangerous if you’re not riding them. (That should go without saying, by the way.) Even though trains are not as popular as they used to be,…
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