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Officials say that a lioness has killed the father of her three cubs in their pen at an Indianapolis zoo. In a statement posted to Facebook, the zoo said they would be conducting a "thorough review" in an attempt to ascertain what might have led to the incident taking place. Indianapolis…
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Every once in a while, a job opportunity pops up that sounds absolutely amazing. There was the travel agency hiring 'professional slackers' to relax abroad, the tourism website offering vloggers $10,000 a month to live in Cancun, the company that will pay $13,000 a year for donating your poop. Okay,…
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After starting from the bottom of the Guadalajara Cartel, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán created his own notorious empire. He became the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar, the boss of the dangerous Sinaloa Cartel. El Chapo - which means "Shorty" in Spanish - is accused of killing thousands of people…
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Last week, less than two months after the death of Senator John McCain, Donald Trump was back to criticising him. Trump wanted to dismantle a key piece of Obamacare legislation but McCain voted against this. “We had the votes to repeal and replace, and somebody disappointed us a little bit,”…
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Joachim Ronneberg - a Norwegian resistance fighter who sabotaged Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons ambitions during World War Two - has died aged 99. In 1943, Ronneberg led a top-secret raid on a heavily-guarded plant in Norway's southern region of Telemark, earning him the title of the "last hero of Telemark". Speaking…
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Are brains are pretty amazing when you think about. Being able to process so much information about the world around us, while maintaining the many processes running throughout our body, without us having to consciously think about any of it, is remarkable. The fact that we can read, write, invent…
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Imagine you're standing by the side of the road, thumb up, ready to see where the road takes you. The next thing you know, you're in Chris Hemsworth's private helicopter flying away and chatting like you're the best of friends. That's exactly what happened to one hitchhiker who recently got the shock…
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As a young person of colour living in a Western country I love to travel, but there are certain places I will simply refuse to visit for my own safety. Similar to how jumping back in time would only be a good idea if Doc Brown's DeLorean took me no…
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Being a parent is tough. And if you're the mother in the situation, not only are you saddled with a veritable parasite for nine months, but you're also responsible for expelling it. And if you can bear to think back to those childbirth videos we were forced to watch back in school,…
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Sufferers of eczema are all too familiar with the need to incessantly scratch the painful rashes and sores on their skin, which of course, only makes the situation worse. Sarah Rudd, like many others, had tried an endless amount of creams and lotions to fix her 4-month old's skin condition. She…
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Samaira Mehta is a kid-coder-to-watch in Silicon Valley. The 10-year-old is the founder and CEO of CoderBunnyz, a company which has earned national media recognition, and landed her speaking appearances at almost a dozen Silicon Valley conferences. It all started when the programmer was just eight-years-old. After learning how to code…
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I think this might be a slight understatement, but Jesus was awesome, wasn't he? Yeah, he gave up his earthly possessions, and in the wake of his Dad's 'brimstone and wrath' approach, he tried to teach us to be a little nicer to each other with his alternative sales pitch…
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If you grew up during the 90s, pop culture was going through a really weird time, you guys. 90s nostalgia has been well overdone, folks, so rather than talking about Friends, Fight Club and Nirvana like everybody else, let's delve into the weirder things about being alive two decades ago.…
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They say that variety is the spice of life, but what does that make spicy food the life... of variety? Yeah, that sounds kind of plausible, I guess. Put that on a T-shirt! Not all of us can properly enjoy spicy food while others take inexplicable pride in stuffing eight…
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There's no doubt that Prince Harry has always been considered the most handsome male member of the royal family, and for a long time the public has been swooning over him. Sadly for his many fans, the prince is now married to former Suits actress Meghan Markle, who is no…
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I always tell people, "I'm not a ginger, I'm strawberry blonde!" Let's face it, it's not easy being a redhead. Flaming red hair and constellations of freckles often make people targets for bullying. Like Eric Cartman, trolls will taunt them, claiming they "have no souls!" And it's not just kids.…
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A mastectomy scar can sometimes be a consistent reminder of an experience a woman would like to forget. And, while battle scars are certainly nothing to be ashamed of, nor should they be seen as imperfections, more and more cancer sufferers nowadays are choosing to cover them up and turn them…
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Loneliness is deadlier than obesity and should be considered a public health risk, experts warned in a recent study. When researchers in the US looked into the health effects of loneliness and social isolation, they reportedly found that those with bad social connections have a 50 per cent increased risk of early…
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It looked like the Fast and the Furious franchise had run out of gas ten years back. After first movie and its sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious did extremely well at the box office, the third entry, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, made a lot less money. It…
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For many parents, baby rice is 'baby's first food.' It's ground to a fine consistency, like flour, therefore easily digested, making it the perfect meal for weaning babies. Also, it contains vitamins that help strengthen the immune system, promote healthy blood and help the body release energy from food. However,…
