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Last week, the body of a sperm whale washed up on the shores of Sardinia, Italy. The mammal, measuring eight metres (26.2 feet) long, was transferred by local fire brigades to a research facility, where veterinarians and researchers from Sassari and the University of Padua discovered that she was pregnant…
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Despite the fact we're all taught from a young age to celebrate the unique qualities that help us to stand out from everyone else, sometimes our differences can leave us at a clear disadvantage in life. One Bangladeshi man who knows this all too well is Abul Bajandar, 28, who…
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There are a lot of combinations that don't seem like they could work, but somehow they just do. You'll see plenty of people who swear by fries dipped in their milkshake, or peanut butter in their burgers - and those are the nicest variations. You'll tend to find that however weird…
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When people leave their office at 5pm each day, they check out of their job title and take on whatever identity they prefer. However, it's become clear that society holds certain professionals to higher - often impossible to meet - standards: namely, teachers. This was shown recently when Russian educator…
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Have you ever had an intensely strong desire to wear Crocs, but been left worried about how it will clash with your style? Ever wondered how you could possibly get the airy shoewear to fit in with your dark black gothic fashion sense? Well, your troubles are over now that…
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Two men - Clifford Williams, 76, and his nephew Nathan Myers, 61 - have been exonerated after spending 43 years in a Florida prison for a crime they didn't commit. The pair were vindicated on Thursday when a judge was asked by prosecutors to vacate their convictions as it was…
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Undergoing a vasectomy can provoke a lot of complicated feelings in women who have survived cancer. Even if the procedure is successful and the disease goes into remission, the removal of one or both breasts can be traumatic and have a profound impact on a person's self-image and body confidence.…
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An unnamed delivery driver has been filmed sipping a milkshake before handing it to a 14-year-old customer. The cookies-and-cream milkshake had been ordered by the child's father, who, for reasons unknown, decided to check the security camera outside of their home later that day. When he did, he was disgusted…
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Though the vast majority of us will never have to encounter a shark out in the wild during our lifetime, it's a fear that many people have - and it's really not hard to understand why. With their seemingly endless rows of teeth, their cold, dead eyes, and a killing…
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Generally speaking, students fall into either one of two categories; the studious kind and the not-so-studious kind. The former type will do absolutely anything for their education - exchanging a whole lot of blood, sweat, and tears to get to the top of their class - sometimes literally. In fact,…
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We all know how stressful weddings can be for those who are tasked with organising them, never mind the people who are actually getting married on the day in question. There's just so much to consider; the catering, the dress, which unruly relatives to invite... the list really is endless.…
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Ahh, 2019: the year of total strangers waging online wars over Michael Jackson and JK Rowling retroactively deciding that every Harry Potter character had a bisexual phase in high school. It's been an interesting one, to say the least. And, staying on that trend, the most popular baby names from…
