Useless trivia
Trolling through the blogs today for use of a better word i found nothing new or of interest so I decided to post this blog of useful and or useless information.Feel free to add your own bits as I intend to update this blog on a regular basis.
"In certain circumstances, a hedgehog may froth at the mouth, twist its head backwards over its shoulder and throw a vile-smelling foamy saliva onto its back. This behaviour is known as self-anointing."
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The World Food Program said it was distributing fortified biscuits to the survivors of one of the many floods that hit Afghanistan over the last few weeks, mostly the northern province of Baghlan, which bore the brunt of the deluges this weekend.
A California Catholic school has been ordered by a court to pay out to two students it expelled after wrongly accusing them of blackface.
Two teens who were expelled from a private school for “blacking up” have won a US$1 million ($1.6 million) payout after they proved they were wearing an acne face mask.
Two police officers were killed as the police van and another police vehicle came under attack from “heavy weapons” on Tuesday. Two others remain in a “life-threatening” critical condition.
"Not done yet!" the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced in an update.
It's the biggest flare of this 11-year solar cycle, which is approaching its peak, according to NOAA. The good news is that Earth should be out of the line of fire this time because the flare erupted on a part of the sun moving away from Earth.
Kiwi Property has reached a conditional agreement to sell the 38-storey Vero Centre in Auckland to the unnamed company for $458 million.
Florida man Stephen Bodley, 26, was in an sworn officer application interview with the Apopka Police Department when he strangely mentioned “playing s*xual games”, Fox News reported.
The original comedy film, released in 1996, featured Sandler as Gilmore, a hockey player with anger issues who discovers a hidden talent for golfing.
The BBC have reported that Omar bin Omran disappeared from Djelfa, in Algeria, during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, when he was a teenager.
Bin Omran, now 45, was found just 200 metres away from where he grew up.
Officials said they have arrested a 61-year-old man suspected of keeping bin Omran prisoner.
The 45-year-old disappeared in the middle of a decade-long war between the Algerian government and Islamist groups.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin posted on the social media site X that the armed individual was “neutralised”.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Michael Tammen delivered the decision to a packed and emotional courtroom filled with the Lucas family, friends and supporters wearing stickers reading "Dontay Patrick Lucas, 2012-2018, gone but not forgotten."
Accused Rykel Frank (née Charleson) and Mitchell Frank sat silently in leg shackles: Charleson in the prisoner's box wearing a white T-shirt and black sweatpants; Frank, in an orange sweatshirt and orange pants, sitting just outside the prisoner's box.
After the sentence was delivered, family members came to the front of the courtroom to address the accused in a gesture of forgiveness.
"We, your family, forgive you," said Judy Campbell. "In order to let our little man rest, we forgive you."
Outside the courthouse, Dontay's biological father expressed relief.
"A lot of weight has been lifted off my shoulders," said Patrick Lucas. "Our healers gave us a beautiful message that my boy is set free now. He can rest in peace."
This little cute boy was starved, tortured, why?
Galeana went missing from her home in Utah earlier this month. Owner Carrie Clark feared a cat-astrophe had occurred.
But nearly a week later, she got a call from a vet in California
They said the status of the suspect remained unknown after a fire broke out during a standoff with police.
The land of the "crazy sons of bitches"
A video shared to Instagram in February, and reported to the Department of Conservation, showed a man jump from a boat into the sea off the coast of Devonport near two orca.
DoC principal investigation officer Hayden Loper said it displayed a shocking and stupid attitude to protected marine mammals.
Jurors at Oxford Crown Court heard that Stocks told the girl: “I’m going to push him off a cliff. I want to get rid of him so we can be together,” the Daily Mail reported.
“We do have confirmed fatalities,” Iowa State Patrol Sergeant Alex Dinkla said at a news conference on Tuesday night
TMZ have reported the Grammy-winning bassist died after he slipped and fell in the shower. He was reportedly staying at a friends in Brussels.
Charlie Colin's band were known for their hits Hey Soul Sister and Drops of Jupiter.
The landslide reportedly hit Kaokalam Village in Enga Province, about 600km northwest of the South Pacific island nation’s capital Port Moresby about 3am local time, ABC reports.
Residents say current estimates of the death toll sit above 100, although authorities have not confirmed this figure