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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Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, 29, appeared in court on Monday after police arrested him for the brutal death and dismemberment of his lover Dr Edwin Arrieta Arteaga, a 44-year-old Colombian plastic surgeon.
You want fries with that ??
Giacomo Chiapparini, 74, was at the factory in Romano di Lombardia, about 45km east of Milan, on Sunday evening (local time) checking on a cheese-rotating robot when a shelf suddenly collapsed, The Telegraph reports.
The collapsed shelf caused a domino effect, sending other shelves toppling over and thousands of the cheese wheels with them, burying Chiapparini
Wheely cheesy way to go
Angelica Carrasquillo, 25, pleaded guilty on Friday (local time) to an intimidation charge in Lake County Superior Court, court records show.
FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were fatally shot by a paedophile computer programmer while they served a search warrant on his Florida home in 2021.
The reclusive IT worker, 55-year-old David Lee Huber, was part of a sophisticated global child abuse network, but killed himself before charges were able to be laid
One swarm of locusts was tried and charged with eating crops, while mice were taken to court for stealing food from a harvest. The most common animal put on trial was a pig, with humans acting as defendants for the animals in court. Just like human court, they would then have to serve various sentences, including capital punishment
2^46 = 70,368,744,177,664.
Since 2^10=1024 is slightly greater than 1000 you'd guess it's of the order of 64 * 1000,000,000,000
and so it is! Looks like 2^53 for 9. Well that's exciting, I won't be able to sleep tonight!
And their hokie numbers..
7239. Big Number [ s... Google Plex.
....4827. .bad manners
2412. Grip. | International Grip Store.
Mahmoud Eleter, 26 at the time, used a flick knife to stab 67-year-old Lydia Gacuma 120 times.
After popping out to buy cigarettes, Lydia Gacuma was helped across the road by a stranger who then stabbed her 120 times.
The 67-year-old died after the unprovoked and violent attack in the car park of her unit in the Sydney suburb of Villawood on December 5, 2021.
Mahmoud Eleter, 26, lived nearby and was arrested at his home where police found bloodied clothing and a flick knife with DNA matching Gacuma's.
Diagnosed with schizophrenia and borderline intellectual disability, Eleter had not been taking his medication at the time of the murder.
"Get out of my head, get out of my heart, leave me alone," he was heard screaming while walking in circles in a park outside his Villawood home on the morning of December 5.
Erin Honeycutt has grown her beard to a record-breaking length of 30cm, surpassing the previous record holder, Vivian Wheeler, who had a 25.5cm beard.
Honeycutt, who has polycystic ovarian syndrome, a condition that causes hormonal imbalance and excess hair growth, decided to stop shaving her facial hair two years ago, after partially losing her vision.
"I was probably shaving at least three times a day," she told Guinness World Records.
The 38-year-old said that she used to shave at least three times a day, and was always self-conscious about her appearance, but said she became "tired of shaving".
According to Deutsche Presse Agentur, the 35-year-old man died from his injuries today after a tree he was sitting at a table under was struck by lightning yesterday.
An 11-year-old child and a 43-year-old woman were also sitting at the table and both were taken to hospital.
The woman is in a critical condition and the boy is "somewhat better" according to a hospital spokesperson
Women who went to college are more likely to enjoy receiving and giving o*al s€x.
There are between 500 and 1,000 deaths per year due to autoerotic asphyxiation.
Pity they couldn't transplant its brain
Queen(king) to knight(pawn) 3
Queen king checks white bishop who now identifies as a black queen
No one knows who named the 'earth' earth.
Way of the World) Earth,wind & Fire.
Who needs information? ) Waters
Y h w h. } U 2
...sync. ) songs the Lord taught us. / Cramps.
Then again, who cares?
In a live video from a control room at the plant on Thursday, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings showed a staff member turn on a seawater pump, marking the beginning of the controversial project that is expected to last for decades.
"Seawater pump A activated," the main operator said, confirming the release was underway.
Japanese fisher groups have opposed the plan out of worry of further damage to the reputation of their seafood.
Bobby Fischer played on line chess
With a irregular username...his first
2 moves [ if playing white
Also non regular...F 3 .. followed by moving the King
.?!?..into the void..
Followed by many tutorials of kicking a$$
With this & other odd openings.
Two photos captured by hikers show a naked and shaggy man sitting on a rock holding a long stick in his left hand and scratching the rock with another instrument in his right hand
“Just received a call from WWE Hall of Famer Mike Rotunda who informed us of the tragic news that our WWE family member for life Windham Rotunda - also known as Bray Wyatt - unexpectedly passed earlier today"
The 32-year-old former Hannah Montana star was taken into custody by police in Rockwell - a suburb of Dallas - on Saturday night (local time) after employees at a hotel called them to report claims Musso failed to pay for a packet of potato chips which he opened and started eating and then became belligerent with staff when they asked him to hand over cash.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Rockwell police said hotel staff ordered the actor to pay for the crisps, but he allegedly became "verbally abusive and walked off".
The 64-year-old woman from southeast NSW was admitted to a local hospital in 2021 after she experienced three weeks of diarrhoea and abdominal pain, then a constant dry cough, a fever and night sweats.
She became depressed and forgetful before a neurosurgeon at Canberra Hospital found an abnormality in her brain's right frontal lobe during an MRI scan in 2022.
When doctors performed brain surgery to investigate, they found the 8cm Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm, which scientists believed was the first to be found in a human.
The roundworms are common to carpet pythons and typically live in the animals' oesophagus and stomach before the parasites' eggs are shed in faeces.
Officers who were called for a wellness check on Manhattan’s Upper West Side around 3pm on Monday (local time) found the bodies of the children and two adults, a 41-year-old man and 40-year-old woman.
The adults had trauma to the neck and the children had trauma to their bodies, a police spokesperson said.
Emergency officials pronounced all of them dead at the scene.
CBS reports that investigators said there were no signs of forced entry and are not ruling anything out when it comes to how the family died.
Stab wounds and loss of blood would be my uneducated guess
And 60 days until Christmas day
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Gabon coup: Soldiers say they’ve seized power and detained a president whose family ruled for 55 years
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Mutinous soldiers in the African nation of Gabon have proclaimed their republican guard chief as the country’s leader after placing the just-re elected President under house arrest, alleging betrayal and embezzlement during his long-time rule.
Reminds me of the videos of Americans supposedly drinking agent orange during the Vietnam car to show the troops it was safe
Wonder where they are now ???
In a statement, Auckland Zoo said one of its female orangutans, Daya, set off the sprinklers inside the South East Asia Jungle Track high canopy habitat.
Fire and Emergency New Zealand arrived at the zoo within minutes and disabled the alarm and sprinklers.
The zoo said there was never any danger to Daya or any of the other orangutans or staff.
"Orangutans are highly intelligent, curious, and dextrous, and the Zoo will be looking into how to prevent this from happening in the future," the zoo said.
No one knows who named the 'earth' earth.
Our beautiful blue marble.
Our beautiful blue marble.
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