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 giraffe, born on December 15, was found by the zoo’s staff on Saturday morning, spokesperson Ron Magill said.
“Because the event that led to this trauma happened overnight and was not personally observed, zoo officials can only speculate that something startled the animal and caused it to run into a fence, resulting in the fatal injury,” Magill said.
A necropsy determined that the giraffe had a broken neck.
The former President says he will take "appropriate action" if the Duke is found to have lied about taking drugs on his US immigration forms.
The former President says he will take "appropriate action" if the Duke is found to have lied about taking drugs on his US immigration forms.
Donald Trump has suggested he could deport the Duke of Sussex from the United States over claims he lied on his visa application about taking drugs.
In an interview with Nigel Farage, the former President said he would take “appropriate action” if he were to win November’s presidential election and Prince Harry was found to have lied on his immigration forms.
The former President says he will take "appropriate action" if the Duke is found to have lied about taking drugs on his US immigration forms.
The former President says he will take "appropriate action" if the Duke is found to have lied about taking drugs on his US immigration forms.
Donald Trump has suggested he could deport the Duke of Sussex from the United States over claims he lied on his visa application about taking drugs.
In an interview with Nigel Farage, the former President said he would take “appropriate action” if he were to win November’s presidential election and Prince Harry was found to have lied on his immigration forms.
Entomologist James Tweed was chilling out in the lush rainforest that sits behind the Gold Coast's busy beaches a while back.
As he wandered off to clean his teeth, his gaze fell upon what he thought was a blob of bird poo, turning furry with mould in the humidity.
But it turned out to be Australia's newest creepy-crawly – a longhorn beetle so distinct from its relatives that it's not just a new species, but a whole new genus.
The couple offered to sell the babies, who were born February 28, to a relative for US$5000 (NZ$8225), the Jackson County Sheriff's Department said in arrest citations.
The mother and father, both in their early 20s, were each charged with promoting human trafficking.
Authorities say the relative reported the attempt to police with evidence that included text messages and a video recording.
With growing military failures in World War II, senior army officers planned to kill the Nazi Fuehrer and bring an end to the conflict. With Hitler surrounded by tight security, Colonel Freiherr von Gersdorff offered to make the ultimate sacrifice as he accompanied the Nazi leader on a tour of a military museum in Berlin.
?Von Gersdorff had two bombs in his coat pockets, each with a 10-minute, fuse. Keeping a careful eye on his watch, he planned to embrace Hitler seconds before detonation and kill him in a suicide bombing.
But Hitler suddenly changed his schedule, and departed the museum's exhibition hall after only eight minutes. ?Von Gersdorff had just enough time to rush to a bathroom where he defused the bombs.
Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said the youngsters were in custody and have been charged with robbery by threat. Gonzalez said that because of their ages, no additional information would be released, and the sheriff's office didn't immediately respond to a request for more information.
The FBI’s Houston office says the trio were wanted for robbing a Wells Fargo bank in the Greenspoint area of north Houston on March 14. The FBI posted an image of the trio on X, showing all three wearing hoodies inside the bank's lobby. A message left with the FBI seeking additional information wasn't immediately returned.
Willie Pye was convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering his former girlfriend, Alice Yarbrough, in 1993, and is set to face lethal injection.
Pye’s legal team filed a last-minute plea of clemency, citing that he has an intellectual disability with an IQ of just 68 and a harrowing upbringing riddled with violence, neglect and poverty.
It’s triggered by microbes called mycobacteria, from the same family as those which cause the infection tuberculosis (TB).
Like in TB, hot-tub lung bacteria generate patches of inflammation in the lung tissue. This results in symptoms such as shortness of breath, cough and fever. The lung changes can be seen on an X-ray or CT scan of the chest, and may appear quite profound.
The hot tub acts as a perfect environment for the growth of these bacteria because the warmth of the system creates an optimum temperature for their proliferation. The bubbling of the water also acts as an aerosol – allowing the bacteria to be released into the air, where they can be inhaled.
Unlike TB, which requires long-term antibiotics and is becoming increasingly difficult to treat, hot-tub lung may be considered more of an inflammatory condition.
Kermit the Frog has been around since 1955 – but a new Kermit on the block was actually around much longer ago.
Scientists have uncovered a fossil of an ancient 270-million-year-old amphibian ancestor, and named it after him.
Officially called Kermitops gratus, it earned the name due to its resemblance to The Muppet Show star.
The prehistoric creatures are thought of as one of the first true amphibians, representing a key step in evolution when life went from water to land.
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Friday 9:30pm
A court has heard heartbreaking details of the death of a little Ohio girl who was abandoned by her mother at home while she went on holiday.
Jailyn died in June last year aged 16 months when her mother Kristel Candelario went to Puerto Rico and then Detroit for 10 days, leaving her in a playpen with a few bottles of milk.
Candelario arrived home to find her daughter dead. Last month she admitted charges of aggravated murder and child endangerment, CNN reported.
She has been sentenced to life with no chance of parole.
At least 93 people were killed in the attack, including three children, Russian authorities said Saturday.
ISIS claims responsibility ??
Previously unknown terms like "soaking" and "jump-humping" are now trending on social media app TikTok thanks to former Mormon users explaining their bizarre meanings.
Three other people were injured by the midday collision in an accident-prone road in Antipas town in Cotabato province, Antipas police chief Capt Godofredo Tupas II said.
The 10-wheel cargo truck, which was loaded with sand and gravel, was negotiating a downhill road when its brakes apparently malfunctioned and caused it to slam into the passenger van.
All but one of the 18 people onboard the van, including the driver, were killed by the impact and the flames,
According to Hannah Blumhardt of Takeaway Throwaways, research suggests that Kiwis send more than 295 million SUCs to landfills annually.
Even compostable cups are not as environmentally friendly as you might think.
"To be composted, they need to get to a specialised composting facility, which hardly any of them do," Blumhardt said.
Compostable cups, like conventional SUCs, also contain a plastic lining.
"Research has found that single-use coffee cups release billions of microplastics into the hot drink they hold."
About 1.30am local time (6.30?pm NZT), a large vessel crashed into the bridge, catching on fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below, according to a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Up to 20 people went into Patapsco River after the bridge collapse, according to Baltimore City Fire Department
A statement released by the Department of Transport and Community Safety said that 45 people had died as they were travelling to Moria, from South Africa's Limpopo province.
GOD does indeed move in strange and mysterious ways
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About a dozen people wearing dark suits solemnly walked into the Osaka plant of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. in the raid shown widely on Japanese TV news, including public broadcaster NHK.
The book, Des Destinées de L’âme, meaning "Destinies of the Soul," was written by Arsène Houssaye, a French novelist and poet, in the early 1880s. The printed text was given to a physician, Ludovic Bouland, who "bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked," Harvard said in a recent statement. The book has been at the university's Houghton Library.
Bouland included a handwritten note inside the book. It said "a book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering," associate university librarian Thomas Hyry said in a published question-and-answer segment online Wednesday (local time). The note also detailed the process behind preparing the skin for binding.
Scientific analysis done in 2014 confirmed the binding was made of human skin, the university said
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This Halley-type comet, which orbits the Sun every 71 years and has a nucleus about 30 kilometers in diameter
“Eclipses are very beautiful things, and everyone should be able to experience it once in their lifetime,” said Yuki Hatch, a high school senior in Austin, Texas.
Hatch is a visually impaired student and a space enthusiast who hopes to one day become a computer scientist for NASA. On eclipse day, she and her classmates at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired plan to sit outside in the school’s grassy quad and listen to a small device called a LightSound box that translates changing light into sounds.
When the sun is bright, there will be high, delicate flute notes. As the moon begins to cover the sun, the mid-range notes are those of a clarinet. Darkness is rendered by a low clicking sound.
Another 60 years on CS
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The dramatic incident, which was captured on camera and was live-streamed by a broadcast network, resulted in three people being wounded.
It took place at Lo Valledor Market.
The woman was taken into police custody.
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Polygamous sect leader pleads guilty to arranging sex acts with children
Tuesday 9:45pm
Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border.
Samuel Bateman, the leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border. (Source: Associated Press)
The leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border has pleaded guilty to conspiring to transport underage girls across state lines in what authorities say was a yearslong scheme to orchestrate s*xual acts involving children.
Samuel Bateman also pleaded guilty on Monday in US District Court in Phoenix to conspiring to commit kidnapping in a plan to free underage girls who had been taken into Arizona state custody. His plea agreement recommends a sentence of 20 to 50 years in prison, though one of his convictions carries a possible maximum sentence of life in prison.