Some may consider veganism an extreme diet, but this man certainly taken ‘extreme’ to another level. Since 2016, 34-year-old Harry Matadeen from the United Kingdom has been drinking his own urine. He claims that it has transformed his health for the better. His family – in particular, his sister – are quite angry with him...
A lot has come out after Bill and Melinda Gates announced their divorce last year. The end of a high-profile, 27-year-long marriage is, of course, big news. One of the topics that interviewers continue to ask both parties is the meetings Bill Gates had with the late financier and child sex offender Jeffery Epstein. Bill...
Brace yourselves: This is likely one of the strangest crimes you have ever heard of. Indian authorities have arrested four men for gang-raping, killing, and then eating a monitor lizard. This large reptile is an endangered species and is protected in India. It is illegal to hunt and kill them, let alone rape one. Vice...
A Boeing 737 nose-dived into the ground in the mountains of Southern China. It was a passenger plane with 132 people on board. While an investigation is still underway, experts are saying that this likely wasn’t related to an aircraft failure. Rather, they think it was a human-induced event. This is why. Experts Say That...
Green Bay, Wisconsin, police received a call about one of the most horrific murders they have ever seen. A young woman choked her boyfriend to death during a drug-fueled sex session. Once he died, however, she didn’t stop there. She then proceeded to decapitate and dismember the body, dispersing the parts so that the police...
Every year, many people die while waiting on the organ donor list. The reason? They have to wait for someone else to die in order to receive an organ. Scientists and doctors have been trying to figure out how to alleviate this problem for quite some time – and they may have just found a...
The popular fast-food sandwich chain Subway has had a rough year. The Irish court ruled that the chain couldn’t legally call their bread “bread” in the country due to its high sugar content. In January, two women from California launched a lawsuit against the company, claiming the Subway tuna sandwiches didn’t contain real tuna as...
You’ve probably heard of the Stanford Marshmallow Test. You know, the one where children are given a marshmallow but told if they wait 15 minutes to eat it, they’ll get two. It turns out that children aren’t the only ones who can pass the test. Cephalopods, also known as Cuttlefish, have also been added to...
As climate change continues and global temperatures are increasing, the snow and ice at the top of Mount Everest is melting. With that, it is revealing a shocking amount of garbage left by mountain climbers underneath – and human bodies. Now, there are teams tasked with the job of removing it all, which is in...
Mexico is the sixth-highest honey producer worldwide. (1) Much of that honey is produced by indigenous Mayan beekeepers, most of them women who are considered to be the guardians of the endangered melipona bee. (2) When Monsanto threatened to bring genetically modified soybeans into their regions, Leydy Pech, a Mayan beekeeper fought back. Not only...
In the last decade, Jean-Michel Claverie, a professor of economics and bioinformatics at Aix-Marseille University in France, has been hunting for “zombie viruses”. These are dormant microbes that could still infect hosts after being frozen for hundreds or thousands of years. Most recently, he uncovered the oldest ever recorded zombie virus that dates back approximately...
The world’s top tech leaders are calling for a halt to developing artificial intelligence (AI) systems past GPT-4. Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, along with other leaders in the tech industry, have written an open letter to society asking for this. They worry that we don’t yet understand its full capabilities and...
