How long do you think it would take to determine if a substance is tea or drugs? Well, for one mother and daughter pair, the answer turned out to be an agonizing 5 months. Vun Pui “Connie” Chong and her daughter, San Yan Melanie Lim had hopes of selling their tea in Australia earlier this...
It might be weird to hear it for the first time but a woman has sued her mother’s doctor. As a result, has won the right to millions in damages in a High Court ruling. Evie Toombes, who is 20 years of age, is suffering from spina bifida[1]. This is a birth defect that occurs...
If you’ve ever spotted a tiny orange dot at the top corner of your iPhone screen, you might have wondered what it means. This curious dot, seemingly innocuous yet somewhat concerning, has left many users puzzled and a tad bit worried. iPhone Myth vs. Reality The rumor mill has spun tales about this dot being...
While the world is full of commonly popular hobbies and sports like basketball or football/soccer, there are quirkier and more unique hobbies that include LARPing and, now, Hobby Horsing, which has been, by some, given the nickname vegan horseback riding. Unless you’re a citizen of Finland or an extreme vegan, it’s unlikely that you’ll have...
If one were to be the tallest woman in the world- chances are they would also have the largest hands and fingers too. And that is exactly the case with Rumeysa Gelgi. The 25-year-old is the tallest woman on earth at 7ft, and 0.7 inches and she recently secured three more records. Now, for most...
If you are anything like me, your pets rule your home, and they rule your life! You probably can’t bear to disturb your sleeping fur-baby when you need to get up off the sofa. I know the feeling all too well. Now that I work from home quite often, I have that issue even more...
For a long time, social media platforms would ban you for misconduct on their site. Recently, however, platforms are making changes to make what you do offline a viable enough offense to remove you from a site permanently. (1) What You Do Offline Could Have You Banned From Online Platforms In April 2021, the online...
Some may consider Elon Musk to be one of the most intriguing humans, but one of his creations has other ideas. The billionaire technology giant has recently unveiled an AI chatbot, by the name of Grok. Grok AI is similar to Google’s Bard and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. According to Musk, his bot is the best there...
Hank Azaria, who’s white, voiced the Indian character Apu on the Simpsons since 1990. But in January 2020, he announced that he was stepping down from the role. Apu has been criticized for portraying racial stereotypes, and Azaria took this criticism to heart. When he was interviewed on Dax Sheperd’s Armchair Expert podcast, he said,...
Did you say deep fried water? A bizarre and rather hazardous culinary trend with the potential to underwhelm your tastebuds has arrived in the form of deep-fried water. Now, as ridiculous as this may sound, the explanation for outlandish food trends is rather simple. The nature of the insular lifestyle we have been forced into...
As children, we all loved to play pretend. We pretended to be superheroes fighting crime, doctors saving lives, or sometimes scientists making amazing discoveries. For a ten-year-old boy in China, making an incredible discovery wasn’t a game of pretend at all. Last summer while playing near his home, science-loving Zhang Yangzhe discovered a nest containing...
As it turns out, people don’t actually “rest while they’re dead.” In 2019, researchers at the first ‘human body farm’ in Australia noticed that dead bodies keep moving as they decompose. Contrary to popular belief, the position of a found body isn’t necessarily the position it died in. This information could be crucial to future...
