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Eglin AFB Pilot Likely Saw A Lighting Balloon, Not A UFO Pentagon Concludes A newly released report by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) - the Pentagon unit tasked with investigating UFO encounters and historical government activities related to the topic - explains away with...

Money, for drugs. I genuinely cannot recall one instance in my 23 years out on the beat where I dealt with one thief who stole food for personal consumption. They don't "risk" it; it's a lifestyle choice, partly because: Agree 100%. No: they pass the costs onto us, the consumers. maximus...

lnteresting stuff. Wikipedia on “Mud Island.” maximus otter

The whole tale just sounds like a cheap p*l*t*c*l shot. maximus otter

Archaeologists found something incredibly rare in the cellar of George Washington's home at Mount Vernon: Two intact jars of cherries buried in the basement of the first U.S. president's house. Cherries and a mystery liquid were found in the jar. And the cherries, [archaeologist] Boroughs...

That shouldn’t be a problem: l’ve finished Pornhub anyway. :rolleyes: maximus otter

Thanks, but all that gives me is the title at the top of a blank page. maximus otter

My Windows 8.1/Chrome laptop seems to have acquired the Hotcleaner nuisance. I have done a lot of Googling, but all I seem to find is camouflaged adverts for paid-for cleaning programs, most of them probably from the same source as the problem... Can anyone help me get rid of this? (I am...

"Clearly unseaworthy": Baltimore accuses Dali cargo ship owner, operator of negligence The city of Baltimore said the cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge was "clearly unseaworthy" when it left the Baltimore port last month, per court documents filed Monday. The big picture...

Belgian man whose body produces alcohol cleared of drunk-driving A Belgian man with a condition that causes his body to naturally produce alcohol has been cleared of drunk-driving. The man’s lawyer Anse Ghesquiere said that just 20 people globally have been officially diagnosed with the...

While birds are fast asleep, their brains remain active, firing off electrical signals that can mimic those that occur while they’re awake and singing. This silent brain activity can even make the vocal muscles in their chests and throats move—similar to the way a sleeping dog’s paws might...

This bloke is nails: Fossil Hunter Fights Off Gator Attack, with a Screwdriver, While Trapped Underwater A South Carolina fossil hunter is lucky to be alive and with both arms intact after a near-death encounter with an alligator last week. William Georgitis, who lives near Charleston, was...

Mysterious horseshoe-shaped monument with weapons unearthed in France A mysterious horseshoe-shaped ancient monument containing weapons and artifacts has been discovered in Marliens, Eastern France Surprisingly, these artifacts do not belong to one particular historical period but many...

Allow me to nominate two other Gibson vehicles: Gallipoli for just about everything. The Patriot for - among other things - unjustifiably blackening the reputation of British officer Banastre Tarleton. maximus otter

Giant Rogue Waves Could Happen Much More Often Than We Realize We used three-dimensional imaging of ocean waves to capture freakish seas that produce a notorious phenomenon known as rogue waves. Our results are now published in Physical Review Letters. Rogue waves are giant colossi of the sea...

It’s a trivial matter - in practical terms - to shoot oneself in the heart with a handgun. I’ve just demonstrated the concept myself using a long-barrelled CO2 air pistol. (Unloaded, uncocked, finger off the trigger. l know what I’m doing…) The most difficult part of the process was taking the...

l’d bet it’s just his mum not wanting his death to be associated with the stigma of suicide. People want untimely deaths to be meaningful or mysterious or significant. 99.9% of the time they aren’t. maximus otter

The Coventry Telegraph article that @lordmongrove links to in the first post is quite detailed and informative. Finding Hindu religious artefacts intended to be placed in running water, in running water near a town that is now 18.5% Asian, is surely less than astonishing. maximus otter

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“…the attention didn’t bring enduring happiness. Walters and his girlfriend of 15 years, who had helped him pay for his adventure, ended their relationship. His speaking career fizzled, and he worked only sporadically as a security guard. He sought solace by reading the Bible and walking in the...

A search is underway after a fisherman vanished in Maryland, leaving behind an unmanned boat with the engines still running, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. State officials contacted the Coast Guard after someone reported finding a 21-foot boat “with no one on board” in the area of Anchor...

A supposed zombie grave, dating back thousands of years, was recently unearthed in Germany, shedding light on the superstitious practices of Bronze Age Europeans. The burial site was found during an archaeological excavation near the village of Oppin, located about 100 miles southwest of Berlin...

Somewhere in here, from the vague description in the Dark Tourism link: Trevellas Beach upper left; Perranporth road running N > S at right. 25”/mile Victorian map. maximus otter

From drones to trench warfare, Ukraine is the theater where the latest military trends from around the world are played out, so it stands to reason Kyiv has allegedly launched military balloons, a throwback to the Chinese spy balloons that caused such conniptions in the United States in 2023...

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So true. maximus otter

The Flowering "Sheep-Eater" Plant Has A Formidable Reputation Plants don’t generally have a reputation for being badass. Then again, not many have people heard of Puya chilensis and the rumors of its "sheep-eating” exploits. P. chilensis is native to central Chile, typically found on the...

The death rate from Spanish Flu was 5-10% of the ~500M who contracted it. Add the 15-22M deaths due to WW1, and the <1% death rate from Covid is virtually a rounding error. maximus otter

Good to see you posting again, gerhard1. maximus otter

The Pencil Museum is well worth a look. The memsahib and l visited Keswick for years, disdaining what sounded like a dull “attraction.” One rainy day we thought, “We could visit it ironically!” lt was fascinating. *blush* maximus otter

Skeletal remains of Marine captain found in 'unexpected' place New Jersey researchers recently announced that a U.S. Marine's partial remains had been sitting in a child's rock collection for an unknown number of years. According to officials, the story begins with the death of Marine Corps...

Woman Called Cops Over Bad Batch Of Meth An Indiana woman is facing a narcotics charge after she called 911 to report purchasing an inferior batch of methamphetamine and say that she wanted to file charges against her drug dealer, police report. During a conversation with a police captain...

2,500-year-old skeletons with legs chopped off may be elites who received 'cruel' punishment in ancient China Two ancient skeletons, each missing a part of the lower leg, recovered from graves in China were of elite individuals whose legs were amputated as punishment around 2,500 years ago...

A Reddit poster finds an ancient jaw in his parents' new travertine. It may be more common than most people imagine. …an absolutely fascinating post on Reddit today: “Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house”. The poster is a dentist and visited his parents house to see the...

42 Balloons: New musical follows man who flew over L.A. in a garden chair In 1982, a truck driver made headlines when he tied 42 helium balloons to a garden chair and flew over part of Los Angeles. A new stage musical reclaims him as a hero, although questions remain over his story's tragic...

Horror moment woman wheels her dead uncle into bank in shameless scam as she tried to take out a loan in his name Shocking footage showed the dead man’s head swaying back and forth as her niece tried to get hold of his neck at a bank counter in Rio de Janeiro. The woman, identified as Erika de...

NASA confirms space junk that hit Florida home came from space station NASA said the hand-sized chunk of metal came from a pallet of nickel hydride batteries that were jettisoned from the ISS in March 2021 after new lithium-ion batteries arrived to the station...

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There are enough data points there to support any theory you care to devise. maximus otter

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Elephant on the loose in Montana An elephant escaped from a circus in Montana and went for a walk around the city, closing roads and concerning locals. Viola, an elephant at the Jordan World Circus, was spooked by a car backfiring while being washed by her handler and escaped into the town...

I discovered a mysterious relic hidden under my bathroom floor A COUPLE unearthed a mysterious relic which was hidden under their bathroom floor while they were cleaning and uncovered a “grotesque” face. Tracy Vorster, 40, and her husband Rory were cleaning under the plants in the bathroom of...

The full (62-page) account of the breaking of Zodiac’s Z340 message: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17350.pdf maximus otter

Recreational use of erectile dysfunction drugs is rising — for doctors, it’s a hard no Social media users are being bombarded with advertisements for easy access to erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra and Cialis, along with affordable generics — and men hoping to improve their sexual...

In Chechnya, the rhythm does indeed stop People partial to a shindig in the Russian republic of Chechnya are about to find their music options will be rather limited. The region is introducing a ban on tunes that don’t conform to the Chechen “sense of rhythm.” In a statement last week...

Family who got their nine-year-old son a pet octopus reveal how it upended their life and destroyed their home after giving birth to 50 babies An Oklahoma family had no idea that a birthday gift for their nine-year-old son would lead to the birth of 50 octopus babies, numerous water tanks that...

“Some Old English words which appear only in works under [Wulfstan’s] influence are werewulf "were-wolf"…” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulfstan_(died_1023)#Language maximus otter

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Texas doctor found guilty of poisoning patients by putting dangerous drugs in IV bags A Texas doctor who was dubbed a "medical terrorist," was found guilty of injecting heart-stopping poison into IVs at his former medical clinic in North Dallas. A 12-person jury found Dr. Raynaldo Ortiz guilty...

Agreed. Two points which l’d make: a) An anonymous filmmaker being posted on a third party’s YouTube? My first rule of Fortean authenticity is “Cutout = :bs: “ b) Ignoring the above, that is simply not a habitat where l would look for otters, so why did Anonymous choose to place her camera...