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This chap. ...
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Is gonna be a sudden craze
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Is bound to be the very next phase…

Duuuuuude ... Don't bogart the 'nana, man ...
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Two interesting nuggets today.

The first being a German man who discovered a very old rock in his garden, and the second is a candidate for the oldest one in the book.

German Man Finds Rock From Early Solar System in His Front Yard
Scientists have released their initial analysis of a meteorite that fell over Europe last September. They report that the rock, the remnant of a daytime bolide that impacted Earth with an energy of 0.48 kilotons of TNT (around this much), is a carbonaceous chondrite—the kind of meteor that contains material from the earliest epoch of the solar system.

This Legend of a Volcano Erupting 37,000 Years Ago May Be The Oldest Story on Earth
An ancient oral tradition, passed down for countless generations, tells of how an ancestral creator-being transformed into the fiery volcano, Budj Bim. Almost 40,000 years later, new scientific evidence suggests this long-shared legend of the Dreaming could be much more than a myth.
 
Radiation Eating Fungi:
I happened to come across this fascinating article by accident quite recently - from inside Ukraine's damaged and dangerous Chernobyl reactor number 4, it seems they've discovered a black fungus growing on the walls!

The fascinating thing about the black fungus is that it is able to survive the existing radiation contamination, and that it is able to convert it into energy due to it's abundant supply of melanin... the black pigment.

Apparently, N.A.S.A.'s Lab's have been experimenting with the fungi for several years, and believe that it's power could be extracted and synthesized in drug form to use, possibly, as a type of anti-radiation 'Sun-Block,' and could have the potential to be used by patients having radiation therapy - such as nuclear power plant engineers, and astronauts on long haul space missions.
https://sputniknews.com/science/202...shield-cosmonauts-from-deadly-solar-rays-one/

And also - this fascinating article with similar reports of "out-of-this-world" stuff.
https://scienceline.org/2018/03/fungi-love-to-grow-in-outer-space/
 
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This could also be one for the medical anomalies thread. Looking at the situation from a (not so serious) alternative perspective, her condition could come in handy come to think of it, as she would be the life of any party. Cheers!

Pennsylvania Woman Wees Alcohol Due To Never-Before-Seen Condition
A Pennsylvania woman has become the first person in the world to be diagnosed with ‘bladder fermentation syndrome’ – a condition that causes her to urinate alcohol.
The 61-year-old – who hasn’t been named – had been placed on a waiting list for a liver transplant after her battles with cirrhosis and ‘poorly controlled diabetes’.
However, she kept running into the same wall: her urine regularly tested positive for alcohol, and due to her condition’s synonymy with the drug, she was repeatedly rejected for transplants – with doctors believing her to be harbouring an addiction.
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https://www.unilad.co.uk/health/pennsylvania-woman-wees-alcohol-due-to-never-before-seen-condition/
 
Here's a tantalizingly misleading one ...

This 500 million-year-old 'social network' may have helped sea monsters clone themselves

Actually ... A science article about odd sedentary marine organisms from over a half-billion years ago.

Rangeomorphs had no mouths, guts, arms, legs or reproductive organs, but an ancient "network" of strings may have helped them dominate the ocean floor anyway.
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https://www.livescience.com/rangeomorph-fossils-social-network-filaments.html
 
"The US military linguist accused of keeping a list of secret informants hidden under her mattress and sharing those names with a romantic interest liked to the Hezbollah terror group appeared stone faced in court this week." https://t.co/NitmlMG4Ul
 
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