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Scientists finally caught aardvarks having a drink 250 years after the species was first described. It had long been assumed that they got all the water they needed from the juicy bodies of termites, but a zoologist at…
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Scientists finally caught aardvarks having a drink 250 years after the species was first described. It had long been assumed that they got all the water they needed from the juicy bodies of termites, but a zoologist at…
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Abkhazia, a country that most of the world doesn't think exists, had an election that assumed most of its population didn't exist. Abkhazia is a self-declared republic that's trying to break from Georgia, and is…
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The advertising for the newly opened Trump International Hotel and Tower in Vancouver claims it is six floors taller than it actually is. Trump hotels claim that the building is 69 stories high when actually it is only…
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Conservationists collected pregnant bison from the nearby Elk Island, and took them to the pastures of the Rocky Mountains. They spent the last 25 kilometres of their journey packed into shipping containers, dangling…
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This is the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, which listens for radio signals that might indicate signs of intelligence from 692 of the nearest stars to Earth. It turns out, however, that the signals that aliens…
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Antonio Parris, an astronomy professor at St. Petersburg College in Florida, has now suggested that the signal didn't come from an alien life form, but from a couple of comets that were passing by at the time. Not…
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The Foreign Office warned Britons to look out for terrorists in the Antarctic. The population of Britain's 660,000 square miles of Antarctic territory may be only 250, but, as the Foreign Office points out, you can…
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Two MPs went one better and took control of a plane they weren't even on. After learning the MPs had missed their flight from Kabul to Bamiyan, supporters of the pair apparently organised a team to stop the plane from…
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After learning the MPs had missed their flight from Kabul to Bamiyan, supporters of the pair apparently organised a team to stop the plane from landing at Bamiyan Airport by blocking the runway. It was therefore forced…
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