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According to a local legend, the Texas horned toad can live a century without food or water. One local Texas man put that idea to the test, using his son's frog Blinky. Ol' Rip, the Texas horned toad that allegedly lived over 30 years. Image credit: ToddKent/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) If you go to the Eastland County Courthouse in Texas, you may lay your eyes on an unusual sight: a dead Texas horned lizard on display in its own velvet-lined coffin. According to local legend and newspaper reports from the 1920s, the reptile certainly earned this honor, living an...

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A Minnesota pilot found himself in a bizarre situation this month, as he was forced to make an emergency landing on a Native American reservation, only to learn that he was about to face an even more frustrating ordeal. The Daily Mail reported on the strange incident: Native American tribe snatches pilot's plane from him after he made emergency landing on their reservation https://t.co/FgD6LkQntk— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) October 31, 2025Darrin Smedsmo was flying over the Red Lake Indian Reservation when his single - engine Stinson airplane suddenly stopped working mid - air. With less than three minutes until disaster, the...

The winner said his wife didn’t believe his win until their son confirmed it on the Ohio Lottery app Sometimes it pays to be forgetful. An Ohio man’s oversight turned into a life-changing moment when his forgetfulness scored him a $500,000 lottery prize. The unidentified Roseville resident told the Ohio Lottery that he went to cash a $50 winning Best of 7’s scratch-off in Zanesville but discovered he’d left the ticket at home. Trying his luck again, the man said he decided to buy another Best of 7’s scratch-off at South 60 Market in Zanesville, and nearly became sick in...

Julia Fox is defending her controversial 2025 Halloween costume. For an Oct. 30 Halloween party in New York City, Fox dressed up as Jackie Kennedy in a blood-soaked pink ensemble, re-creating what the former first lady wore the day her husband, President John F. Kennedy, was assassinated. The look elicited many strong reactions online, with some social media users calling it “disrespectful.” On Instagram, Fox revealed why she chose the look for Halloween. “I’m dressed as Jackie Kennedy in the pink suit. Not as a costume, but as a statement,” she said. “When her husband was assassinated, she refused to...

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In deep Big Papi voice: Daa ... Doyers lose!After being outlasted in Game 3 at Dodger Stadium — a marathon of a watch that is tied for the longest game in World Series history — the Toronto Blue Jays are now one victory away from the franchise’s first championship since 1993 (they also won it in 1992). The series, which stands at 3-2 in their favor, will now resume in Canada.Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers, who walked through the playoffs like Thanos with all the Infinity Stones, have struggled to get hits from its very expensive lineup. They were so...

Harrison Ford says Donald Trump "doesn't have any policies, he has whims." He criticized Trump's policies, saying, "He's making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a handbasket." The Blade Runner actor declared, "I don't know of a greater criminal in history." Former president Thunderbolt Ross is hulking out at the Trump administration. Harrison Ford has criticized Donald Trump, slamming the politician's climate policies and announcing that the world is going "to hell" due to the current administration's "hubris" and "lies." "[He] doesn't have any policies, he has whims," Ford said in a new interview with...

Check this out: That's a video posted by "Ella Mae" over on TikTok. Her followers thought it was funny. Other very "tolerant" people decided to dress as the ghost of Charlie Kirk, mocking his public assassination in front of his wife and children with a .30-06 round to the neck. This woman in Los Angeles even wore her costume to the gym because she was so proud of it. Next, there's this very inclusive and kind young man, reportedly from Maine, who couldn't help but smile as he showed the world his mockery of a murdered husband and father. He...

More than 300 piles of cremated human remains have been found scattered across the Nevada desert. A man discovered them near the remote town of Searchlight, about an hour outside Las Vegas, on July 28. A team from Palm Mortuaries and Cemeteries arrived at the scene on Wednesday to remove the piles. They found about 315 sets of ashes and placed them each in individual urns. It comes after officials launched an initial investigation which confirmed in August that the mounds were human, 8 News Now reported. However, no traceable information could be salvaged from the 'cremains' - a term...

Greek scientists have confirmed a rare genetic event deep in the wild—one that blurs the line between domestic and untamed. A team of Greek wildlife biologists has confirmed the country’s first genetically verified wolf-dog hybrid, identified during a multi-year study of wild wolf populations. The animal, discovered in the forests of northern Greece, carries a genetic profile of 55% domestic dog and 45% gray wolf, according to data released by the conservation group Callisto. The finding was made during an analysis of 50 biological samples collected from wolves across mainland Greece. DNA sequencing revealed one specimen with clear hybrid characteristics....

Even the greatest escape artists find there is one thing from which they cannot escape: death. Harry Houdini was no different. But what started as a seemingly clear-cut case of appendicitis evolved into a century-long mystery that is still argued over to this day. Was Houdini actually the victim of foul play? Houdini died nearly 99 years ago on Oct. 31, 1926. His death being on Halloween is the least mystical aspect of his case when you look at the many enemies he had made. Psychics, mediums, and spiritualists all had it out for Houdini, and there was plenty of...

Well, I didn't know that this was a thing. A United Airlines flight had to make a U-turn on a transatlantic flight because someone dropped their laptop. You'd think simply dropping your computer wouldn't create an air travel incident. But the fact that this passenger just so happened to drop the computer through a crack and into the cargo hold could have resulted in a midair disaster. Here's Business Insider: An audio recording published by LiveATC.net and uploaded to YouTube appears to show the reason for the diversion. 'We have a minor situation here with a passenger who has somehow...

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Missing a boarding time for a cruise ship could end up fatal. An 80-year-old Australian woman was discovered dead on a remote island after she was left behind by the cruise ship she was traveling on. The woman was hiking on Lizard Island with a group of other passengers, but was separated from the group after she decided to take some time to rest. The Coral Adventurer cruise ship ended up leaving the woman on the island, but returned several hours later to find her after she was discovered not to be on board. On Sunday, she was discovered dead....

Chimpanzees are not “persons” capable of being “imprisoned” for purposes of habeas corpus. It’s not every day a court is asked whether chimpanzees have constitutional rights just like people do, but that was the novel question before a three-judge panel of the Michigan state court of appeals earlier this month. The answer, of course, was no. Chimpanzees are not “persons” in the eyes of the law, the appellate court held, denying the petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of seven chimps by the Nonhuman Rights Project, an advocacy group dedicated to securing legal rights for “nonhuman animals.” In fact,...

This is Not the Bee. All of those models are biological males. It's the UK, so I guess I'm not surprised. They could've just called them "Women Impersonators of the Year."

An associate dean at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has publicly called former President Donald Trump a racist and co-authored an academic paper suggesting the American education system, and even mathematics, is “inherently violent” toward (b)lack students. Percival Matthews, associate dean for the Office of the Dean and a professor in the Human Development Area at UW–Madison, shared his views in a series of Facebook posts and academic writings reviewed by Fox News Digital. In a January 2018 Facebook post, Matthews appeared to label Trump a racist, writing, “What’s on my mind? This: When you get a guy in the ultimate...