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Pennsylvania Resident Receives $284 BILLION Electricity Bill
It remains unclear exactly how the error occurred. Pennsylvania resident Mary Horomanski couldn’t believe what she was reading when she received the bill. While it is not unusual to receive an electricity bill that is a few dollars higher than expected, being asked to pay up hundreds of billions for a few months’ worth of power is more than a … Continue reading

2018 Predictions Made by ‘Blind Mystic Baba Vanga’ Revealed
Psychic who foretold 9/11 and Brexit makes TWO predictions for 2018 A psychic who foretold the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the unlikely Brexit win in the EU Referendum has revealed what next year has in store for us. Blind mystic Baba Vanga is renowned across the world for her predictions, some of which have come true with … Continue reading

Study Shows Smart People are More Prone to Anxiety
I knew it all along! via PsyBlog: The reason high intelligence and anxiety are correlated: Intelligence and anxiety may have evolved together as mutually beneficial traits, research finds. This may help to explain why people with high intelligence also tend to have higher levels of anxiety. The benefit may be that intelligence allows people to better imagine what might go … Continue reading

Flat-Earthers, Are They Being Serious?
Members of the Flat Earth Society claim to believe the Earth is flat. Walking around on the planet’s surface, it looks and feels flat, so they deem all evidence to the contrary, such as satellite photos of Earth as a sphere, to be fabrications of a “round Earth conspiracy” orchestrated by NASA and other government agencies. The belief that the … Continue reading

Greenland Shark Could be the World’s Oldest; Possibly 512 Years Old
Marine biologists have identified what could potentially be the world’s oldest living vertebrate. One of the world’s largest extant shark species, the Greenland shark, which as its name suggests can be found in the waters of the North Atlantic, recently earned itself a place in the record books after researchers discovered that it is actually one of the world’s longest-lived … Continue reading

Social Media is ‘Destroying How Society Works’, Former Facebook Exec Says
No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth.’ Another former Facebook executive has spoken out about the harm the social network is doing to civil society around the world. Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, said he feels “tremendous guilt” about the company he helped make. “I think we have created tools … Continue reading

Shape of Eclipse Burned into Woman’s Retinas
Observing the Sun without adequate protection can be disastrous. One viewer of August’s total solar eclipse ended up with eye damage in the exact shape of the Sun. Like many Americans, 26-year-old Nia Payne headed outside when the Moon passed in front of the Sun earlier this year and looked up at the slowly diminishing crescent in the sky. After … Continue reading

Hunter Killed by the Boar He Was Trying to Kill in Germany
I know there may be some out there that find it ‘enjoyable’ to shoot animals but I’m not one of them…I think this is great to see animals defending themselves! via Lad Bible: A German hunter has died after being gored by a wild boar that he was attempting to shoot. Police in the north-eastern town of Greifswald have announced … Continue reading

Tomb of Jesus Much Older than Previously Thought – Study
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is now thought to date back more than 1,700 years. The tomb, which many believe to be the final resting place of Jesus himself, was previously thought to date back around 1,000 years to the time of the Crusades. Now though, new tests carried out by researchers at the National Technical University … Continue reading

Findings Tell A Different Tale of Earths Past Civilizations
Earth: the little blue planet that we call home. It has faithfully orbited the sun for nearly 6 billion years and has weathered many changes throughout that incomprehensible amount of time. And even though scientists and researchers have learned a great deal about the history of earth, there are still more questions than there are answers at this point. Humans … Continue reading