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25,000-Year-Old Mammoth Rib Found Pierced With Man-Made Flint Arrowhead
"We finally have a ‘smoking gun,’ the first direct evidence of how these animals were hunted."P. WotjalA close-up of the mammoth rib embedded with a Paleolithic flint fragment.
A flint fragment from an early human weapon was discovered in a...
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Investigating rumor US denied Norwegian tourist entry over Vance meme
Mads Mikkelsen, a 21-year-old tourist from Norway, claimed in an interview with a Norwegian newspaper that he was denied entry to the United States at Newark International Airport due to "narcotic paraphernalia" — a photo of the traveler with...
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Map: Top-Trending Ice Cream Flavors in the U.S.
<!--qv q:id=am q:key=vcaa:Nothing says summer quite like ice cream. With so many flavors and only so many scorching hot days in the year, it’s tough to pick just one favorite. But according to a recent analysis, this year’s trending...
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Warning about ‘Dance of the Hillary’ video and Pakistani cyberattack is a hoax
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An authentic cyberattack threat originating from Pakistan and circulating by email and text message mentioned a "Dance of the Hillary" video and a "tasksche.exe" file attachment.
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ContextThis threat does not actually exist. The hoax, often promoted as a virus warning,...
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A Turkish Man Is Under Fire For Illegally Turning A 3,000-Year-Old Phrygian Tomb Into A Cafe
Café owner Halil Çakmak said he had "no ill intentions" regarding the installation but wanted to "contribute to the development" of the local area. Salim UzunThe ancient Phrygian tomb was illegally converted into a café before the owner was...
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Unbelievable facts
Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days alone in a cave in Granada, Spain, without clocks, sunlight, or human...
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Mapped: The Cheapest European Destinations for an Aperol Spritz
<!--qv q:id=am q:key=vcaa:It seems like the Aperol Spritz came out of nowhere in the past few years to become the summer drinker’s tipple of choice, but the cocktail actually debuted in the 1950s (and Aperol itself has been in...
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Workers Dredging A River In The Netherlands Happened Upon This Medieval Sword Inscribed With A Viking Symbol
During routine dredging of the Korte Linschoten River in Montfoort, Netherlands in 2024, workers noticed something sticking out of the bucket of sludge they'd just pulled up from the depths — and it turned out to be a completely...
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13 Trump-Musk feud claims we’ve fact-checked
The complicated relationship between the two men came to an explosive head online in early June 2025.
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What‘s the Kennection? #171
All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?
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Russian minister sacked by Putin found dead
Russia's Investigative Committee says former Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit has been found dead, apparently with a self-inflicted gunshot...