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Flight 666 makes safe Friday the 13th landing in HEL
In a bizarre Friday the 13th coincidence, a flight bearing the number of the beast went straight to HEL today. Finnair Flight 666 took off from Copenhagen, Denmark (CPH) and flew directly to Helsinki, Finland (HEL) on Friday. Even better? The flight took off at 13:00 local time, according to Flightaware. The one-hour, 34-minute flight landed in Helsinki at 3:41 p.m. local time.
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‘We Are All Savages’: Scalping and Survival in The Revenant
When The Revenant was released in 2015, it received widespread praise for its stunning cinematography and its visceral imagining of the American West—and was one of the big winners of the award season, collecting several Oscars including Best Director for Alejandro Iñárritu and Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio. Based on the real-life travails of Hugh Glass, a fur trader who legendarily survived being mauled by a bear and then abandoned by members of his party in 1823, the film invokes Glass as a Western archetype: the frontiersman going to fierce, heroic lengths to survive.
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Before photoshop, there was the disturbing art of spirit photography.
Ever since technology has allowed people to capture pictures, photographers have been using photo-editing techniques to trick people. One of the most fascinating early examples is spirit photography. Customers believed that the spirits of lost loved ones were communicating with them through these photographs. The first spirit photographer was William Mumler, who discovered a double exposure technique in the 1860s that made ghostlike figures appear in photographs. He would take pictures of people and then alter the negatives using other pictures to make “spirits” appear with the living subjects.
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Man shoots himself in chest with crossbow while hunting
A man accidentally shot himself in the chest with a crossbow while he was hunting with a group of people in the Marlborough Forest on Sunday night, according to Ottawa paramedics. It happened at about 6 p.m. Sunday in the woods near Dwyer Hill Road and Roger Stevens Drive, north of Merrickville, Ont., and south of Richmond, Ont. The 45-year-old man was trying to disarm the crossbow after a day of deer hunting when he accidentally shot himself, paramedics said.
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Man spends stolen $1m on Game of War
A man went on a $1m (£800,000) spending spree on the Game of War app after stealing $4.8m from his employer. Kevin Lee Co, 45, from Sacramento, California, pleaded guilty to fraudulently using company credit cards to steal the money. Court documents reveal Mr Co spent about $1m of the embezzled funds on Game of War, one of the world's highest grossing mobile games. Players buy gold and other in-game credits to help build their empires.
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Five Crazy Ways Humans Have Preserved Their Bodies Throughout History
Nobody can cheat death, but for thousands of years, humans have tried to elude decomposition. Whether we’re saving our bodies for the afterlife or time traveling to a better future, peoples throughout history have gone to astounding lengths to preserve their mortal remains.
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‘If you don’t like Trump, leave the country,’ US judge tells new citizens
A federal judge in San Antonio, Texas, told an audience during a citizenship ceremony that if they don’t like President-elect Donald Trump, they should go to another country. John Primomo, a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court in the Western District of Texas, was presiding over the ceremony on Thursday. He criticized Americans who have protested in the days after Trump won the elections, according to KHOU.
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Italian priest blames recent spate of earthquakes on gay civil unions
An Italian priest has said the recent earthquakes that have shaken the country, killing hundreds and leaving tens of thousands homeless, were "divine punishment" for gay civil unions. Father Giovanni Cavalcoli, a theologian known for his hardline views, made the comments on October 30, the day central Italy was struck by a 6.6-magnitude quake - the most powerful to hit the country in 36 years - according to Italian media.
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Oregon man kills elk, elk impales man
A Bend man was impaled in the back by an antlers of an elk he had just shot on Saturday, according to Crook County Sheriff's Office.
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How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost it All
Until his dying day in 2014, Nelson Bunker Hunt, who had once been the world’s wealthiest man, denied that he and his brother plotted to corner the global silver market. Sure, back in 1980, Bunker, his younger brother Herbert, and other members of the Hunt clan owned roughly two-thirds of all the privately held silver on earth. But the historic stockpiling of bullion hadn’t been a ploy to manipulate the market, they and their sizable legal team would insist in the following years. Instead, it was a strategy to hedge against the voracious inflation of the 1970s—a monumental bet against the U.S. dollar.
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Opening of World’s Longest Tunnel is Mysteriously Bizarre
The bizarre opening ceremony of the Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Swiss Alps had many people puzzled and some wondering if it was satanic or worse. By Paul Seaburn.
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Top 10 Bizarre Wars
War is fought over many things, it can be about honor, glory, liberating a land that you believe is rightfully yours, the list goes on, but alongside those there have been a number of decidedly unusual wars, fought for trivial or even contemptible reasons...
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NSFW Liar Town USA
Photoshopped book covers, album covers, and other miscellaneous artifacts. Many of them are hilarious, all of them bizarre.
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Was Moses a Founding Father?
A broken process at the Texas State Board of Education has allowed right-wing activists to politicize the facts—or fiction—that get taught in history class.
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11-foot gator eats burglary suspect hiding in Florida pond
Hide in a gator pond. Yeah, why not?
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Injured Deer Walks into Emergency Room After Being Hit by Car
A deer limped into a hospital emergency room after being hit by a car Monday afternoon.
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Five bizarre 'lessons' in Indian textbooks
The BBC's Ayeshea Perera looks at five of the most outrageous excerpts from Indian textbooks that have made headlines in recent times
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19th September 1973 - Death of country-rock pioneer inspires car crime
26-year-old musician Gram Parsons dies of “multiple drug use” (morphine and tequila) in a California motel room. His death inspired one of the more bizarre automobile-related crimes on record: Two of his friends stashed his body in a borrowed hearse and drove it into the middle of the Joshua Tree National Park, where they doused it with gasoline and set it on fire.
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We took a tour of the abandoned college campuses of Second Life
A lot of colleges bought the Second Life hype and set up their own private islands.
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Five women accused of witchcraft lynched by India mob
Villagers in a rural part of eastern India have killed five women whom they accused of practising witchcraft, police have said. Police in eastern Jharkhand state said on Saturday that a group of assailants dragged the women out of their huts and beat them to death at around midnight on Friday in their village, some 30km from state capital, Ranchi. "A group (of villagers) dragged the women out and beat them to death with sticks, accusing them of practicing witchcraft...
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