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Saturday, 20 May 2023 04:17

Thieves steal 220 sneakers from store, all for the right foot

A trio of Peruvian thieves managed to make international news headlines after pulling off one of the dumbest heists in history – 220 sneakers from various brands, all for the right foot. The hilarious crime occurred on April 30th, at a sports goods store in Huancayo, central Peru. At around 03:30 am, three men managed to cut the padlocks at the back of the store and steal three large crates filled with sneaker boxes from various brands. What the thieves didn’t realize was that all the shoeboxes they stole only contained sneakers for the right foot, as the owner had…

Saturday, 13 May 2023 04:08

This 100 years old US’ smallest bank has just 2 employees

With just $3 million in assets, two employees, no ATM, no website, and no transaction fees, Kentland Federal Savings and Loan is the smallest bank in America, and it’s been around for over 100 years. You’ve most likely heard of America’s banking giants – JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and the Bank of America – but what about the smallest fish in the pond, so to speak? Well, at the opposite end, we have Kentland Federal Savings and Loan, officially the smallest bank in the United States of America. Founded back in 1920, by the great-grandfather of its…

Friday, 05 May 2023 07:59

People are sharing the jobs they've had nobody knows exists, and it's eye-opening

When we think of potential career paths, the popular ones that come to mind are doctor, teacher, lawyer, etc., but there are so many jobs that never even cross our minds. Things are the way they are, the world functions the way it functions, and we don't even consider how certain things exist or are maintained. Well, some folks shared the jobs they've done that people don't even know exist, and it's all super enlightening. Scroll down and see for yourself! The following is a compilation of submissions from threads that can be found here, here, and here. 1. "I…

Tuesday, 02 May 2023 04:10

N30,000 national minimum wage widely seen as inadequate; yet some Borno workers get N4,000 as monthly salary - NLC

The organised labour in Borno State marked this year’s Workers’ Day, complaining that some workers in the state still receive N4,000 as their monthly salary. The Borno workers’ grievances also include difficulties they and other citizens of the state encounter in paying their electricity bills due to the new metering in the state. They also complained that the bio-data capturing exercise has alienated a lot of civil servants and pensioners in the state, resulting in staggered payment of pensions and gratuity in the state. They decried the hike in tuition fees by the University of Maiduguri from N30,000 to N100,000.…

Sunday, 23 April 2023 02:37

Man describes what it's like to briefly die: 'I was separate from my body'

There was a peace about Kevin Hill as he watched himself die. And it's a memory he now has after doctors resuscitated him and turned his death into a near-death experience (NDE). "I knew I was bleeding. I knew it was serious," he tells The Mirror. "The staff kept coming in and out to stop the bleeding. I knew I had died. I was separate from my body." That's how the memory ends, with the current reality of him being quite alive. "I just went to sleep, and I woke up alive and the bleeding had stopped," he says. "I…

Saturday, 22 April 2023 03:45

This US state is slowly expanding 2 acres every year. Here's why

Every year, Nevada gets a little bigger. Tectonic forces — movements that cause a change in the Earth's crust — expands the state’s surface by about two acres annually, or about the size of 32 tennis courts. Over millions of years, that has added up to a lot more surface area in the Nevada. The USA TODAY Network spoke with Jim Faulds, state geologist and director of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, about why this happens. Here’s what we learned. Growing on all sides Nevada has been the fastest growing state for 20 million years. How much has…

Sunday, 16 April 2023 03:11

Couple welcomes 1st baby girl born into the family after 138 years of boys

A Michigan couple is seeing pink as they welcomed a baby girl named Audrey in March, ending a 138-year streak of only boys being born into the family. When Carolyn and Andrew Clark of Caledonia, Michigan, held their "gender reveal" party, they weren’t expecting any big surprises. Andrew Clark had informed his wife before they married 10 years ago that they would not be having a girl — due to a long line of male-dominated births in his family. "I didn't believe him because it's a 50/50 chance of having a boy or a girl," Carolyn Clark, 36, told Fox…

Saturday, 08 April 2023 03:28

Court imposes ‘death sentence’ on cockerel for causing noise pollution

Yusuf, a man in Northern Nigeria, has been ordered by a Magistrate Court in Kano State to eliminate his cockerel on or before Friday due to noise pollution. This order was issued by the Chief Magistrate, Halima Wali, on Tuesday, following a complaint by Yusuf's neighbour about the constant crowing of the cockerel causing sleep deprivation. The court deemed the domestic bird to be a nuisance to the community and instructed Yusuf to comply with the order to kill the cockerel by Friday or face a penalty from the court. It is worth noting that rearing livestock and poultry in…

Saturday, 01 April 2023 03:33

Loyal dog warms hearts with daily hospital visits to unwell owner

A loyal pet dog from Sichuan province in Southwestern China who has been visiting its owner in the hospital every single day has melted hearts on the Internet The fur owner fell ill with an undisclosed condition, and since then, the doggo has been making the daily trip to the hospital. In a video report by Star Video, the dog makes the trip every day accompanied by a family member to a local hospital after its owner became ill, leaning forward in the handrail of the hospital bed and staring at its owner as it snuggles its head on its…

Saturday, 25 March 2023 04:18

The disturbing story of a family who jumped from the seventh floor of their apartment building

On March 24, 2022, the whole of Switzerland was shocked by the unexplainable act of a family of five from the town of Montreux who jumped from the balcony of their seventh-floor apartment. A year ago, in the span of about five minutes, Nasrine Feraoun, 41, her twin sister Narjisse, her husband Eric David, 40, and their two children – an 8-year-old girl and a 15-year-old son – all jumped from the balcony of their 7th-floor apartment on Rue du Casino street, in the town of Montreux. Only the 15-year-old son survived, but after spending months in a coma, he…

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Saturday, 11 March 2023 06:01

Mom expecting 2 baby girls delivers boys instead

Carolyn and Sean Savage got pregnant using in vitro fertilization. But as it turned out, their last names had somehow gotten mixed up at the clinic — and Carolyn was actually pregnant with another couple's baby. As gut-wrenching as the experience was, Carolyn carried the baby to term before giving him back to his biological parents. Now another heartbreaking and inconceivable mix-up has led to a lawsuit making national news. This story is about an unidentified Asian-American couple from Flushing, New York. After having spent more than $100,000 on IVF services, they were thrilled to learn they were expecting healthy…

Saturday, 04 March 2023 04:28

Woman worried about Covid-19 locked herself, son inside home for 3 years

A young Indian mother locked herself up with her child in an apartment for three years because she was convinced the boy would die of Covid-19 as soon as he set foot outside the home. In what can only be described as an extreme case of Covid-19 paranoia, a 36-year-old woman from Gurugram cut herself and her son from the outside world when the pandemic started. The woman, likely shocked by the wave of coronavirus infections and Covid-19-related deaths that swept India in 2020, somehow got it in her head that cutting off all contact with the outside world was…

Saturday, 18 February 2023 06:00

Company asks job applicants to wear masks to avoid discrimination based on looks

A company in Chengdu, China has been praised for asking both job applicants and recruiters to wear masks in order to avoid discrimination based on looks. Chengdu Ant Logistics recently made news headlines after a video showing its recruitment process went viral on Chinese social media. Shot by one of the interviewees, the short clip shows several masked people waiting to be interviewed by a recruiter, who was reportedly also masked. The company has since put out a statement on the matter, claiming that the video was shot at its recent biannual recruitment fair and that the masked were introduced…

Saturday, 04 February 2023 06:01

82-year-old stores employee retires after viral TikTok video raises over $100,000 on GoFundMe

An 82-year-old Navy veteran working at a Maryland Walmart has retired thanks to an interaction with a customer that went viral on social media. Butch Marion officially retired from his job on Wednesday weeks after a Walmart customer walked into the store and filmed the 82-year-old veteran ringing up items in the checkout line and posted the video on TikTok, which raised over $100,000 for Marion, WTTG-TV reported. That customer, bug extermination business owner Rory McCarty, had seen a previous TikTok video where a woman went into a Walmart and filmed an elderly employee bagging groceries and raised money for…

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