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Sunday, 04 June 2023 04:22

Bible banned from US school after parent issues complaint

A number of schools in a Utah district, United States of America, removed the King James Version of the Bible from some library bookshelves after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a committee the Good Book contained “vulgar” or “violent” content for younger children, officials said Friday. The Davis School District—a public system with about 72,000 students—has largely pulled the Bible from its elementary and middle schools, but has decided to keep the book in circulation in high school libraries. In a copy of the parent’s complaint reviewed by NBC News, they said their effort…

Saturday, 03 June 2023 04:12

Village garbage man helped unearth ancient bronze statues

One of Italy's most remarkable archaeological finds in decades goes on show this month - Etruscan and Roman statues pulled from the mud in Tuscany thanks in part to the intuition of a retired garbage man. About two dozen bronze statues from the third century BC to the first century AD, extracted from the ruins of an ancient spa, will go on display in Rome's Quirinale Palace from June 22, after months of restoration. When the discovery was announced in November, experts called it the biggest collection of ancient bronze statues ever found in Italy and hailed it as a…

Sunday, 28 May 2023 04:28

Christian teacher banned from class for 'misgendering' student

Christian teacher Joshua Sutcliffe was banned from the classroom by the Teaching Regulation Agency for failing to properly use the preferred pronouns of a transgender student. The Christian Legal Centre said that the agency’s ruling was believed to be the first time a teacher was banned by the department for misgendering a student, according to the press release. “I have been bullied and pursued and have had every part of my life scrutinized for expressing my Christian faith and biological truth,” Sutcliffe said in a press release. A Christian math teacher was banned from the classroom in the United Kingdom…

Saturday, 27 May 2023 04:28

Japanese turn to smile instructors to learn how to smile again after Covid

After wearing masks in public for three long years, many Japanese are signing up for smiling classes to learn how to smile again without looking awkward. Smiling used to be a natural response, but apparently, three years of hiding behind a mask have left many Japanese unable to smile naturally. Some of them are now paying so-called smiling educators to teach them how to display their pearly whites again without looking awkward. They participate in specialized classes where they are taught how to stretch and flex various parts of their faces and even their neck muscles to smile properly and…

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…

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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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