Just 2 days into the new year and 2017 is already ready with a gigantic meteor show! AND we also stand a chance to see an extremely rare comet zooming past Earth. The #NewYear will start w/ a celestial firework ...
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Germany sees ‘overwhelming’ sales of Hitler’s Mein Kampf
About 85,000 German-language copies of the anti-Semitic Nazi manifesto have been sold. Publisher Andreas Wirsching said “the figures overwhelmed us”, the BBC reports. He is director of the Institute of Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich. At the end of January, ...
Read More »Toddler miraculously saves his twin brother from under fallen dresser
Twin’s father Ricky Shoff posted a video of the incident, captured from a bedroom security camera, as News Channel 3 reports. Brock was trapped underneath the corner of the dresser, and twin brother Bowdy worked to figure out a way to help ...
Read More »Dinosaurs took 3 to 6 months to hatch
A team of researchers from the Florida State University has studied teeth structure of the fossilized embryos of two dinosaur species and found that their babies took from 3 to 6 months to hatch from the eggs, the Science Mag ...
Read More »ISIS claims responsibility for Istanbul nightclub attack
ISIS group said in a statement the attack on Reina night club in central Istanbul was carried out by “a heroic soldier,” the BBC reports. At least 600 revellers were celebrating in the early hours of Sunday at Istanbul’s Reina ...
Read More »Kim Jong Un says close to test intercontinental ballistic missile launch
North Korea tested ballistic missiles at an unprecedented rate during 2016, although some experts have said it is years away from developing an ICBM fitted with a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the U.S., according to Reuters. “Research and development ...
Read More »Hollywood sign altered to read ‘Hollyweed’
Armed with four tarpaulins, a prankster had climbed Mount Lee under the cover of night to edit the iconic landmark, which was changed to “HOLLYWeeD,” Los Angeles Times reports. Security footage recorded at 3 a.m. Sunday showed a “lone individual” ...
Read More »Man who claims to be world’s oldest human celebrates his 146th birthday
Mbah Gotho, from Indonesia, claims he was born on December 31, 1870, and reckons that his ID card proves it, Metro reports. If correct, it makes him significantly older than the officially verified oldest person ever – French woman Jeanne Calment, ...
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