In the late 1980s, Mike Tyson offered a zookeeper $10,000 to open the gate to the gorilla exhibit so Mike could go in and fight a silverback gorilla that was bullying the others.
Mike later admitted in an interview, “When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback’s snot box. He declined.”
North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia have reportedly accessed the unrestricted internet for the first time, with many using this newfound freedom to view adult only content, according to Financial Times journalist Gideon Rachman.
"A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on [adult content]" Rachman said.
A Texas woman with dreams of becoming a social media influencer was sentenced to 35 years in prison after stealing $1.2M from her employer and spending $900,000 of it on TikTok gifts.
Prosecutors say Staci Blackmon was using the money to tip social media influencers on live streams in hopes of building her own following.
Blackmon's employer ultimately caught on to the theft, which led the company down a rabbit hole, realizing the theft had been going on for several years.
The CopenHill powerplant is the world's largest waste-to-energy facility but doubles as an entertainment destination.
During the warm summer months, the rooftop acts as a full-blown activity park that provides visitors with hiking trails, playgrounds, fitness equipment, trail running, climbing walls, and spectacular views of the city. In winter, it offers 1,640 feet (500 meters) of ski slopes, complete with a ski lift system. The slopes run from the top of the 90-metre-high building to its base, with a 180-degree turn halfway down the piste.
Australian skateboarding gold medalist, Arisa Trew, is only 14-years-old, but she had some incentive to bringing home the gold medal. Her parents promised her a pet if she won. And she chose a duck.
Trew said "They are really cute, then I can take it on walks and take it to the skate park … I don’t know, I just want a duck.”
A professor in South Korea has developed a toilet that turns human waste into energy and pays you to use it! It uses a vacuum pump to send your waste into an underground tank, where microorganisms break down the waste to methane, which becomes a source of energy for the building.
An average person defecates about 500g a day, which can be converted to 50 litres of methane gas, the professor said. This gas can generate 0.5kWh of electricity or be used to drive a car for about 1.2km (0.75 miles).
Users are given a digital currency for each deposit which they can use to buy goods on campus such as coffee, fruits, and books.
Due to concerns over animal welfare, Germany's Roncalli Circus stopped using lions and elephants in its shows in 1991. In 2018, they removed all live animals from the show. Now they're replaced with 3D holograms.
The system of 11 digital laser projectors positioned around the stage flash animations onto a circular net hoisted up for each performance.
In 1994, the United States Air Force once explored the concept of a "gay bomb" intended to make enemy soldiers irresistible to one another.
The three-page proposal for the bomb envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behavior among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
Residents in the small French village of Baune are tired of people speeding through an intersection, so they've created a visual disturbance by painting squiggly white lines all over the road to encourage people to slow down. While safety experts say the random markings could confuse drivers and introduce a new danger, the mayor claims the squiggly lines are working.
In 2019, a 27-year-old Indian man tried to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Raphael Samuel said it's wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering. He argued that he should be paid for the rest of his life since he didn't ask to be born.
Samuel's belief is rooted in what's called anti-natalism, a philosophy that argues that life is so full of misery that people should stop procreating immediately. He said, "There's no point to humanity. So many people are suffering. If humanity is extinct, Earth and animals would be happier. They'll certainly be better off. Also no human will then suffer. Human existence is totally pointless."
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In the late 1980s, Mike Tyson offered a zookeeper $10,000 to open the gate to the gorilla exhibit so Mike could go in and fight a silverback gorilla that was bullying the others.
Mike later admitted in an interview, “When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback’s snot box. He declined.”
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North Korean soldiers deployed in Russia have reportedly accessed the unrestricted internet for the first time, with many using this newfound freedom to view adult only content, according to Financial Times journalist Gideon Rachman.
"A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on [adult content]" Rachman said.
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A Texas woman with dreams of becoming a social media influencer was sentenced to 35 years in prison after stealing $1.2M from her employer and spending $900,000 of it on TikTok gifts.
Prosecutors say Staci Blackmon was using the money to tip social media influencers on live streams in hopes of building her own following.
Blackmon's employer ultimately caught on to the theft, which led the company down a rabbit hole, realizing the theft had been going on for several years.
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The CopenHill powerplant is the world's largest waste-to-energy facility but doubles as an entertainment destination.
During the warm summer months, the rooftop acts as a full-blown activity park that provides visitors with hiking trails, playgrounds, fitness equipment, trail running, climbing walls, and spectacular views of the city. In winter, it offers 1,640 feet (500 meters) of ski slopes, complete with a ski lift system. The slopes run from the top of the 90-metre-high building to its base, with a 180-degree turn halfway down the piste.
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Australian skateboarding gold medalist, Arisa Trew, is only 14-years-old, but she had some incentive to bringing home the gold medal. Her parents promised her a pet if she won. And she chose a duck.
Trew said "They are really cute, then I can take it on walks and take it to the skate park … I don’t know, I just want a duck.”
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A professor in South Korea has developed a toilet that turns human waste into energy and pays you to use it! It uses a vacuum pump to send your waste into an underground tank, where microorganisms break down the waste to methane, which becomes a source of energy for the building.
An average person defecates about 500g a day, which can be converted to 50 litres of methane gas, the professor said. This gas can generate 0.5kWh of electricity or be used to drive a car for about 1.2km (0.75 miles).
Users are given a digital currency for each deposit which they can use to buy goods on campus such as coffee, fruits, and books.
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Due to concerns over animal welfare, Germany's Roncalli Circus stopped using lions and elephants in its shows in 1991. In 2018, they removed all live animals from the show. Now they're replaced with 3D holograms.
The system of 11 digital laser projectors positioned around the stage flash animations onto a circular net hoisted up for each performance.
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In 1994, the United States Air Force once explored the concept of a "gay bomb" intended to make enemy soldiers irresistible to one another.
The three-page proposal for the bomb envisaged an aphrodisiac chemical that would provoke widespread homosexual behavior among troops, causing what the military called a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale.
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Residents in the small French village of Baune are tired of people speeding through an intersection, so they've created a visual disturbance by painting squiggly white lines all over the road to encourage people to slow down.
While safety experts say the random markings could confuse drivers and introduce a new danger, the mayor claims the squiggly lines are working.
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In 2019, a 27-year-old Indian man tried to sue his parents for giving birth to him without his consent. Raphael Samuel said it's wrong to bring children into the world because they then have to put up with lifelong suffering. He argued that he should be paid for the rest of his life since he didn't ask to be born.
Samuel's belief is rooted in what's called anti-natalism, a philosophy that argues that life is so full of misery that people should stop procreating immediately. He said, "There's no point to humanity. So many people are suffering. If humanity is extinct, Earth and animals would be happier. They'll certainly be better off. Also no human will then suffer. Human existence is totally pointless."
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