Random funny/fascinating/cool/odd stuff: ESPN tribute to Coach Corso (tissue alert!!!!) (2 Viewers)

[Nathan R. Jessep]

Thousands of Bats Swarm Before Typhoon Strikes Philippines | Weather.com

If it was a movie, this would be the part where you know something bad is about to happen. Dramatic video shows how thousands of bats filled the sky over a town in the Philippines hours before a deadly typhoon struck. See the eerie moment and learn what may have caused it.

weather.com

 

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It started as a moose call in Louisiana.

'Are you serious?': How the LSU band got a 66 year-old tuba player

This season hasn't gone according to plan for LSU, but one member of the school's band is living his dream.

www.espn.com

 

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Terns (a kind of bird) had almost vanished from the Chesapeake Bay, due in part to vanishing of their nesting grounds. So a group of people built a small floating island out of wooden barges which they covered with crushed clam shells to simulate beaches where terns nest. And lo and behold, it began the Return of the Terns.
This is cool stuff.

Maryland’s Tern Raft Celebrates Five Successful Years of Hosting Nesting Waterbirds

news.maryland.gov

 

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Perhaps one of the most flabbergasting cases of deep medical mistreatment comes from the 20th President of the United States, James Garfield. You may know James Garfield from bar trivia as the president that everyone forgets was assassinated. Though, the more you learn about the attempts to save him, the more it becomes apparent that the assassin's attempt may have only come to fruition when doctors tried to fix it. In fact, even though he’s listed as assassinated, historians are in pretty solid agreement that his actual cause of death was massive infection from stuff like having an entire team of doctors poking around inside his body for a whole summer without ever popping a glove on. Even more hilariously, the assassin himself argued the same thing at his trial, saying “the doctors killed Garfield, I just shot him.”

The U.S. President That Died With A Butt Full of Beef And Bourbon

And no, it didn't get there the usual way.

www.cracked.com

Garfield was left with a single bullet wound and zero damaged vital organs. With that, he was turned over to an era of medical professionals that would probably kill most goldfish while trying to change their tank water.

If you want further proof of how little damage the actual gunshot did, Garfield would live for another 2 MONTHS after the injury, even with doctors treating his wound like a sock puppet.

You see, the doctors were concerned that Garfield’s intestines might have been punctured by the bullet, and as such, all but forbade him from eating. Which feels like the closest to common sense we’ve gotten throughout this whole escapade. Unfortunately, as we said, he lived for 2 months, which you can’t do without sustenance. Understanding this, the doctors put their ill-informed heads together and prescribed, and I hate this as much as you do, “rectal feeding.” It’s exactly what you think it is. They shoved food up his ***. To be clear, as well, I do mean food. We’re not talking about suppositories, or any sort of medical concoction. We are talking about egg yolks, beef bouillon, milk, and, yes, bourbon. These guys were piping alcoholic versions of Rocky Balboa’s breakfast straight up Garfield’s exit.

 

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'Lion' on the loose in Ireland was a big dog 'with a fresh haircut'

with pictures of "lion"

 

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Feds told Oregon grocers they couldn’t offer 10% off to SNAP recipients, so they got creative

The honor system is in place at three Oregon stores, now offering discounts to all who need it.

www.oregonlive.com

Hats off to this company. Told by the feds that they couldn't offer 10% off groceries to SNAP recipients, they extended the offer to all shoppers, who can either ask for it or not, depending on their needs.

The McGintys, who own the McMinnville Grocery Outlet, tried to offer a 10% discount to all SNAP recipients whose food-assistance money had been frozen. But when the feds told them no, they came up with a go-around: Extending the offer to all customers. “Now there’s a catch to it, and I need your help as a community,” Mike McGinty announced in an Oct. 31 video posted to Facebook. “If you do not need a discount, please do not ask for it.” But if you do, “Take it. Ask for it.”
Six days into the offer, McGinty told The Oregonian/OregonLive Thursday that the honor system appears to be working. More than 200 customers have used the discount so far — with the overwhelming majority, he suspects, SNAP recipients or people who are otherwise struggling financially.

 

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“Can I Hug the Polar Bear?” And Other Funny Questions Outdoor Guides Get.

Adventure guides have fielded some hilarious queries by clients while out in the field. We asked them to tell us the wildest.

www.outsideonline.com

“Has the ocean been sprayed for sharks?”
“Does the water go all the way around the island?”
“Do I need to know how to swim in order to snorkel?”
“Don’t be ridiculous! They wouldn’t put wild animals inside a national park."
“How many birds does a giraffe eat in a day?”
“At what age does a rhino turn into a hippo?”
“Who paints the aspens?”
“You’ve gone to so much trouble lighting the trees for Christmas.” --- said by someone seeing lightning bugs
“Is that island always there?”

 

[El Floppo]

“Do I need to know how to swim in order to snorkel?”

tbf- you can snorkel with a floatation device without knowing how to swim.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

How many birds does a giraffe eat in a day?

LOL

 

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A seal fleeing a pod of orcas jumped into a photographer's boat, and wisely stayed there despite 15 minutes of orcas trying to knock it out of the boat.

Seal escapes orca hunt by jumping onto photographer's boat

A wildlife photographer captured a dramatic encounter on video between a harbor seal and a pod of killer whales.

apnews.com

Charvet Drucker was on a rented 20-foot (6-meter) boat near her home on an island in the Salish Sea about 40 miles northwest of Seattle when she spotted a pod of at least eight killer whales, also known as orcas. The orcas’ coordinated movements and tail slaps suggested they were hunting. Drucker used the zoom lens on her camera to spot a harbor seal that was trying to flee from the pod. One of her shots showed the seal flying through the air above the scrum of orcas frothing the water, and she assumed she was witnessing the seal’s last moments alive. But as the orcas got closer to the boat, Drucker and her group realized the pod was still chasing the seal. In line with wildlife boating regulations, they had cut the engine to prevent any injury to the whales. The seal clambered out of the water and onto a swimming platform at the stern of the boat near the motor — claiming it as a life raft of sorts.

The orcas did not give up immediately, but instead appeared to team up to rock the boat and make the seal fall off. Drucker’s cellphone video shows the orcas lining up and moving in on the boat with staggered dives to create waves. The “wave-washing” technique has been documented since by scientists since at least the 1980s, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The seal on Drucker’s boat slid off at least once, but managed to climb back on, and the orcas swam away after about 15 minutes.

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