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A woman ran the NYC Marathon drunk, and was pretty happy with the results.


Her goal going into the New York City Marathon was to engage with the spectators cheering her on — especially since multiple friends were going to be joining her.

"I wanted to eat all the food I saw and then drink whatever the spectators were bringing," Huang said. "That was my plan going into this race. But I didn't expect how much food and drinks there would be."

She started with candy, then "the first guy handed me, I think, a shot of Hennessy," Huang said. "After that, it got really, really lit."
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This one should be read very slowly:

www.iflscience.com

How Do Snails Have Sex?

These guys like to take it slow.
www.iflscience.com www.iflscience.com

If you thought a pre-sex swordfight was the only insane part of this process, wait until you hear about the actual point of copulation.

During the final stage of mating, a penis will pop out from the side of both snails’ heads (yes, you read that correctly), and simultaneously enter into the other’s vaginal duct. The snails then form and transfer spermatophores – a sort of capsule filled with sperm – after which, they separate. That sounds simple, but the whole thing can take several hours.
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fatness said:
If you thought a pre-sex swordfight was the only insane part of this process, wait until you hear about the actual point of copulation.

During the final stage of mating, a penis will pop out from the side of both snails’ heads (yes, you read that correctly), and simultaneously enter into the other’s vaginal duct. The snails then form and transfer spermatophores – a sort of capsule filled with sperm – after which, they separate. That sounds simple, but the whole thing can take several hours.
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I think something like this happened to me back in the old college-and-LSD days, but the 2 of us have never spoken about it since.
 
It's that time of year for the Red Crab migration on Christmas Island, which is technically part of Australia but is much closer to Indonesia. Over 100 million crabs will crawl from the forest to the sea to breed.

Males will migrate towards the beach first to absorb some moisture before burrowing and waiting to attract a female crab. After mating, the females will then release up to 100,000 eggs each into the ocean during a high tide.
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The guards around all 4 tires to push crabs out of the way are just awesome, by the way.

www.abc.net.au

'One of the most amazing things to see': Rain kickstarts Christmas Island's red crab migration

Up to 100 million red crabs have begun their annual march to the ocean ahead of mating season on the remote Australian island, after dry weather delayed last year's migration.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 
This will probably end up as a series on Lifetime or Netflix.
Florida Inmate Compares Herself to 'Virgin Mary' After Getting Pregnant from Saran-Wrapped Semen Tossed Into Air Vent By Fellow Prisoner

2 inmates figured out a way to communicate with each other through a ventilation shaft. One thing led to Saran Wrap and before you know it a new family is born. The father's name is Joan, by the way.

"I put the semen in Saran Wrap every day like five times a day for like a month straight" said Joan Depaz.

Link described receiving the packages, which were rolled up "almost like a cigarette", administering them to herself using yeast infection applicators.
After a couple of attempts, Link became pregnant with "a miracle baby", conceiving "like the Virgin Mary," according to Depaz.
The baby, who was born on Jun. 19, is now living with Depaz' mother."

Here's a second article with even more details: https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-an...air-vent-579a8396-c70d-402c-a18c-e264aa3c1b2f
 
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Female housecat gets stuck in drainpipe, firefighters are called and cut out section of pipe, take cat to pet rescue organization, pipe is removed from around cat.

Bonus #1: Female cat was named John by son who names everything John.
Bonus #2: Picture of cat while stuck.

www.bbc.com

Cat stuck in drainpipe 'completely fine' after being rescued

The owner of a cat rescued from a drainpipe thanks firefighters for their care in the rescue.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com
 
Using a small plane she had rebuilt with her father, Keim launched her turkey delivery mission a few years back after learning of a family living off the land nearby who had little for Thanksgiving dinner. “They were telling me that a squirrel for dinner did not split very far between three people,” Keim recalled. “At that moment, I thought ... ‘I’m going to airdrop them a turkey.‘”

She decided not to stop there. Her effort has grown by word of mouth and by social media posts. This year, she’s delivering 32 frozen turkeys to people living year-round in cabins where there are no roads.
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www.oregonlive.com

In rural Alaska, a pilot tosses turkeys from an airplane for remote residents' Thanksgiving dinners

Residents living well off the grid nevertheless have turkeys this holiday, thanks to the Alaska Turkey Bomb.
www.oregonlive.com www.oregonlive.com
 
World's Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays An Egg

"The oldest known wild bird in the world has laid an egg at the ripe age of about 74, her first in four years, U.S. wildlife officials said.

The long-winged seabird named Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago and laid what experts estimate may be her 60th egg, the Pacific Region of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said in a Facebook post this week. Wisdom and her mate, Akeakamai, had returned to the atoll in the Pacific Ocean to lay and hatch eggs since 2006. Laysan albatrosses mate for life and lay one egg per year."

Pictures and video here: https://www.facebook.com/USFWSPacif...r4m9a1JmFPL7xi5xrZEb37h5CYjv6gtnhHXHRm3iRKEwl
 
The world's largest iceberg is loose again.

Spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418-square-miles) when measured in August – slightly bigger than Rhode Island – the A23a iceberg has been carefully tracked by scientists ever since it calved from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in 1986. It remained grounded on the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea floor for more than 30 years, probably until it shrank just enough to loosen its grip on the seafloor. Then, the iceberg was carried away by ocean currents before it became stuck again in a Taylor column – the name given to a spinning vortex of water caused by ocean currents hitting an underwater mountain. Now that the iceberg has broken free, scientists expect it will continue drifting along the ocean currents toward warmer water and the remote island of South Georgia, where it is likely to break up and eventually melt, BAS said in a statement published Friday.
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Grief

An orca that carried her dead calf for weeks in 2018 is doing so once again

"An endangered Pacific Northwest orca that made global headlines in 2018 for carrying her dead calf for over two weeks is doing so once again following the death of her new calf, in another sign of grief over lost offspring, researchers said. The mother orca, known as Tahlequah or J35, has been seen carrying the body of the deceased female calf since Wednesday, the Washington state-based Center for Whale Research said in a Facebook post.

In 2018, researchers observed J35 pushing her dead calf along for 17 days, propping it up for more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers). The calf had died shortly after it was born, and the mother and her closely knit pod of whales were seen taking turns carrying the dead body.

Hanson, who was able to observe her behavior from a boat on Wednesday, said J35 was draping the dead calf across her snout or on top of her head, and that she appeared to dive for it when it sank from the surface. He said the calf was only alive for a “handful of days.” "
 
A long-running sinkhole in the UK is now getting Google reviews as a tourist attraction.

metro.co.uk

Yorkshire sinkhole becomes tourist attraction with five star reviews on Google

'Brought my kids. Absolutely loved it. Would come again.'
metro.co.uk metro.co.uk

"The Hole: has metal fencing and brightly coloured plastic cordons to keep flocks of tourists at bay
The Mona Lisa: has one little length of rope and a sheet of glass that is not fit for purpose.
The Hole is clearly the superior attraction.
THE HOLE WINS!"

https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/c...ad_collapsed_in_my_town_a_couple_of/#lightbox
 
Pretty cool article about a moose that had fallen through the ice in a lake, and the complicated procedures used to rescue it.

www.huffpost.com

Moose Rescued After Falling Through Ice In New York: No 'Training Manual' For This

A bull moose can weigh around 1,000 pounds so forest rangers didn't have much of a chance to safely pull the animal out from the cold water.
www.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com

"The hope was for the moose to swim down the channel and climb out. A bull moose can weigh around 1,000 pounds (455 kilograms), so there wasn’t much chance of them being able to pull it out safely.

The moose didn’t swim toward the thick ice, so they tried to herd it down the channel they had cut. The bull moose wasn’t intimidated by the officials or their big metal sticks. It was intimidated by their sleds. “For whatever reason it was scared of those. So once we got behind it, we were able to direct it,” said Matt Savarie, the other forest ranger."
 
The term "mullet" referring to the classic mid-to-late 1980's short haircut up top but kept long in the back was coined by The Beastie Boys in 1994 in their song "Mullet Head" and has no citation in popular culture prior to that date, per the Oxford English Dictionary. The phrase "business in the front, party in the back" appears to have entered pop culture via a line in the 2001 film Joe Dirt and does not seem to have been used to refer to the haircut at any time in the 20th century.
 
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The term "mullet" referring to the classic mid-to-late 1980's short haircut up top but kept long in the back was coined by The Beastie Boys in 1994 in their song "Mullet Head" and has no citation in popular culture prior to that date, per the Oxford English Dictionary. The phrase "business in the front, party in the back" appears to have entered pop culture via a line in the 2001 film Joe Dirt and does not seem to have been used to refer to the haircut at any time in the 20th century.
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The mullet note matches my memory - I don't remember anyone calling it that at the time... but the second half seems wrong to me. I could swear my brother used to say "business in the front, badass in the back" about the hairstyle we all called "hockey hair".
 
Polish general fired after anti-tank mines found in Ikea warehouse

"In June 2024, a train carrying more than 1,000 tons of explosives was improperly unloaded by Polish troops, the report said, who mistakenly left the anti-tank mines to continue their rail-bound journey around the country until they were eventually offloaded in the furniture behemoth’s warehouse.

Kępczyński, meanwhile, reportedly kept the mishap from his superiors while furnishing subsequent supply reports that featured false numbers. That approach appeared to have worked — at least until an Ikea warehouse representative telephoned military officials and inquired about “when they would collect their mines,” according to one report."
 
fatness said:
Students in Vermont schools were allowed to name all the state's snowplows. https://vtrans.vermont.gov/name-a-plow

Jennifer Snowpez
Snowbegone Kenobi
Plowy McPlowFace (of course)
Dorito
Carl
Pumpkin
Snowasaurus
William Scrape-speare
Get Out of My Way!
Steve
Plowdypus
Snowy Chicken
Crystal
Perry the Plowerpus
Snow McQueen
and others
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Minnesota once again had a contest to name their snowplows and here are this year's winners:
www.dot.state.mn.us

Name a Snowplow contest - MnDOT

The winners of MnDOT’s 2024-25 Name a Snowplow contest have been chosen!
www.dot.state.mn.us www.dot.state.mn.us

I think one of the winners should have been bumped for "Brrrtha".

Winners in previous years:
www.mprnews.org

Anthony Sledwards, Plowabunga! among winners in MnDOT's Name a Snowplow contest

While Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards drives the lane against NBA opponents this season, “Anthony Sledwards” will soon be clearing driving lanes for Minnesota motorists. It’s one of the eight winning snowplow names in MnDOT’s annual contest.
www.mprnews.org www.mprnews.org
 
fatness said:
fatness said:
Students in Vermont schools were allowed to name all the state's snowplows. https://vtrans.vermont.gov/name-a-plow

Jennifer Snowpez
Snowbegone Kenobi
Plowy McPlowFace (of course)
Dorito
Carl
Pumpkin
Snowasaurus
William Scrape-speare
Get Out of My Way!
Steve
Plowdypus
Snowy Chicken
Crystal
Perry the Plowerpus
Snow McQueen
and others
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Minnesota once again had a contest to name their snowplows and here are this year's winners:
www.dot.state.mn.us

Name a Snowplow contest - MnDOT

The winners of MnDOT’s 2024-25 Name a Snowplow contest have been chosen!
www.dot.state.mn.us www.dot.state.mn.us

I think one of the winners should have been bumped for "Brrrtha".

Winners in previous years:
www.mprnews.org

Anthony Sledwards, Plowabunga! among winners in MnDOT's Name a Snowplow contest

While Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards drives the lane against NBA opponents this season, “Anthony Sledwards” will soon be clearing driving lanes for Minnesota motorists. It’s one of the eight winning snowplow names in MnDOT’s annual contest.
www.mprnews.org www.mprnews.org
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My favorite for this year was Snowtorious B.I.G.

Past ones I liked were:

Taylor Drift
Better Call Salt
Ctrl Salt Delete
The Big Leplowski
Plowy McPlowFace
 
Leroy Hoard said:
fatness said:
fatness said:
Students in Vermont schools were allowed to name all the state's snowplows. https://vtrans.vermont.gov/name-a-plow

Jennifer Snowpez
Snowbegone Kenobi
Plowy McPlowFace (of course)
Dorito
Carl
Pumpkin
Snowasaurus
William Scrape-speare
Get Out of My Way!
Steve
Plowdypus
Snowy Chicken
Crystal
Perry the Plowerpus
Snow McQueen
and others
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Minnesota once again had a contest to name their snowplows and here are this year's winners:
www.dot.state.mn.us

Name a Snowplow contest - MnDOT

The winners of MnDOT’s 2024-25 Name a Snowplow contest have been chosen!
www.dot.state.mn.us www.dot.state.mn.us

I think one of the winners should have been bumped for "Brrrtha".

Winners in previous years:
www.mprnews.org

Anthony Sledwards, Plowabunga! among winners in MnDOT's Name a Snowplow contest

While Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards drives the lane against NBA opponents this season, “Anthony Sledwards” will soon be clearing driving lanes for Minnesota motorists. It’s one of the eight winning snowplow names in MnDOT’s annual contest.
www.mprnews.org www.mprnews.org
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My favorite for this year was Snowtorious B.I.G.

Past ones I liked were:

Taylor Drift
Better Call Salt
Ctrl Salt Delete
The Big Leplowski
Plowy McPlowFace
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Typical response from you, Hoardy McHoardface.
j/k

Ones I like:
Plowy McPlowface
Barbie’s Dream Plow
Betty Whiteout
Ctrl Salt Delete
The Big Leplowski
 
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