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From Red Bull<\/a>: “Suddenly she was on top of me with her 3-inch claws digging into my lower back. And that’s when the first bite tore deep into my shoulder and ripped open my deltoid muscle. That was followed by bite after bite on my arms, back and head. And then it was over and the bear was gone. I felt so relieved and lucky to have survived as I started hiking back to my truck. And then without warning, the bear attacked again. I heard and felt the crunch of the bone in my arm and the tendons getting ripped off the muscles. My eyes filled with blood as the bears claws ripped a 5″ gash along the side of my head. I thought I may die right here on the trail in a pool of my own blood.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlocking the secrets of the ancient Voynich manuscript<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From The Conversation<\/a>: “The\u00a0Voynich manuscript\u00a0has long puzzled and fascinated historians. Carbon dating\u00a0provides a 95% probability the skins used to make the manuscript come from animals that died between 1404 and 1438, and the document is covered in illustrations of stars and planets, plants, zodiac symbols, naked women, and blue and green fluids. But the text itself \u2013 thought to be the work of\u00a0five different scribes\u00a0\u2013 is encrypted with an unknown cipher. My coauthor and I propose that sex is one of the subjects detailed in the manuscript \u2013 and that the largest diagram represents both sex and conception, both of which were considered at the time to be ‘women’s secrets.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The creator of Charlie Brown got rid of a character in a gruesome way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Mental Floss<\/a>: “In November 1954, readers of Charles Schulz\u2019s Peanuts <\/em>were greeted with a new agitator in the life of Charlie Brown. Her name was Charlotte Braun, and her defining character trait was being incredibly loud. So loud that Snoopy is forced to tie his ears together to be spared from her presence. Charlotte made just 10 appearances in Peanuts <\/em>before vanishing entirely, never to be mentioned again. It would be decades before fans had a better idea of where she had gone and why. Her fate involved an irate reader, a slightly peeved Schulz, and the poor little girl with a literal ax in her head.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The surprising history of the word \u2018dude\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From the BBC<\/a>: “Jeff Bridge\u2019s portrayal of The Dude in the Coen Brothers\u2019 film The Big Lebowski epitomised the seductive spirit of dudeness. But the word itself seems to have entered popular discourse in the early 1880s as shorthand for foppishly turned-out male followers of the Aesthetic Movement, a short-lived artistic vogue that championed superficial fashion and decadent beauty. It\u2019s thought that \u2018dude\u2019 is an abbreviation of \u2018Doodle\u2019 in \u2018Yankee Doodle\u2019, and probably refers to the new-fangled \u2018dandy\u2019 that the song describes, originally sung by British soldiers to lampoon the American colonists with whom they were at war.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terrifying sound resembling a woman’s voice recorded deep in the Pacific Ocean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From Upworthy<\/a>: “On March 1, 1999, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recorded one of the ocean’s strangest phenomena\u2014a deeply unsettling sound from the eastern equatorial Pacific. The sound was captured with the help of a variety of hydrophones that were kept hundreds of kilometers apart. Hydrophones are a special kind of microphone that is capable of detecting sound waves underwater. What made the sound so creepy was the fact that it resembled a woman’s voice. NOAA posted the sound on their website, calling it Julia since it sounded like a woman.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of years ago the fox might have been a man’s best friend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From CNN<\/a>: “In an ancient grave in what\u2019s now northwestern Argentina, a person was buried with a canine companion \u2014 but this animal friend wasn\u2019t a dog, according to new research. The burial held the skeleton of a type of canid that may have once competed with dogs for human affection: a fox. Analysis of evidence from a Patagonian burial dating back about 1,500 years hints at a similar close connection between a hunter-gatherer in southern South America and the large extinct fox species Dusicyon avus. Examination of collagen in the fox\u2019s remains revealed that it ate the same food that this group of humans did. Along with the skeleton\u2019s placement in the grave, the animal\u2019s diet suggested that the fox was tame and may have been kept as a pet.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He built tiny cars and taught his pet rats to drive them<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Human teaches rats to drive.

[\ud83d\udcf9 wittlefeather]pic.twitter.com\/pJeyp76NkL<\/a><\/p>— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 22, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>