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Poland's cities, including Warsaw and Poznan, employ unusual teams of monitors to ensure that their water supply is safe to drink. Each water filtration plant has a crack team of eight mussels that tirelessly track the water entering the system, and ...

According to a new paper, the fear of ending up on Santa's Naughty list doesn't make kids behave better. At Christmastime, children are often admonished to be good or end up on Santa's "naughty" list and receive only coal in their stockings. -- Read ...

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What happens if you find a police surveillance device attached to your car? Attorney Andrew Flusche reviews four cases and offers advice on what you should do. In 2010, Yasir Aifi discovered a GPS tracking device under his car during a mechanic visit ...

A flying pork product helped an Austin writer claim literary infamy in this year's Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which crowns the author of the worst opening sentence to an imaginary novel. Lawrence Person beat out more than 6,300 contestants with ...

Representative to the US Congress from the State of Georgia Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Senator Rand Paul in touting Elon "Pedo Guy" Musk for Speaker of the House. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! This is one of those ...

Desperate sailors during WWII turned torpedo fuel into a legendary bootleg booze that packed enough punch to blind or kill those who dared drink it. Called "torpedo juice," this dangerous concoction spread from the Aleutians to Australia, becoming an ...

Relax by the fire with Mando and Din Grogu! Listen to the gentle crackling and watch the youngling sip frog baby soup. I wonder why they decided to sit in the snow and where they got that new Razor Crest. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? -- Read the ...

Scientists are studying a disturbing development in the whole squirrels-are-up-to-no-good thing. In California, newly found to be carnivorous squirrels are decapitating and tearing voles limb from limb while devouring their flesh. LIKE BOING BOING ...