A deadly Australia eastern brown snake, which has enough venom to kill 20 adults with a single bite, photographed in Sydney. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)
A field hockey player bitten by a king brown snake in Australia ran over a mile before collapsing and dropping dead.
Fast Eddy Aki'a of Hawaii smokes a joint as thousands gathered to celebrate the state's medicinal marijuana laws and collectively light up at 4:20 p.m. in Civic Center Park April 20, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. (Marc Piscotty/Getty Images)
“Dude, you’re a liar. You’re a liar,” a young man next to the officer says. “I can’t wait to see you in court. I can show how you’re harassing me.”
Managers at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., released 72,000 ladybugs into the enclosed shopping center this week to protect the mall’s plants.
To their credit, scientists at NASA simply call this image "rover tracks on Mars." The rest of the internet calls it "giant red penis on Mars." (NASA/Courtesy)
Image spawned such curiosity that Reddit users crashed NASA's servers.
The word news most often conjures up visions of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the troubled global economy, a political crisis in Washington, erupting volcanoes and devastating earthquakes. But as we all know, there is far more to news than that. Indeed, it’s often the wacky, weird, offbeat and sometimes off-color stories that can most intrigue and fascinate us. Those stories can range from changing astrological signs to lost pyramids in Egypt but in their essence they all cast new light on the shared human condition in all of its wild diversity.
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