Bizarre

5 May 2023

Genius giraffes have mastered maths

Giraffes are able to do maths. A team from Barcelona Zoo believe that the long-necked animals have figured out basic statistics by predicting the odds of getting their favourite snack. The experts ...

Phone call place increased strain on a person's heart

5 May 2023

Phone calls increase strain on the heart

Phone calls put strain on the heart. A new study conducted on more than 200,000 Brits found that phone users had a seven per cent higher risk of increased blood pressure ...

Dmitry Medvedev wants Volodymyr Zelensky dead

4 May 2023

Dmitry Medvedev demands the 'elimination' of Volodymyr Zelensky

Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has called for the "physical elimination" of Volodymyr Zelensky. Moscow has accused Ukraine of trying to assassinate Vladimir Putin in a drone strike and the country's ...

Woolly mammoths had an enormous sex drive

4 May 2023

Woolly mammoths were addicted to sex

Woolly mammoths had sex on the brain. Analysis of 30,000-year-old tusks from the extinct beasts have revealed that the mammoths experienced an enormous surge in testosterone during the mating season. Scientists have ...

A new drug reduces the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease

4 May 2023

Drug reduces Alzheimer's symptoms by 35 per cent

A new drug can reduce symptoms of Alzheimer's disease by 35 per cent. Results of a study - released in preliminary form by drug maker Eli Lilly - shows that the ...

Gardening can reduce the risk of breast cancer

3 May 2023

Gardening can prevent breast cancer

Gardening could reduce the risk of breast cancer. A new study of more than 48,000 women in Britain has revealed that light physical activity, such as walking and housework, is linked ...

3 May 2023

AI could create a new religion

Artificial intelligence is capable of creating a new religion. The historian Yuval Noah Harari - known for his best-selling book 'Sapiens' - is convinced that software such as ChatGPT could attract ...

Men like eating meat because it makes them feel masculine

3 May 2023

Manly men enjoy eating meat

Men like meat because it makes them feel masculine. A new study has found that chaps who enjoy eating meat view themselves as more traditionally masculine and consider it to be ...

Kyrylo Budanov had plans to attack Moscow

3 May 2023

Ukraine plotted audacious Moscow attack on war anniversary

Ukraine planned an audacious attack on Moscow to mark the first anniversary of Russia's invasion. The attack was ultimately called off after an intervention from the United States that warned Kyiv ...

Dmitry Medvedev has issued a chilling nuclear threat

3 May 2023

Dmitry Medvedev warns of nuclear Armageddon

Dmitry Medvedev has warned that humanity stands on the brink of nuclear oblivion. The former Russian president is a close ally of Vladimir Putin and made the chilling threat about the ...

A couple found 63-year-old McDonald's fries in their bathroom wall

3 May 2023

Couple find 63-year-old McDonald's fries in bathroom wall

A couple discovered well-preserved McDonald's fries inside their bathroom wall. Grace and Rob Jones recently decided to remodel their kitchen and bathroom at their 63-year-old home in Illinois but were stunned ...

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Oral sex is causing a throat cancer epidemic

3 May 2023

Oral sex causes throat cancer epidemic

Oral sex is causing an "epidemic" of throat cancers in the US and UK. Dr. Hisham Mehanna, from the University of Birmingham, says that 70 per cent of throat cancer cases ...

Xi Jinping has told Volodymyr Zelensky that China wants peace

3 May 2023

Xi Jinping tells Volodymyr Zelensky that China wants peace

Xi Jinping has told Volodymyr Zelensky that China has "always stood on the side of peace". The two leaders spoke on the phone for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine ...

A dead goblin has been discovered in Mexico

3 May 2023

Dead goblin found on Mexican building site

A dead 'goblin' has been discovered buried in a disused warehouse in Mexico. The foetus was found during construction work in Santa Maria Regla, northeast of Mexico City. The goblin has a ...

Scientists could have found out how to increase lifespans by 80 per cent

3 May 2023

Scientists may have found out how to increase lifespans

Scientists could have worked out how to increase lifespans by 80 per cent. Experts from the University of California San Diego have, for the first time, shown that it is possible ...

Joy Thompson-Daley has offered tips for superstitious motorists

3 May 2023

Witch-tok star offers tips for motorists amid Mercury retrograde

Superstitious motorists have been urged to “charm, enchant and energise” before embarking on a journey due to Mercury being in retrograde. With 43% of Gen Z and Millennials admitting they feel ...

Sir David Attenborough is the top choice to represent humans if contact with aliens is made

3 May 2023

Sir David Attenborough is top choice to represent Earth in contact with aliens

Sir David Attenborough has been named as the top choice to represent Earth in contact with aliens. The legendary wildlife expert and broadcaster topped a study of 2,000 British adults to ...

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