General A chimera British shorthair cat

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Her name is Domino and she’s a chimera British shorthair cat from the Netherlands. Credits: queendomiino (IG)

The Chimera cat is made up of cells from two different embryos, which fuse together in the very early stages of pregnancy. However, this mix in DNA will show differently in each cat. Some may be born with slight differences in colour, whilst others will have such dramatic colour differences that you will have that striking split-face Chimera effect.

 

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Lincolnshire Wildlife Park: Swearing parrots removed from view

Lincolnshire Wildlife Park: Swearing parrots removed from view

Although parrots are well known for mimicking bad language, these are "more sweary than most".

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In December 2004, a baby hippo named Owen got separated from his family by a tsunami. Having no hippos around, the frightened baby went to a 100-year-old tortoise named Mzee, who accepted him as his own and an inseparable bond was forged

Mzee was initially reluctant about Owen but grew to like him and got used to Owen around him.

Once it was determined that Owen had grown too large to safely interact with Mzee, a separate enclosure was built for Owen and a new (female) hippo named Cleo, with whom he bonded quickly. With Owen now twice Mzee's size and well on his way to being socialized with other hippos, the famous friends went their separate ways and Mzee was returned to his original enclosure.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Odd couple make friends in Kenya

 

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Nikolai Valuev’s head measures over 65 cm in circumference, nearly double the average human

He has acromegaly, the same condition that Andre the Giant had.

Nikolai Sergeyevich Valuev is a Russian politician and former professional boxer. He competed in boxing from 1993 to 2009, and held the World Boxing Association heavyweight title twice between 2005 and 2009.

 

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John "Johnny" Clem - The youngest NCO in U.S. Army history who became Sergeant at the age of 12 during the Civil War.

John Clem - Wikipedia

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In 2002, 15-year-old Kara Robinson was abducted by a serial killer and held for 18 hours during which she was sexually assaulted, she manipulated him to trust her and offered to clean the place to collect clues like dentist names on magnets and escaped when he fell asleep leading police to his home.

At 15, Kara Robinson Chamberlain Was Kidnapped by a Serial Killer. She Not Only Escaped — She Helped Catch Him

Now 35, Kara is dedicated to spreading hope and strength to other survivors

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Ruth Gottesman, a 93-year-old and former professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York City. In February 2024, she made a historic donation of $1 billion to the institution.

This donation will make medical school tuition-free for all current and future students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in perpetuity. Fourth-year students will have their spring 2024 semester tuition reimbursed, and starting in August 2024, tuition will be eliminated for everyone going forward.

Dr. Gottesman inherited the funds from her late husband, David "Sandy" Gottesman, a Wall Street financier and close associate of Warren Buffett. He left her a portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway stock with the instruction to "do whatever you think is right with it".

 

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On 30 June 1937, the UK introduced the world’s first emergency number - 999. The initial scheme covered a 19 km radius around Oxford Circus in central London. The public were advised only to use it in an ongoing emergency if "for instance, the man in the flat next to yours is murdering his wife".

Another fun fact: 26 other countries and territories use this number: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Botswana, Cook Island, Eswatini, Ghana, Guernsey, Hong Kong, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Kenya, Macau, Malaysia, Mauritius, Niue, Poland, Qatar, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, Seychelles, Uganda, the United Arab Emirates, and Zimbabwe.

 

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A man in South Dakota proposed to his fiancé while a tornado swirled right behind them

 

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People used to be infected with malaria to treat syphilis. This unusual idea was proposed by Julius Wagner-Jauregg, for which he received the Nobel Prize. The high temperature caused by malaria killed the syphilis bacteria and then the patients were rid of the malaria

The earliest attempts at malaria therapy in the United States killed approximately 20% of patients. During the first 5 years of malaria therapy in the United Kingdom, among 1,597 patients treated, 541 (34%) died in the course of treatment or soon thereafter.

 

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This is the face of a woman who lived 10,500 years ago, reconstructed from her skull and DNA

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/science/10500-year-woman-facial-reconstruction-intl-scli

 

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An anonymous person who made a $7,800 investment in bitcoin in 2011 has just touched their wallet for the first time in 14 years. He’s now worth $1.1 BILLION.

 

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China built a 50m-tall inflatable dome over a construction site in Jinan to protect the surroundings from dust and noise pollution.

 

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Ronald Read, a Vermont janitor and gas station attendant, quietly built an $8 million fortune by living extremely frugally, he patched his clothes with safety pins and drove an old car. Even his family didn’t know about his wealth. When he died he donated $6 million to his local library and hospital

Ronald Read (philanthropist) - Wikipedia

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In 2018, Tayeb Souami from New Jersey returned a $5 bottle of orange juice after his wife said it was too expensive, he used the refund to buy 2 lottery tickets and checked them at a 7‑Eleven the following day while getting his car washed and won $315 million.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/lucky-jersey-man-wins-3153-million-powerball-jackpot/story

 

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Wisconsin friends Thomas Cook and Joseph Feeney shook hands in 1992 and promised that if one of them ever won the Powerball jackpot, he would split the lottery winnings with the other. Cook, kept that 28-year-old agreement when he purchased the winning ticket for a $22 million jackpot.

Man splits $22 million jackpot win with friend, keeping nearly 30-year-old promise

Wisconsin friends Thomas Cook and Joseph Feeney made a promise in 1992 to split the Powerball jackpot if one of them ever won.

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At just 19, Gabar Singh Negi cleared enemy trenches in WWI after his officer was killed. He died in action and was awarded the Victoria Cross by the British Empire for his bravery

Gabar Singh Negi - Wikipedia

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In 2012, 11-year-old Liam Corcoran ran away from home, snuck into Manchester Airport, boarded a flight to Rome without a passport, ticket, or luggage. He passed 5 security checks by blending in with another family and told passengers he was "just off on an adventure."

11-Year-Old Flies to Rome With No Ticket or Family

Authorities are investigating how an 11-year-old boy boarded a plane from Manchester, U.K. to Rome, Italy, with no family, money or documentation.

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Packers Sanitation, a US company, employed over 100 kids in 2023

An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor showed that more than 100 children had been working illegally for Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI), a slaughterhouse cleaning firm owned by Blackstone Inc., an American alternative investment management company, across the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, a federal investigation discovered that Wisconsin-based PSSI hired at minimum 102 children aged 13 to 17 to perform nighttime shifts at 13 meat production sites in eight states.

During the examination, it was found that children were using dangerous chemicals to clean meat-processing tools, including head splitters, brisket saws, and back saws. As a result, PSSI was charged $15,138 by the Department of Labor for each child, summing to a total of $1.5 million dollars.

 

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World's narrowest fiat panda drives around as fully functional, single-seater electric car

 

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A man kayaking in Australia had his leg caught underwater between two boulders. Over the next 24 hours, fruitless attempts to free him led to a doctor performing an underwater amputation to save his life

Inside the moment rescuers knew they had to harm a dying man to save him

When a white-water rafter fell into the Franklin River, it triggered an extraordinary rescue mission that pushed everyone to the brink.

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A photo of two members of the Ainu people who are an indigenous people native to Japan

 

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The man who changed construction

 

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A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, Serbia, 1914.

 

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Choi Gap-bok is a South Korean yoga master who famously escaped from a police cell in Daegu in 2012 by squeezing through a food slot after applying skin ointment to reduce friction