An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago. An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago. 
An international team of scientists has announced the discovery of an extraordinary fossilized nest in China, preserving at least eight separate dinosaurs from 70 million years ago.
The ancient scene is unprecedented, and provides the first hard evidence that dinosaurs were brooding parents, laying their eggs and incubating them for quite a long time.
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Lawns are the largest irrigated crop in the United States, more than corn or wheat. Nationwide, more than 7 billion gallons of water per day are used to keep them looking fresh. And that’s not to mention the 2.4 million metric tons of fertilizer that go into them every year either.
Not exactly "eco-friendly"....
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The FDA says "Don't eat cicadas if you have a seafood allergy". It seems that the insects are somehow related to a couple of forms of fish. Weird, but there we go.
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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Professional nappers wanted!
A company is looking to pay five people to take a nap every day for 30 days and write reviews of those naps. That's $50 per nap. The company, EachNight.com, will pay a team of "nap reviewers" $1,500 each for the study, which is researching the "pros and cons of napping."
I wonder if you get demerits for staying awake on the job....
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LA SALLE, Colo. — Juan Panzo Temoxtle, 44, died after a manure vacuum truck he was operating sunk into a manure pit at the Shelton Dairy on March 31.
He was in the cab when it went nose-first into the soup.
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Seems to have done the trick, as it was running constantly. Now things seem to be better, so whatever. It's still a bit toasty in here, but not too bad. At least it's not running all the time.
That's a big plus.
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You'd think that at his age, Springsteen would know better, but evidently not. 
So he's off to court in New Jersey next week to answer the charges of drunk driving that he incurred a while back.
What a class act.
But for real oddity, check out this woman recently in Alaska:
HAINES — Although Shannon Stevens was prepared for the sting of cold when she bared her behind in a Chilkat Lake outhouse last weekend, she wasn’t expecting the sting of a bear tooth.
Yep, bit on the butt by a bear that happened to be lurking for no apparent reason under the outhouse.
“She was still standing there with her pants down. I said, ‘What bit you? Where is it?’ And she said, ‘In the hole.’ I shined the headlamp and opened the lid, and right there at the level of the toilet seat was a cinnamon-colored bear face, big enough to fill the hole.”
The siblings slammed the seat shut and ran from the outhouse.
It was gone the next morning. It's highly unusual, though, as they don't usually hang in the pit of an outhouse.
“I have heard stories of people having scares near outhouses in the spring and summer when bears are normally out, but never in winter and definitely not from underneath while sitting down,” Koch said. He said he’s not sure why the animal was drawn to the outhouse.
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Shovels and snow-blowers are coming in handy for millions of people digging out across the country this week. But, a St. Louis man found a much more efficient way to clear the snow, using a blowtorch.
It only takes him five minutes to make a path for his dogs.
Meanwhile, in New Jersey, a guy set fire to his front lawn. Same basic premise, I guess.
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What brings a dozen Portland police officers out in such force? Why, to guard a couple of dumpsters. A Fred Meyer grocery in north Portland suffered a power failure during the recent storm, so they brought in a couple of dumpsters and began offloading perfectly good food into them. A bunch of the neighbors decided "hey, free food" and so the cops were called to protect the dumpsters.
Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away.
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A nurse managed to crawl out of the deadly pile-up involving 100 vehicles in Texas Thursday — and then went straight to work. Rebecca Benson was grateful to have gotten out unscathed from the massive crash, which left six people dead and injured dozens more in Fort Worth.
Presumably, the Grim Reaper was otherwise occupied that day.
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A staff member of WinCo Foods shut down a self-checkout for an elderly woman today in one of their locations in Oregon. You can see the ‘abusive’ staffer shut down the machine so the woman can’t checkout and then proceed to see what some people (including the elderly lady) see as assault.
Seems a bit like overreaction on the part of the employee. WinCo had no comment. Maybe overreaction by all involved, actually.People all over just seem to be getting weirded out in general.
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