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News Articles: Strange News

Police in Venice, Italy, are investigating the source of a bright green liquid patch that appeared on Sunday in the city's Grand Canal.

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  • Europe

A fluorescent green Venice canal is beguiling residents. Police are on the case

A shock of bright green appeared in waters near the Grand Canal's Rialto Bridge over the weekend. Authorities say they are working to identify the source of the unusually verdant color.

May 29, 2023
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
Seton Hall University gave Grace Mariani's service dog, Justin, a special doggie diploma this week, to the delight of Mariani and her fellow graduates.

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  • National

A service dog gets his own college diploma, winning huge cheers

When Grace Mariani graduated from Seton Hall University this week, the school president had a special gift for Justin, her service dog.

May 27, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Kurt Cobain's smashed Fender Stratocaster is displayed at Julien's Auctions in Gardena, Calif., on May 2 ahead of Julien's "Music Icons" auction of over 1,200 items from rockhistory and exclusive artist collections.

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  • Music

Kurt Cobain's broken guitar sells for nearly $600,000

The Nirvana frontman was known for smashing guitars during performances and in the studio. This one includes messages to his old friend, Mark Lanegan of the Screaming Trees.

May 22, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
A grenade is on display at Jimmy's Sport Shop in Mineola, New York on September 25, 2020.

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  • National

An Indiana man is dead after a grenade found in a grandfather's belongings exploded

The man's two children — a 14-year-old boy and an 18-year-old woman — were wounded by shrapnel and transported to a nearby hospital.

May 21, 2023
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Colt M4 Carbine and AR-15 style rifles are displayed during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022. A Maryland man is causing concern for carrying an AR-15 style rifle near a school bus stop.

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  • National

A Maryland man has been carrying an AR-15-style rifle near a school bus stop

Community members from Severn, Md., have been fuming after a local resident began displaying his rifle near a school bus stop in protest of gun control legislation. Police say he's broken no laws.

May 20, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Science

Checking in with Joseph Dituri on his 79th day living underwater

Biomedical engineer Joe Dituri has broken the record for longest time spent living underwater without depressurization. He talks about what he's learned so far.

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Handel,
  • Mallory Yu,
  • and 1 more
Joseph Dituri lives in a 100-square-foot bunker, about the size of two king beds, that includes a small kitchen, living room and sleeping area.

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  • Science

76 days and counting underwater, Florida professor breaks world record, for science

Joseph Dituri set out to live underwater back in March as part of a project to see how the human body changes living under extreme pressure.

May 16, 2023
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
A screenshot shows the moment Lillian, a 48-year-old Australian woman, was rescued after going missing in dense bushland with only a bottle of wine and some candy.

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  • World

How wine and candy helped an Australian woman survive 5 days in the bushland

She doesn't normally drink, but when Lillian's car got stuck in the mud after making a wrong turn on a remote road, she downed the bottle. Police say it may have helped her survive.

May 10, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Swastika Mountain, located in a remote part of the Umpqua National Forest outside Eugene, Ore., has officially been renamed Mount Halo after a local indigenous leader.

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  • Politics

Swastika Mountain is renamed Mount Halo in honor of a historical tribal leader

The mountain in Oregon and a nearby town, no longer in existence, were named Swastika more than 100 years ago after a local ranch that bore the same name.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Hundreds of pounds of pasta were found along the Iresick Brook in Old Bridge, N.J., setting off questions about where the noodles came from — and why they were dumped.

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  • Strange News

A massive dump of pasta in New Jersey sets off a fury of interest, and also a fury

"My initial reaction is exactly what yours was," a resident of Old Bridge, N.J., told NPR about the pounds of pasta found along a local brook. "It was funny and humorous and mortifying."

May 05, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell

Tagged as: 

  • Economy

This company adopted AI. Here's what happened to its human workers

A group of economists conducted one of the first empirical studies of "generative AI" at a real-world company. They found it had big effects.

May 02, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Rosalsky
An iteration of Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" has previously sold for $120,000, most famously at Art Basel Miami in 2019. A college student who recently viewed the art in a Seoul museum said he ate the banana after skipping breakfast.

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  • Pop Culture

The guy who ate a $120,000 banana in an art museum says he was just hungry

The banana installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan evokes everything from slapstick comedy to global trade. But to a college student, it was a reminder of how very hungry he was.

May 01, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
A federal court in Little Rock says Candance Chapman Scott illegally sold and shipped human body parts taken from medical cadavers from the University of Arkansas Medical School.

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  • National

Arkansas woman pleads not guilty to selling over 20 boxes of stolen human body parts

She was hired to cremate medical cadavers. But first, she harvested organs, skin and genitalia and sold them to a man she met through a Facebook group called Oddities, according to court documents.

May 01, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
GPB  NPR

Tagged as: 

  • Strange News

A bus driver in Michigan fainted at the wheel. Then a 7th-grader took control

The driver called the transportation base to tell them she was feeling dizzy and lost consciousness seconds later. Dillon Reeves immediately sprung into action and safely stopped the bus.

April 28, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
One of thousands of creatures known as "by-the-wind sailors" that have been washing ashore on Southern California beaches in April.

Tagged as: 

  • Animals

Thousands of little blue creatures are washing up on California beaches

The tiny disc-like critters are known as Velella velella, a name so nice you gotta say it twice.

April 26, 2023
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
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