Women Pirates: Jeanne de Clisson – The Lioness Of Brittany

On August 31, 2013 by Tim Newman

Today’s fearsome lady pirate, Jeanne de Clisson, was born Jeanne-Louise de Belleville, Dame de Montaiga in the year 1300. She became known as the Lioness of Brittany, and for good reason, if the...

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Kangaroo Vs Dog

On August 31, 2013 by Tim Newman

  This Australian video has been doing the rounds recently. Most of the media descriptions of it, and the description given by the owner of the video and dog, describe the incident a...

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Man Who Dumped Decapitated Deer Head In Tesco Freed

On August 31, 2013 by Tim Newman

Some of you with good memories for weird news may remember the mysterious incident of the decapitated deer head that was left at a Tesco checkout. The story was set in Saffron Walden...

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Ann Bonny – Another Fearsome Female Pirate

On August 30, 2013 by Tim Newman

I wrote about a Chinese pirate queen called Ching Shi the other day and found it all rather interesting so I thought I’d learn about another femme fatale of the blustery high seas....

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Idiotic Australian Gets Eaten By Crocodile

On August 30, 2013 by Tim Newman

Everyone who knows anything about Australian wildlife knows you should just stay well away from water. Whether it’s the sea or a river you face imminent injury if you go anywhere near it....

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Japanese Dinosaur Prank

On August 28, 2013 by Tim Newman

I’m not a fan of prank shows like punk’d and members of that ilk. It seems both forced and mean in equal measure. The only reason I’m posting this prank is because it...

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Ching Shih – The Most Deadly Female Pirate That Ever Lived

On August 28, 2013 by Tim Newman

Only a handful of women pirates are recorded in history, whether that’s due to the misogyny of contemporary historical writers or simply because the women folk had better things to do than maraud...

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Snails: Faster & Deadlier Than Once Thought

On August 27, 2013 by Tim Newman

  Snails. Not the most fascinating topic on the menu you might think. Well, think again. These virtually blind and deaf hermaphrodites have been on the planet for a million years and are...

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Massive Marlin Jumps Onto Fishing Boat Without A Fight

On August 27, 2013 by Tim Newman

This video is set off the coast of the Dominican Republic. A bunch of fellas are out fishing for big critters when one jumps straight onto deck without a fight. The poor blighter...

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Russian Road Rage Video

On August 26, 2013 by Tim Newman

…..meanwhile back on the roads of Russia: some fella takes his fury out on a distracted driver by smashing their mobile phone into smithereens. As an aside, the word “smithereens” is from Irish Gaelic smidirn,...

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