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A tiny blob in a Northern California hot spring just broke a heat limit scientists thought complex life couldn't pass.
It was dividing happily at 145°F. They named it the "fire amoeba."
What's the hottest thing you'd still call alive?
yahoo.com/news/science/artic…
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1/3 Your kid's torso fits through. Their head doesn't.
That's the hazard on these Arlopu backyard slides. Head-and-neck entrapment. One child already got abrasions on their neck.
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1/3 These seabirds fly so fast they get jet lag.
Not a metaphor. Actual circadian mismatch. And it throws their sun compass off.
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1/4 New York's most-visited state park after Niagara Falls may be named after a pirate's getaway man.
Not a metaphor. An actual 1695 treasure heist.
One amateur historian just found the paper trail.
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A young deer got stuck in a hole in river ice in Russia's Far East. 5 meters from shore, over ~10 ft of water.
A rescuer in a dry suit crawled out on a rope and pulled her back.
Where did they take her to warm up? A zoo center named "Python."
apnews.com/video/rescuers-sa…
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1/2 NASA sent a robot to rescue its $500 million space telescope.
The robot started spinning out of control in space.
So early this morning Swift, after 22 years watching the universe's biggest explosions, plunged back to Earth.
Would you have sent a second robot?
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2/2 The rescue craft, LINK, launched in July to latch on and tug Swift higher. By mid-August NASA gave up. The odds of debris hurting anyone were put at 1 in 2,100.
Source: scientificamerican.com/artic…
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1/3 Imagine selling your business to buy a cabin on a cruise ship you planned to live on. For years.
Now imagine it sailing away without you.
That just happened in Cambodia.
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Hair regrowth foam that can poison a toddler.
RootStim minoxidil bottles sold on Amazon (Aug 2025 to Feb 2026) aren't child-resistant. Swallowed minoxidil can badly hurt or kill a small kid.
Lock it up, get the fix:
saferecallnow.vercel.app/rec…
Know a parent using it? Send this.
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Collins Dictionary just picked its 2026 word of the year.
It's "mogging."
As in: your friend's sourdough mogs the loaf you spent all weekend on. (Collins' own example.)
Usage jumped 210% this year. It beat out "firewaves" and "P(doom)."
What word should've won instead?
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1/3 Somewhere in Texas this fall, a stranger's phone helped track a butterfly. They had zero idea.
Scientists are putting solar tags lighter than a grain of rice on monarchs, and any phone with Bluetooth on can quietly pick one up as it flutters past. 🦋
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Lead. In canned fruit cocktail.
Walmart's Great Value Fruit Cocktail in Fruit Juice (15 oz, UPC 078742369570) is recalled over possible elevated lead, per FDA.
Check the pantry before lunchbox duty. Know someone who buys these? Send it their way.
saferecallnow.vercel.app/rec…
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1/2 T. rex had a neighbor nobody talks about: the "hell chicken."
Turkey-sized. Feathered. Toothless beak.
And instead of hunting, it spent its days mashing fruit like a parrot.
Scientists say it's the first known dinosaur built specifically to eat fruit 🍑
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2/2 How they know: its nearly complete skull, dug out of Hell Creek rock, shows jaw muscles that slid the beak back and forth to strip flesh off stone fruits. About 25 lbs fully grown.
Who's telling Jurassic Park?
Source: Royal Ontario Museum rom.on.ca/news-releases/rare…
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1/3 In 1998 a 29-year-old ex-paratrooper flew to the southern tip of Chile and started walking home to England.
No cars. No planes. No lifts. Just his feet.
Today he hugged his mom outside her front door in Hull. He's 57 now.
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A grill. That goes inside your microwave.
Now recalled, because 3 of them caught fire.
Whatever Works Microwave Grillers (about $22, sold Jan 2025 to Jun 2026). Stop using it, full refund from the company.
Anyone actually own one of these?
saferecallnow.vercel.app/rec…
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1/5 This week a dead star turned green, likely from eating a planet. A dinosaur sold for $47.3 million. And a man took Vegemite all the way to a Supreme Court.
All verified. All real.
The 3 wildest stories of the week 👇
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Netflix bet $670,000 on one leg of darts.
Beat 19-year-old world champ Luke Littler once and it's yours. He went 14 for 14, beating a jockey and a trash collector along the way.
Challenger 15: Fallon Sherrock. One 180 later, she won on double 20.
Would you have stepped up?
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Bought a space heater at Costco this year? Check the model.
DREO DR-HSH015 is recalled after 17 reports of them catching fire.
The fix: cut the cord, photo the destroyed heater, get a free new one.
Know someone with one? Send this.
saferecallnow.vercel.app/rec…
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Astronomers just found the first truly green star. Halloween week, of course.
It's a white dwarf, the ghost of a dead star. The green glow? Sodium, calcium and lithium from a rocky planet it likely ate.
Zombie star.
Spookiest space fact you know?
nationalgeographic.com/scien…
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An Amsterdam museum flipped the zoo: YOU go in the cage.
Around you, a crocodile dangles from the ceiling, a giant spider crab looms over the door, parrots burst free.
All taxidermy. One mirror labels you the most dangerous animal.
Would you go in?
apnews.com/article/amsterdam…
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