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Habib Battah was traveling from Paris to Toronto on Air France on June 30, 2023, when he smelled what he thought was manure coming from the footbed below his and his wife's seats. It turned out to be human blood and feces that had not been cleaned from the previous flight.
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WW2 soldiers skulls resurfacing as the water levels in Dnipro continue to decrease.
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Speaking with Vox, Sarah DeYoung, a professor at the University of Delaware who studies evacuation decision-making, explained, "A lot of people had top-down directives to not allow people to take dogs and cats with them, and bringing cats and dogs to sheltering spaces was not thought of. That caused a lot of distress and there was a huge outcry."
The article continued, "According to a survey by the Fritz Institute, nearly half of those who chose to stay behind during Katrina said they didn’t want to leave their pets."
According to a Washington Post report at the time, "Officials said they have concluded that the patient, 31-year-old Gloria Ramirez, died of heart and kidney failure caused by her cervical cancer. But neither the Riverside County coroner's office nor the hospital could explain the workers' claim that the dead woman's blood emitted toxic, ammonia-like fumes that sickened them.
After two months of investigation and three autopsies, local officials in this desert-edged suburb conceded today that they still have not solved the mystery of what caused the bizarre collapse of a half-dozen hospital workers caring for an emergency room patient."
According to CBS News, "The hairs that cover the plant 'act like hypodermic needles,' which, if touched, 'inject a venom which causes excruciating pain that can last for days, even months.'" And those hairs can remain in your skin for up to a year, re-triggering pain.
"I found about five spiders like this in the basement of a house I was working on. I was creeped out by them so spent a while looking at them. The next day I came back and they were all gone."
According to University of Florida entomologist William Kern, who spoke with Miami's Local 10 News, "If the snails crawl on uncooked vegetables, you can have a problem with it getting a human infection."
According to KTLA News, these accidents occurred during the California Highway Patrol's "Maximum Enforcement Period," which was in place from Friday, June 30 to July 4. During this time, law enforcement increased efforts to look out for drunk and speeding drivers.
"In total, across the multi-day enforcement period, CHP officers issued 9,700 citations for speeding and made 1,224 arrests on suspicion of driving under the influence. That’s an average of one arrest every five minutes," CHP said.
According to the Hindustan Times, "Doctors at Singapore's Tan Tock Seng Hospital were baffled to discover an octopus stuck inside a patient's esophagus (or food pipe). The 55-year-old man had complained of difficulty in swallowing from the time he had a meal that included the mollusk.
After several unsuccessful attempts to remove the octopus from the man's throat, the doctors maneuvered the endoscope past the animal and retroflexed it, allowing doctors to extract the creature.
The doctors then used forceps to grasp its head and remove it from the patient. He was discharged two days after the surgery."
(FYI, the image above is NOT of the "half-eaten" octopus, it's just a regular Getty pic of an octopus.)
According to the New York Times, "The children were sacrificed as part of a religious ritual, known as capacocha. They walked hundreds of miles to and from ceremonies in Cuzco and were then taken to the summit of Llullaillaco (yoo-yeye-YAH-co), given chicha (maize beer), and, once they were asleep, placed in underground niches, where they froze to death.
Only beautiful, healthy, physically perfect children were sacrificed, and it was an honor to be chosen. According to Inca beliefs, the children did not die, but joined their ancestors and watched over their villages from the mountaintops like angels."
According to PBS News, "After the performance, Houdini checked into his hotel. He still refused medical treatment but the pain was so great that his wife, Bess, demanded he be rushed to the nearby Grace Hospital. He underwent an emergency operation to remove his appendix, which had already ruptured and caused severe peritonitis, a raging and difficult-to-treat infection of the abdominal cavity. After a second operation, and the introduction of a new anti-streptococcal serum, the great Houdini succumbed to overwhelming sepsis. He died on Oct. 31, 1926, at the age of 52."