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A Florida woman scored a $1 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket after previously winning the same amount from the same game two months earlier. The Florida Lottery said Altovise Morris, 41, of Orlando, scored her first $1 million prize from a 500X The Cash scratch-off ticket she bought from the 7-Eleven store on West Colonial […]
Serious heart attacks are more likely to happen on a Monday than at any other time, research has suggested. The study found that the likelihood of a heart attack occurring on a Monday was 13% greater than expected. Doctors at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland […]
Young kids are being hospitalised by vaping as calls grow to ban e-cigarettes. A paediatric respiratory consultant issued the shocking warning today as they revealed how children are being admitted to hospitals because of vapes. Dr McKean, a doctor at the Great North Children’s Hospital in Newcastle, said they were seeing a rising number of children developing dangerous lung conditions […]
An Idaho man with more than 250 Guinness World Records to his name attempted to add another title by passing an 80-pound weight from hand to hand 100 times in 21 seconds. David Rush, who previously took on the 20-pound, 40-pound and 60-pound versions of the same record, passed the 80-pound weight from hand to hand in […]
A Texas teen who entered high school at age 10 has now graduated at age 14 and is headed to the University of Texas at Arlington. Oforitsenere Bodunrin, 14, graduated from James Martin High School in Arlington, where she served as editor of the school newspaper. Oforitsenere, a second-degree black belt, plans to study computer science […]
A Louisiana dog’s 5-inch tongue has been officially certified as the longest in the world by Guinness World Records. Zoey, a Labrador/German shepherd mix, was awarded the record for longest tongue on a living dog after a veterinarian measured from the tip of her snout to the tip of her tongue. Zoey’s owners, Metairie residents Sadie and […]
A California man reached his decade-long goal of visiting every country in the world when he took a tour of Turkmenistan. San Diego resident Randy Williams, aka Ramblin’ Randy, landed in the central Asian country of Turkmenistan last week, a destination that was long-delayed when the nation was closed to visitors for four years. Turkmenistan […]
A Kentucky man said he won a $1 million lottery jackpot thanks to what initially seemed like an unlucky event — he ran out of gas. Michael Schlemmer of Corbin told Kentucky Lottery officials he just barely made it to the Convenient Food Mart in Corbin. I ran out of gas, and I coasted in there,” Schlemmer said. […]
An Idaho man gathered a crew of friends and neighbors to take on the Guinness World Records title for fastest time to wrap a person with newspaper — team of 8. David Rush, who has broken more than 250 Guinness World Records, enlisted the help of family members, friends and neighbors to take on the […]
The graduation ceremony at New Jersey’s Seton Hall University featured a diploma being presented to one very special graduate: a student’s service dog. A video tweeted by the university shows Grace Mariani and her service dog, Justin, being presented with diplomas by Seton Hall’s Joseph E. Nyre. Mariani received a bachelor’s of science in […]
