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A man from Thailand became a victim of a python attack while he was on the toilet, with reports mentioning that the snake went straight for his testicles. Knewz.com has learned that pictures of the aftermath of this encounter showed blood splattered on the victim’s bathroom floor, with the 6.6-foot dead python in the frame. Bangkok resident Thanat Tangtewanont shared details of the incident with a Thai english daily, where he said that he had previous run-ins with snakes in his downstairs bathroom. He had previously called for help in removing them, but the snakes had always eluded him. As a r...
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Archeologists have discovered 3,800-year-old remains of two children, a teenager, and an adult in Peru. Knewz.com has learned that the respective burial site is believed to belong to a “water cult” and expected to change expert perspectives of South American history. The skeletal remains were found positioned so that they faced the mountains. Scientists speculate that these individuals – buried on the site of the temple dedicated to water – were placed this way because the worshippers of the era believed that water came from the mountains. In the same ancient tomb, stone pennants and snail she...
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Sphen, the beloved penguin who went viral for being in a same-sex relationship, has recently died, the Sydney Aquarium revealed. Knewz.com has learned that the aquarium will now shift its focus toward the deceased penguin’s partner Magic—ahead of his first breeding season without Sphen. The story of the same-sex penguin couple emerged in 2018 and spread across the world like wildfire. Sphen and Magic – both gentoo penguins – have since become so-called queer icons from the animal kingdom, subsequently inspiring a Mardis Gras float. The couple’s story was even made part of the New South Wales e...
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Following what has been dubbed Ukraine‘s “largest” drone attack on the Moscow region, new visuals have surfaced depicting a raging inferno at a Vladimir Putin oil depot. Knewz.com has learned that this attack, which has since been dubbed one of the defending country’s most successful since the start of the war, destroyed 22 oil storage tanks. The fire has drawn an estimated 520 emergency workers to the location, but the flames continue to burn with intermittent explosions echoing through the stricken plant. Locals in the areas surrounding the plant have since complained of noxious gasses in th...
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Ukraine’s drone forces have launched what the Kremlin is calling its largest-ever bombardment on the Russian Capital. Knewz.com has learned that with the admission came the claims that the autocracy’s air defense systems downed all of the projectiles. According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, 11 of the unmanned craft were shot near the country’s capital, Moscow, and 34 in four other regions, including Bryansk on the border of Kursk and Ukraine. There have thus far been no reports of damage. Still, Moscow mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, has since dubbed the attack the largest attempt on the country...
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A fresh review of old Apollo mission data uncovered thousands of previously unknown moonquakes. Even 55 years later, scientists were still learning about the moon from seismic data collected between 1969 and 1977. A recent study re-examined this data and discovered thousands of moonquakes, some of which were large enough to provide more insight into the moon’s interior, which could have impacted future human missions. Teasel Muir-Harmony, a historian of lunar exploration and curator of the Apollo collection at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, excitedly shared per Smithsonian: "...
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Beneath a temple in the ancient city of Taposiris Magna, archaeologists discovered a large tunnel, which they called the "geometric miracle." Kathleen Martinez, an archaeologist from the University of Santo Domingo, had found the 6.5-foot-tall and 4,300-foot-long tunnel located about 43 feet underground at a temple west of the ancient city of Alexandria. According to Artnet's report, two alabaster statues from the Ptolemaic era and several ceramic pots and vessels were also found. Martinez told CNN, "The excavation revealed a huge religious center with three sanctuaries, a sacred lake, more th...
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began with the discovery of radio waves in the 1800s. Despite many attempts, no clear signs of alien life had been found until August 15, 1977. Astronomer Jerry Ehman was amazed when a particular signal led him to write "Wow!" on the printout. Research led by astrobiologist Abel Méndez of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, as reported by ScienceAlert, stated, "Our latest observations, made between February and May 2020, revealed similar narrowband signals near the hydrogen line, though less intense than the original Wow! signal." Knewz...
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A woman was traveling through a rural area to feed her horses when she came across 25 dead cows. Knewz.com has learned that one of the animals lying on a pile of wood had been dead for three days—and according to individuals living on the property, the entire fold succumbed to a viral case of pneumonia. Upon probing the matter further, the local authorities heard that the animals lay where they died due to the soggy conditions making them difficult to remove. The local Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) indicated that it planned on launching a full investigation int...
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An almost-centenarian former Nazi camp secretary in Germany has just lost the appeal against her conviction for complicity in the murder of over 10,000 people. Knewz.com has learned that the defendant’s conviction involves her actions at the Stutthof concentration camp in erstwhile Nazi-occupied Poland. Irmgard Furchner, a 99-year-old former Nazi camp secretary, had initially received a two-year suspended sentence in December 2022 for her complicity in the “cruel and malicious murder” of prisoners at the concentration camp. The presiding judge Dominik Gross said at the time that “nothing that ...
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