Real-life cowboy lassos brave and habitual runaway steer on highway I-75: challenging speeding vehicles of steel and iron… what a moment!
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‘It was pretty hairy,’ says cowboy who lassoed a rogue steer on a Michigan highway
Lester is home at his animal sanctuary and doing just fine thanks to cow catcher Ricky Littlejohn
When Ricky Littlejohn got the call that Lester the steer was loose again, he knew he was in for a challenging day. After all, it wasn’t the professional cattle-wrangler’s first
Lawyer suing airline cites six non-existent cases in court based on ChatGPT: “bogus judicial decisions with bogus quotes and bogus internal citations”
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A lawyer used ChatGPT and now has to answer for its ‘bogus’ citations
A filing in a case against Colombian airline Avianca cited six cases that don’t exist, but a lawyer working for the plaintiff told the court ChatGPT said they were real.
Lawyers suing the Colombian airline Avianca submitted a brief full of previous cases that were just made up by
They’re smarter than we think: cockatoo makes and uses toolset, sheep unlocks gate
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Cockatoos can not only use tools, they can carry whole toolkits to trickier jobs, study shows
(CNN)The ability to solve problems with multiple tools is a rare talent in the animal kingdom, but according to new research, cockatoos are the first birds on the block to carry and use a tool kit to suit their needs.
Using 10 Goffin’s cockatoos, researchers from
The sun “hath a smile for every one” – NASA snaps a big solar grin
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The sun put on a happy face during a week full of solar flares and ejections.
Our local star seems to be taking the “sun is smiling down on us” phrase literally. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped a portrait of the sun last week that makes it look like it has two dark eyes, a swirling round nose and a big happy grin.
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“The bird is freed.” “Let that sink in” – Elon Musk carries kitchen sink into Twitter HQ after completing $44 billion deal, dubs self “Chief Twit”
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Elon Musk has completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter.
The deal’s closing removes a cloud of uncertainty that has hung over Twitter’s business, employees and shareholders for much of the year. Musk appeared to acknowledge the takeover in a tweet Thursday night saying, “the bird is freed.”
Earlier this week, Musk visited Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters to meet with employees.
Tourists fined and expelled from Venice for riding motorized surfboards down Grand Canal, called out by mayor as “overbearing imbeciles who made a mockery” of UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Two surfers filmed whizzing along Venice’s busiest canal have evoked the wrath of the city’s mayor. Videos of the two people foil surfing between boats and water buses on the Grand Canal sparked outrage after being posted online. Surfing – along with sports such as paddle boarding and canoeing – is prohibited on Venice’s Grand Canal. In footage posted online, the two appear to be whizzing
Germany: overcrowded trains, passengers had to be turned away, or told no bicycles on board, punctuality “national joke”, “looking for German efficiency, go to Switzerland”
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Vice-chairman of the DB Regio Works Council, Ralf Damde, said around 400 trains were overcrowded on each day.
“Platforms and trains were full all over Germany, and in several cases overcrowded trains had to be cleared – but fortunately – no stations.” He said that passengers had to be turned away from trains, or people were told they couldn’t take
Fasten belts: Italian mountain lodge restaurant moved across Alps into Switzerland. Melting glacier’s “prank”, no kidding!
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Italy’s rustic hut Rifugio Guide del Cervino is technically two-thirds Swiss due to glacier movement.
Swiss ski resort Zermatt and Italian resort Cervinia share a border and together form the interconnected ski area Matterhorn Ski Paradise. Year-round skiing happens on the shared Plateau Rosa glacier, currently one of the only European glaciers with lifts still turning this summer
Hoofing it: Iceland horses trots out replies to work emails for vacationers in world first “outhorse” service
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Iceland has trotted out a service that lets horses reply to work emails when you’re on vacation.
The world-first “OutHorse Your Email” service is designed to encourage travelers to take a break and have an uninterrupted trip to the countryside. Using a large keyboard mat, the gaited horses are able to walk, trot, canter, tölt,
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire
400 words for “snow” in Scotland, Churchill escaped death by chocolate, folding paper to reach the moon, and other mind-boggling facts
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100 Mind-Blowing Facts
Scotland has more than 400 words for “snow.”
What better way to cope with the cold than by learning all 421 Scottish words for “snow.” This was discovered when academics at the University of Glasgow underwent a project to compile a Scots thesaurus, called the Historical Thesaurus of Scots. Some words include: “snaw” (snow), “sneesl”
Photos: laughter from heaven and “neighbours from hell”. Toothy grinning stallion trotted into maternity snaps. 25 years’ harmony shocked by tree sawn in half
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grinning horse photo-bombs his laughing owners’ maternity snaps
…couple were saddled with Buckshot’s toothy grin after he trotted into shot
“We’ve been here for more than 30-years and they’ve been here for over 25-years and until this we’d never had any problems, we’d always get on.
…joked they’re “neighbours from hell” after 25 years: cut tree in half.
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