Peruvian shamans predict Maduro’s fall, continued global conflicts in 2026

I feel like they aren’t even trying with those. What are your “Obvious” predictions for 2026?

‘Sorry, I been drunk’: Thief returns stolen mandolins to New Jersey guitar store with apology note

Weirdest thing you’ve ever done while you were drunk? I once woke up next to an unexplained pile of fast food. Definitely not as headline-worthy as stealing mandolins

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Tales From the Blue Line - One Last Drink at Jimmy B’s By D. H. Parish - After stumbling into a mysterious Chicago tavern where the patrons treat him like a long-lost legend, a reserved young man disappears from his life forever, leaving his friends to eventually discover that the bar, and everyone inside it, never existed at all.

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Also Worth A Look…

• US home prices rise by least since 2012 in October, government data shows - Don’t get too excited. You still can’t afford a home if you don’t already own one

• Earth’s Days Lengthening, But 25-Hour Day 200M Years Off - In 200 million years, people are going to have work an extra hour every day

• Tractor beams inspired by sci-fi are real, and could solve the looming space junk problem - Still no flying cars

• Ancient Chinese Record Hints Star of Bethlehem Was a Comet - That doesn’t seem too far out there as a theory, but I’m still sticking with the triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in 7 B.C.

• Florida Man Arrested for Naked Armed Robbery of Meat Market While ‘Wearing Nothing But a Mask’ - Well that’s something you don’t see every day

• Britain’s Loneliest Sheep is Now Pregnant with Twins Two Years After Cliffside Rescue - She wasn’t lonely for long

• Betty Boop, More Mickey Cartoons to Enter Public Domain - I look forward to the inevitable Betty Boop slasher movie

• Florida man suffered ‘serious bodily injury’ after toilet seat shattered beneath him at Outback Steakhouse: lawsuit - I’m not sure I’d be too anxious to go through a public court fight about that one

• Man ruptures stomach drinking celebrity chef’s liquid nitrogen cocktail - Well there’s a new thing I didn’t know I had to be worried about

• Mexican Known as the World’s Most Obese Man Dies at 41 - Shocking his health didn’t hold up