Grist List
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Study shows humans are jerks
We're too selfish to want to avert climate change.
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The weird humming noise in this British town turned out to be fish sex
The humming sounds like a really, really annoying dial tone.
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This bamboo house might be indestructible
The Blooming Bamboo house can withstand five-foot-high floods -- and it's PRETTY.
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This inflatable community space happens to be inside a dumpster
It's like Park(ing) Day, except smellier!
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Colombian women get their road fixed by refusing to have sex
It shouldn't take 14 hours to get to the hospital because the roads are so bad. So the women of Barbacaos staged a real-life Lysistrata.
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Get a load of the rare saber-toothed whale that just washed ashore
This saber-toothed whale washed up in Venice Beach. Never heard of a saber-toothed whale? That's because they're almost never seen in the wild.
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The most isolated tree in the world still got killed by a drunk driver
Even though this tree was in the middle of nowhere, it was still hit by a car, twice.
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People apparently like obviously fake Banksy prints more than than they like the real thing
Banksy sells original work for $60: three customers. Artists sell Banksy fakes for the same price: All 40 pieces sell in less than an hour.
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This newly discovered endangered monkey has babies that purr like kittens
We wish we had a more rational reaction to this than a full-on Kristen Bell sloth meltdown.
