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Using DNA Tests, Best Friends For 60 Years Discover They Are Brothers
by Tammy on December 26, 2017Wow. Via KTLA. Two Hawaii men have shared a lot over the 60 years they’ve been best friends. But this year, they were shocked to discover they have the same mother after using DNA genealogy kits, according to KHON in Honolulu. Alan Robinson was adopted and Walter Macfarlane had questions about his biological father. The half-brothers first met in the sixth grade and quickly bonded. But despite years of sharing the same interests, finishing each other’s sentences and being told they look alike, the two say they had no idea. “I had a younger brother that I lost when he was 19, so I never had nieces or nephews,” Robinson, who is about a year and a half younger than...
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Squeeee! Your Must-Listen: The Impossibly Adorable Porcupine Voice
by Tammy on December 20, 2017I just can’t. Do you need a little pick up? Feeling overwhelmed by everything that’s happening? This just may be your magic potion. Via Mental Floss, “This is “Teddy Bear,” a porcupine at the Zooniversity animal rescue. The first sounds are about 13 seconds in. They get really special at 1:25.” And boy, they aren’t kidding.