Passengers Left Horrified After Screams Erupt From Beneath Taxiing Plane

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Passengers aboard an Air Canada flight departing Toronto last month were left shaken after terrifying screams suddenly echoed from beneath the cabin as the aircraft taxied toward the runway.

The incident occurred on Dec. 13 aboard Air Canada Flight 1502, an Airbus aircraft preparing to fly from Toronto Pearson International Airport to Moncton, New Brunswick. The plane, which was carrying 184 passengers, had begun taxiing when passengers near the rear of the cabin reported hearing muffled banging and desperate screams coming from below.

According to local outlet CBC, a ground crew member had become trapped inside the aircraft’s cargo hold after the doors reportedly closed unintentionally while the plane was on the ground.

Passengers said the disturbing noises quickly drew attention, prompting flight attendants to rush toward the back of the aircraft as concern spread through the cabin.
“Some of the people that were sitting towards the back of the plane heard the person screaming and banging, trying to get their attention,” passenger Gabrielle Caron told CBC.

Caron said passengers could see activity outside the aircraft as crew members gathered near the plane, signaling that something was wrong. Shortly afterward, the pilot informed passengers that a member of the ground crew was trapped in the luggage compartment.

The aircraft was stopped before reaching the runway. Moments later, the trapped worker safely exited the cargo hold and entered the cabin, reassuring passengers that he was not injured.

Air Canada confirmed that no injuries were reported as a result of the incident.

According to Caron, the crew member had been helping load items into the cargo hold as an extra set of hands and may not have been accounted for when the doors were closed.

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Unique Flu Experiment Reveals Why Some People Don’t Catch It Despite Exposure

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With an aggressive new strain spreading across the country, this year’s flu season has been marked by record-high hospitalizations and reportedly intense symptoms.

As people look for ways to contain the spread, new research has found that a few simple factors can greatly reduce transmission.

Researchers from the University of Maryland Schools of Public Health and Engineering in College Park and the School of Medicine in Baltimore studied influenza spread by placing flu-positive college students in a hotel room with healthy middle-aged adult volunteers. . .

The participants, including 11 healthy volunteers, lived on a quarantined floor of a Baltimore-area hotel for two weeks. During that time, they simulated interactions, including having conversations, doing physical activities like yoga, and passing around objects like pens and tablets from infected people to the rest of the group.

At the end of the experiment, none of the healthy individuals had become infected with the flu due to a variety of factors. This included a lack of coughing, as the infected students were holding “a lot of virus in their noses” and only small amounts were “expelled into the air,” the researchers noted. (Read more from “Unique Flu Experiment Reveals Why Some People Don’t Catch It Despite Exposure” HERE)

Experts Warn Your Preferred Sleep Position Could Be Harming Your Health in Multiple Ways

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The way we lie down in bed could pose health risks beyond just a sore back, according to experts. Your go-to posture can cause pain, reflux, snoring and even nerve symptoms that show up the next morning.

“What we care about is if someone is comfortable in their sleep position. Oftentimes we sleep in certain ways because of comfort,” Shelby Harris, clinical psychologist and behavioral sleep specialist, told Fox News Digital.

The way we sleep can often leave us uncomfortable, however. When sleeping in awkward positions, our bodies lie motionless in that position overnight, adding stress not only to our nerves, but to our muscles and ligaments as well.

Nerve damage is a concern when people sleep in positions that involve bending or tucking the arms — dubbed the “T. rex position” on social media. Health experts point out that when arms go numb at night, that’s often related to nerve compression.

A 2023 review of cubital tunnel syndrome, in which people experience symptoms of numbness and shooting pain in their forearms, specifically warns that sleeping with the elbow sharply bent or tucked under a pillow can increase pressure on the nerve and worsen symptoms. (Read more from “Experts Warn Your Preferred Sleep Position Could Be Harming Your Health in Multiple Ways” HERE)

‘Scromiting’ Is the Brutal New Side Effect of Chronic Cannabis Use as ER Visits Surge

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. . .Over the past decade, ERs have seen a surge in regular tokers showing up with sudden, stomach-churning attacks that leave them doubled over in pain.

The worst part? Many sufferers experience these episodes three or four times a year, often leaving both patients and providers scratching their heads.

The culprit is cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), a gut-wrenching disorder that triggers relentless nausea, abdominal pain and severe vomiting that can strike four or five times an hour, according to the Cleveland Clinic.

Symptoms usually appear within 24 hours of cannabis use and can last for days. The episodes are so brutal that ER staff have coined a term for them: “scromiting” — a chilling mashup of screaming and vomiting.

Despite its growing prevalence, many doctors are still unfamiliar with the syndrome, which was only recently defined, making it hard to distinguish from medical issues like food poisoning or the stomach flu. (Read more from “‘Scromiting’ Is the Brutal New Side Effect of Chronic Cannabis Use as ER Visits Surge” HERE)

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New Study Suggests Everyone Was Wrong About Where the Moon Came From

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. . .As the story goes, 4.5 billion years ago, the moon was born as a result of a giant Mars-sized object named Theia crashing into Earth.

This collision was responsible for more than just creating the moon — it also affected the shape, mass and composition of the Earth.

However, new research from the journal Science and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) suggests that this historic collision might not have been as accidental as it seems.

Scientists are reportedly just finding out that influential Theia might have been formed in the solar system right alongside Earth, meaning these two were once upon a time neighbors.

“The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner Solar System,” said Timo Hopp, a geoscientist and Lab Manager with the MPS and the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, according to Universe Today. (Read more from “New Study Suggests Everyone Was Wrong About Where the Moon Came From” HERE)

Archeologists Discover an Atlantis-Like Metropolis at the Bottom of a Lake

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Plato’s legend of Atlantis has come to life once again, with archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences having just discovered “traces of a submerged city” destroyed by a devastating 15th-century earthquake underneath Kyrgyzstan’s Lake Issyk Kul, the eighth deepest lake in the world.

The city at the flooded Toru-Aygyr complex, which lies near the lake’s northwest point, has now been excavated by the explorers, who surveyed four underwater zones at shallow depths ranging from 3 to 13 feet around the lake’s shoreline.

There, they found a wealth of everyday items that painted the picture of a once-thriving metropolis or “large commercial agglomeration.” Discoveries included multiple fired brick structures (one contained a millstone, which was used to crush and grind grain), caved-in stone structures and wooden beams.

In one of the zones, archaeologists also believe they’ve found what was once a public building that could have served as a mosque, bathhouse or school, also called a “madressa.”

In the three others, remnants of some kind of burial ground, a 13th-century Muslim necropolis — a large cemetery typically belonging to an ancient city — and mudbrick structures in round and rectangular shapes were also discovered.

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Rich ‘Sniper Tourists’ Allegedly Paid $90K to Shoot Civilians — Including Kids — During ‘Human Safari’ Trips to Sarajevo, Wild Claims Allege

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Wealthy “sniper tourists” allegedly paid upward of $90,000 to shoot people during “human safari” trips to Sarajevo in the 1990s — with an extra fee to kill children, according to wild claims being probed by Italian prosecutors.

The investigation was sparked after an Italian writer alleged he had uncovered evidence that wealthy gun enthusiasts — dubbed “sniper tourists” — would pay Bosnian Serb forces for the chance to gun down residents at random during the four-year siege of the city, the Guardian reported.

More than 10,000 were killed in Sarajevo by snipers and shelling between 1992 and 1996 during the Balkan Wars.

“There were Germans, French, English … people from all Western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians,” said Ezio Gavazzeni, the investigative writer.

“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” (Read more from “Rich ‘Sniper Tourists’ Allegedly Paid $90K to Shoot Civilians — Including Kids — During ‘Human Safari’ Trips to Sarajevo, Wild Claims Allege” HERE)

Heart Health Tends to Slip at This Age — It’s a Lot Younger Than You’d Think

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. . .Research shows most people’s cardiovascular health starts to decline before they’re even old enough to vote — yet few young Americans recognize the warning signs.

That means millions are missing a critical window to take action and protect themselves from heart disease, the leading cause of death in the US.

The condition is on the rise among adults under 40, with rates more than doubling since 2010.

But the problem often starts much earlier. By age 17, most people’s heart health scores — which consider lifestyle factors like diet and exercise, as well as clinical measures such as blood pressure and weight — have already begun to slip.

“I frequently care for people in their early 20s who are entering adulthood and are already facing serious cardiovascular risk factors such as elevated blood pressure, high blood sugar or a body mass index in the obesity range,” Dr. Jewel Scott, a primary care nurse practitioner, wrote in The Conversation. (Read more from “Heart Health Tends to Slip at This Age — It’s a Lot Younger Than You’d Think” HERE)

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‘Alien’ DNA Found Inside Humans — It Was Inserted Into Our Genes, Bonkers New Study Claims

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. . .Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us and inserted genes into human DNA, with the fallout affecting potentially millions of people.

“Humanity may be undergoing genetic transformation,” lead researcher Dr. Max Rempel, the founder and CEO of the DNA Resonance Research Foundation, told the Daily Mail of the study, which has yet to be peer-reviewed.

Rempel came to this far-fetched-seeming conclusion by analyzing DNA from both regular people and those who have claimed to have been abducted by aliens. This comes following a spike in UFO sightings over the last year, making many fear that we are on the verge of some not-so-friendly close encounters.

The scientist specifically analyzed 581 complete families from the 1,000 Genomes Project, discovering ‘large sequences’ of DNA in 11 families that didn’t appear to correspond to either family.

These genetic aberrations entailed a bundle of 348 non-parental genetic variants. As the subjects were born before 1990, this ruled out human gene-editing technologies like CRISPR, which only emerged in 2013. (Read more from “‘Alien’ DNA Found Inside Humans — It Was Inserted Into Our Genes, Bonkers New Study Claims” HERE)

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Treasure Hunters Find $1 Million in Coins From 1715 Shipwreck

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A shipwreck salvage company has struck gold.

The 1715 Fleet Queens Jewels, LLC—which specializes in salvaging the remains of a 1715 shipwreck off the Florida coastline—said its divers discovered over 1,000 gold and silver coins. And the, well, treasure trove of 18th century items are valued at $1 million.

“This discovery is not only about the treasure itself, but the stories it tells,” the company’s director of operations Sal Guttuso said in a statement. “Each coin is a piece of history, a tangible link to the people who lived, worked, and sailed during the Golden Age of the Spanish Empire.”

He continued, “Finding 1,000 of them in a single recovery is both rare and extraordinary.”

The coins—known as pieces of eight—were minted in Spanish colonies in Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, according to the company. The salvager said visible dates and mint marks are still visible on many of the coins, were being transported to back Spain when it got caught up in a hurricane. (Read more from “Treasure Hunters Find $1 Million in Coins From 1715 Shipwreck” HERE)

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