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Pigeons aren’t known for sparking social media frenzies, probably because most of us view them as annoying, flying rats. But one TikTok channel dedicated to the pavement-lurking birds has prompted a flutter of interest after it shared a pretty jaw-dropping video. The clip, which is accompanied by suitably jaunty music, shows a staggeringly proportioned pigeon, with a fit-to-busting chest, skinny white legs and giant feathers for claws, apparently. The man behind Pigeons TV posted the footage early last month and it has since racked up more than 18.6 million views and 1.6 million likes. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Stunned commentators have pointed out that it looks like some sort of chicken/pigeon hybrid, with a number suggesting the “mutant” bird must be a hoax. @pigeonstv English Pouter pigeons #pigeonstv #pigeon “What in the A.I. generated pigeon is that?” one asked. “Y’'all better not [be] gaslight me into thinking this is real,” wrote another. “If I were 5 years old and you told me to draw a picture of a bird, this is what it would look like,” joked a third. “Bro came out [of] a Dr Suess Book,” added a fourth. And a fifth said: “I don’t know much about birds but these are obviously two birds wearing a pigeon suit.” However, it turns out they’re all wrong. And this Frankenstein’s Monster of a feathered friend is simply an example of one of the many varieties of pigeons that exist in the world. The English Pouter is believed to have originated in England more than 400 years ago as the result of cross-breeding among a number of other old pigeon types. It’s best known for its bulbous breast, which it can puff up and hold in position for hours on end, according to the AviCulture blog. Indeed, the bird is so famed for its interesting looks that Charles Darwin himself commented on its appearance in his 1868 book ‘The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication’, branding it: “Perhaps the most distinct of all domesticated pigeons”. The Poulter’s full chest also apparently influenced fashion back in the early 20th Century, inspiring a “poulter pigeon’ dress”, which puffed above the waist. Who knew that pigeons were true OG fashionistas? Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma has given his first lecture as a visiting professor to the University of Tokyo, as the high-profile Chinese entrepreneur retreats further from his business empire following a crackdown by Beijing.

TikTok trends are often as random as they come and one current obsession on the video app revolves around a rather delicious-looking cinnamon roll. The roll, which contains a heavy serving of cream, was actually created by chef @marleysrose back in May 2022 but has since gone viral again and the recipe has now been viewed more than one million times. This is hardly the first time a cinnamon roll has gone viral on TikTok but this heavily cream-drenched version is the one currently doing the rounds. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter If you are wondering why there is so much cream it's because it makes the dough less dry compared to the traditional icing topping that usually accompanies the dessert. That being said, less of the technical stuff and let's just find out how to make them. @marleysrose Cinnamon Roll hack with heavy whipping cream #cinnamonrolls #cinnamonrollhack #breakfast #brunch Obviously, you'll need a few things to start with such as a baking tray, an oven and all the necessary ingredients. Recipe: Put your pre-made cinnamon rolls in a baking dish. Then pour half a cup of whipping cream on top of the rolls. Put the rolls and the cream for the amount of time that it says on the packet. Once ready top with the icing of your choice. And that's it. Bon appetite and enjoy. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

When it comes to water parks, it's always a good time sliding down the plastic tubes at speed and feeling like a child once more - however, sometimes things didn't go exactly to plan. Most would expect a slide to get you from A to B pretty quickly, given that the water helps us to whizz down to the end. But not for one guy who ended up getting stuck in the middle of the slide and can be seen in the viral TikTok clip crawling around in the small tube to find his way out. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter In the video, @jamii.talib sported a wetsuit and had his arms crossed against his chest as he stood upright before the floor dropped beneath him as he slid down the slide rapidly. Though around seven seconds in, he suddenly comes to a halt halfway down the slide, before proceeding to gain momentum as he slid back down the way he came before he got stuck again. He can then be seen with an alarmed look on his face as he attempted to crawl in the tight space to get further down the slide to the exit and can also be heard shouting for help. Fortunately, his cries were heard as suddenly the top half of the slide opened (probably an emergency door) as a staff member then helped him get out of the slide. @jamii.talib 1st dengan last la aku main benda alah ni ! sangkut mad 😂 TRAUMATIZE 😂 #escapepark #outdooractivities #escapeparkpenang #superlooperescapepark Since sharing his water slide fail, the TikTok has received 43.1m views, 1.5m likes and over 13,000 comments from people who expressed their concern at this ever happening to them. One person said: "New fear unlocked." "My claustrophobia can't deal this," another person wrote. A third person added: " I panicked and it wasn’t even me stuck." "No I would be crying so bad, I have a phobia of being in a small space," a fourth person replied. Someone else commented: "Thank God they have that door there." Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

There is always a new quiz that is taking over TikTok and the latest one is the "Multidimensional Anger Test," which can apparently “map your experience of anger along multiple empirical dimensions". The test itself is from the IDR Labs website and says the quiz draws from the work of Dr Judith M. Siege and tests people's susceptibility to anger. “Analyses of Siegel’s work have found the test to have good psychometric properties in the form of high validity and test-retest reliability," the website reads. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter "Consequently, the test is frequently used for research purposes and in clinical settings, where it has been shown to be relevant, not just to a person’s anger, but to their physical health and stress responses as well.” However, the quiz does note the following disclaimer to participants - "The results of our online multidimensional anger test are provided ‘as-is’, and should not be construed as providing professional or certified advice of any kind." @ilovehouseplants #fyp In total, there are 38 questions or statements where there is a slider participants can move depending on to what extent they ‘disagree’ or ‘agree.’ Some examples of this include: "I have met many people who are supposed to be experts who are no better than I," "When I am angry with someone, I let them know," and "Something makes me angry almost every day." At the end of the quiz, you get the results in the form of a graph where different aspects of anger are measured such as "Anger arousal," "Anger spectrum," "Hostile outlook," "External anger," "Internal anger," and the total score altogether. While the participants' scores are also compared with the population average so it appears you can see how you compare to the general public. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

More so-called footage of aliens on Earth has gone viral on social media - this time supposedly showing an extraterrestrial in a backyard in New York. The footage comes just days after a family in Las Vegas reportedly found aliens on their property before it was widely debunked by fact-checkers as nothing more than CGI. There had also been false claims that the family in question had gone 'missing' which was quickly dismissed. Inevitably another video has now gone viral on TikTok, racking up more than 300,000 views at the time of writing. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter The footage was shared by the account The Paranormal Chic and claims to show a man in New York (it's not specified when or where in New York the video was filmed) who has apparently found an alien in his backyard. As he searches for the creature with a flashlight, we get a brief glimpse of the alien before it disappears. The man does call out to the alien which eventually reappears and clearly walks across the frame before again disappearing. @the_paranormal_chic Aliens in New York, you decide real or hoax? #uncoveringthetruth #ancientaliens #theparanormalchic #aliens #aliensighting #ufocommunity #ufotwitter #aliensarereal #unidentified #newyork #lasvegas #alienz👽 #alientok #conspiracy #projectbluebeam #fyp Safe to say that the footage hasn't left everyone convinced. "Hahaha he’s got clothes on," one person quipped. Another joked: "Looks Like Karate Kid." A third added: "Bro is wearing a black turtle neck in the middle of a field like a hipster that got lost on his way to a jazz club." However, some were willing to believe: "lts real. They are called The little grey. four to four and a half feet tall," said one TikTok user. A second person added: "I had the same thing happen to me while playing with my dog 1 am." A third said: "they are now everywhere." This comes amid of flurry of UFO-related news such as the south pole apparently being a form of "air traffic control" for aliens and an ex-Nasa astronaut claiming that aliens prevented a nuclear war on Earth. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

A popular TikTok couple has shared their "controversial" hot takes about their relationship, including the man taking charge of finances and tracking each other's location. The viral clip that's racked up 1.4 million views has left fellow TikTokers praying it's satire. Rachel Fiona and her fiancé Ryley Wilson (@drachel) kickstarted their video by saying they track each other's location. Why? Well, according to Ryley, "Well, 'cause I'm possessive, and she's a baddie. Can't have any other guys hitting that." The pair then move on to hot take number two: Money. Ryley makes all of the "major financial decisions." They then shared how they don't have friends of the opposite gender. "Again, she's a baddie," Ryley said, once again reiterating that he's "possessive." Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Rachel then said any household chores including cleaning and laundry are her responsibilities. Meanwhile, taking out the rubbish and "fixing things" are his jobs. It didn't take long for people to flood the comments, with some urging the pair to "not go through with the wedding". "Oh here are the red flags," one person wrote, while another added: "The fact he’s repeatedly admitting he’s possessive and controlling. Girl I’m so sorry for your future trauma and you're dating down." @drachelfiona hot take #controversial #gendernorms #relationship #couplestiktok @ryleykwilson The pair later followed up with a second clip in response to people calling their decisions "red flags". "Every relationship is so different & this is just what works for us," the couple wrote as the caption. "We really do, do all of these things," Rachel told viewers, adding that the reasons were, in fact, satire. They said how they share locations for "safety reasons," and so Ryley can "surprise her when she's on the way home." Rachel and Ryley said they openly discuss finances, but he ultimately gets the "final say." @drachelfiona Replying to @itslikeimwastingurhonor again every relationship is so different & this is just what works for us🤍✨☺️ #couplestiktok When it comes to friends of the opposite sex, they said they just "don't go out of the way" to make new ones. Lastly, Rachel said she doesn't do the chores just because "she's a woman," with Ryley saying she likes to do things a certain way which is "fine with me." Still, people weren't overly sold. "I love how this made it worse lol," one penned. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

Typically, college interns find cheap places to live for the summer. One woman is going to great lengths to do that.

Short video app TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance, said on Thursday it would invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia over the next few years, as it doubles down on the region amid intensifying global scrutiny over its data security.

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A woman has revealed that she was pronounced dead for three minutes after battling with heatstroke – and claims that watches “stop working” whenever she wears them. When Jade visited a friend for a relaxing summer afternoon, she didn’t expect for her life to be hanging in the balance only hours later. She recalls the heat in Green Bay, Wisconsin, US, reaching 32 degrees and with the high humidity, this made the temperature “unbearable.” Soon, she started experiencing frequent bouts of nausea, dizziness, dry mouth and exhaustion which caused her to collapse on the living room sofa. Sign up for our free Indy100 weekly newsletter As Jade, aged 36, was rushed to hospital, medics pronounced her dead for three minutes and said the culprit was heatstroke. Now, in a bid to raise awareness, she’s shared her story on TikTok, racking up 191,000 views and over 20,000 likes and says that the experience has made her “unafraid” of death. “I had experienced an extreme fear of dying prior to this incident, but when it actually happened, I had zero fear,” the content creator, from Wisconsin, told NeedToKnow.co.uk. “I remember feeling consistently yucky and really gross. I was rundown, lethargic and sick to my stomach, with my mouth bone dry. “I went out to smoke and the moment that I finished and stood up, I knew I was in trouble. My priority immediately became getting back inside and I don’t think I understood at this point that I was dying, but I did understand that I was going down.” Jade recalls stumbling into the apartment and slumping onto the couch, before making a gurgling sound. She said: “Everything must have happened in a matter of moments, but it felt like much longer and this profound feeling of utter sickness hit me like a tonne of bricks. “My head felt like it was inflating, yet my entire body as if it was shrinking. I had never known anything like it before. It made me completely OK with dying because I wanted to sleep forever. “Then, everything went black and that was the moment I knew I was about to pass away.” Jade was rushed to St Vincent’s hospital via ambulance, where she was revived via a defibrillator. As she arrived, she fell in and out of consciousness, but imaging tests of her head were carried out, along with blood tests and electrocardiograms, a test to check the heart’s rhythm. Over the next four days, she received injections to prevent blood clots and soon, medics told her she had been pronounced “dead” for three minutes on arrival with heatstroke. In the clip, she discusses her story and the “weird” occurrences which have happened since. Users flocked to the comments to share their reactions, with many detailing their own experiences. “I fainted TWICE that summer,” one person said. Someone else commented: “I was pregnant that summer. The heat was HORRIBLE!!!” “Your story was very interesting. Glad your safe,” another person added. Lauren said: “Was it scary? What did you see? I really panic about the thought of death.” “The thought of dying scares me so much I couldn’t even sit thru listening to this,” one user commented. [sic] “June 3, 2022 I died. My husband did cpr for 37 minutes until EMS took over,” Kate added. Jade was born with Wolff Parkinsons’ White and postural tachycardia syndrome, which both cause abnormalities with increased heart rate. Often, she feels like she’s going to “throw up” her heart and sometimes, extreme shakiness, as well as fainting spells. Due to this, she finds intense heat triggers these episodes and while her near death experience in July 2011 hasn’t made these worse, she believes they were a contributing factor. Jade said: “My symptoms are still mild, but I have been getting new ones, such as a low grade fever and muscle weakness. I'm not sure if these are related to the heatstroke. “I’m still waiting for a final diagnosis, as this has only occurred after my incident, but I will always fight for myself and my life.” Since then, Jade has also suffered with frequent seizures, which she had never had prior to the incident. She said: “At first, I thought it was heatstroke again, but I just passed out and doctors believe it’s because I’m still so exhausted from all the anxiety of almost dying. “But, I have been admitted a few times for these and I’ve had tests such as MRIs and more blood work done, as well as seeing a neurologist and I’ve been diagnosed with epilepsy. “Now, I don’t have them so much, but I’ve been in touch with other near death experience survivors who said they had seizures for a while after, but then they suddenly stopped.” Jade has also experienced other “strange anomalies” such as not being able to wear regular watches as they would stop working once she put them on. She added: “It wasn’t something that happened before and the only watches that are safe are expensive smart watches. “I’ve given up on them entirely, but vape pens also shut down even with a full battery. “I’ve also had a lot of spooky things happening, such as hearing voices and seeing things that aren’t there. “Sometimes it’s been whispers or dark hazy figures and I began recording my home because I was petrified that I was losing it. “I believe this is telling me that life continues after death. “I feel like I’m in a special club and it’s made me learn how to take better care of myself, as well as valuing life more. “I don’t live in fear of death and I know that when my time comes, any fear will melt away like it did before. “The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that it is absolutely true what they say – the fear itself is always worse than the thing we actually fear.” Have your say in our news democracy. 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From statistical red flags to troubling archetypes, let's break down the five biggest warning signs for an NBA Draft bust.The 2023 NBA Draft is only 10 days away. Hitting on a draft pick is far from a guarantee. In the 2010s, organizations like the Sacramento Kings and Phoenix Suns have fou...