15 February,2026 08:16 AM IST | Los Angeles | Agencies
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Tiktok creator Gray Davis from Florida, US, has gone viral online after posting videos on cooking green iguanas which have fallen from trees. This occurs when the state experiences cold weather making the iguanas, which are cold-blooded reptiles, wind down their systems to conserve energy, and practically freezing up in the process. As they stiffen, the iguanas topple from their perch onto the ground, when people can pick them up easily. Davis seized this opportunity to make a quick meal.
While this may seem excessively cruel, green iguanas are considered an invasive species in South Florida, and authorities have temporarily allowed residents to remove these frozen iguanas without a permit, which people like Davis seem to have taken seriously.
In a video which has 3.5 million views, he collected an iguana and said, "They do have the nickname âchicken of the trees' because they're absolutely delicious. So rather than let this one go to waste, we're going to make tacos." He also found 20 eggs inside the lizard which he used, leading to comments like "21 souls in one meal is crazy."
Responding to the stunned viewers, Davis said "Rather than let the one that I found go to waste, I decided to make tacos, and I would argue that it's the most ethical taco you could possibly have." What a treat!
American teacher Yizel J Juarez confesses to giving students laxatives to send them home
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The Newby-McMahon Building built in 1919 in Wichita Falls, Texas, is supposedly the smallest skyscraper in history. Investors were tricked into thinking that it would be 480 feet long, only to learn the dimensions were in inches!
Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was in the Epstein files, recalling an episode called "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes", where Homer Simpson is kidnapped to a mysterious island. After he escapes and goes home, he writes on his blog that "some creeps on an island somewhere are secretly running the world."
For years, the Ershui Junior High School in Changhua County, Taiwan, has been requiring students to become great climbers to get their graduation certificates signed. The school grounds host the highest climbing wall in Taiwan, and students here take six climbing lessons every week. Students have to be able to scale the 15-meter-high rock wall in order to get their graduation certificates.
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A United Airlines passenger, headed from Los Angeles to Managua, Nicaragua, with a layover in Houston, ended up in Tokyo after boarding the wrong flight. They stayed at a hotel in Tokyo for two nights while the airlines sorted out a travel itinerary to the original destination, and were later offered Rs 90,563 in travel credits.
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