/ 27 August 2024

A Botswana shiner, amazing bug mug shots, and a bookish burglar caught reading on the job…

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If a third engagement of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck is ever on the cards, the good news is some big bling will be at the ready after the world’s second-largest diamond was found in Botswana. At 2,492 carats we could be fooled by the rocks that she got…

We like big bugs and we cannot lie after these amazing bug mug shots caught our attention. They were captured by Scottish nature enthusiast Jimmy Reid who says his subjects are anything but pests in his eyes.

And a bookish burglar in Rome only has himself to blame after he decided to sit down and start reading a copy of Homer’s Iliad that he found in the apartment he was robbing when he was caught by the 71yo owner. Sounds like a classic Greek tragedy…

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