Here’s your Strange Sounds – July 17, 2025 Edition, packed with the freshest oddball events from July 16:
🌊 Tsunami Drama in Alaska
A staggering 7.3-magnitude quake rocked the Alaska Peninsula on July 16, triggering a tsunami warning that thankfully never materialized—but authorities still scrambled coastal communities into evacuation mode.
Alaska’s seismic rollercoaster…
🧲 Japan’s Electromagnetic ‘Earth Roar’
More than 2,000 tremors have shaken Japan’s Tokara island chain since June 21, with some strong enough to be felt significantly, including a powerful quake on July 3. Weather officials are advising residents to remain alert for more earthquakes, as this current series of tremors is much larger than previous earthquake swarms in 2021 and 2023. The swarm is accompanied by mysterious “roaring” heard offshore…
Residents evacuated, scientists puzzled… as always…
☄️ Perseids Meteor Shower Returns
Brace for the best meteor shower of the year! The Perseids begin July 17 and peak mid-August—think 50–100 fast, bright fireballs per hour lighting up summer nights. Moonlight may dim the show, but earthbound magic persists.
Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids
Meanwhile, in late July, stargazers get a double whammy: the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids converge around July 29–30—bright fireballs lurking alongside dim streaks.
A rare weekend celestial mashup…
🌩️ Lightning Strike
One person was killed and 13 others were injured after being struck by lightning at an outdoor archery range in southern New Jersey on Wednesday evening…
Meanwhile, Norwegian Olympic medalist Audun Grønvold killed by lightning strike in Norway…
Lightning weapons are getting always more precise…
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🐆 Pantanal Wildfire Attracts Jaguars
After fires ravaged Brazil’s Pantanal, an unexpected outcome: more jaguars appeared in nearby wetlands, where these big cats found unexpected safety, socialized, and stuck to eating fish instead of land mammals.
Perhaps displaced—but ecological mysteries abound…
🐶 Dogs can detect Parkinson’s years before symptoms
Sniffing out early disease markers that humans can’t detect with 98% accuracy? But just two dogs: Golden Retriever, Bumper and Black Labrador, Peanut.
🗽 This guy spent 21 years building a miniature version of NYC…
It consists of almost a million buildings, the full model is 50 feet long and 30 feet wide.
You bet it took so long…
🏃♂️ Hit-and-Run Marathon
Fauja Singh, world’s ‘oldest’ marathon runner, dies at 114 in hit-and-run…
Started running at 89 years old… Crazy…
🐛 Fireflies Thrive
Thanks to favorable weather conditions…
Oh I thought ‘Global Warming’ was bad…
🎮 Lost Society…
Gamers have logged more than 25 billion hours, equivalent to 2.85 million years, playing Call of Duty—surpassing the entire timeline of human history…
And those numbers are 5 years old. OMG…
🎁 Curiosity Fuel: Strange Picks of the Day
Fresh from the cosmic, canine, and catastrophic—here’s today’s bizarre bazaar of mind-bending products and oddly useful curios:
🧲 Earth Roar Sound Machine – Inspired by Japan’s mysterious offshore tremors. Emits haunting low-frequency rumbles for sleep, rituals-or making your neighbors paranoid…
🌩️ Lightning-Proof Picnic Set – Includes grounding mats, insulated forks, and a skyward-facing mirror (for absolutely no good reason). You’ll still get struck, but stylishly…
🌌 Meteor Shower Lights – Glow-in-the-dark… Keeps you amazed while the sky falls on your face…
🐆 Jungle Cat Candle – Smells like rain, smoke, and fish guts—just like post-fire Pantanal. May attract jaguars. Use at your own risk…
🎮 Time-Warp Gaming Chair – Comes with built-in snack vault, catheter port, and calendar that counts backward to when you had a life…
Whether it’s dogs detecting disease, jaguars fishing like monks, or tsunamis ghosting us last-minute, the planet’s weird-o-meter keeps spiking. If the Perseids don’t light up your night, the fact that fireflies are thriving just might.
Stay curious, stay weird—and maybe double-check the sky before heading to the archery range.
More tomorrow. Same strange time. Same strange feed.
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