As dorky as umbrella hats might be, I appreciate the hands-free rain protection they're going for (even if they might leave you with a dry head and wet shoulders). The… Read the rest of the article: The umbrella hat is a ridiculous item. Here's why it exists
It sells for S$2 (about $1.50 USD), you can try a charcoal hot dog from Ikea in Singapore. The aesthetically disturbing snack includes a black bun and an extra-long black… Read the rest of the article: Ikea in Singapore sells charcoal hot dogs
After Big Bird's official Twitter account shared that the Sesame Street character had gotten vaccinated, prominent conservative and anti-vaxxer figures criticized the message. God forbid an anthropomorphic bird share a… Read the rest of the article: Ted Cruz is mad that Big Bird got vaccinated
The year before the first US marathon was held in Boston in 1897, a Turkey Trot was held in upstate New York. The Buffalo Turkey Trot is now the oldest… Read the rest of the article: In the US, Turkey Trot races predate marathons
On Friday, 50,000 people attended the Astroworld concert by rapper Travis Scott in Houston. Due to crowd surging, some of them will not come home alive. The Houston Fire Department… Read the rest of the article: Videos show crowd stampede at Travis Scott concert that left 8 dead, hundreds hurt
23-year-old Youtuber Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has built a massive Youtube following (73.6 million subscribers and counting) by performing very, very expensive pranks. He's now the eleventh most-subscribed… Read the rest of the article: Youtube millionaire MrBeast plans to recreate Squid Game
The Covid era has supercharged MLMs. As people find themselves with more free time, a need for income, and a desperate desire for belonging, multi-level marketing companies have provided the… Read the rest of the article: MLM recruiters turn to dating apps after exhausting Facebook, Tiktok, and Instagram
It's a big day for the magical fruit. The Unicode Consortium has released the bean emoji, which Emojipedia expects to come to major platforms in late 2021 and throughout 2022… Read the rest of the article: Emoji for beans announced
I'm a huge fan of Mary Soon Lee's Elemental haiku on the website of Science Magazine. When you mouse over an element, you see a haiku that give you three… Read the rest of the article: A haiku for each element on the periodic table
Angelina Lee is an expert in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React AI, and Mia Khalifa. When she worked at Instagram, she was the "team coffee maker" and mined Etherium on company… Read the rest of the article: Fed up with the job search, a software engineer created a ridiculous fake resume and got a 90% response rate
Aída Merlano Rebolledo became a Colombian senator in 2019, but she landed in prison several months later for voter fraud and corruption. Her sentence was for 15 years, but she… Read the rest of the article: Instagram model is on trial for distracting guard to break her mom out of Colombian prison
When Aimée Lê's postgraduate housing closed for renovations, she knew she was in trouble. As a PhD student studying English at Royal Holloway, University of London, she brought in £12,000… Read the rest of the article: Meet the underpaid university lecturer who lived in a tent for two years
At an October 2 NASCAR race, Brandon Brown won an Xfinity Series. NBC Sports covered the event, and as a crowd chanted "f— Joe Biden," a reporter suggested that they… Read the rest of the article: A conservative codeword for "f— Joe Biden" is spreading rapidly, even to the floors of Congress
This week, a lawsuit against Kellogg's had to do with its "strawberry" Pop-Tarts—which contained little strawberry— made headlines. Class action lawsuits of the sort have become more common since 2008,… Read the rest of the article: Meet the lawyer behind deceptive marketing lawsuits like the strawberry Pop-Tarts case
Freddy Goodall says his family bought a 500-year-old Sussex home 30 years ago, but he didn't know about its secret passageways until recently. He was clearing off bookshelves and noticed… Read the rest of the article: Watch: man discovers labyrinth behind his bookshelf
Throughout the 2010s, The Onion developed the character of "Mr. Autumn man:" a middle-aged New Englander who unabashedly loved flannel, fires, apple-picking, haunted hayrides, gourds, pumpkin-spiced coffee, and other autumnal… Read the rest of the article: RIP Mr. Autumn Man (2012-2021)
WSJ got its hands on Cheesecake Factory's 500-page operations manual, which includes approved descriptive words for cheesecake. The article focuses on the company's profits— like many restaurants, the company has… Read the rest of the article: "Soaked," "sinful," and "yum-a-licious": here are Cheesecake Factory's 42 approved adjectives
In the internet's latest milkshake duck, a firehouse piglet named "Penny the Fire Pig" has shared propaganda opposing the FDNY vaccine mandate. Penny's political turn comes as a surprise to… Read the rest of the article: Influencer pig comes out as anti-vaxx
If a mammal can dominate a bird of the year contest, you can do anything. The non-bird taking the contest by storm is the long-tailed bat, or pekapeka-tou-roa, an endangered species.… Read the rest of the article: A mammal is about to win New Zealand's Bird of the Year contest
I find such uncomplicated joy in watching incompetent bots try to be like people, so I've been loving the Twitter account @ResNeXtGuesser, created by user @MKRiscy. Though the Twitter account… Read the rest of the article: A neural net views "cursed images" and hilariously guesses what they are
