At the recent World Cube Association Rubik's Cube International Open in Singapore, Cao Quixian set the new women's world record of 5.97 seconds. She is six years old. Watch below.… Read the rest of the article: This six-year-old now holds the women's world record for the speediest solving of a Rubik's Cube
On Saturday, a tornado tore through Nashville, Tennessee, hitting a suburban powerstation in the northeast neighborhood of Madison. The twisted triggered a massive explosion resulting in a fireball spotted across… Read the rest of the article: Watch the explosive moment when a deadly tornado hit a power station (video)
More than 250 passengers on a Delta flight from Amsterdam to Detroit spent Sunday night in a remote Canadian military barracks. The plane had mechanical problems with its deicing system… Read the rest of the article: Delta passengers spent night in remote Canadian military barracks after plane experienced mechanical problems
In Ontario, Canada, former chef Kenneth Law, 58, was charged with 14 counts of murder in Canada for "counseling or aiding" suicides. Apparently Law sold "suicide kits" containing a food… Read the rest of the article: Former chef charged with 14 counts of murder for selling "suicide kits"
In March, astronaut Frank Rubio harvested one of the most important tomatoes in history. The tomato was one of the first grown in space, aboard the International Space Station, as… Read the rest of the article: Tomato lost in space by astronaut has finally been found
"Staring At The Stars" is a (corny) country tune heard in the background of a 1998 episode of The X-Files, titled "Dreamland II." Since that episode, X-Files superfans have tried… Read the rest of the article: After twenty-five years, this "mystery" X-Files song was finally identified and released in its entirety
Police in Gujarat, India busted five people who operated a fake toll plaza on bypass roads. Incredibly, the scam has been operating for 18 months. Smartly, the crooks charged less… Read the rest of the article: Fake toll plaza operates for over a year, scamming motorists out of millions
Customs officials at Thailand's Suvarnabhumi Airport busted a 22-year-old man last week for smuggling two Asian small-clawed otters and a prairie dog in his underwear. According to the Thailand's Department… Read the rest of the article: Man busted at airport smuggling two otters and a prairie dog in his underwear
Above left is Lawrence Sullivan, the infamous "Florida Joker" who was arrested in 2017 in Miami, Florida for allegedly pointing a gun at automobiles driving by. Above right is a… Read the rest of the article: Florida Joker says Rockstar Games stole his likeness for Grand Theft Auto 6
We're having a very special holiday sale on the Voyager Golden Record 3xLP box set that me and my buddies Timothy Daly and Lawrence Azerrad produced. It's now just $88… Read the rest of the article: Holiday sale on the Voyager Golden Record 3xLP box set
Dozens of meters below the equator of Mars, researchers have discovered a pattern of honeycomb-shaped fractures like the one seen above. Captured with radar instruments on China's Zhurong robotic rover,… Read the rest of the article: Strange underground honeycomb pattern found on Mars
Last month in Essex, UK a judge issued one Jake Carter, 27, a Criminal Behaviour Order banning him from riding his bicycle in his town. Now, he's spending eleven months… Read the rest of the article: Man banned from bicycling now in jail for riding to probation meeting on his bike
US Berkeley researchers used artificial intelligence to determine that some of the clicks used by whales to communicate are "on many levels analogous to human vowels and dipthongs," the sound… Read the rest of the article: Breakthrough in understanding whale language
Astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli celebrated the first night of Hanukkah at the International Space Station. Check out the below video featuring a flameless menorah and microgravity dreidel. "Happy Hanukkah from the… Read the rest of the article: Astronaut celebrates Hanukkah in space with microgravity dreidel and flameless menorah (video)
Yesterday, staff at Punjab, Pakistan's Sherbagh Zoo spotted a tiger gnawing on a shoe inside its enclosure. Upon further investigation, they found the remains of the shoe's owner. At that… Read the rest of the article: Zookeepers spot tiger chewing on shoe leading them to unfortunate discovery
Today, McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinsk announced the pilot launch of CosMc's, a coffeeshop that they seem to think could compete with Starbucks. "What would happen if a McDonald's character from… Read the rest of the article: McDonald's goes after Starbucks with new CosMc's coffee shop
As the legendary TV creator Norman Lear was dying on Tuesday at the age of 101, his family serenaded him bedside with the classic theme songs to his groundbreaking television… Read the rest of the article: Norman Lear's family sang "The Jeffersons" theme to him as he died
Maryam Moshiri, one of the top anchors on BBC News, began a broadcast yesterday by flipping everyone off. The best moment is the look on her face when she lowers… Read the rest of the article: BBC News anchor gives the finger during live TV broadcast (video)
Texas resident Brett Ingram was reveling in the holiday wonder of her artificial Christmas tree—white-frosted fronds and all—when she heard an unfamiliar sneeze from the vicinity. "I look over and… Read the rest of the article: Woman finds possum peeking out from artificial Christmas tree (video)
A few months ago, fans of r/PublicFreakout were thrilled and dismayed at the video below from Parma, Ohio of a crazed Chipotle customer so disappointed with her burrito bowl that… Read the rest of the article: Crazed customer who threw meal at fast food worker sentenced to work at fast food restaurant (video)
