Pilot Rudol Erasmus was in the air above South Africa on Monday when he felt "something cold" slither across his lower back. Looking down, he spotted a highly-venomous Cape cobra "receding… Read the rest of the article: Pilot discovers venomous cobra slithering around the cockpit
Miners found this strange wrinkly leather ball near Dawson City, Yukon in Canada and brought it to scientists to examine. After X-raying the object at a veterinarian's office, Yukon paleontologist… Read the rest of the article: This weird wrinkly brown leather ball is actually a 30,000-year-old squirrel
In celebration of Passover which starts tonight, I suggest watching The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic silent film version of the biblical Exodus story. (The full movie also includes… Read the rest of the article: This is the best Ten Commandments story, and the soundtrack is by members of Flaming Lips and Los Lobos (video)
This is the Sphinx Observatory atop the Jungfraujoch, a glacier saddle between two peaks in the Bernese Alps in western Switzerland. The astronomical observatory is 11,716 above sea level and… Read the rest of the article: This mountaintop observatory looks like a supervillain's lair
The Guardian compiled a delightful collection of clips gathered at the surreal circus outside of Trump's arraignment in New York City yesterday afternoon. Unsurprisingly, the Naked Cowboy was on-scene.
Tech executive Bob Lee—creator of Cash App, former CTO at Square (now Block), and chief product officer at MobileCoin—was stabbed to death overnight in San Francisco. He was 43. No… Read the rest of the article: Cash App creator stabbed to death in San Francisco
At Sunday's Country Music Television (CMT) Music Awards, musicians Slash, Wynonna Judd, LeaAnn Rimes, ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, and Bad Company's Paul Rodgers honored the 50th anniversary of Lynyrd Skynyrd's… Read the rest of the article: Slash, Wynonna Judd, and other country music stars play Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute medley (video)
The below video recorded by a passenger on a commercial flight has garnered millions of views on Twitter and TikTok. The person who uploaded the clip says it appears to… Read the rest of the article: Airplane video of UFO above clouds… isn't that
Former Oklahoma County jail guards Gregory Cornell Butler Jr. and Christian Charles Miles pleaded guilty to misdemeanor cruelty charges for punishing inmates by forcing them to stand handcuffed for long… Read the rest of the article: Former jail guards busted for playing loop of "Baby Shark" song for hours to torture inmates
"The reason why we hear about mass shootings is because we have taken God out of our schools," said Republican Arizona State Senator Anthony Kern in a transphobic tirade commenting… Read the rest of the article: State senator blames mass shootings on lack of god in schools, forgetting Nashville shooting was, um, at a Christian school
Japanese space tech company ALE has scheduled the world's first artificial meteor shower for 2025. The Sky Canvas uses small orbiting satellites to release "shooting stars"—tiny metal particles about the… Read the rest of the article: Artificial meteor shower to light up the sky… for science (and, yep, entertainment)
For just $30 on Amazon, you can purchase the Holy Spirit Board, a ouija board that will enable you to "communicate directly with Jesus Christ." According to the product description,… Read the rest of the article: Jesus Christ-themed ouija board on Amazon is "a trap from the devil," says Catholic exorcist
"It was my album so the drums could be as loud as I wanted," Collins told Dan Rather in the below interview from 2013. (While they don't get into the… Read the rest of the article: Phil Collins explains the iconic "In the Air Tonight" drum fill
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have named the four astronauts who will be the first humans to take a trip to the moon in 50 years. Commander Reid… Read the rest of the article: These four people will be the first astronauts headed to the moon in 50 years
Just seven years after Moana's release, Disney is remaking it. This time, it will be live action. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who starred as Maui in the 2016 original, is… Read the rest of the article: Disney is remaking Moana as a live action feature
In Akita, Japan, there's a hot new vending machine in town. Pay, press a button, and you'll be treated to some delicious bear meat. (This on the heels of a… Read the rest of the article: This vending machine sells bear meat
Grandmaster Flash is not only a hip-hop pioneer but also a groundbreaking DJ who invented myriad mixing techniques—from cutting to backspinning—that are core to the art of playing the turntable… Read the rest of the article: Listen to Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel's groundbreaking DJ set from 1979
Researchers have captured on film and caught the world's deepest fish—species of snailfish. A research ship from the Minderoo-University of Western Australia Deep Sea Research Centre found the animals swimming… Read the rest of the article: These are the world's deepest fish ever filmed and caught (video)
The small Bolivian town of Huarina is abuzz with reports of a dead extraterrestrial spotted in a gutter following a weird UFO encounter. Unfortunately, the corpse of the ET has… Read the rest of the article: Photo of dead extraterrestrial in gutter after UFO sighting
Space start-up Astrolab Inc. is building a robotic moon rover the size of jeep to the lunar surface sometime in the next few years. (The particular prototype shown above has… Read the rest of the article: This SUV is headed to the lunar surface to act like "UPS for the moon"
