Japanese whale-hunting company Kyodo Senpaku has installed vending machines in Tokyo that offer a selection of whale snacks, including whale skin, frozen whale meat and canned pre-cooked whale. Unfortunately, the… Read the rest of the article: Japanese whaling company stocking vending machines with whale snacks to spur appropriately-declining demand

A Brooklyn, New York resident heard concerning screams from a nearby parking lot and called 911. Turns out, the lot was employee parking for the New York Police Department's 79th… Read the rest of the article: Concerning screams led to 911 call. Turned out to be cops in the heat of passion.

"Manic Monday" (1986) was a massive hit for The Bangles but, of course, Prince was the genius who penned the track. But it wouldn't be until after Prince's death that… Read the rest of the article: Prince's original version of "Manic Monday," unheard until recently (video)

KFC Thailand has launched a line of incense that smells like fried chicken. The incense sticks are also meant to resemble the fast food chain's chicken. For now, the incense… Read the rest of the article: KFC launches incense that smells like fried chicken

Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot has a bunch of new skills, such as the ability to pick up and arrange wood planks, toss heavy objects, jump around on a scaffolding,… Read the rest of the article: Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot can now pick up and toss heavy objects at people, jump around on scaffolding, and land a perfect backflip (video)

Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida put the kibosh on an Advanced Placement high school class on African American history and culture. The College Board introduced the course last year… Read the rest of the article: Florida Governor DeSantis blocks African American Studies AP class in high schools

National treasure Jennifer Coolidge joined TikTok and, unsurprisingly, her first video is brilliant. In it, she recites a poignant poem and the author makes a cameo!

Campbell Keenan, 12, of Boston, was visiting Fort Lauderdale, Florida when his family went out on a charter fishing boat. Keenan had fished before—his best catch was a 25-inch striper.… Read the rest of the article: Twelve-year-old goes fishing, reels in great white shark (video)

Bigfoot was spotted in the above Google Earth image of a remote area in Colorado's Uncompahgre National Forest. Reddit user 33sushi who posted the freakish find to r/bigfoot suggests that… Read the rest of the article: Bigfoot spotted on Google Earth image

Iconic musician David Crosby has died at 81. The co-founder of The Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash also had a long solo career beginning in 1971 with the absolute… Read the rest of the article: Iconic musician David Crosby, RIP

Kevin Foakes (aka DJ Food) is an electronic musician known for his work in Coldcut and other projects on the iconic Ninja Tune dance music label. He's also a graphic… Read the rest of the article: Flashing back to ye olde psychedelic light shows

After guitar legend Jeff Beck's death on January 10, Stevie Wonder spoke to the Detroit Free Press about his friend and collaborator who he called: "a great soul." Above, Beck… Read the rest of the article: Watch friends/collaborators Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck perform "Superstition" in 2009

At a Taco Bell in Centennial, Colorado, a customer and employee were engaged in a heated exchange apparently over a broken soda machine. Police were called and the customer left… Read the rest of the article: Taco Bell employee possibly spiced angry customer's burrito with rat poison

For 16 months and counting, all of the lights at Massachusetts' Minnechaug Regional High School have been on around the clock, costing thousands of dollars of each month in electricity… Read the rest of the article: High school spends thousands on electricity each month because nobody can turn off the software-controlled lights

In July 1952, more than a dozen "flying saucers" were spotted zipping over Washington, DC. Not only did regular citizens spot the UFOs, but so did pilots, radar operators, and… Read the rest of the article: Here's Einstein's curious letter about the UFO phenomenon

In 2007, Glen Hansard, singer/guitarist for the Irish group The Frames, and Markéta Irglová, a then-teenaged classical pianist from the Czech Republic, starred in a small independent film about a… Read the rest of the article: Swell Season, from the lovely film Once, reuniting for US tour (video)

In 2018, April Gavin traveled from Chicago back home to Oregon on a United Airlines flight. Unfortunately, the airlines lost her suitcase along the way. After several months of waiting,… Read the rest of the article: United Airlines returns woman's lost suitcase… four years later

Rocco the horse was in the mood for ice cream so he pulled through the McDonald's drive-through for a soft serve cone. As one does. Another customer at the New… Read the rest of the article: Horse in car awaits soft serve cone at McDonald's drive-through (video)

Insider's latest "How Crime Works" video features reformed crystal meth dealer Adi Jaffe—now a PhD psychology professor. Jaffe explains "the practicalities of running crystal meth labs… [along with] the methods… Read the rest of the article: Former drug dealer explains the ins-and-outs of running a meth lab (video)

After a typhoon tore up Alaska's western coast last fall, the US Federal Emergency Management Agency called for residents—mostly Alaska Native peoples—to file paperwork in order to receive support for property… Read the rest of the article: US FEMA's aid instructions translated into "Alaska Native languages" that turned out to be gibberish