music The hottest song of the summer is by a bunch of tweens from Cork Thom Dunn

museums Cork has an entire museum dedicated to butter, and it's weirdly wonderful Thom Dunn

ireland The Cork City Dump is a haunted graveyard of your childhood Thom Dunn

Watch these thrilling, brutal, nail-biting moments from the year in, um, table tennis Allan Rose Hill

UFO "Pretty crazy" video of UFOs over Oregon is probably Starlink Jason Weisberger

Funny Couple discovers hundreds of stuffed animals hidden in wall – a surprising find on Vancouver Island Popkin

History Is this mysterious shipwreck the oldest in the Great Lakes? Is it Le Griffon? Rob Beschizza

whistleblowers Flutist punished for blowing whistle Thom Dunn

shipwreck Authorities forbid drinking ancient champagne found in shipwreck Rob Beschizza

mental health Play Dungeons and Dragons for better mental health Gail Sherman

politics Right-wing media's traffic nosedive: what happened? Mark Frauenfelder

Science Yacht-attacking orcas are just typical teenagers Gail Sherman

music Irish tweens' banger 'The Spark' is an international hit Rusty Blazenhoff

History Why did Beethoven go deaf? DNA testing solves 200 year old mystery Yoy Luadha

texas There's a store in Texas where TSA-confiscated items end up Rusty Blazenhoff

paleontology Famed reptile fossil is actually rocks, paint, and random bones David Pescovitz

1970s "Pickled People" were heads made out of stuffed panty hose and smushed into jars, and people in the 1970s bought them for fun Jennifer Sandlin

History When the Black & Tans left Ireland for Palestine Thom Dunn

music 12-year-old boy joins street busker for gorgeous cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" (video) David Pescovitz