music Mother names children Metallica, Slayer, and Pantera David Pescovitz

movies Lord Humungus actor Kjell Nilsson dead at 76 Séamus Bellamy

History Nixon gave Cyprus a piece of the moon. Then a coup made it disappear. Ellsworth Toohey

Prison time for director who conned Netflix out of $11m Rob Beschizza

folklore The Bunny Man was a real hatchet-wielder in 1970 Virginia — but the internet turned him into something else entirely Ellsworth Toohey

security IP Crawl exposes that insecure web camera you never locked down Rob Beschizza

gadgets Framework lowering pricing on a forthcoming laptop Rob Beschizza

monuments Ignoring tire tracks, NPS hunts mystery Reflecting Pool vandal Jason Weisberger

History In 1916 a con man ran a car on water and fleeced Henry Ford Ellsworth Toohey

politics Trump Arch in D.C. to be tremendously large and golden Rob Beschizza

mystery A ship found drifting in the Pacific was still afloat but all 25 passengers had vanished Ellsworth Toohey

History A 14-year-old Japanese sailor drifted across the Pacific for 14 months and could never go home Ellsworth Toohey

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History Two green-skinned children appeared in a 12th-century English village Ellsworth Toohey

adorable animals Eastern black rhino Zuri cools off with a hose — and it's adorable Jennifer Sandlin

Science In 1997, NOAA recorded a sound louder than any known animal Ellsworth Toohey

gadgets Doughnut-dunking machines: 1956 inventor's gadgets Ellsworth Toohey

Games Aaron Paul enters the Wasteland for season 3 of Fallout Grant St. Clair

law Florida teens arrested after riding lawnmower through Target Rob Beschizza

hunting wabbits Cops, not bunnies: Newport Beach chooses enforcement over art park Jason Weisberger