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- January 2022 (342)
- 15: $18.5M expansion of Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia planned at Ferris State University (1)
- 15: ‘Peeing is very easy’: Japanese billionaire returns to Earth after documenting life on ISS (3)
- 15: Their homes burned, but they still need to pay HOA dues (6)
- 15: FedEx asks FAA permission to add anti-missile system to some cargo planes (11)
- 15: ‘Sick to my stomach’: Dollar Tree fanatics protest new $1.25 prices (15)
- 15: UK government apologizes to Queen for ‘suitcase of wine’ parties on eve of Prince Philip’s funeral (7)
- 15: Portland police training on protests ends with slide showing mock prayer for ‘dirty hippy,’ prompts investigation (8)
- 15: 3 cats have outmaneuvered their 2 humans to hold a blender hostage for weeks (6)
- 14: Parents up in arms about After School Satan Club at QC elementary school (13)
- 14: Intoxicated driver does ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ jump over West Michigan freeway bridge (14)
- 14: A judge shamed and fined a cancer patient for his unkept yard and said if jail time was an option, she’d order it (10)
- 14: FedEx wants to install anti-missile lasers in its cargo jets (15)
- 14: Oath Keepers weren’t expecting QAnon to get in the way of their insurrection (15)
- 14: United States Spend Ten Times More On Fossil Fuel Subsidies Than Education (15)
- 14: After more than 70 years, the FDA is dropping its regulation for French dressing (9)
- 14: Debtors prisons: In Mississippi, judges can throw you in prison for owing money (6)
- 14: Bad luck: Pope acknowledges he got caught at record store (4)
- 14: No staircase to reach top floor; school building in Malappuram grabs eyeballs (8)
- 14: Polish diocese apologizes for asking if abuse victim is gay (4)
- 14: South Dakota man arrested after his mom accidentally serves pot brownies to seniors (6)
- 14: US to allow teen semi drivers in test apprenticeship program (10)
- 14: Hong Kong police switch to goose-stepping ‘to show patriotism’ (4)
- 14: South Dakota man arrested after his mom accidentally serves pot brownies to seniors (10)
- 14: Granbury Walmart shooting: 2-year-old accidentally shoots 1-year-old and mom (15)
- 14: Judge slams 72-year-old cancer patient over bad lawn maintenance (7)
- 14: Novak Djokovic’s visa cancelled, tennis player to be deported (9)
- 14: Israeli woman sues after unwittingly inspiring a sex doll (7)
- 14: Karnataka man sets bank on fire after his loan application was rejected (7)
- 14: Judge pokes holes in Swiss cheesemakers’ legal arguments (1)
- 14: 8 Years After His First Lawsuit Was Dismissed, Kenyan Lawyer Once Again Heads To Court As He Sues Isreal & Italy For Killing Jesus Christ (6)
- 14: Sydney pub to hold ‘Sunday Service’ event in response to Hillsong camp controversy (4)
- 14: Florida bill would allow cameras in classrooms and microphones on teachers (0)
- 13: Batch of pot brownies make their way to card game between senior citizens; Tabor man arrested and charged for mishap (3)
- 13: Virginia Beach police used forged documents that linked people’s DNA to a crime to get them to confess or cooperate with investigators. The city said it had ended the practice in May after conducting its own investigation, but called the tactic legal. (4)
- 13: After 70 years, the FDA is dropping its regulation for French Dressing (6)
- 13: Parents outraged after school suggests shapewear to tackle body image issues in middle school girls (6)
- 13: Chicago Students Plan Walkout Friday, Say District Is Ignoring Youth Voices About School Safety (4)
- 13: Tallahassee man who died in road rage shooting previously arrested for confrontation at same intersection (11)
- 13: Face masks make people look more attractive, study finds (15)
- 13: Black Man Arrested On Warrant For 49-Year-Old White Man With A “Bushy White Beard” And Blue Eyes (8)
- 13: Sony is dealing with PlayStation 5 shortage by making more PS4s (10)
- 13: Israeli scientists have finally figured out a way to teach a fish how to drive (11)
- 13: Man found alive in Scotland after faking his death to evade U.S. sex assault charges, official says (2)
- 13: 2 Florida women arrested for assault by… glitter (15)
- 13: Judge Berates Man With Cancer Who Said He Was Too Weak to Clean Lawn (12)
- 13: First-dose vaccinations quadruple in Quebec ahead of restrictions at liquor and cannabis stores (5)
- 13: A man arrested in Russia is accused of building a fake border with Finland 15 miles from the real one and charging migrants $11,000 to cross it (1)
- 13: Texas schools ask parents to fill in as substitute teachers (12)
- 13: Woman regrets TikTok video – Insists she needs chickens and not men (3)
- 13: Cat, ‘enraged’ after scolding, attacks Omaha woman (5)
- 13: YouTuber Accused of Intentionally Crashing Plane for Views (4)
- 13: Woman forced to stay at blind date’s apartment for days after snap lockdown in China’s city of Zhengzhou (4)
- 13: Bucking National Trends, Raleigh DA Lorrin Freeman Seeks To Execute The Mentally Ill (10)
- 13: China critic Sen. Tommy Tuberville once again bought Alibaba stock and options (3)
- 13: FDA deregulates French dressing (7)
- 13: Doctor who branded his initials on patients’ livers no longer allowed to practice medicine (8)
- 12: Kayvon Thibodeaux on why he chose Oregon over Tide: ‘Do you know the stigmatism of Alabama education?’ (15)
- 12: Man arrested after mother takes pot brownies to card game at senior center, court docs say (15)
- 12: Report: Ashes of 91 people found in Akron church where unlicensed funeral director was a pastor (5)
- 12: Las Vegas Elvis productions nearly extinct (2)
- 12: John Kuczwanski killed in Tallahassee road rage incident (5)
- 12: Moon ‘mystery hut’ is just a rabbit-shaped rock, Chinese rover finds (12)
- 12: Duo charged in theft of $28,000 Black Walnut tree, one of state’s largest, from Metroparks. (4)
- 12: Woman’s diary goes viral as lockdown in China forces her to stay with blind date (2)
- 12: Mother arrested after 1-year-old tests positive for meth, marijuana and ecstasy (15)
- 12: My Pillow CEO says he has ‘enough evidence’ to put ‘300 million’ Americans in jail (15)
- 12: Lawyer offers TV station comment on Huntsville police officer’s murder case for coverage of his movie (0)
- 12: Moline-Coal Valley School District releases statement in response to a circulating after school ‘Satan Club’ flyer (7)
- 12: Ministers inaugurate non-existent road in UP (2)
- 12: Study finds Americans who join ISIS are disappointed by the experience (15)
- 12: Two LAPD officers fired for playing Pokémon GO and ignoring robbery call (0)
- 12: Forgotten no more: New museum exhibit will spotlight Generation X (15)
- 12: Police: Florida women attack man with glitter, face felony charges (8)
- 12: Dimwitted Vandals ‘Irreparably Damaged’ 4,000-Year-Old Rock Art in Texas by Scrawling Their Own Names Into It (3)
- 12: Coach suspended after players leave scuff marks on dance floor after photoshoot (4)
- 12: A New ‘Religious Prophet’ Makes an Online Appearance From Lebanon (6)
- 12: Instagram Model: Drake Put HOT SAUCE In Condom . . . To STOP Me From Stealing Sperm – News Nation USA (11)
- 12: Moose gets trapped in Breckenridge basement, doesn’t much care for ping pong (3)
- 12: Israeli scientists teach goldfish to drive a car (6)
- 12: Afghanistan’s China envoy leaves after months without pay (5)
- 11: Angry Richmond wife reports massage parlour to city after husband comes home with sexually transmitted infection (3)
- 11: Nebraska Announces $500 Million Plan To Claim Water From Colorado (8)
- 11: Cop Sues SPD for firing him after punching handcuffed suspect (5)
- 11: Pope slips out of Vatican to visit record shop, gets CD (9)
- 11: Ketchum considering tent city for workers amid ‘crushing inequality,’ scarce affordable housing (9)
- 11: REPORT Lufthansa group confirmed that 18,000 flights had been flown empty to keep airport slots – AIRLIVE (15)
- 11: A court upheld the firing of 2 LAPD officers who ignored a robbery to play Pokémon Go (15)
- 11: Doctor no longer allowed to practice after branding patients’ livers with his initials (15)
- 11: Katy Perry blamed for Alabama’s loss in hilarious message board post (10)
- 11: UK PM Johnson under fire over ‘bring your own booze’ lockdown party (5)
- 11: 5 reasons you should not deliberately catch Omicron to ‘get it over with’ (15)
- 11: Church asks court to determine abuse victim’s sexuality and if relationship with priest “pleased” him (12)
- 11: California town spent $16k of taxpayer money to investigate whether its Latino mayor calling a Caucasian councilman a “gringo” was discrimination (15)
- 11: *As if trying to work and get by as an educator in this nation were not grief, and challenge-fraught enough…Just, wow.* Policies in Indiana Senate Bill 167. Spread this around as much as possible. (15)
- 11: LAPD Officers Fired For Catching Pokémon Instead Of Crooks (0)
- 11: Indiana state senator apologizes for saying educators need to be impartial when teaching about Nazism and fascism (1)
- 11: Anger as energy company advises star jumps and cuddling a pet to keep warm this winter (2)
- 11: Chula Vista’s Mayor Called Councilman ‘Gringo’ and a $16K Probe Concludes It Wasn’t Discrimination (3)
- 11: Energy firm sorry for telling customers to ‘cuddle pets’ to keep warm (6)
- 11: Ovo Energy sorry over advice to cuddle pets to stay warm (4)
- 11: Police officers fired for ignoring robbery to hunt Snorlax in Pokemon Go (6)
- 11: Queen refuses to pay Prince Andrew’s sex abuse case legal fees, forces him to quickly sell chalet (3)
- 11: Raleigh doctor charged with fraud after billing Medicare $46 million for sinus care (1)
- 11: During husband’s OWI arrest, wife drives away, crashes, arrested for OWI herself, Grant County authorities say (4)
- 11: Schools must allow children leave during religion class, says Atheist Ireland (4)
- 10: Black Americans preferred to be robbed or burglarized than to have unprovoked contact with police officers, study finds (15)
- 10: “Aw, screw it”: LAPD cops hunted Pokémon instead of responding to robbery (0)
- 10: Maryland doctors transplant pig’s heart into human patient in medical first (9)
- 10: LAPD officers fired for ignoring robbery to catch a Snorlax in Pokemon GO (6)
- 10: Badger leads archaeologists to hoard of Roman coins in Spain (2)
- 10: Sulli Deals: Police arrest man for making app to auction Muslim women (1)
- 10: Canon can’t get enough toner chips, so it’s telling customers how to defeat its DRM (1)
- 10: Indiana Republican backtracks after saying teachers should be ‘impartial’ when teaching about Nazism, fascism (11)
- 10: Mother shoots her 4-year-old child twice while attempting to clean gun, police say (2)
- 10: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Jailed For 4 Years For Walkie-Talkie Possession (2)
- 10: 106-year-old Philadelphia woman credits longevity to faith, Big Macs (3)
- 10: An album of endangered bird sounds beat Taylor Swift in a top 50 chart (2)
- 10: Medieval warhorses no bigger than modern-day ponies, study finds (4)
- 10: Manitoba cabinet minister mocked for tweet of wife shovelling snow after 12-hour hospital shift (3)
- 10: Japan’s former yakuza struggle to find work despite police attempts to provide support (3)
- 10: Levelling Up minister Gove unable to level up as he gets stuck in BBC lift (1)
- 10: Plane hit by train after it crashes in LA neighborhood (5)
- 10: Levelling up minister gets stuck in a lift on way to interview (0)
- 10: CT Woman Who Sells Jarred Farts For Big Cash Hospitalized For Trying to Fart Too Much (0)
- 10: Nicola Sturgeon urged to scrap census asking teenagers about anal sex (3)
- 10: Tesla owner says he mines up to $800 a month in cryptocurrency with his car (11)
- 10: Cozy kitties: SpaceX’s self-heating Starlink satellite dishes attracting cats (7)
- 10: Killing Machine Matched Up Against Your Little Brother in Cage Fight. Result Surprise No One. (1)
- 10: Florida cities ask: Are there too many palms? (2)
- 09: Arizona CEO’s answer to ‘Great Resignation’ is offering $5K bonuses for new hires to quit (5)
- 09: An album of endangered bird sounds beat Taylor Swift in a top 50 chart (0)
- 09: ‘Use the sniff test’: Morrisons to scrap ‘use-by’ dates from milk packaging (3)
- 09: At least 34 people rescued after they became stranded on a floating chunk of ice in Green Bay (4)
- 09: Autoshop owner sued after dumping 500 pounds of pennies on ex-employee’s driveway (6)
- 09: Nicola Sturgeon urged to scrap census asking teenagers about anal sex (5)
- 09: An album of endangered bird sounds beat Taylor Swift in a top 50 chart (2)
- 09: Morrisons scraps ‘use by’ date on milk in favour of sniff test (9)
- 09: Tennessee man brutalized by police at town hall meant to address police brutality. (2)
- 09: Supply shortages mean Norwegian conscipts must return their used underwear at the end of their miltary services (5)
- 09: US hospitals struggle to match Walmart pay as staff flees omicron (12)
- 09: Driver arrested with severed head in vehicle was just unlucky car thief, his lawyer says (8)
- 09: An album made entirely of endangered bird sounds beat Taylor Swift on a top 50 chart (3)
- 09: US hospitals struggle to match Walmart pay as staff flees omicron (10)
- 09: Hamilton neighbourhood covered after plant malfunction sends beans raining down (4)
- 09: Taco Bell is selling a $10 monthly taco subscription (3)
- 09: Analysis: In Beijing’s subway, English names are being replaced by romanized Chinese ahead of Winter Olympics (4)
- 09: Helsinki police catch runaway reindeer (1)
- 09: Hamilton neighbourhood covered after plant malfunction sends “;beans raining down” (2)
- 09: California twins, born 15 minutes apart, arrive in different years (8)
- 09: US hospitals struggle to match Walmart pay as staff flees omicron (5)
- 09: Mom Gets Times Square Billboard to Help Daughter Find a Date (2)
- 09: Mark Wahlberg and Co. Are Being Sued for Trashing a Wahlburgers (0)
- 08: Hamilton neighbourhood covered after plant malfunction sends beans raining down (5)
- 08: New study finds people who are obsessed with celebrities to be less intelligent (15)
- 08: Man who paid his former employee with more than 91k greasy pennies is getting sued by the feds (13)
- 08: Birds are real, a US government agency wants you to assure you (15)
- 08: Leaning San Francisco skyscraper is tilting 3 inches per year (8)
- 08: First-dose vaccinations quadruple in Quebec ahead of restrictions at liquor and cannabis stores (7)
- 08: Russian cows get VR headsets ‘to reduce anxiety’ (11)
- 08: Local Politician Very Sorry For Trying To Pull Down Referee’s Pants (11)
- 08: First-dose vaccinations quadruple in Quebec ahead of restrictions at liquor and cannabis stores (8)
- 08: Plowy McPlow Plow is off to save the day (1)
- 08: Jason Derulo gets into brawl with two men who called him “Usher” (15)
- 08: Birds are real, a US government agency wants you to assure you (3)
- 08: LAPD Officers Fired For Playing Pokemon During Robbery Lose Suit (4)
- 08: Birds are real, a US government agency wants you to assure you (12)
- 08: UPDATE: Man Charged in 58 Foot Ohio Bridge Theft (4)
- 08: r/NotTheOnion Best of 2021 Award Winners! (0)
- 08: Random: Circus Pilgrims Played Megalovania To The Pope And Revived A 6-Year-Old Undertale Meme (1)
- 08: YouTuber Trevor Jacob accused of crashing plane on purpose for views (15)
- 08: Peruvian statue’s giant penis thrills tourists but vandals are turned off (4)
- 08: New tree named after Leonardo DiCaprio (3)
- 08: Driver arrested with severed head in vehicle was just unlucky car thief, his lawyer says (1)
- 08: Hospital staff in Windsor, Ont., find ivermectin hidden inside COVID-19 patient’s stuffed animal (0)
- 08: High school girl’s basketball coach suspended after team defeats opponent 92-4 (15)
- 08: Reptile hailed as world’s first four legged snake turns out to be just a lizard (8)
- 07: Meet the man who runs a moist towelette museum out of a planetarium (5)
- 07: Taliban deputy PM calls for aid without ‘political bias’ (9)
- 07: 2 lawyers arguing against Biden’s vaccine mandate before the Supreme Court will have to do it remotely after testing positive for COVID-19 (5)
- 07: Norwegian conscripts asked to return underwear due to supply shortages (3)
- 07: Suspected DUI driver hit deer, put it in hatchback – still alive – and kept driving: police (2)
- 07: Thieves Steal Gallery Owner’s Multimillion-Dollar NFT Collection: ‘All my apes gone’ (4)
- 07: Ontario’s 3-year quest to fire woman over alleged theft of $2.99 protein bar fails (7)
- 07: Man poops on child’s picnic table then steals her scooter on Christmas Eve (4)
- 07: University of Wyoming won’t mass-test community after winter break, citing rapid spread of omicron variant (4)
- 07: Report: Fan Files $6B Lawsuit Against Jets, Giants for Claiming NY But Playing in NJ (8)
- 07: Judge slams US Capitol rioter’s request to take Jamaican vacation (7)
- 07: ‘Idiot’ Canadians trapped in Mexico after three airlines ban them over antics (10)
- 07: The British Hedgehog Preservation Society won a campaign in 2006 to force McDonalds to redesign their McFlurry cups due to hedgehogs repeatedly getting stuck in them and dying. (5)
- 07: Feds sue auto repair shop that paid former employee in pennies (8)
- 07: Dad and son pose nude together on OnlyFans — and they make a fortune (2)
- 07: Texas Law Enforcement Officials Arrest DWI Suspect Driving With Lit BBQ Pit In Truck Bed (3)
- 07: Kim Jong-un’s Father Invented Burritos in 2011, Says North Korea in Bizarre Claim (3)
- 07: Queen refuses to pay Prince Andrew’s sex abuse case legal fees, forces him to quickly sell chalet (7)
- 07: Norton 360 antivirus installs a crypto miner on your PC by default (5)
- 07: Queen refuses to pay Prince Andrew’s sex abuse case legal fees, forces him to quickly sell chalet (6)
- 07: US government agency wants you to know birds are real (12)
- 07: Beijing fines 7-Eleven for calling Taiwan a country (3)
- 07: Statue Of Iranian Commander Soleimani Torched Hours After Being Unveiled (3)
- 07: Two dog owners engaged in a fight which culminated in one woman biting another in eastern Germany. Meanwhile, their dogs “simply looked on,” police said. (4)
- 07: Scientists avenge Pluto, declare there are 150 planets in our solar system (15)
- 06: Judge slams US Capitol rioter’s request to take Jamaican vacation (4)
- 06: The Government Says A Key Informant In The Michigan Kidnapping Case Was A “Double Agent” (1)
- 06: School apologizes after 92-4 basketball game (15)
- 06: Partying passengers stuck in Mexico after airlines decline to fly them home (15)
- 06: Polish murderer on the run for 20 years arrested for not wearing facemask (7)
- 06: Pope Francis criticizes people who choose to have pets instead of children (15)
- 06: Taco Bell is selling a $10 monthly taco subscription (11)
- 06: Philippines bans child marriage (2)
- 06: Welsh councillor found in car with sex worker told police he was doing ‘charity work’ (6)
- 06: ‘I was bad wrong’: Tennessee state lawmaker apologizes after trying to pants referee at basketball game (11)
- 06: Norton 360 antivirus installs a crypto miner on your PC by default (8)
- 06: Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers say they want a new trial after juror says he was sexually abused as a child (15)
- 06: Surgeon Admits to Branding Initials on Patients’ Livers (15)
- 06: Game developer hasn’t left home in 10 years: ‘Far more pleasant than working outside’ (4)
- 06: St. Louis couple who waved guns at protesters want weapons back (5)
- 06: Tennessee House Republican, Jeremy Faison, Removed From High School Basketball Game After Attempt to Fight and “Pants” Referee (5)
- 06: Meet Funzo, The Local Turtle Who Was Cyberbullied On His Birthday (3)
- 06: Brussels Airlines makes 3,000 unnecessary flights to maintain airport slots (3)
- 06: influencers could face thousands in fines for party on plane (6)
- 06: Uber rider charged $600 after being stranded on highway during blizzard (3)
- 06: Great Polar Bear Challenge at Lucky Peak canceled due to ice, snow concerns (1)
- 06: Thieves Steal Gallery Owner’s Multimillion-Dollar NFT Collection: ‘All My Apes Gone’ (5)
- 06: Local Politician Very Sorry For Trying To Pull Down Referee’s Pants (4)
- 05: Lawyer claims Las Vegas man happened to steal truck with head, other body parts inside (6)
- 05: Cat reunited with family after being mistakenly donated to thrift store (10)
- 05: World’s largest coal port to be 100% powered by renewable energy (7)
- 05: Italian mafia boss caught after Google Maps sighting in Spain (3)
- 05: Woman making $50k a week selling farts hospitalized… for farting too much (15)
- 05: Biden admin tries to fix bus driver shortage by waiving requirement to identify engine parts (15)
- 05: Thieves Steal Gallery Owner’s Multimillion-Dollar NFT Collection: “All My Apes are Gone” (15)
- 05: Capitol rioter compares attacks on her to treatment of Jews in Germany (15)
- 05: Home inspector caught on nanny cam pleasuring himself with Elmo doll faces charges (15)
- 05: Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining after blackouts (7)
- 05: German Woman Announces She Will Marry A Plane, Claims They’re Dating For 6 Years (15)
- 05: Meghan to receive £1 in damages after privacy case (8)
- 05: Taliban orders shop owners to remove heads of mannequins (5)
- 05: Hours after federal criminal charges, Stonecrest mayor calls city staff ‘inept’ (1)
- 05: Jason Derulo Attacks Men After Being Called Usher (10)
- 05: Turkey Changes Its Name to Turkiye, Ends Confusion Involving a Certain Delicious Bird (15)
- 05: US science teacher arrested for vaccinating 17-year-old student at her home, “You’ll be fine, I hope” (3)
- 05: Polish murderer on the run for 20 years arrested for not wearing facemask (5)
- 05: Jason Derulo gets into fight at Las Vegas club after man calls him Usher (15)
- 05: Scientists avenge Pluto, claim 150 planets in our solar system (4)
- 05: Reality star has ‘HEART ATTACK’ from FARTING too much – after making $200,000 selling her wind in JARS (15)
- 05: A viewer called to criticize a TV anchor in Missouri over being ‘very Asian’ (6)
- 05: Chilean police officers stung, hospitalised, after beekeepers hold protest with 10,000 bees (8)
- 05: North Korean mouthpiece claims Kim Jong Il ‘invented BURRITOS in 2011’ and sales are now booming (15)
- 04: Polish murderer on the run arrested for not wearing facemask (8)
- 04: Monster crab attacks Australian golfers (10)
- 04: Calgary Mayoral Candidate Arrested for Not Showing Up For Jail Sentence (3)
- 04: Taliban orders Afghan shopkeepers to behead mannequins (9)
- 04: Scientist Trains Rats to Play DOOM II, Considers Launching Twitch Channel (5)
- 04: Passengers on Amtrak train that went through GA say they’ve been stuck onboard for nearly 40 hours (10)
- 04: Scientists in Israel train goldfish to drive on land (5)
- 04: Man stopped wife from driving drunk. Police charged him when she died walking home (8)
- 04: This 6th-grader gave a classmate the Heimlich and saved a woman from a fire in one day (6)
- 04: ‘Nevermind’ album cover: Naked baby’s lawsuit against Nirvana dismissed (6)
- 04: New French Law Requires Car Commercials to Tell People to Walk or Bike Instead (15)
- 04: Parents arrested after 11-year-old son was found home alone over the holidays (12)
- 04: Taiwan ‘buys 20,400 bottles of Lithuanian rum rejected by China’ (8)
- 04: Bill Against Enforced Disappearances Goes Missing After Passage From NA (0)
- 04: 10,000 bees join protest in Chile, 7 police officers stung (3)
- 04: Couple arrested after man crashes car while drunken driving, woman drives to pick him up also drunk (2)
- 04: UK mom in shock after she finds huge bag of crystal meth in children’s breakfast cereal (5)
- 04: Ohio student sues coaches for allegedly forcing him to eat pizza against religion (5)
- 04: The USA spends much more on health care than other developed countries on a per capita basis. The main reason is not greater health care utilization, but higher prices, according to a study by Johns Hopkins. (0)
- 04: Statue of Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Lasts 2 Days in Opposition Stronghold. (0)
- 04: Melbourne Man Sets Himself On Fire Over Jab Mandates (6)
- 04: ‘Big potato’ statue cut down by vandals in village in Cyprus (0)
- 04: Taliban dumps 3,000 litres of liquor into canal, urging Muslims to abstain from alcohol (13)
- 03: 2,000 rounds of ammo found in vehicle of man who threatened Louisville firefighters evacuating neighborhood (1)
- 03: New Hampshire girl, 7, reported missing 2 years after she was last seen (4)
- 03: Quebec backtracks, plans to allow dog-walking after curfew (8)
- 03: ‘No one can win a nuclear war’: Superpowers release rare joint statement (6)
- 03: Four beekeepers detained in protest at Chilean capital, police stung (3)
- 03: The Bucharest Hangover: Drunk Irishman breaks into Romania’s Parliament Palace (1)
- 03: Banished Word List for 2022 takes aim at some Aussie favourites (1)
- 03: 700 sheep and goats were arranged in the shape of a needle to encourage vaccinations (10)
- 03: Ed Sheeran: South Park’s “Ginger Kids” episode “fucking ruined my life” (15)
- 03: Nat Geo hires Jeff Goldblum to walk around, being professionally fascinated by things (4)
- 03: Singer Omarion Speaks Out: ‘I Am an Artist, Not a COVID Variant’ (15)
- 03: States Are Hoarding $5.2 Billion in Welfare Funds Even as the Need for Aid Grows (5)
- 03: Nevada Man Claimed to Have Proof of Illegal Voting Takes Guilt Plea to Voting Twice (2)
- 03: Woman marries the color pink in historic Vegas wedding (2)
- 03: Cats caused more than 100 house fires in the past 3 years, South Korea officials say (3)
- 03: Women executed 300 years ago as witches in Scotland set to receive pardons (6)
- 03: Antonio Brown Thanks Bucs for Opportunity on IG, Then Releases New Rap Song (4)
- 03: Man who allegedly drove up to medical centre claiming he has explosives handed more charges (1)
- 03: Afghan agents pour 3,000 litres of alcohol into Kabul canal amid crackdown (0)
- 03: Whistleblower warns baffling illness affects growing number of young adults in Canadian province (6)
- 03: TIL In 1993 a French man driving a Citroen car in a remote area of the Moroccan desert had a breakdown and became stranded. To survive he tore down the car, built a motorcycle from the parts, and rode it back to civilization. When he arrived he was ticketed for operating an illegal vehicle. (0)
- 03: Adams calls 911 to report assault on first day as New York mayor (4)
- 03: Yes, 2/22/22 is on a Tuesday (11)
- 02: Scottish ‘witches’ in line for apology hundreds of years after being burned at the stake (7)
- 02: A Reporter Is on Trial for Using ‘View Source’ Function on a Website (6)
- 02: Your cat could burn your house down, South Korean officials warn after 100 fires (9)
- 02: Arizona tells Supreme Court innocence isn’t enough in death row arguments. (15)
- 02: Scottish ‘witches’ in line for apology hundreds of years after being burned at the stake (7)
- 02: Pope Francis says extramarital sex sins aren’t that ‘serious’ (15)
- 02: Who is Ethan Schmidt? Arizona anti-masker harasses wig shop serving cancer survivors for mask rule (11)
- 02: Quebec unlocks world’s only maple syrup strategic reserve to keep pancake lovers happy (4)
- 02: Teen reunited with pet rooster lost at Alabama Cracker Barrel after Civil War reenactment (10)
- 02: Police discovered illegal orgy between 70 people because two assistants went to the wrong house (15)
- 02: Man accidentally stabs himself in back with sword, Pasco officials say (15)
- 02: 5-year-old basset hound elected mayor of Colorado town (4)
- 02: Georgia county looks to close polling sites, have 1 location (1)
- 02: Seattle Kraken fan called a hero after noticing Canucks staffer’s cancerous mole during game (3)
- 02: Odisha (India) Cop Suspended for Stealing Goat for New Year’s Feast Held in Police Station (0)
- 02: Hiker lost on mountain for 24 hours ignored calls from rescuers because he didn’t recognize phone number (10)
- 02: ‘2021 is pulling out all the tricks’: Fish rain from the sky in rare phenomenon in Texas (4)
- 02: AOC claims Republicans motivated by “sexual frustrations” in Twitter rant amid Florida trip controversy (15)
- 02: South Korea: Unidentified person crosses border into North Korea (0)
- 02: EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green (4)
- 02: EU drafts plan to label gas and nuclear investments as green (4)
- 02: French burn fewer cars on New Year’s Eve due to pandemic (3)
- 02: Spanish town comes together in hunt for ‘Galician Rambo’ (1)
- 02: South Korean crosses armed border in rare defection to North (8)
- 01: AG: Idaho sheriff charged after pulling gun on youth group leaving thank you notes (12)
- 01: Fish fell from the sky in East Texas (3)
- 01: Teen’s suit says coaches made him eat pizza despite religion (8)
- 01: Destitute Mughal empire ‘heir’ demands India ‘return’ Red Fort (3)
- 01: Drone carrying marijuana crashes into Ohio house (11)
- 01: Twin sisters who married twin brothers and live in the same home announce they are pregnant at the same time (11)
- 01: Women executed 300 years ago as witches in Scotland set to receive pardons (11)
- 01: 874 cars were torched in France on New Year’s Eve — fewer than in previous years (5)
- 01: In 1985, Indiana police discovered a victim with 32 separate wounds ringing the back of his skull, all from the claw end of a nailing hammer. Police ruled it a suicide. (13)
- 01: Texas woman’s divorce ends in explosion of wedding dress felt ‘15 miles away’ (15)
- 01: French car-burning returns for New Years’ Eve (4)
- 01: Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers demand proof that Prince Andrew can’t sweat (6)
- 01: North Korea’s Kim talks food not nukes for 2022 (5)
- 01: Pakistani man threatens Pepsi to remove QR code on 7UP bottles alleging desecration of Prophet Muhammad (10)
- 01: Men try to rob bank in Minneapolis suburb with ‘a vial of HIV’ (3)
- 01: NHL: Ice will need to be heated, because outside temp will be too cold during Winter Classic. (1)
- 01: Great Polar Bear Challenge (Idaho) Canceled due to too Much Snow and Ice (2)
- 01: Fish fell from the sky in East Texas (3)
- 01: Man who said ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ to Biden on Christmas Eve says he was only joking (8)
- 01: Parents sue officials over ruling that their daughter’s death by more than 20 stab wounds was a suicide (8)
- 01: Unusual phenomenon causes fish to rain from sky in Texas town (3)
- 01: Americans seeking to renounce their citizenship are stuck with it for now (11)
- 01: McDonald’s blocked from building drive-through at Rome’s ancient Baths of Caracalla (1)
- 01: Accused of Refusing Aid to Disabled Kids, a State Agency Responded — by Hiring a PR Firm (2)
- December 2021 (733)
- 31: Chicago woman quarantines for 3 hours inside airplane bathroom (1)
- 31: Fish fall from the sky during rain in east Texas, city reacts (7)
- 31: Virginia Giuffre’s lawyers demand proof that Prince Andrew can’t sweat (12)
- 31: McDonald’s blocked from building drive-through at Rome’s ancient Baths of Caracalla (1)
- 31: Man attempts to pay for car with rap, steals potato chip truck (3)
- 31: Toyota Corolla Hits 50 Million Sold, Gets Its Own Manga (6)
- 31: Legendary actress Betty White dies at 99 on New Year’s Eve. Screw you 2021! (3)
- 31: McDonald’s blocked from building drive-through at Rome’s ancient Baths of Caracalla (3)
- 31: McDonald’s blocked from building drive-through at Rome’s ancient Baths of Caracalla (3)
- 31: Bank accidentally deposits $176 million into people’s accounts on Christmas Day (8)
- 31: Stand News raid: Hong Kong justice chief says foreign critics of journalist arrests are in violation of int’l law – Hong Kong Free Press HKFP (7)
- 31: Drone carrying marijuana crashes into Ohio house (7)
- 31: Bangladesh: Women-only beach scrapped after social media outcry (1)
- 31: Prince Andrew asked to prove inability to sweat in civil case (3)
- 31: Private schools say exclusion from State grants is ‘discriminatory’ (10)
- 31: McDonald’s blocked from building drive-through at Rome’s ancient Baths of Caracalla (1)
- 31: Brandon Brown to drive ‘Let’s go, Brandon’-themed car – Washington Times – Cathelete (2)
- 31: Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing personal info on 38 public housing applicants (9)
- 31: Cats blamed for more than 100 house fires in South Korea (2)
- 31: Jamal Khashoggi’s Saudi hit squad killers ‘are living in seven-star villas in Riyadh’ (2)
- 31: Nicolas Cage prefers “thespian” to “actor,” thank you very much (15)
- 31: University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error (15)
- 31: Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Wants To Take Away The Voting Rights of Californian and New York Transplants Who Vote Blue. Says They Are Moving Out of “shitholes” and Moving Into “GREAT red states,” Then Goes On To Tweet First Amendment. (15)
- 31: RadioShack reboots as cryptocurrency company (9)
- 30: Founder of ‘Ex-gay’ Group Confesses to Having Multiple Hookups with Men (13)
- 30: Mayonnaise bath awaits winning coach of Duke’s Mayo Bowl (7)
- 30: Man who has been dropping used condoms in temple donation boxes arrested, says he was doing it to spread the message of Jesus (10)
- 30: Man sentenced for fatally shooting woman during argument over the 2016 election (9)
- 30: Firefighters quit after convicted arsonist is appointed chief of St. Clair County district (11)
- 30: Don Jr. Implores Young Supporters To Ditch Peaceful Bible Rule Since It’s ‘Gotten Us Nothing’ (14)
- 30: Should Pluto be a planet again? The debate rages on (8)
- 30: This 6th-grader gave a classmate the Heimlich and saved a woman from a fire in one day : NPR (5)
- 30: Santander: Bank hands out £130m in Christmas blunder (3)
- 30: DEA releases emoji drug decoder (8)
- 30: A squirrel went on a vicious Christmas rampage in a Welsh town, attacking 18 residents and animals (3)
- 30: Father allegedly fires gun after son says, ‘Why don’t you just shoot me?’ (3)
- 30: Five anti-vax protesters arrested after storming a Burger King (6)
- 30: Ontario police investigating alleged theft of $200,000 worth of butter (9)
- 30: IRS says income from stolen goods and illegal activities must be reported on taxes (10)
- 30: See a robbery happening? This alderman wants you to run toward the offenders while blowing a whistle. – CWB Chicago (3)
- 30: China bans its national football players from getting tattoos (4)
- 30: Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena (4)
- 30: Labour Is Training Up A New Generation Of “Competent” And “Normal” Future MPs (1)
- 30: Tesla emissions bug causes Model 3 to fart aggressively when doors are opened (5)
- 30: 2 accidentally shot at church during church shooting discussion (8)
- 30: Lockdown rulebreakers in China marched through streets in ‘shaming parade’ (6)
- 30: Squirrel injures 18 people in two days of attacks in Buckley (4)
- 30: Robert E. Lee arrested on sexual assault charges (5)
- 29: Thieves slip away with $200,000 worth of butter (11)
- 29: Mother finds naked sex offender in apartment, wearing her daughters shoes (13)
- 29: J.K. Rowling tops ‘Person of the Year’ award poll — and it’s quickly closed (14)
- 29: Cape woman who killed boyfriend with sword on Christmas Eve says it was to ‘set him free’ of spirits, and that she’s not guilty (10)
- 29: Ontario police investigating alleged theft of two truckloads of butter (14)
- 29: Police look for leads in Christmas butter heist in Trenton, Ont (3)
- 29: Rats Learn To Play DOOM In This Automated VR Arena (4)
- 29: Fourteen applicants chasing every vacant apartment in metro Denver, study finds (1)
- 29: ‘Bloodthirsty’ squirrel attacks 18 people in small Welsh village in two-day Christmas rampage (8)
- 29: Ukraine: Three die after memorial candle lit in hospital ward (4)
- 29: Irishman arrested after drunkenly mistaking Romanian parliament for Bucharest hotel (3)
- 29: Putin says insulting Prophet Muhammad ‘violates religious freedom’ (15)
- 29: Patriots fans among saddest, most miserable in NFL, new survey reveals (14)
- 29: Stole something? IRS says stolen property and bribes must be reported as income (12)
- 29: ‘Psycho’ squirrel leaves 18 people injured in 48-hour rampage (10)
- 29: Hong Kong student ordered to pay HK$19,000 after criticizing Taiwanese professor’s ‘poor English’ (4)
- 29: Capitol rioter asks permission to use dating apps while awaiting trial (7)
- 29: ‘Psycho’ squirrel on 48-hour rampage leaves 18 people injured (12)
- 29: ‘Psycho’ squirrel’s reign of terror ends after rampage left 18 people injured (8)
- 29: Louisiana man who hired babysitters to change his diaper and treat him like a child, charged with human trafficking (9)
- 29: Kentucky Witches Called to Curse Sen. Joe Manchin Over His Refusal to Support Biden’s Spending Bill (9)
- 29: Woman runs onto Phoenix tarmac to stop plane she missed (10)
- 29: Rhode Island Rep. Patricia Morgan tweets she lost ‘a Black friend’ to critical race theory (14)
- 29: Good Samaritan carjacked on Christmas while helping man found lying in road: Police (3)
- 28: Patricia Morgan, Rhode Island Lawmaker Who Sponsored Anti-CRT Bill, Whines That Black Pal No Longer Likes Her (6)
- 28: Police investigating after drone drops small boat anchor on Gautier woman (8)
- 28: Stole something? IRS says stolen property and bribes must be reported as income (14)
- 28: Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny (7)
- 28: Australian man ‘cannot leave Israel for 8,000 years’ over unpaid child support (15)
- 28: 14-year-old girl fatally shot by LAPD called US ‘safest country in the world,’ father says (15)
- 28: 26 MPs of pro-Kurdish party charged with ‘offending Turkish state’ after calling for Armenian Genocide recognition (4)
- 28: Nerf gun assault escalates into further violence in MBTA station (5)
- 28: Flu is making a comeback in US after taking a year off (8)
- 28: Iran Bans Crypto Mining Until March 6 to Avoid Winter Blackouts (1)
- 28: PHOTO: New MagicBand Label Warns Guests Against Implanting MagicBand Chips Under Skin After Someone Actually Did It (2)
- 28: Women finds gifts packed in luggage replaced by dog food, “an old shirt” and shaving cream bottle (5)
- 28: If you steal something, you must report it as income, IRS says. Wait, what? (8)
- 28: Nicaragua seizes former Taiwan embassy to give it to China (4)
- 28: Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket (6)
- 28: Viral video shows a Delta passenger hitting and spitting on a man and telling him to wear a mask — all while she was also unmasked (6)
- 28: Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to put penny in plug socket (11)
- 28: Germany Moves To Legalize Cannabis, Second Country After Malta In Europe (4)
- 28: Dad goes to Indian restaurant on Xmas Day & complains food’s not ‘traditional’ (1)
- 27: Indian-Origin Man in the U.K. Attempted to Assassinate the Queen With Crossbow In-Revenge of Colonial-Era Crimes (3)
- 27: US conservative parents push for book bans – and unintentionally make reading cool again (1)
- 27: McDonald’s China confirms it’s testing exercise bikes in stores (2)
- 27: Russian court extends jail term for Gulag historian to 15 years (3)
- 27: A Plant That Sterilizes Medical Equipment Spews Cancer-Causing Pollution on Tens of Thousands of Schoolchildren (3)
- 27: Mama bear, cubs spotted napping in tree in Va. neighborhood (4)
- 27: Masked man with crossbow threatens to assassinate Queen to avenge Jallianwala Bagh massacre; arrested (2)
- 27: Knoxville man arrested with over 50 pounds of marijuana on Christmas Eve (12)
- 27: The US is being invaded by weird “penis snakes” that have slithered up from the Amazon. – Devon Tools (7)
- 27: McDonald’s China confirms it’s testing exercise bikes in stores (4)
- 27: Boy ‘excited’ about watching first rugby match ‘left in tears’ after he was vomited on by drunk fan (15)
- 27: Search and rescue dog rescued (0)
- 27: UK lender allows homebuyers to borrow seven times salary (4)
- 27: Pole dancing axe thrower has world target in her sights (4)
- 27: NASA Has Hired a Priest to Prepare Humans for Aliens (11)
- 27: Disconnecting to spend time with your kids could sabotage your career (9)
- 27: The Guardian can’t get hold of Mark Zuckerberg, interviews a Zuckerberg bot instead (1)
- 27: Woman killed boyfriend with sword on Christmas Eve (8)
- 27: Indonesian teens chase mosque staff with machete after WiFi password was changed (1)
- 27: Turkey officially changes its English name from Turkey to Turkiye. (3)
- 27: MSNBC columnist calls for end of NORAD Santa tracker ‘out of concern for Santa’s safety’ from US military (4)
- 27: Capitol rioter asks judge to let him use dating apps while he awaits trial (5)
- 27: House Republican, Democrat say political environment on Capitol Hill is ‘toxic’ (9)
- 27: Update: Government Funded Researchers Uses Reddit To Learn What Kinds Of Marijuana Posts Influenced Legalization Attitudes (1)
- 26: Woman who had leg amputated after pedicure gets $1.75 million settlement (3)
- 26: Attorney Lin Wood Is Now Blaming “Deep State” For His Kids Not Talking To Him — “Threatening, Even Blackmailing?” (3)
- 26: NASCAR driver who unintentionally sparked ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ chant says corporations don’t want to sponsor him (8)
- 26: Michigan animal shelter inundated with parakeets in breeding plan gone wrong (1)
- 26: You Have No Idea How Hard It Is to Get a Hamster Drunk (5)
- 26: Caught on camera: Officers pay for shoplifter’s groceries (2)
- 26: new study suggests that investing in LEGOS is more profitable than gold (5)
- 26: Tesla to bar video games while driving following pressure from U.S. regulators (4)
- 26: Germany: Woman bites woman in fight over dog discipline (8)
- 26: Always look on the bright side of life, says CEO who raised EpiPen price by more than 400% (15)
- 26: Lego brick sets have become increasingly violent over time (7)
- 26: japanese professor creates lickable tv screen (1)
- 26: McDonald’s Is Onto Adults Who Order Happy Meals For Themselves (5)
- 26: Man hides Britain’s largest model train set from girlfriend (1)
- 26: Metairie man caught deceiving babysitters into changing his diapers arrested for second time (0)
- 26: Five arrested in Graves Co. tornado theft case (5)
- 26: Nirvana attorneys seek dismissal of ‘Nevermind’ album cover lawsuit (6)
- 26: Man hides Britain’s largest model train set from girlfriend (1)
- 26: The Only Gun in Antarctica Keeps the Peace, Enforces the Law in World’s Most Remote Town (3)
- 26: Mall of LA Santa photo lands one man in jail (0)
- 26: Chunky squirrel gets stuck in garden bird feeder (0)
- 25: No time for war: Russians see no chance of conflict (5)
- 25: Police find family of 2-year-old left at North Little Rock CiCi’s Pizza (2)
- 25: Pope Francis says extramarital sex sins aren’t that ‘serious’ (15)
- 25: MSNBC columnist calls for end of NORAD Santa tracker ‘out of concern for Santa’s safety’ from US military (10)
- 25: Man calls 911 to report RCMP seized his vehicle, stranding him in Princeton (6)
- 25: ‘I’m still in here’: Woman trapped in her mind after colonoscopy (6)
- 25: Pennsylvania man accused of stealing, burning wreaths from Maryland cemetery to ‘save the earth’ (3)
- 25: Court orders a professional athlete to pay the £22,000 reward that he promised for his lost dog. (0)
- 25: Santa Claus effigies burnt in India on Christmas Eve (5)
- 25: A new Sonic the Hedgehog game quietly released this week… for the Commodore 64 (2)
- 25: On Santa tracking call, Biden is told ‘Let’s go Brandon’ – and says he agrees (15)
- 25: A man played the same numbers on the same day on 160 lottery tickets. He won $800,000 (11)
- 25: With no single conviction, ZACC used USD 333 million to fight corruption (ZACC is the Zimbabwean Anti-Corruption Commission) (5)
- 25: Hoss The Hairball Joins The Ranks Of Weirdest New Year’s Eve Ball Drops! (0)
- 25: Pack of 9 wolves… fucking read the previous title (0)
- 25: RCMP say breathalyzing Hay River ambulance driver was mistake (9)
- 25: 2020 Arizona-Texas Tech football game rescheduled for 2034 (4)
- 25: With tourism suffering, sea turtles are thriving in peace in Phuket (2)
- 25: Backfiring car causes active shooter scare at movie theater (5)
- 25: Tennessee man strangles, kills neighbor’s pet kangaroo, alleging it attacked his wife. (7)
- 25: A man who says he found a frog in a box of lettuce has named the amphibian Tony and is currently keeping it as a pet (3)
- 24: New Jersey hijacker who used backhoe to flip police car shot and killed: ‘Out of a movie’ (2)
- 24: Holiday gifts taken from luggage, replaced with dog food (3)
- 24: Berkeley County deputies arrest man who fled traffic stop with baby alligator in car (5)
- 24: Best of r/NotTheOnion 2021: Nominations now open! (5)
- 24: Nirvana seek to dismiss sexual abuse lawsuit concerning Nevermind cover (8)
- 24: Nevada Man Claimed to Have Proof of Illegal Voting Takes Guilt Plea to Voting Twice (8)
- 24: Dad tells Biden, ‘Let’s go Brandon’ during Christmas Eve call — and Biden agrees (13)
- 24: Russian priest who adopted 70 children jailed for abuse (7)
- 24: Metairie man caught deceiving babysitters into changing his diapers arrested for second time (9)
- 24: Logan Paul claims people think Jake Paul is this generation’s Mike Tyson & Muhammad Ali (11)
- 24: NASA has hired a priest to help humans prepare for alien encounters (12)
- 24: Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours (5)
- 24: Idaho sheriff charged after pulling gun on church youth group (7)
- 24: Taiwan’s Foxconn qualifies for Wisconsin tax breaks for first time (2)
- 24: Putin Educating The World On Freedom Of Expression. (14)
- 24: Senior citizen jailed six years for having sex with goat (7)
- 24: Beware the Elf on the Shelf, privacy watchdogs warn (4)
- 24: ‘Lickable’ TV screen that you can taste developed in Japan (15)
- 24: Warrant: Westport day care worker called babies ‘chunky monkey,’ kicked balls at them (3)
- 24: ‘Don’t Weigh Me’ cards aim to reduce stress at the doctor’s office (15)
- 24: Suspected shoplifter using a wheelchair shot 9 times by Arizona police officer (10)
- 24: Tucson officer who killed a man in a wheelchair says he will likely appeal if fired (6)
- 24: Texas board withdraws pardon recommendation for George Floyd (6)
- 24: Amazon Bans Itself On Twitch After Broadcasting NSFW Content (7)
- 23: Amazon settles with NLRB; pledges to “not threaten workers with discipline or call the police when they are engaging in union activity in exterior non-work areas during non-work time.” (9)
- 23: Synth repairman accidentally gets high after touching old LSD on a vintage ’60s synthesizer (13)
- 23: Metairie man caught deceiving babysitters into changing his diapers arrested for second time (6)
- 23: LA police kill teen girl while firing shots at male suspect (4)
- 23: Tesla, bowing to pressure, stops allowing drivers to play video games while driving (3)
- 23: Residents urge Ann Arbor officials to decriminalize glue sniffing (7)
- 23: Professional Ham Sniffers In Spain Are Strained “To The Limit Of Human Possibility”, Have To Sniff 800 Hams Per Day This Christmas Season (15)
- 23: Tesla is under federal investigation for letting drivers play video games (4)
- 23: US conservative parents push for book bans – and unintentionally make reading cool again (4)
- 23: Missouri Cop Pulls Over School Bus Driver For Wearing A Mask. (15)
- 23: Fed Up Tesla Owner Blows Up His Model S (8)
- 23: Showmen win National Census recognition (3)
- 23: Cleveland PC sacked for car crash lie to cover up lateness (1)
- 23: For the 1st time in years, Maine Appalachian Trail volunteers will be able to shower on their days off (2)
- 23: Man once convicted of arson named acting chief of Metro East fire department (9)
- 23: Taste the TV: Japan invents lickable screen to imitate food flavours (14)
- 23: Woman jailed after she admitted having cocaine-fuelled sex with a dog (15)
- 23: Bono becomes first man to win ‘Woman of the Year’ award (9)
- 23: Taiwanese official roars “go back to Hong Kong” at immigrant couple (2)
- 23: Cat burglar: New Zealand pet steals bong, bag of white powder and lacy underwear (1)
- 23: Argument over in game loot ends in fatal shooting. Shooter says “Why not have a gun by my pc. This is America” (2)
- 23: Bedford FC Manager quits following takeover by Bitcoin podcaster (1)
- 23: Nigerian snake ate millions of naira, clerk says (3)
- 23: Gun range begins selling bulletproof backpacks amid growing concerns over school safety (9)
- 23: Supreme Court may let inmates on death row become their own defense attorneys (7)
- 22: Area man uses pet ID successfully as proof of vaccination (8)
- 22: Reflective Horns, The brilliant Idea To Save Reindeer From Road Accidents (10)
- 22: 21-year-old El Paso man jailed for allegedly posing as cop, trying to pull over vehicles (2)
- 22: Tampa woman who lost leg after pedicure at nail salon gets big payout, lawyers say (5)
- 22: Mike Tyson would KO sparring partners to get home in time to watch Tom & Jerry, says ex-bodyguard (3)
- 22: Madagascar: Minister ‘swims for 12 hours’ after helicopter crashes at sea (4)
- 22: Even Microsoft can’t get its hands on enough Xbox Series X consoles for its first major Halo Infinite tournament (1)
- 22: ‘I would have screamed’: Airbnb guest’s window opened directly into NYC restaurant, viral video shows (7)
- 22: China threatens to sweep Lithuania into ‘garbage bin of history’, mulls sanctions (13)
- 22: 10 Illinois firefighters walk off job after man convicted of arson appointed new chief (3)
- 22: ‘I am Proudly a Dropout,’ Madison Cawthorn urges fellow conservatives to drop out of college. (15)
- 22: Farting barrister loses harassment claim against colleague who asked him to stop (1)
- 22: Man jailed for trespassing into apartments, scattering chocolates and taking out prune juice (0)
- 22: McDonald’s Japan rations chips despite emergency airlift (1)
- 22: Downing Street parties: Met refers itself to police watchdog over complaint (3)
- 22: Russia Allows Police to Search Homes, Cars Without Warrants (5)
- 22: Taliban ‘mistakenly’ sent $800,000 to critic Tajikistan, now pleading to get it back (3)
- 22: Best of r/NotTheOnion 2021: Nominations now open! (5)
- 22: Barrister sues for harassment after his colleague asked him to stop continuously farting in their small office. (3)
- 22: Ryan Reynolds repeatedly mistaken for Ben Affleck at New York pizza place (10)
- 22: Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser sues hacker Gary bowser for creating and selling Nintendo Switch hacks (5)
- 22: North Dakota Farmer Accused of Trying to Hire Hitmen to Kill Ukrainian Minister of Agriculture (6)
- 22: Utah billionaire leaves Mormon church, donates $600K to LGBTQ group (6)
- 21: Box office experts try to solve the mystery of why Spider-Man: No Way Home made so much money (15)
- 21: Fox host calls for ‘kill shot’ on Fauci (15)
- 21: Mafia bosses worry for future as ‘soft’ millennial mobsters prefer texting to pistol-whipping (13)
- 21: Utah billionaire leaves Mormon church, donates $600K to LGBTQ group (9)
- 21: Adele’s ‘21’ Becomes First Female Record To Spend An Entire Decade On The Billboard 200 (8)
- 21: Gamer Fatally Shot By Friend In Argument Over Diablo 2 Loot (15)
- 21: U.S. cities try new way to help the poor: give them money (13)
- 21: Man stopped wife from driving drunk, charged when she died walking home (15)
- 21: Satanic holiday display installed at Illinois Capitol (15)
- 21: Convicted Arsonist Named Acting Fire Chief Of Illinois Fire Department (15)
- 21: Taliban accidentally wires money to Tajikistan based opposition. (3)
- 21: Hospital offers parents $45,843-a-month installment plan for baby’s NICU stay (7)
- 21: An Ohio man allegedly rented a crane and used it to steal a 58-foot-long bridge from a public park, police say (7)
- 21: Smuggler’s Inn owner convicted of smuggling people across the Canadian border (3)
- 21: Fisherman handed lifetime ban following midnight poaching of hundreds of crabs in Vancouver harbour (6)
- 21: Kosovo agrees to rent prison cells to Denmark to ease overcrowding (1)
- 21: McDonald’s teen employee hopped through drive-thru window to save customer choking on a chicken nugget (8)
- 21: Push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries (6)
- 21: Coal miners’ union urges Manchin to reconsider opposition to Biden plan (3)
- 21: Pfizer Bets On Medical Cannabis With $6.7 Billion Acquisition (8)
- 21: Scottish parliament could soon grant pardons to witches (4)
- 21: Police: Stolen Ohio bridge found, man facing theft charge (7)
- 21: Speaking from prison: ‘QAnon Shaman’ Jacob Chansley compares himself to Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jesus Christ (14)
- 21: American man arrested for allegedly stealing 18-metre pedestrian bridge (10)
- 21: Walmart sued for allegedly dumping hazardous waste in California (8)
- 20: Amazon-owned Twitch bans Amazon account after breast revealed on air (8)
- 20: Tesla allegedly remotely unlocks Model 3 owner’s car, uses smart summon to help repo agent (10)
- 20: Woman drops gun, accidentally shoots self in Alabama T.J. Maxx (15)
- 20: Edmonton’s syphilitic cemetery bunnies killed off by different rare rabbit disease (4)
- 20: 23 South African teenagers killed in initiation rite this year (7)
- 20: Jewish woman accused of antisemitism by Labour threatens to sue (2)
- 20: UK PM Boris Johnson’s cheese and wine gathering ‘not a party’ (10)
- 20: Man murders friend of 26 years over Diablo 2 argument (13)
- 20: The push to ban books in Texas schools spreads to public libraries (11)
- 20: Quidditch leagues set to pick new name after JK Rowling trans row (15)
- 20: Demi Lovato Serenades ‘Ghost’ Who Faced Trauma from Sexism, Receives ‘Floating’ Ovation (15)
- 20: Muslim org fires leader for working with anti-Muslim group (2)
- 20: News that the world’s first commercial octopus farm is closer to becoming reality has been met with dismay by scientists and conservationists. They argue such intelligent “sentient” creatures – considered able to feel pain and emotions – should never be commercially reared for food (8)
- 20: DCPS investigates after elementary students say they were forced to reenact Holocaust (4)
- 20: Stafford Co. police searching for $100 ‘Hamburglar’ (0)
- 20: Melbourne six-year-old and her siblings pool pocket money to buy their first home (10)
- 20: Hong Kong offers free transport on ‘patriots’ election day, but citizens seize chance to travel around city (0)
- 20: 2 monkeys arrested for killing 250+ dogs in a revenge massacre (6)
- 20: North Korea bans laughing for 11 days during mourning for anniversary of Kim Jong-il’s death (3)
- 20: Peng Shuai: Chinese tennis star denies making assault claim as concerns persist (3)
- 20: 2 Monkeys Caught In Maharashtra In ‘Revenge Killing’ Of 250 Dogs (4)
- 20: High election turnout not always good says Carrie Lam (2)
- 20: Multi-Millionaire Sues Widow over $15 CD of Music (some of which the Multi Millionaire stole in the first place) (5)
- 19: Dungeons & Dragons: Wizards of the Coast Removes Problematic Lore (7)
- 19: DCPS investigates after elementary students say they were forced to reenact Holocaust (0)
- 19: Turnout appears low for Hong Kong election held under new ‘patriots only’ rules (6)
- 19: Candidate killed by celebratory gunfire shortly after winning election. (7)
- 19: Emergency announced in Suez Canal as ‘Ever Given’ container ship returns (3)
- 19: Women executed 300 years ago as witches in Scotland set to receive pardons (12)
- 19: Murder-for-hire suspect caught after he wrote a positive internet review for one of the alleged hitmen (1)
- 19: Philadelphia woman gives birth in front seat of Tesla on autopilot (9)
- 19: Norfolk police tackled a bicyclist for riding without a headlight. Bodycam footage in a lawsuit shows it all. (10)
- 19: North Korean Founder Kim Il Sung Did Not Have the Ability to Teleport, State Media Admits – DailyAtomic (14)
- 19: Avatar ‘groped’ in first sexual assault incident in Meta’s metaverse (15)
- 19: After 4 suicides in a year — 3 by hanging — IISc begins removing ceiling fans in hostel rooms (7)
- 19: Two monkeys captured for killing puppies in retaliation in India’s Maharashtra (4)
- 19: Necklaces conspiracy theorists wear to ‘protect’ themselves from 5G are actually radioactive, nuclear experts warn (1)
- 19: India: Monkeys Throw Dogs Off Buildings in ‘Revenge’ Attacks, Report Says (3)
- 19: Monkey offered cocaine and flushed down loo recovering (2)
- 19: Intoxicated Driver Escapes Injury from Accident, but gets Knocked Out by his Brother (2)
- 19: Beta tester claims she was virtually ‘groped’ in Meta’s virtual reality metaverse (2)
- 19: Nevada Man Claimed to Have Proof of Illegal Voting Takes Guilt Plea to Voting Twice (5)
- 19: Local school districts relieved as a Tik Tok threat of ‘national shoot up your school day’ ends with no shootings (2)
- 19: Nevada Man Claimed to Have Proof of Illegal Voting Takes Guilt Plea to Voting Twice (3)
- 19: Man who carved wooden penis in Wilton resolves case (0)
- 19: Police on the lookout for thieves who stole entire 58-foot bridge (3)
- 19: Murder-for-hire suspect caught after he wrote a positive internet review for one of the alleged hitmen (0)
- 18: Nevada Man Claimed to Have Proof of Illegal Voting Takes Guilt Plea to Voting Twice (5)
- 18: Jessica Henwick didn’t return to Star Wars because Rian Johnson thought her character was dead (7)
- 18: Utah town filed criminal charges against residents who didn’t get licenses for dead dogs (5)
- 18: UN talks fail to open negotiations on ‘killer robots’ (4)
- 18: Quidditch leagues look to change their name, citing Rowling’s anti-trans stances (10)
- 18: Facebook exposes mercenary spy firms that targeted 50,000 people (6)
- 18: ‘Woman with big breasts available in Paradise’, ‘Hoors do not urinate or defecate’: Kerala Maulana’s X-rated vision of paradise stirs controversy (13)
- 18: Russian court accidentally documents Moscow’s military presence in Donbas (1)
- 18: U.S. blacklists 34 Chinese entities, citing human rights abuses and ‘brain-control weaponry’ (3)
- 18: Man kicked off plane, banned from airline for wearing women’s underwear as face mask (15)
- 18: Jail for youth who cheated Carousell buyers of S$37,000, skipped court hearing to celebrate birthday and then cheated other people to pay for birthday (4)
- 18: College begins removing ceiling fans from hostels to prevent students from attempting suicide (6)
- 18: Indian Student in jail for the last two months for praising the wrong cricket team. (2)
- 18: Austin car dealer murder-for-hire suspect caught after he wrote a positive internet review for one of the alleged hitmen (3)
- 18: A professor hid a cash prize on campus. All students had to do was read the syllabus (1)
- 18: Report: Evidence finds no students enrolled, teachers employed at Bishop Sycamore High School (3)
- 18: Giant Swedish Yule goat torched again after 5-year respite (8)
- 18: Monkeys kill 250 puppies in act of vengeance after dogs kill one of their infants (12)
- 18: Florida officer finds two alligators hanging from SUV window at accident scene (5)
- 18: Utah teacher quits over ‘toxic environment’ of growing student misbehavior (video) (3)
- 18: Welshman who binned £340million of Bitcoin hires Nasa experts to find it (5)
- 18: Portland’s plan to use traffic barrels to curb gun violence isn’t working, data suggests (0)
- 18: India and Pakistan: The students in jail for praising the wrong cricket team (0)
- 18: Resolution reached in Wilton penis statue case (1)
- 18: Man gets kicked off plane for wearing G-string on his face (15)
- 17: Police on the lookout for thieves who stole entire 58-foot bridge (13)
- 17: First true millipede discovered—new species has 1,306 legs (5)
- 17: Reminder: No Reposts. Specifically: No more Anti-5G bracelet articles. (0)
- 17: Dallas Police Oversight Board Wants To Know Why Officers Seized Woman’s Bag Of Cash At Love Field (15)
- 17: Anti-5G necklaces found to be radioactive (15)
- 17: UK’s top civil servant Simon Case will no longer lead inquiry into lockdown parties in Downing Street, after it emerged an event was held in his own office (8)
- 17: A man who was kicked off a United Airlines flight over wearing a red thong on his face instead of a face mask compared himself to civil-rights pioneer Rosa Parks, reports say (15)
- 17: ‘Last straw’ as transgender woman’s bank account frozen ‘for sounding like man’ (15)
- 17: Cop lied so many times, docked pay and “Transferred to get a fresh start” (5)
- 17: Two semis, both carrying onions, crashed on the same Colorado mountain highway just weeks apart (12)
- 17: ‘Anti-5G’ necklaces are radioactive and dangerous, Dutch nuclear experts say (11)
- 17: ‘Anti-5G’ necklaces are radioactive and dangerous, Dutch nuclear experts say (10)
- 17: America’s richest pastor avoids $150,000 in annual taxes on a $7 million Texas mansion that he said God told him to build (15)
- 17: ‘Anti-5G’ necklaces are radioactive and dangerous, Dutch nuclear experts say (15)
- 17: Police officers avoid jail after picking up schoolgirl for sex while on duty (7)
- 17: Higher cosumption of BBQ is the reason behind toxic smog – Disaster Management Authority tells Lahore High Court (4)
- 17: What is hentai? Pornhub data reveals Australia’s favourite fetish (3)
- 17: Top country stars to share lineup with Kyle Rittenhouse at ‘AmericaFest’ (15)
- 17: What Gov. DeSantis’ “Stop WOKE Act” could mean for schools (14)
- 17: North Korea bans laughing for 11 days to mark 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il’s death (13)
- 17: North Koreans banned from laughing or drinking for 11 days (15)
- 17: Ohio police ask for help finding thieves who stole entire bridge (12)
- 17: Eric Clapton successfully sues woman for selling a bootleg live CD for $11 (15)
- 17: Detroit mayor says Census Bureau ‘intentionally’ undercounted population of majority-Black city (3)
- 16: Keanu Reeves’ mother designed Dolly Parton’s Playboy outfit and he wore it for Halloween (10)
- 16: While attractive hospitality workers typically earn higher customer service scores than their peers, wearing face masks—a practice widely adopted during the pandemic—levels the playing field, a new study says. Average-looking workers were perceived as more attractive when they were wearing masks. (14)
- 16: Eric Clapton successfully sues 55-year-old German widow for listing bootleg CD on eBay for $11 (15)
- 16: Anti-5G pendant banned for emitting unsafe radiation. (8)
- 16: Giant kites could power cargo ships in new decarbonization initiative (15)
- 16: Dutch health institute warns that anti-5G bracelets are so radioactive that they may cause cancer [translation in comments] (8)
- 16: Man sentenced to 3.5 years in prison after transferring $23,500 on ex-girlfriend’s phone by pulling up her eyelid (4)
- 16: New York MTA Supervisor Apparently Uses Blow-Up Doll to Cheat HOV Traffic Laws (10)
- 16: AG: Idaho sheriff charged after pulling gun on youth group leaving thank you notes (15)
- 16: The metaverse has a groping problem already (15)
- 16: Police: Jacksonville woman charged with poisoning boyfriend’s drink because he ‘wouldn’t shut up’ (14)
- 16: Claudette Colvin’s juvenile record has been expunged, 66 years after she was arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a White person (5)
- 16: Mum spends £85 on a ‘Grinch visit’ for him to trash house and pour juice on son (11)
- 16: Final Fantasy 14 game is so successful , Developers Square Enix have to suspend future sales of the game (2)
- 16: 5 FBI officials solicited prostitutes overseas while on work trips, DOJ IG says (7)
- 16: France’s education minister has set up an “anti-woke think tank” to combat the spread of “cultural totalitarianism” from US & UK (5)
- 16: Students say IISc removing fans ‘to prevent suicides (4)
- 16: Berlin’s public transit company promises relaxing trips with edible hemp tickets (3)
- 16: Man who claimed he was ‘adopting a child’ convicted of stealing toddler from Brisbane home (3)
- 16: ‘Barge Chilling Beach’ sign erected as vessel remains resting on Vancouver shoreline (2)
- 16: Rocket scientists and brain surgeons not necessarily smarter than public (15)
- 16: Patch fixing critical Log4J 0-day has its own vulnerability that’s under exploit (4)
- 16: Doctors unable to reattach north Alabama deputy’s ear that was bitten off by suicidal person (2)
- 16: “I don’t think you’re a murderer” says a Chicago judge to a teen that pleaded guilty to murder… (9)
- 15: Man deposits stolen money into same bank’s ATM (15)
- 15: ‘We want all of us to be human and to live together,’ Taliban spokesman says (15)
- 15: Usain Bolt: Mario Kart helped me become Olympic Champion (2)
- 15: Rights group says North Koreans executed for watching K-pop (15)
- 15: A Louisiana judge blamed sedatives after video emerged of her and her family apparently using racial slurs (15)
- 15: Kraft will pay you $20 to not make your Christmas cheesecake amid supply shortage (11)
- 15: ‘Anti-gay’ Hungarian politician resigns after getting caught at ’20-man homosexual orgy’ in Belgium (15)
- 15: These Young Energy Moguls Insist Fracking Is Good For The Environment (15)
- 15: Stress, not fun, cited as a major reason to consume more cannabis over the holidays (15)
- 15: Akron police investigating after 58-foot bridge went missing (15)
- 15: Elementary school sparks outrage with ‘families of color playground night’ (15)
- 15: Man caught driving after ban, pretends to be brother. But brother is wanted by police (4)
- 15: Akron police say bridge stolen from Middlebury Run Park (1)
- 15: Venomous snake found lurking in family’s Christmas tree (2)
- 15: Wisconsin attorney general won’t enforce any abortion ban (2)
- 15: German Woman tries to commandeer and re-park ambulance while paramedics are helping a patient in the back. (2)
- 15: Theft of 58-foot-long bridge doesn’t go over well with Akron police (3)
- 15: Turns out that “HDMI 2.1” ports don’t need to actually support HDMI 2.1 features (2)
- 15: Cuomo torched by mob boss Sammy ‘The Bull’ Gravano over nursing home scandal: ‘I would never do that.’ (10)
- 15: Man ‘Deposits’ Money in ATM After Robbing Delaware Bank, Police Say (5)
- 15: Analysis: This is a *super* weird way for Republicans to attack Joe Biden (13)
- 15: Five-year-old caught driving car north of Kingston, Ont. wanted to buy present for sister, police say (8)
- 15: Canada taps into emergency maple syrup reserves amid shortage (7)
- 14: Gwyneth Paltrow linked cryptocurrency Miner TeraWulf crashes on debut (15)
- 14: After 70 Years, North And South Korea Agree ‘In Principle’ To Formally End War (12)
- 14: After questionable officiating, Bills fans donate to visual impairment organization in honor of NFL refs (11)
- 14: Police: Delivery Driver Runs Over Groceries Of Elderly Couple Who Had Pro-Police Sign In Their Yard – WCCO (15)
- 14: Facebook says its fact checker is not factual, and just “A piece of opinion” instead (15)
- 14: US Tech Startup Comes Under Fire After Pitching To Tase Migrants With Drones (13)
- 14: Law student, 19, sues landlord and wins first case (5)
- 14: ‘Cancel Peloton Subscription’ searches up 809% after Sex and the City sequel heart attack (10)
- 14: ‘A police massacre’: Colombian officers killed 11 during protests against police violence, report finds (1)
- 14: Chicago has authorized nearly $67M in police misconduct settlement payments so far this year (11)
- 14: Woman lost @metaverse Instagram handle days after Facebook name change: Nearly decade-old account was blocked for “pretending to be someone else” (8)
- 14: Man crushed by a Prius while trying to steal catalytic converter, deputies say (15)
- 14: Arkansas server says she was fired after diners left $4,400 tip (9)
- 14: $25 Red Ring of Death poster commemorates Microsoft’s billion-dollar Xbox screw-up (0)
- 14: Democratic governors worry about threat to democracy but don’t see it as a winning message for 2022 (10)
- 14: South African Energy Minister calls environmental activism ‘colonialism and apartheid of a special type’ amid opposition to Shell Wild Coast survey (2)
- 14: Jan. 6 rally organizers sue Verizon to stop release of cell phone records (9)
- 14: Bay Area TikToker completes quest to trade a single bobby pin for a home (6)
- 14: Russia says it may be forced to deploy intermediate nuclear missiles in Europe (7)
- 14: Radioactive medicines found in London street by member of the public (0)
- 14: Car stuck on the brink of Niagara Falls has gone over, NYS Parks say (2)
- 14: Russia has just vetoed a resolution admitting climate change is a threat to international peace (6)
- 14: A Denver woman says she saw a Wendy’s employee masturbating when she visited the fast-food restaurant in October. She says she’s now living in fear because he was set free on a personal recognizance bond. (8)
- 14: Steve Harvey Asked Miss India to Meow During Miss Universe (8)
- 14: Buttigieg’s husband complains about Biden admin restarting his student loan payments (10)
- 13: Scientists studying microplastics in Antarctica discover that nearly 90 % of samples analysed came from paint on their own ship (5)
- 13: Brain surgeons and rocket scientists no brighter than the rest of us, study finds (15)
- 13: Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say (10)
- 13: Rand Paul demands federal disaster aid for Kentucky, after voting against it for everyone else (15)
- 13: Factory workers threatened with firing if they left before tornado, employees say (15)
- 13: Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start – Feature requires subscription even though it doesn’t use connected services. (9)
- 13: Urban Meyer denies Jacksonville Jaguars reports: ‘If there is a source, that source is unemployed’ (1)
- 13: Shocking! Chinese authorities seize 7,221 human penises on cargo ship from Nigeria’s Lagos – The Maravi Post (15)
- 13: Guy Who Live Tweets His Poops Named Time’s Person Of The Year (6)
- 13: Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school before state police are called in (8)
- 13: Bored Ape NFT accidentally sells for $3,000 instead of $300,000 (14)
- 13: Man caught driving after ban, pretends to be brother. But brother is wanted by police (2)
- 13: Man caught driving after ban, pretends to be brother. But brother is wanted by police (2)
- 13: Sleeping soundly: No spooky sights yet at ‘haunted’ residence, Japan PM says (3)
- 13: South Dakota teachers scramble for dollar bills in ‘demeaning’ game (7)
- 13: Vladimir Putin: I moonlighted as a taxi driver in the 1990s (1)
- 13: Vladimir Putin says he resorted to taxi driving after fall of Soviet Union (6)
- 13: Tenants asked to consider buying their landlords a Christmas present – despite increase in rents (4)
- 13: Oven and Tap owners respond to the server let go after $4,400 tip (12)
- 13: Iran militia unveils George Floyd video game (4)
- 13: Amazon driver dies in bathroom sheltering from tornado with colleagues (6)
- 13: ‘Thought I was going to die’: Man attacked by 20 otters during morning walk in Singapore park (4)
- 13: California governor says he will use legal tactics of Texas abortion ban to implement gun control (11)
- 13: Bay Area horse molester sentenced to jail (11)
- 12: Nashville man says he sold his soul to Luke Bryan… in arrangement to harm President Joe Biden — Jason Lind (6)
- 12: El Paso County Sheriff says Twitter pic is of Santa getting concealed handgun permit (15)
- 12: ‘Patriotic’ Singer Forgets the Words to National Anthem at QAnon Conference (15)
- 12: Harvard researcher says key to cutting Canada’s surgery wait times is making surgery available on weekends (13)
- 12: Driver parks stolen car in parking space reserved for law enforcement at Tulsa Walmart (7)
- 12: Catalytic converter thief crushed to death by Toyota Prius (9)
- 12: As Biden promotes democracy abroad, advocates urge him to focus on fixing US elections (7)
- 12: A Michigan woman faces prison after trying to hire an assassin through a fake website (8)
- 12: Gavin Newsom pledges to model assault weapons ban on Texas abortion law S.B.8 : NPR (11)
- 12: Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules (7)
- 12: “Dr. Oz rips Fauci — demands he resign for misleading Americans“ (15)
- 12: Mike Lindell Experiences Rejection in Libel Suit Over Hollywood Romance (5)
- 12: California governor pushes for gun laws modeled on Texas abortion ban (14)
- 12: Man escapes from US after participating in Jan 6th riots to seek asylum in Belarud. (7)
- 12: Accidental shooting leads police to home with over 70 cats (3)
- 12: Italian church apologises after bishop tells children Santa does not exist (11)
- 12: “Dr. Oz rips Fauci — demands he resign for misleading Americans“ (13)
- 12: Better.com CEO is taking time off after laying off 900 employees via Zoom (5)
- 12: Iran threatens sanctions against US over treatment of Black Americans (4)
- 12: China claims it’s the ‘largest democracy’ (9)
- 12: Toyota Made Its Key Fob Remote Start Into a Subscription Service (4)
- 12: China claims it’s the ‘largest democracy’ (15)
- 12: Iran threatens sanctions against US over treatment of Black Americans (15)
- 11: Spanish bishop who married author of satanic erotica is stripped of powers (8)
- 11: Fall on walk from bed to desk is workplace accident, German court rules (7)
- 11: Church apologises after Italian bishop tells children Santa does not exist (13)
- 11: TIL that the Mexican language Ayapeneco is dying out. It is only spoken fluently by two people, but they refuse to talk to each other. (4)
- 11: A Black couple had a White friend show their home and its appraisal rose by nearly half a million dollars (13)
- 11: The Navy’s $9B Stealthy Super Destroyer Is Covered In Rust (15)
- 11: Man fleeing liberty goes to dictatorship (9)
- 11: Pizza Shop Employee’s Son, 14, Shoots Would-Be Robber in Face (12)
- 11: MSP troopers suspended over slip-and-slide at training academy (5)
- 11: Italy police catch man who pulled emergency brakes on 100 trains (1)
- 11: A Massive Oil Spill Helped One Billionaire Avoid Paying Income Tax for 14 Years (3)
- 11: Jussie Smollett’ Subway sandwich was key to case, ex-Chicago police superintendent says (3)
- 11: Dr. Dan Wasdahl Juggles Patients And Fire (0)
- 11: South Korea cuts human interaction in push to build ‘untact’ society (3)
- 11: Latino civil rights organization drops ‘Latinx’ from official communication (9)
- 11: Green Bay man’s 18th OWI nets 5-year prison sentence (8)
- 11: DARPA and NASA Scientists Accidentally Create Warp Bubble for Interstellar Travel (6)
- 11: Italian diocese apologises after bishop tells children Santa doesn’t exist (4)
- 11: Hot under the collar? Police say man used flamethrower to settle parking dispute (11)
- 11: Death metal band Omicron won’t change its name (10)
- 11: Sex toy ads removed from ice at last-chance Olympic curling qualifier | CBC Sports (4)
- 11: Rastafari want more legal marijuana for freedom of worship (4)
- 11: Child driver, 11, gives police fingers after speeding, crashing car with young passengers – NZ Herald (0)
- 11: Pet Monkey Offered Cocaine and Flushed Down Toilet (13)
- 11: Police: Florida school’s ‘teacher of the year’ arrested on child abuse charge over Instagram dispute (2)
- 10: Nursing Activision-Blizzard employees say their breast milk kept getting stolen (4)
- 10: Better.com CEO is taking time off after laying off 900 employees via Zoom (12)
- 10: Lactating Activision-Blizzard employees detail alleged abuse, say breast milk was repeatedly stolen (3)
- 10: Top Excel experts will battle it out in an esports-like competition this weekend (8)
- 10: Treasure hunter still in jail after 6 years for refusing to disclose whereabouts of 500 gold coins found in historic shipwreck (7)
- 10: A jury awarded the family of two drunk driving victims more than $301 billion, but they don’t anticipate seeing any of it (2)
- 10: Microsoft Teams is the reason some Android users can’t dial 911 (10)
- 10: Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school before state police are called in (4)
- 10: Delaware highway exit sign misspells the state’s name (5)
- 10: Walking from your bed to home office now counts as commuting in Germany (3)
- 10: Investing in Lego more lucrative than gold, study suggests (3)
- 10: Police send girl, 14, back to parents who allegedly tried to sell her into marriage (3)
- 10: A 48yo woman has been arrested for pretending, since 2016 to be her 22yo daughter (13)
- 10: Mumbai court convicts 33-year-old for showing middle finger to 66-year-old woman (2)
- 10: ‘Male elephant’ at Karachi’s Safari Park turns out to be female after 12 years, SHC told (4)
- 10: Nursing Activision-Blizzard employees say their breast milk kept getting stolen (6)
- 10: Are cats psychopaths? New research says, probably (6)
- 10: ‘I thought I was going to die’: otters attack British man in Singapore park (5)
- 10: Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school before state police are called in (3)
- 10: Las Vegas police arrest man who breached airport security claiming he wanted to steal a jet so he could get to Area 51 (9)
- 10: Friendly, foul-mouthed crow befriends entire Oregon elementary school before state police are called in (5)
- 10: Climber can keep $84,000-worth of jewels he found on Mont Blanc (6)
- 10: Expensive placebo pills are more effective than cheap ones (9)
- 10: A bill in the 2022 legislature proposes a “sub-minimum” wage in Florida (15)
- 09: Arkansas server says she was fired after diners left $4,400 tip (14)
- 09: Jussie Smollett found guilty on 5 counts in connection with staging hate crime against himself (15)
- 09: Washington to rename street in front of Saudi embassy ‘Jamal Khashoggi Way’ (9)
- 09: Woman, 48, lives — and dates — as her 22-year-old daughter at university (15)
- 09: Porn actress promised chess player Nepomniachtchi a night for victory over Carlsen (12)
- 09: Mountain Biker in Spain Shot After Being Mistaken for a Rabbit (15)
- 09: USA Today mocked for asking ‘is math racist’ in headline (15)
- 09: “It may seem strange, but I’m from Alabama.” Judge defends burying $100,000 (8)
- 09: Plumber who found cash and checks in Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church wall given $20K reward. (10)
- 09: ‘Let’s go Brandon’ boat wins Virginia parade contest, then stripped of award (13)
- 09: D.C. council renames street in front of Saudi embassy after Jamal Khashoggi : NPR (5)
- 09: SAPD Officer Fired After ‘Feces Sandwich’ Incident Loses Second Appeal for His Job (12)
- 09: Misspelling on I-95 exit sign in Delaware gets covered up (4)
- 09: Santa bus finishes route early after Father Christmas hit in the head by a pack of sweets (2)
- 09: Sweden reclaims place names from IKEA (5)
- 09: Dozens of camels barred from Saudi beauty contest over Botox, touch-ups (3)
- 09: Better.com’s CEO Called Workers ‘Dumb Dolphins’—Three Executives Quit (6)
- 09: Germany: “Commute” from Bed to Homeoffice accident-insured by law (4)
- 09: Sen. Wicker: Don’t Rule Out Hitting Russia With Nukes, Ground Troops (12)
- 09: Company weeds out competition, bakes 850-pound pot brownie (6)
- 09: It ‘does not mean anything’: Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam says low election turnout may mean gov’t is credible and doing well (7)
- 09: Pope Francis says extramarital sex sins aren’t that ‘serious’ (15)
- 09: Oregon governor signs bill to end reading, math proficiency requirements for HS graduation (15)
- 08: Toddler dies, brother undergoes life-saving surgery after ‘botched circumcisions’ in Perth (15)
- 08: Man, 67, charged after stopping in intersection to eat chicken wings (9)
- 08: Tennessee medical board takes virus misinformation policy offline (2)
- 08: Camels enhanced with Botox barred from Saudi beauty contest (10)
- 08: Dozens of camels barred from competing in Saudi Arabia beauty contest over use of Botox (1)
- 08: Driver halted train to buy yogurt (3)
- 08: Write-in vote joke lands Lower Paxton Township man seat as an elected official (0)
- 08: Plumber who discovered money in wall of Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church gets $20,000 reward (10)
- 08: Woman jumps into Bronx Zoo lion exhibit, tells animal ‘I love you’ while holding roses and throwing $100 bills (13)
- 08: Canada military’s former head of HR charged with sexual assault (1)
- 08: Barkley reveals he named daughter after a local mall (3)
- 08: Some snakes ‘likely’ survived accidental Maryland house fire in attempt to get rid of them (7)
- 08: Boss says sorry for ‘blundered’ mass Zoom firing (15)
- 08: Man arrested over Jamal Khashoggi killing was a case of mistaken identity, French authorities say (3)
- 08: When Scammers Get Scammed, They Take It to Cybercrime Court (0)
- 08: War with Russia in air, Ukraine is shitposting memes on Twitter (0)
- 08: Dozens of camels barred from Saudi beauty contest over Botox (4)
- 08: Sandy daycare shut down after police find meth during search for child porn (8)
- 08: Plumber who found cash stashed in wall of Joel Osteen’s church getting $20,000 reward (5)
- 08: Australians to create ‘black box’ to hold world accountable for climate crisis (11)
- 08: Wisconsin’s Omicron Family Restaurant embraces name with ‘corona’ shirts (3)
- 08: Massachusetts-based cannabis operator unveils ‘world’s largest’ pot brownie (11)
- 08: Man who claims he invented Bitcoin wins trial, keeps Bitcoins worth $50B (7)
- 08: Cookie-flavored wine coming soon from Oreo, Barefoot Wine (15)
- 08: NBC Cancels Stream of Olympic Curling Qualifying Over Sex Toy Sponsorship (13)
- 07: Florida to feed starving manatees in rare conservation move (0)
- 07: Staffer of an Australian MP dresses as Kyle Rittenhouse for delayed Halloween party (10)
- 07: Matt Lauer Is Supporting Chris Cuomo After Sexual Misconduct Claim And CNN Firing (12)
- 07: Taking Viagra slashes the risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 69%, study suggests (15)
- 07: Sarah Ferguson Says She’s ‘The Most Persecuted Woman In The History Of The Royal Family’ (15)
- 07: Avoiding trial, a former hedge fund manager turns over $70 million in stolen antiques (14)
- 07: Hadron Collider had to be turned off for a period of time because a bit of baguette was found in it. (7)
- 07: Pacific Ocean garbage patch is immense plastic habitat (2)
- 07: No arrests after hundreds of children involved in brawl at Tampa trampoline park (15)
- 07: Earth is getting a black box to record events that lead to the downfall of civilization (5)
- 07: Game studio accuses real-life gun manufacturer of stealing weapon design (13)
- 07: Biden Administration Rejects Calls for Ban on “Killer Robots” (15)
- 07: Terrifying video shows mom set hair on fire blowing out birthday candles (3)
- 07: Huge Calder Valley model railway hidden from girlfriend unveiled (5)
- 07: Luxury brand Chanel roasted online for $1,025 Advent calendar full of stickers, other trinkets (9)
- 07: Volunteer Dies After Being Injured By Comfort Animal at Bolton Farm (5)
- 07: Canada taps into emergency maple syrup reserves amid shortage (3)
- 07: Viagra may be useful against Alzheimer’s dementia (3)
- 07: Volunteer Dies After Sheep Charges At Her At Therapy Farm (4)
- 07: Will you wear clothes made out of human hair? (2)
- 07: Capitol Rioter Says She Plans to Do Alcohol Detox and Yoga in Prison (8)
- 07: Middle Class drug users to receive text message warning in new Police measures (6)
- 07: Viagra Use May Reduce Risk Of Getting Alzheimer’s By 69% Study Suggests (15)
- 06: Five parrots separated at UK zoo after encouraging each other to swear at guests (6)
- 06: The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users (2)
- 06: US boss fires 900 employees over Zoom (15)
- 06: UK police contacted over report of cocaine use in Parliament (8)
- 06: Earth is getting a black box to record events that lead to the downfall of civilization (9)
- 06: Jamaica launches ‘Good Ganja Sense’ campaign to educate public on cannabis (2)
- 06: A study has found users of Viagra are 69% less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease (15)
- 06: Viagra Use May Reduce Risk Of Getting Alzheimer’s By Nearly 70%, Study Suggests (15)
- 06: A black homeowner was handcuffed and detained in his boxers after his burglar alarm went off (15)
- 06: San Francisco suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers (8)
- 06: Onions bring tears to Maharashtra farmer who earns just Rs 13 after selling over 1.1 ton (8)
- 06: T.rex gets Christmas jumper at Natural History Museum in London (9)
- 06: Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom (13)
- 06: A North Carolina man accidentally bought 2 identical lottery tickets — and won 2 jackpots (2)
- 06: Anti-cancel culture conference is cancelled (5)
- 06: TIL that NASA has a man that sniffs everything before it goes to space and if he doesn’t like the smell, the object doesn’t go into space. (7)
- 06: San Francisco suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers (0)
- 06: Intel CEO on CPU Market Share Loss: I haven’t lost share to AMD, I’ve given share to AMD (6)
- 06: Debt collectors can now reach out to you over social media (15)
- 06: Kodak now has a single-use camera pre-loaded with 27 frames of Tri-X 400 film (4)
- 06: San Francisco suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers (1)
- 06: Deputies Snared Local Man Who Stopped by Jail to See If He was Wanted – He Was (2)
- 06: San Francisco suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers (2)
- 06: Rep. Massie posts family Christmas picture with guns, days after school shooting (11)
- 05: A plumber found cash and checks stashed in a wall at Joel Osteen’s Houston mega-church (11)
- 05: Bushfire-affected community asks for water storage, gets dance lessons (2)
- 05: San Francisco suspends cannabis tax to help dispensaries compete with drug dealers (9)
- 05: ‘Completely unacceptable’: IGA supermarket under fire for sign racially profiling African customers (7)
- 05: Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom (6)
- 05: Warren police: Man released without bond for domestic violence, kills woman with hammer (3)
- 05: Jussie Smollett Accused Of Masturbating In Bathhouse With Prosecutors’ Star Witness (6)
- 05: India: Man Runs After Goat That Escaped With Office Files (1)
- 05: Tree that smells like rotting fish is so invasive states are offering bounties to kill it (9)
- 05: Man arrested for shooting flamethrower at neighbors (5)
- 05: A North Carolina man accidentally bought 2 identical lottery tickets — and won 2 jackpots (4)
- 05: Tennessee court grants new trial for Black man after all-white jury deliberated in room with Confederate symbols (5)
- 05: Tennessee court grants new trial for Black man after all-white jury deliberated in room with Confederate symbols (1)
- 05: Tennessee court grants new trial for Black man after all-white jury deliberated in room with Confederate symbols (2)
- 05: Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland (2)
- 05: China slams U.S. democracy as a ‘game of the rich,’ at an event promoting Xi’s growing power (11)
- 05: New Mexico approves public financing for cannabis businesses (0)
- 05: Scientists Made an Eco-Friendly Plastic Using DNA From Salmon Sperm (4)
- 05: No arrests after hundreds of children involved in brawl at Tampa trampoline park (12)
- 05: DMV Flunks Student Driver for Using Tesla’s Regen Brakes (12)
- 05: Hackers are spamming printers with the “anti-work” slogan (5)
- 05: Black Man wins retrial for Confederate memorabilia in jury room (3)
- 05: U.S. congressman posts family Christmas picture with guns, days after school shooting (15)
- 05: Intoxicated woman wrecks car at police headquarters & urinates on their steps (8)
- 04: Pubgoers trapped for days with only each other and an Oasis cover band for company (10)
- 04: Maryland homeowners burn down $1.8 million house trying to get rid of snakes (10)
- 04: Ethiopia closes schools to boost civil war effort (2)
- 04: An eminent gynecologist was arrested on suspicion of tricking patients into having sex with him, claiming he could prevent cancer with his ‘magic flute’ (4)
- 04: Tiny living Pac-Man robots have learned how to reproduce (3)
- 04: Better.com CEO publicly attacks laid off employees, accusing them of ‘stealing’ by working only two hours daily (7)
- 04: Nurse set off fire alarm to see colleague’s breasts bounce as she ran down the corridor (9)
- 04: Taliban bans forced marriage of women in Afghanistan (14)
- 04: A plumber found envelopes of cash and checks behind a toilet in televangelist Joel Osteen’s Houston megachurch, years after the church reported a massive robbery (2)
- 04: Photo of ‘Santa’ getting concealed handgun permit prompts outrage on Twitter (9)
- 04: Maryland homeowners burned down their home while attempting to rid the house of snakes (12)
- 04: Don’t identify us by our husbands, says Boniface Mwangi’s wife (4)
- 04: Cambridge students ‘complain of settling for shop-bought cakes’ as college has no pastry chef (8)
- 04: A Court Probed Whether Saying “She’s Not My Type” In Response To A Rape Allegation Is Part Of A President’s Job (2)
- 04: Delhi girl can’t ride her new scooty because the number plate has SEX (4)
- 04: Maryland homeowners burned down their home while attempting to rid the house of snakes (5)
- 04: Maryland home burns down during owner’s ill-fated snake fight (8)
- 04: Craig Kelly: MP banned from Facebook appointed to parliament’s social media inquiry (3)
- 04: Counter Conference: Anti-cancel culture event cancelled (2)
- 04: Jurors at Maxwell trial shown Epstein’s massage table, photo of sex toys (6)
- 04: Ghislaine Maxwell stared her Court Sketch Artist in the eyes and drew them back. (12)
- 04: Austin substitute teacher who brought karaoke machine to Bowie High class asked to leave (12)
- 04: Plumber finds ‘hundreds’ of envelopes filled with cash hidden in wall at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church (9)
- 04: Bomb squad called to hospital after man gets WWII mortar stuck in his rectum (15)
- 03: Nebraska man who set fire to and stabbed wife gets probation (6)
- 03: A Black Utah student was called the N-word during a football game. Then he got punished. (15)
- 03: Ammon Bundy to Idaho court: Campaigning should count as community service (15)
- 03: Hawaii under blizzard warning as 12 inches of snow and winds up to 100 mph expected (9)
- 03: US rejects calls for regulating or banning ‘killer robots’ (13)
- 03: Is Superman Circumcised? wins oddest book title of the year award (15)
- 03: Condo Association Bans Owners From Parking EVs In The Garage (15)
- 03: Michigan school shooting suspect’s parents charged (15)
- 03: Albanian Government Prohibits Pedophiles and Child Abusers from Becoming Teachers (7)
- 03: Hawaii under blizzard warning as 12 inches of snow and winds up to 100 mph expected (15)
- 03: DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control (15)
- 03: ‘Milk & dates’: Egyptian singer swaps out ‘alcohol, hashish’ lyric for Saudi gig, outrages fans (3)
- 03: Maryland homeowner burned down house trying to fight snakes (14)
- 03: Hospital employees in Sweden infected with corona after staff party – Norway Today (2)
- 03: Warning issued over ‘Who Want Smoke’ TikTok challenge as ’50 students suspended’ for pretending to hold guns in school (8)
- 03: DeSantis proposes a new civilian military force in Florida that he would control (15)
- 03: Machine Gun Kelly tried catching a knife to impress Megan Fox, stabbed himself (15)
- 03: Craig Kelly: MP banned from Facebook appointed to parliament’s social media inquiry (4)
- 03: ‘Enemy combatant’ held at Guantánamo petitions for release because war is over (0)
- 03: Plumber discovers money, checks in wall of Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church years after $600K burglary (2)
- 03: ‘A sea of packages:’ Tennessee residents worried about neighbor’s overflowing deliveries (5)
- 03: On this day in 1984, world witnessed its worst industrial disasters – the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, which killed over 20,000 people. Here’s the story of Padma Shri Abdul Jabbar, who fought for justice for the victims, survivors & their families for 3 decades, before he breathed his last in November 2019. (4)
- 03: Second US case of Omicron linked to New York anime convention (5)
- 03: Billionaire asks for yacht parking facilities in area to increase standard of living. (14)
- 02: Netflix Making Movie About Grandma Who Accidentally Invited a Stranger to Thanksgiving Dinner (15)
- 02: ‘I don’t know what if anything I will do with it’: Mark Cuban bought a town in Texas (13)
- 02: Colombia: Two Germans apprehended with hundreds of tarantulas (8)
- 02: Second US case of Omicron linked to New York anime convention (13)
- 02: Sword-wielding man dressed as a ninja shot by French police (3)
- 02: The separation of church and state is strong here. (6)
- 02: Door-kicking’ TikTok trend mistaken for home invasions, prompting calls to police (13)
- 02: Microsoft Edge tries to stop you from downloading Google Chrome (15)
- 02: Unlicensed doctor who circumcised nine boys with a soldering gun and left children in so much pain they could barely walk avoids jail term in Sweden (15)
- 02: Election workers sue conservative site over fraud claims (5)
- 02: Tucson police officer fired after fatally shooting a 61-year-old in a mobility scooter nine times (6)
- 02: Men ‘offer to buy daughter’ from Sheffield mother on school run (8)
- 02: The city council of a small town in Brazil 6,000 miles away from Scandinavia voted to publically repudiate an ad played in Norwegian television that features a gay Santa Claus (1)
- 02: Jail inmate sentenced for trying to steal $3 million of heavy equipment while still in jail (2)
- 02: Missouri health department found mask mandates work, but didn’t make findings public (5)
- 02: Suspect in deadly Waukesha holiday parade crash says he feels ‘demonized’ (12)
- 02: Austrian surgeon fined €2,700 for amputating wrong leg (5)
- 02: Suspect in Waukesha parade carnage says he feels ‘demonized’ (9)
- 02: Beaverton police take hamster into ‘protective custody’ after owner is accused of DUII (3)
- 02: Woman dials wrong number for 20 years, builds friendship with stranger (2)
- 02: Tucson police officer fired after fatally shooting a 61-year-old in a mobility scooter nine times (3)
- 02: New York City allows opening of safe illegal drug use sites, first in the nation (9)
- 02: Western Australia, a state almost no one can visit, to pitch itself to tourists as ‘safest place in the world’ (0)
- 02: UK Tax authority to relocate to an office owned by party donors via an offshore tax haven (9)
- 01: South Carolina gun shop owner fatally shot worker in prank gone wrong (15)
- 01: Someone Started A Petition To Stop Will Smith And Jada Pinkett Smith From Speaking On Their Marriage (15)
- 01: Berkeley County gun store owner fatally shoots employee he intended to ‘prank’ with BB gun, affidavit says (15)
- 01: Forza Horizon 5 Player Gets 8000 Year Ban For Kim Jong-un Car (15)
- 01: Woman who sued for being born wins millions (15)
- 01: Take-Two claims it owns the words Rockstar, Bully and the letter R (15)
- 01: Beaverton police take hamster into ‘protective custody’ after owner is accused of DUII – oregonlive.com (9)
- 01: Austria: Doctor fined for amputating wrong leg of patient (14)
- 01: Man who had open-heart surgery wins a $1 million lottery prize after the ticket came in a get-well card (7)
- 01: Man makes girlfriend go down on him in back of police car and post it on OnlyFans. (15)
- 01: Woman (40) got lost in Ikea for three hours after being struck on head by falling flat-pack (8)
- 01: Man who had open-heart surgery wins a $1 million lottery prize after the ticket came in a get-well card (10)
- 01: Cops: Bethesda man steals $369 worth of erectile dysfunction, insomnia meds from pharmacy (15)
- 01: ‘Unanimous conclusion’ that Peng Shuai is ‘fine,’ says IOC member Dick Pound (10)
- 01: Kremlin says Russia cannot de-escalate due to Ukrainian troop presence nearby (2)
- 01: New aerial video shows catastrophic damage at B.C.’s Jackass Mountain on Highway 1 (1)
- 01: Indian wedding music blamed for death of 63 chickens (2)
- 01: He asked for a shorter jail term after lying to women to procure sex. Chief Justice doubles his sentence instead (5)
- 01: Police: Suspect was stealing Pokemon cards before shootout with officer (10)
- 01: Brock Turner Wants His Sexual Assault Convictions Overturned (15)
- 01: New York man released without bail after robbing a woman, then proceeded to rob another woman at same point hours later, still released without bail. (3)
- 01: Man accused of using relief funds on Lamborghini gets prison (4)
- 01: Robot company offers $200K for your face (12)
- 01: Missing Ohio Guard Soldier SPC Michaela Nelson Found Alive. Apparently Her Phone had Died. (5)
- November 2021 (119)
- 30: Double play! Fayetteville man accidentally enters same lottery numbers twice, wins two lifetime $25K jackpots (2)
- 30: Florida state senator files bill to allow employers to offer sub-minimum ‘training wage’ (8)
- 30: More Than 2,000 Flight Records Associated With Jeffrey Epstein’s Private Jets Accidentally Disclosed By The FAA (15)
- 30: Dr. Oz To Run For U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania (15)
- 30: Satanic Ritual Sacrifice becomes one of few options for abortion in Texas. (15)
- 30: Twitter hashtag calls white people ‘mayo monkeys,’ group chat talks of ‘white genocide’ (15)
- 30: Walmart said she shoplifted; jury awards her $2.1 million (5)
- 30: Canadian school cancels event with ISIS survivor out of fear of offending Muslim students (15)
- 30: North Korean teen sentenced to 14 years in prison for watching five minutes of film (8)
- 30: Psychics and astrologers are huge on Instagram. Now scammers are impersonating them (15)
- 30: 16-Point deer harvested in Missouri turns out to be doe (6)
- 30: Marines examine plans to eliminate ravens (6)
- 30: World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say (15)
- 30: Canadian school cancels event with ISIS survivor out of fear of offending Muslim students (6)
- 30: New Mexico police chief faces charges for impersonating a peace officer, battery (6)
- 30: Celtics player becomes US citizen, legally changes last name to ‘Freedom’ (2)
- 30: 11-year-old boy arrested, considered a ‘prolific carjacker’ (5)
- 30: Hastings RNLI lifeboat crew ‘blocked from going out to sea’ by people angry at them rescuing refugees (3)
- 30: Episode of The Simpsons mocking Chinese censorship missing from Disney+ in Hong Kong (1)
- 30: New Mexico State to drop parking citations for peanut butter (1)
- 30: In novel protest, group urinates in Gadag municipal office demanding repairs of public toilets (2)
- 30: Oasis Cover Band Finally Escapes From Yorkshire Pub After Being Snowed in for Three Days (5)
- 30: Google workers say they were fired for following ‘Don’t Be Evil’ slogan (3)
- 29: He ordered a letterman jacket in high school but couldn’t afford to pick it up. His brother just found it at a thrift shop 28 years later (2)
- 29: Struggling poo-testing startup uBiome files for bankruptcy, months after FBI kicks off investigation (15)
- 29: Divorce Rates in Albatrosses May Be Rising Due to Climate Change: Study (10)
- 29: Death row inmate who survived a botched execution attempt dies of cancer (4)
- 29: The first complaint filed under Tennessee’s anti-critical race theory law was over a book teaching about Martin Luther King Jr. (7)
- 29: Arizona students seek Kyle Rittenhouse removal from online nursing classes. (8)
- 29: Alabama inmate who survived execution attempt dies of cancer (5)
- 29: Minibus volunteer ‘driven to drink after Northern Ireland accents revived bad memories’ (2)
- 29: Due to the Omicron Variant, Israel bans all foreigners except beautiful women. (10)
- 29: Disney+ appears to censor episode of The Simpsons in Hong Kong referencing Tiananmen Massacre (6)
- 29: BMW drivers are more likely to be psychopaths, study shows (15)
- 29: Police: Bullets in toaster oven start fire in assisted living facility room (9)
- 29: Hong Kong election pledge of ‘no change’ among candidate introductions, only 4 of 153 mention democracy (3)
- 29: Dozens stuck in British pub with Oasis cover band for three days after storm (10)
- 29: Errant turtle closes runway, delays turtle-themed plane (0)
- 29: Employees of concentration camp memorial are getting called nazis and fascists by anti-vaxxers (3)
- 29: Preacher says reptile masked as her husband tried to have sex with her (3)
- 29: Brisbane company worth just $8 when awarded $385m Nauru offshore processing contract (3)
- 29: Mayor defends keeping groundhog weather guesser Wiarton Willie’s death a secret (8)
- 29: Kid Rock’s new video Don’t Tell Me How To Live mistaken for Weird Al parody (15)
- 29: Brown Friday: Plumbers say Thanksgiving meals often spark plumbing nightmares (8)
- 28: US libraries report spike in organised attempts to ban books in schools (7)
- 28: A Satirical Tribute to Our New Idols: The Influencers (0)
- 28: Previous govt responsible for Afghan food crisis: Taliban (4)
- 28: Most expensive subway extension in world history called a ‘bargain’ (6)
- 28: Haryana doctor eats cow dung to purify mind, body and soul (3)
- 28: Georgia politician stands by giant topiary chicken that got him ousted as mayor (12)
- 28: Kazakhstan plays Iran anthem for Syria at FIBA WC qualifiers (2)
- 28: ‘Could offend students’: Canada school board cancels book club event with Yazidi Nobel laureate (9)
- 28: Next Windows 11 update brings back Clippy, along with other redesigned emoji (13)
- 28: Hampshire Air Ambulance branded ‘inconsiderate’ for 4am flight (2)
- 28: Lebanese central bank blames Google, Facebook as currency hits all-time low (1)
- 28: Filipino Faith leader says the corona virus will get worse because people are charging him with sex trafficking. (6)
- 28: Walmart pulls children’s toy that swears and sings in Polish about doing cocaine (3)
- 28: Irish man “Can’t Eat Spicy Food” after home insulated (3)
- 28: Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after failing to purchase US Constitution (2)
- 28: Bitcoin Miners Resurrect Fossil Fuel Power Plant, Drawing Backlash From Environmentalists (3)
- 28: Dawson County Sheriff’s deputy wrangles runaway donkeys for the second time in a month (0)
- 28: Man dies after portable washroom fire in Abbotsford, B.C. (0)
- 28: New Zealand politician cycles to hospital in labour, gives birth (0)
- 28: Tesla decides against state aid for German battery plant as Musk opposes subsidies (9)
- 28: Migrants stuck at Polish border feel cheated by people smugglers (1)
- 28: ‘Could’ve killed him’: UFC legend ‘frozen in time’ as ref refuses to stop boxing beast at Triad Combat (0)
- 28: Colorado officials drop the term ‘sex offender,’ say it’s too negative (1)
- 28: Politician Left Red-faced After He’s Caught Going To Toilet During Zoom Meeting (2)
- 28: Canadian woman becomes first person diagnosed as suffering from ‘climate change’ (6)
- 27: Roving sea lion wanders through streets of Lincoln City, refuses fish, returns to ocean (6)
- 27: Unruly passenger allegedly sexually assaulted flight attendant before smoking joint in bathroom. (3)
- 27: Stowaway in Landing Gear Lands in Miami on Flight From Guatemala (7)
- 27: Crypto enthusiasts want to buy an NBA team, after failing to purchase US Constitution (7)
- 27: Two injured as pigs storm golf course in West Yorkshire (5)
- 27: South Africa ‘punished’ for detecting new Omicron variant (12)
- 27: Webcam Model Accidentally Shoots Herself In The Vagina With 9mm Handgun During Video Shoot (15)
- 27: Australian council to ban cats outside unless they are on a lead (9)
- 27: Boston Girl Mistakenly Swallows One of Her AirPods; Records Stomach Sounds (5)
- 27: The grandfather of a three-year-old toddler has been arrested in connection with her death, forensic DNA samples have revealed that the 70-year-old is in fact her biological father. (4)
- 27: Greene introduces bill to honor Rittenhouse with congressional gold medal (15)
- 27: Female passenger reportedly breastfeeds cat on Delta flight. (8)
- 27: Canada’s ‘OPEC of maple syrup’ taps into strategic reserves amid global shortage (1)
- 27: Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-Winning Prime Minister on The Battlefront of Civil War (4)
- 27: He shoots four strangers after a “simple remark” on his bag (6)
- 27: Mr Goxx, the cryptocurrency-trading hamster, dies (9)
- 27: Berkeley Cat Has Sudden Aversion To Getting Petted (4)
- 27: Climate change causing albatross divorce, says study (1)
- 27: Malawi defends decision to ask Mike Tyson to be its cannabis ambassador (2)
- 27: Female passenger reportedly breastfeeds cat on Delta flight. (4)
- 27: “Young men committing more crime due to lack of role models on TV Conservative MP suggests” (11)
- 27: Old Spice and Secret deodorants sold in U.S. and online recalled after cancer-causing chemical detected (7)
- 27: Female passenger reportedly breastfeeds cat on Delta flight (12)
- 27: North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Reportedly Banned Leather Jackets After People Copied His Look (12)
- 26: Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with massive shortage … of maple syrup (7)
- 26: You Can Now “Rage Shake” Your Phone to Report a Problem to Instagram (11)
- 26: Showjumper Evie Toombes sues her mother’s doctor, arguing she should never have been born (15)
- 26: Tolkien estate blocks JRR Token crypto-currency (7)
- 26: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to award Congressional Gold Medal to Kyle Rittenhouse (15)
- 26: Fight the power (Amazon) ✊ (15)
- 26: Professor Says Sexual Attraction To Children Isn’t Always Immoral And Thinks Pedophiles Should Be Called ‘Minor-Attracted People’ Instead (15)
- 26: Boris Johnson speech to nation is painful as he mumbles, loses place and grunts Vroom-Vroom-Ra-Ra (9)
- 26: Uganda to handover only international airport to China over toxic debt (11)
- 26: A woman passenger allegedly breastfed a cat on board a Delta flight from Atlanta (14)
- 26: Woman Caught Breastfeeding Her Cat Onboard Airline Flight (15)
- 26: Passenger claims woman breastfed cat on-board flight (6)
- 26: ‘It was pretty overdue’: Boise library book returned 110 years after being checked out (2)
- 26: Australian council to ban cats outside unless they are on a lead (8)
- 26: Pentagon creates new group to monitor and ‘mitigate’ threat from UFOs (15)
- 26: New Interpol president is an Emirati general accused of overseeing torture (4)
- 26: Walmart pulls children’s toy that swears and sings in Polish about doing cocaine (3)
- 26: Mom fatally shot at memorial for son killed days earlier in Chicago (2)
- 26: Jan. 6th attendee who said she was ‘definitely not going to jail’ gets jail sentence (5)
- 26: GoFundMe pulls fundraiser for Waukesha suspect Darrell Brooks (5)
- 26: TN Education Dept. lists 14 race, history concepts that cannot be taught in classrooms (13)
- 26: Woman Named Crystal Methvin Arrested For Having Crystal Meth (15)
- 26: Walmart says it will remove sexually explicit toys from children’s section of website after mother complains (14)
- 26: Canada taps into strategic reserves to deal with massive shortage … of maple syrup (15)
- 25: Governor condemns tweet offering a ‘bounty’ on teachers (15)
- 25: Woman accused of using sex toy, exposing penis, and masturbating in public (15)
- January 2018 (11)
- 04: What is the point in writing ‘2k17’ when you could just write ‘2017’ in the same space and the same amount of characters. (0)
- 04: ELI5: As Turtles and Tortoises grow older how do their shells grow? (0)
- 04: TIL Teddy Roosevelt’s Son Died Flying for the US During WWI. When His Body Was Discovered Behind Enemy Lines, the Germans Gave Him A Full Military Burial With Honors. (0)
- 04: ELI5: What is this major security flaw in the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world’s computers? (0)
- 04: TIL vocal jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald was born with perfect pitch so precise that the band musicians she worked with would tune their instruments to her voice. (0)
- 02: TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time. (0)
- 02: ELI5: How do icy-hot gels work? (0)
- 02: TIL if you publish a book in Norway, the government will buy 1000 copies (1,500 if a children’s book) and distribute them to libraries throughout the country. (0)
- 02: IWTL how to talk to my family (0)
- 02: YSK: In case you ever lose your Android phone, there is an applet which turns its ringer up to 100% if you text it (0)
- 02: What is underneath all the sand in the Sahara Desert? (0)
- December 2017 (357)
- 31: I want to learn how to be bilingual and eventually multilingual. (0)
- 31: YSK If you’re bitten by a tick, keep the tick in a bag in your freezer. If you ever suspect that you have the symptoms of lyme disease, you can get the tick tested and get antibiotics. Early treatment does cure the otherwise incurable disease. (0)
- 31: ELI5: How does carbonation aid with an upset stomach? (0)
- 31: TIL 1 in 5 organ donations comes from the victim of a vehicular accident, and self-driving cars may end up exacerbating the shortage. (0)
- 31: ELI5: What is falsetto, and how is it different from normal singing? (0)
- 31: IWTL how to shut off my mind at night (0)
- 31: TIL scientists have successfully created a process to genetically modify pigs to produce human-transplantable organs. The method edits the genetics of pig DNA to prevent our bodies from rejecting their organs. It would end transplant lists overnight. Human trials are starting. (0)
- 31: What do insanely wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (0)
- 31: What happens to my contact lenses if I were suddenly to go into a coma for an extended period of time? Is there someone whose job it is to remove them? (0)
- 31: YSK that if your phone mysteriously stops working, don’t try to get into your bank account. (0)
- 27: YSK: Taking burst photos with your camera greatly improves the chances of capturing the best shot. (0)
- 27: YSK that Spotify quietly increased the price of Student Premium + Hulu (0)
- 27: YSK Older relatives, who you haven’t seen since last holiday season, who make cooking blunders may be showing signs of dementia (0)
- 27: YSK: Secret check out counter at Walmart (0)
- 27: YSK: You can charge USB devices even when your laptop is in sleep mode (0)
- 27: YSK that the iPhone has medical information accessible by holding the lock button (or lock+volume down for iPhone X) which contains the identity of the phone owner, medications they take, known conditions, allergies, and organ donor information (0)
- 27: YSK that prior to 1582 Christmas was celebrated today… the day of the winter solstice. (0)
- 27: YSK: There is a website that will play you only Spotify songs that no one has ever played before. (0)
- 27: YSK: The USPS, UPS, and FedEx all have free services that will let you get automatic notifications for packages being delivered to your home (0)
- 27: YSK Truepeoplesearch.com is scary and will often list children’s true address. (0)
- 27: YSK: How to use shipping boxes to donate used household items for free via mail. (0)
- 27: YSK: Men, if you are ever visiting a hospital and need to poop, go to the OB/GYN offices. Their men’s rooms are rarely used and usually clean and quiet (0)
- 27: YSK: February 22, 2022 (02/22/2022) falls on a Tuesday. Twosday. (0)
- 27: YSK that some car insurances also offer coverage for rental cars. Check with your insurance and rental car company before you book extra insurance. (0)
- 27: YSK: There are Christmas scams today. Do not click any links in any texts or emails about an alleged gift from an unknown source. (0)
- 27: YSK: If you’re ever at a theme park, check if there’s a single riders line. It’s typically quicker than queuing, but your party will be split up. (0)
- 27: YSK that if hospital staff find you wandering around without good reason they will call security. (0)
- 27: ELI5: If there is no cellphone signal, how does the “emergency calls only” mode works? (0)
- 27: TIL that instead of selling 6 shares for 610,000 yen, a trader sold 610,000 shares for 6 yen, which resulted in a $100M loss for his company (0)
- 27: ELI5: What exactly makes cooked food more nutritious? (0)
- 26: YSK: You can make your iPhone screen even darker than the minimum brightness by turning on Zoom with Low Light filter. (0)
- 26: YSK: If you cant get a reservation at Beast’s Castle at Disney World, Guest Services may be able to use a little magic. (0)
- 26: YSK: If your laptop has a USB port with a lightning symbol next to it , you can use it to charge your phone or accessories without switching the laptop on . (0)
- 26: YSK in the US Hitting the lock button on an iPhone 5 times in succession will open an SOS option which allows you to quickly and discreetly place a call to 911 (0)
- 26: YSK: If you do not have a bank account with Bank of America (BOA), you cannot deposit cash into a BOA account holder’s account. They will only accept money orders if you do not have an account. (0)
- 26: IWTL how to approach insta crush without being creepy (0)
- 26: IWTL How not to be depressed at this time of year (0)
- 26: IWTL How to cut out snacking throughout the day (0)
- 26: IWTL how to draw (0)
- 26: I just realized that I always use others as a medium for my own happiness. This has really affected my relationships and family. How do I find long-lasting happiness within myself? (0)
- 26: IWTL: How to perform at my best mentally. (0)
- 26: IWTL How to use watercolors (0)
- 26: IWTL how to live out of my car (0)
- 26: IWTL about Buddhism (0)
- 26: I want to learn how to like myself (0)
- 26: IWTL all the countries of the world! (0)
- 26: IWTL How to stop hyper-focusing on specific tasks, and become more well-rounded and educated about the world (0)
- 26: How do researchers research effectively? (0)
- 26: IWTL how to do pixel art and/or design on photoshop (0)
- 26: IWTL the fastest way to learn 500 Chinese characters for conversational Chinese (0)
- 26: IWTL How To Become An Actor (0)
- 26: IWTL to play the piano (0)
- 26: IWTL How I would go about making a meal plan for myself (0)
- 26: IWTL to freestyle rap (0)
- 26: What is this painting and where do I buy it? (0)
- 26: IWTL to be funny and keep conversations going (0)
- 26: IWLT How to get a lean and strong body in 2 years (0)
- 26: ELI5: Has pregnancies (in humans) always taken 9 months? Is there any possibility that the development time could increase or decrease in the future? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why is eating too much after a long period of starvation dangerous? (0)
- 26: ELI5: how do drug purity tests work when testing drugs like cocaine and mdma? (0)
- 26: TIL four-legged animals like horses and dogs don’t have backwards knees. Those joints are actually their ankles, which bend in the same direction as our ankles do. (0)
- 26: I want to learn gymnastics (0)
- 26: IWTL as much as possible about the US healthcare market and health insurance industry (0)
- 26: IWTL How to genuinely smile for a photo (0)
- 26: IWTL how to properly play the guitar w/theory (0)
- 26: IWTL How to grow intellectually (0)
- 26: IWTL how to put music over the videos and how to edit, combine videos (0)
- 26: IWTL How to write convincing argumentative essays (0)
- 26: IWTL How to Read Actively (0)
- 26: IWTL how to make a resume (0)
- 26: IWTL about making music (0)
- 26: IWTL how to sing decently (0)
- 26: IWTL how to cheer a miserable service industry worker up as a customer (0)
- 26: IWTL how to get back into a hobby I gave up like two decades ago. Drawing/illustrations (0)
- 26: IWTL about racism (0)
- 26: I want to learn about relationships (0)
- 26: YSK: USBs have two sides: a solid and a hollow side. The great majority of USBs go in with the hollow side facing you. (0)
- 26: YSK: If the Apple store tells you your motherboard needs to be fully replaced and is out of warranty, don’t spend $100s. Take it to a qualified, reputable computer repair shop. You can pay a fraction to get the same result. (0)
- 26: YSK your iPhone has an “Emergency SOS” setting that allows you to call emergency services by clicking the lock button 5 times in a row. You can enable or disable an alarm that plays before calling. (0)
- 26: YSK: If you are having a problem with a state or federal agency, your state/federal representatives have staff who a specifically there to help you, and they have special channels to those agencies. (0)
- 26: YSK that any credit fraud alerts setup after the Equifax breach will be expiring in the next few weeks (0)
- 26: YSK: Github offers a very large Student Developer package, many cloud-hosts, software/web/app dev tools, and more at your disposal if you’re a student/teacher. (13+ y/o) (0)
- 26: YSK many external WD hard drives integrate the USB-to-SATA logic onto the hard drive instead of using a separate board. If that circuit fails, extracting the data will cost as much as a used car, rather than $20 for a new enclosure that naturally comes with a standard USB-to-SATA bridge. (0)
- 26: YSK that Holland is not the name for the country, but for two provinces in the Netherlands. (0)
- 26: YSK that if men don’t register for the US military draft they can be denied a Driver’s License in some states, like Virginia, and will be denied federal student loans and grants, federal job training money, and certain government jobs. (0)
- 26: IWTL how to help a friend who is suffering from depression. (0)
- 26: I want to learn how to be more interested in others and talk about myself less. (0)
- 26: YSK About Windows Disk Cleanup. It can free up quite a bit of disk space used up by recent Windows Update leftovers, and many other things. (0)
- 26: YSK About An Effective Way to Get Rid of Unpleasant Memories and Feelings (0)
- 26: YSK that you can email most cell phone numbers and it sends as a text (0)
- 26: YSK- About GoodRX a website to visit for MASSIVE discounts on prescriptions from almost any pharmacy. Very important for people with no insurance. (0)
- 26: Why does the human body make being embarrassed even more embarrassing by making our faces and/or ears red? (0)
- 26: Why don’t all students get tested *before* starting a class, to see if they need it? (0)
- 26: Anyone ever see their parents get old and kind of get scared or sad? (0)
- 26: Why don’t innocent people in court call upon Google/Apple/Microsoft to provide proof of their alibi with the data they collect? (0)
- 26: What’s the time commitment like in organized crime, in terms of hours per week? (0)
- 26: Why do movie theaters have front rows? (0)
- 26: This is my first winter in the northern US – what do I need to do? (0)
- 26: In action movies someone will grab somebody’s head and hit it with their own head to knock them out. Is that actually possible in real life? How does it not do an equal amount of damage to both people? (0)
- 26: “This house has been winterized. DO NOT TURN ON WATER”. Well, why not? What would happen? (0)
- 26: Why are there no/few female sushi chefs? (0)
- 26: ELI5:How does the human ear discern between a quiet noise and a distant noise? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do pipes in the shower sing when certain temperatures of water goes through them? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are dams, like Hoover Dam, built in arc shape instead of straight line? (0)
- 26: ELI5:Can You Protect Electronics From EMPs/solar flares? If So How? (0)
- 26: ELI5: how can a layer of metamorphic rocks be on top of a layer of sedimentary rocks? Shouldn’t the deepest layer have higher pressure and temperature? (0)
- 26: ELI5: If identical twins were to be given a paternity test (if one were suspected of being a child’s father), given they have identical DNA, is there a medical test that could determine which twin is the father? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does bowing work in Japanese culture. I’ve heard there are so many subtleties to bowing that a Westerner should never attempt it. Is this true? What are some of these subtleties? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are chickens more likely to be contaminated with salmonella and not other animals (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do you sometimes wake up more tired with more sleep, and more energetic with less sleep? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do balloons make such a loud noise when they pop? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are there such virus inducing ads on nearly every site? And who lets them stay there? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does chapstick work? (0)
- 26: ELI5 why canned food last much longer than other packed food? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How did drinking beer help out during the time of the bubonic plague pandemics? (0)
- 26: ELIF What is the difference between time signatures that have the same ratio? (0)
- 26: ELI5: If the universe is expanding in all directions, does that mean that the universe is shaped like a sphere? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does charcoal clean your face? (0)
- 26: ELI5 Do scientists have any theories about whether space has edges? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why is finding “patient zero” in an epidemic so important? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does sleep restore the body’s energy? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why does garlic smell good in food but bad in breath? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What does the tax bill that was passed today mean? How will it affect Americans in each tax bracket? (0)
- 26: ELI5: NASA Engineers just communicated with Voyager 1 which is 21 BILLION kilometers away (and out of our solar system) and it communicated back. How is this possible? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are cheap glasses with a positive prescription (ie reading glasses) readily available, but negative prescriptions need to be custom ordered at a much higher cost? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How can something exceed 2 Billion Kelvin? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Where does water go during low-tide? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What exactly is dust? Where does it come from and how the heck does it get everywhere regardless of what measures you take (e.g. covering things in plastic)? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What exactly does radiation poisoning do to our bodies, and how does medicine cure it? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are 9mm bullets less dangerous than 7.62 or even 5.56 ones? Shouldn’t they deal more damage with bigger size? (0)
- 26: ELI5: When you remove a tumor, does it leave a gap in the organ/tissue it was removed from? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does the U.S. government read the FCC comments? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does “activated charcoal” work and why has it become so wildly popular in beauty/cosmetic products? (0)
- 26: ELI5: If the common cold tends to be a different virus each time (hence why you can’t necessarily prevent it), why do you have nearly the same symptoms each time? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What exactly is “American Exceptionalism”? (0)
- 26: ELIF: How do goats have such good balance/fearlessness for jumping on precarious ledges? (0)
- 26: ELI5: If Dragons never existed, what brought about so much lore in so many different places across Eurasia? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does a text through iMessage reach another’s phone halfway across the world in seconds? (0)
- 26: ELIF: How do lumens work when measuring brightness of flashlights? Ie. How do cheap flashlights have outputs of like 2000 lumens? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What exactly is a watershed and how does it work? For instance, we live in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed area. I have attempted to read on the subject, and consider myself a smart gal, but this just confuses me all day. (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do tea bags say ‘Do Not Microwave’? (0)
- 26: ELI5: When you’re unconscious due to trauma, do you sleep and rest? Or is it tiring? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How do parasites, like tapeworms, manage to survive the gastric juices of the stomach and get to the rest of the digestive tract? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do cold surfaces sometimes feel wet even though they aren’t? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why is it that when you hit play on a song during a loud part it will hurt your ears, but when you play the song from the beginning at the same volume, it doesn’t hurt your ears when it gets to the loud part? (0)
- 26: ELI5. How does a garbage bag manage to keep such a wide range of strong and vile stinks contained? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why has it been so difficult to unseat the big ticket sellers (like Ticketmaster) and start a new ticket system? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why does cheap alcohol give me a significantly worse hangover than good alcohol? (0)
- 26: ELI5: If influenza is always mutating, why does getting a flu shot help? Doesn’t the shot only prevent attacks from a certain strain? (0)
- 26: ELI5 the difference between 4 Wheel Drive and All Wheel Drive. (0)
- 26: ELI5: If graphene is so great, why isn’t it be used in anything? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How is it possible that when talking on the phone, person A can suddenly lose signal and not hear person B, but Person B can hear person A perfectly well? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Human ancestries – Have males always been generally the more dominant sex? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How do physicists generate a stream of neutrons to fire in their experiments? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are there so many types of screws? (Phillips, flathead, Allen, etc.) Why isn’t there a single, standardized type of fastener? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why can we HEAR our joints crack? How does sound escape the inside of our body? (0)
- 26: ELI5: If all human cells replace themselves every 7 years, why can scars remain on you body your entire life? (0)
- 26: ELI5:. How did climate change become a partisan issue? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does futures trading work? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why does the visible light spectrum appear cyclic to the human eye if the spectrum is based on specific linear wavelengths of light? (0)
- 26: ELIF- How does a hot air balloon work? How does the pilot know where they’re going to end up and what happens if it all goes wrong? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do many “bad habits” involve chewing on or picking at our bodies (nails, cuticles, lips, etc.)? Why is this so satisfying and hard to stop when it can be bad for our bodies? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are some smells stronger than others? E.g. With the same ammount of rotten egg and lavender the rotten egg would be alot more pungent (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do stars twinkle while planets don’t? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What is AC grounding as opposed to DC grounding? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does your mind chooses random numbers when someone asks you to do it? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why is it considered dangerous to reheat rice yet it’s safe to have in ready meals? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why aren’t noise cancelling headphones as effective in cancelling high pitch sounds as their in cancelling low pitch sounds? (0)
- 26: ELI5: how do engineers make sure wet surface (like during heavy rain) won’t short circuit power transmission tower? (0)
- 26: ELI5 – Why do computer memory systems use 1024 not 1000? (0)
- 26: ElI5: why do experts say to grab vertical ropes when climbing nets? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How can Disney comfortably afford acquiring Fox for 52 billion dollars? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How do neutral countries like Switzerland not get invaded by other countries? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does a pharmaceutical company come up with new drugs? Do they just try various chemicals on animals until something shows promise, or is there an approach that’s more “targeted” than that? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What causes those pulled neck muscles that happen from doing nothing like yawning or rolling in your sleep? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why after a good long cry can’t we take a big deep breath without that huh-huh-huh tracheal contraction? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do ants and insects get trapped in pen circles? (5)
- 26: ELI5: Where do ISPs get their ‘internet’? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why does it get harder to fall asleep the more sleep-deprived you are? (0)
- 26: ELI5:How do polaroid pictures work? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Socrates arguments for the immortality of the soul and the cycle of opposites argument (0)
- 26: ELI5: why are keyboards ‘qwerty’ and not alphabetical? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why are some allergies much more common than others? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does the brush bring shine to a shoe after polishing and conditioning? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do most hard candies just shrink down as you suck on them but peppermints get all porous and full of holes? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What is happening to the body/brain of a person who has taken a dose of LSD? How does LSD cause hallucinations? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Now that it’s back in season, where’s the flu been? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How peeling scotch tape in a vacuum creates radiation. (0)
- 26: ELI5: What is the difference between forward and reverse osmosis? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do finger nails grow faster than toe nails? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why is the Lion so widely used in European Heraldy even though they are mostly found in Africa? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How Dual-Clutch Transmissions and Continuously Variable Transmissions use clutches but do not stall. (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why does blood not stick to human skin like a permanent marker, but will stain things like clothes so bad? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How come certain sodas (such as root beer or grape soda) are almost always caffeine free? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does Switzerland’s politically neutral stance work? What protects them from external threats? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What makes stainless steel “stainless”? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How do flares stop missiles? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why do lithium ion batteries degrade over time? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How does sunscreen help protect our skin? (0)
- 26: ELI5: How do Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) work? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Why aren’t dominant traits always more common than recessive traits? (0)
- 26: ELI5:If the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen why did life develop to use carbon dioxide and oxygen rather than nitrogen? (0)
- 26: ELI5: why a small movement in earth’s rotation makes a large difference in temperature at different times of the day. (0)
- 26: ELI5: How can alcohol withdrawal or detox kill you? (0)
- 26: ELI5: Difference between LED, AMOLED, LCD, and Retina Display? (0)
- 26: TIL that the Mythbusters once tested a combination of common materials that made an extremely powerful explosive. They deleted the tapes and swore to never release the information, then contacted DARPA and warned them about the possibility of misuse from the combination. (0)
- 26: TIL Cindy Stowell had a lifelong dream to be a Jeopardy! contestant. In 2016 she made the show and in spite of the fact that she had Stage 4 cancer during the filming she became a six-time champion. She died shortly before her episodes aired and donated her $103K winnings to cancer organizations. (0)
- 26: TIL that children who are anxiously shy at an early age tend to display distinct patterns of brain activity in social situations at a later age. This manifests in the form of increased distress when anticipating unpredictable social feedback. (0)
- 26: TIL that Adolf Hitler and JRR Tolkien fought at the Battle of the Somme. (0)
- 26: TIL a 2013 BBC study found that 56% of pilots fell asleep while flying, and 29% had woken up to find the co-pilot also asleep. (0)
- 26: TIL one of Saint Nicholas’ most famous gifts was giving a poor man enough money for each of his three daughters to have a proper dowry. This allowed the three girls to avoid a lifetime of prostitution to make ends meet. (0)
- 26: TIL that Mircosoft included Solitaire in their operating systems to “to soothe people intimidated by the operating system” and introduce users to graphic user interfaces and taught them how to use a mouse. (0)
- 24: ELI5: Why do some materials become brittle when they get cold and others do not? (0)
- 24: TIL Homer Simpson’s idea to fill a mine with other cities’ garbage dissuaded a small Canadian town with the exact same idea. (0)
- 24: TIL Thomas Edison would give potential employees a bowl of soup during the interview, if they salted or peppered the soup before tasting it they wouldn’t get the job. This was to test whether the employees had analytical minds and didn’t make assumptions. (0)
- 24: TIL of Silas Soule, an abolitionist who, among other accomplishments, was present at the Sandy Creek Massacre where he refused to order his men to fire. He testified at Congress against his commanding officer and was murdered soon after, likely as a result of his testimony. (0)
- 24: TIL during the Great Famine, the Ottoman Sultan “Abdulmejid I” couldn’t donate more than £1,000, in order not to embarrass Queen Victoria’s £2,000 donation. Wanting to donate more, he sent up to 3 ships filled with wheat and Indian Corn as a “hushed-up” gesture, not wanting to upset the Queen. (0)
- 24: TIL that the 2003 Cat In The Hat movie was so bad that Dr Seuss’s widow specifically said that she wouldn’t allow any more live action adaptations of his work. (0)
- 24: TIL of Timothy Hunter, a DC Comics character created by Neil Gaiman seven years before Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. He wears glasses, lost his mother when he was young, discovered he was destined to be a powerful wizard, and has a pet owl. (0)
- 24: TIL that The Movie “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” title was translated in Israel to “It’s Raining Falafel”. (0)
- 24: TIL While filming Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams would walk through the streets of San Francisco in his full Mrs. Doubtfire makeup and costume, and on one occasion he visited a sex shop to buy a large dildo and other toys. (0)
- 24: TIL Zach Braff beat up a 12 year old for spraying fake paint on his Porsche as a part of a prank on the show Punked. The scene was edited out. (0)
- 24: TIL Chef Boyardee of canned Ravioli fame was awarded both the Gold Star order of excellence from the US War Dept. & the Order of Lenin from Russia for supplying rations to allied troops during WWII (0)
- 24: TIL that the gun on the A10 Warthog fighter plane produces so much recoil that, if you pointed backwards and never ran out of ammo, you could use it to fly. (0)
- 24: TIL that after marathoning Breaking Bad, Anthony Hopkins wrote Bryan Cranston a fan letter, saying (among other things) “Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever.” (0)
- 24: TIL men traveling first class tend to weigh more than those in economy, while for women the reverse is true. (0)
- 24: TIL at the special screening of the James Bond movie ‘Spectre’ at the MI6 building in Vauxhall Cross, the real MI6 staff cheered when the building was blown up in the movie. (0)
- 24: TIL that Planet Earth series has almost no authentic audio. Most of the sounds you hear are audio library effects or tailor-made studio sounds added on the editing table. (0)
- 24: TIL that not all torpedoes are designed to pierce hulls then explode, some detonate below the target ship without making contact. This creates a gas bubble that causes the ship to be thrust out of the water then dropped back into the resulting void, often breaking the vessel in half and sinking it. (0)
- 24: TIL that in the 1930’s a flute player released his pet lyrebird into the wild, which was able to mimic certain phrases of the man’s music. The bird has shared the music with other lyrebirds and the same melodies are still sung by these birds today. (0)
- 24: TIL A man caught a baby that fell out of a window in Detroit in 1930. A year later, the baby fell again and the same man caught the baby again. The baby and the man were unharmed. (1)
- 24: TIL in 1987, in Brazil, a ship carrying 22tons of weed in 3lb cans dumped all of it in the sea after being chased by Brazilian authorities. The cans were carried to the coastline by the tides, and most ended up being found (and used) by locals. This event came to be known as “The Summer of the Cans” (1)
- 24: TIL that Apatheism is the belief that if a god exists, or not, it does not matter, because the effect is the same. Therefore there is no point engaging in worship or even positing the question of existence of the god at all. (0)
- 24: TIL after the band Three Dog Night covered Randy Newman’s song “Mama Told Me Not To Come” and made it a No. 1 hit, Newman called the band’s lead singer Cory Wells and said “I just want to thank you for putting my kids through college” (0)
- 24: TIL of Charles Henry Turner. He was an African American scientist who earned his PhD in 1907. He discovered that insects could distinguish pitch, that cockroaches can learn by trial and error and that honeybees can see color. (0)
- 24: Til that Robin Williams killed himself due to rapidly approaching dimentia, not simply depression. (0)
- 24: TIL that the Mask of Warka, the oldest discovered accurate depiction of a human face (3100 BC), disappeared from the National Museum of Iraq after the 2003 US invasion. A US military mission to recover lost artifacts found the mask, undamaged, buried in a farmer’s backyard. (0)
- 24: TIL Queen Elizabeth II is the only living head of state to have served in World War II (0)
- 24: TIL AT&T only put the * and # buttons on the phone keypad because they had extra space, and they figured maybe someone someday will find some use for them. (0)
- 24: TIL Black Sabbath’s debut album in 1970 began with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. 43 years later, in 2013, their final album ended with the sound of rain and a distant church bell. (0)
- 24: TIL: After Bugs Bunny referred to Elmer Fudd as a “nimrod”, the word began being misinterpreted to mean a dimwitted person. In reality, he was referring to the mighty Biblical hunter of the same name. (0)
- 24: TIL: Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate to more than 80%. (0)
- 24: TIL jesters were asked to tell bad news to the king that no one else dared deliver. The best-known example was in 1340 after the French fleet was destroyed by the English. The French King’s jester told him the English sailors “don’t even have the guts to jump into the water like our brave French”. (0)
- 24: TIL scientists discovered a dinosaur tail perfectly preserved in amber. It is full of feathers. (0)
- 24: TIL Willie Nelson used to smoke 2-3 packs of cigarettes a day on top of smoking marijuana. After suffering pneumonia several times, he knew he had to quit one or the other. He chose to quit tobacco. (0)
- 24: TIL Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion. (0)
- 24: TIL the famous line from the film Captain Phillips “Look at me. I’m the captain now.” was improvised by actor Barkhad Abdi who had no prior acting experience. (0)
- 24: TIL of a Russian family who were cut off from all human contact for 40 years in the Siberian wilderness. They were completely unaware that World War 2 had occurred. (0)
- 24: TIL rodents living outside of captivity still enjoy running in wheels because it gives them a self-rewarding “runner’s high” (0)
- 24: TIL that Angelina Jolie once tried to hire a hitman to kill her, because she felt that a murder would be easier on her family than her committing suicide. The would-be-hitman talked her out of it by asking her to wait a month. (0)
- 24: TIL that Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) auditioned for the role of Han Solo and after he got back from the audition, he pushed his friend Mark Hamill, who was sleeping on Englund’s couch at the time, to audition for Luke Skywalker. (0)
- 24: TIL that while repairing a whale enclosure divers during the cold war heard a human-like voice saying “out, out, out,” and got out of the water to see nobody. A beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech and attempted to communicate with them. (0)
- 24: TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th. (0)
- 24: TIL that in Switzerland it’s illegal to have just one guinea pig because they get too lonely and need a friend. (0)
- 24: TIL Keanu Reeves turned down a $11 million offer to reprise his role as Jack Traven in “Speed 2: Cruise Control” in favor of playing the main role in “The Devil’s Advocate” opposite to Al Pacino (0)
- 24: TIL A group of guys made a to scale model of the solar system in Black Rock Desert, Nevada. They felt that pictures online couldn’t capture the size of our solar system and they wanted to give an accurate example. (0)
- 24: TIL the patent for toilet paper (1891) features an illustration that would imply the correct way the roll should be placed would be so the paper hangs over, and not under. (0)
- 24: TIL: GPS signals are being spoofed in some areas of Moscow: “the fake signal, which seems to center on the Kremlin, relocates anyone nearby to Vnukovo Airport, 32 km away. The scale of the problem did not become apparent until people began trying to play Pokemon Go.” (0)
- 24: TIL of Nellie Bly, a 19th century female journalist who went around the world in 72 days, pretended to be insane in order to expose the deplorable conditions in mental asylums, patented two designs for steel cans and ran a million-dollar iron manufacturing business, all before the age of 40. (0)
- 24: TIL of a North Korean defector who escaped to China, returned to see his family, then escaped again to Thailand, went to Argentina, then trekked through South and Central America to sneak into the US through Mexico. He is now a US citizen. (0)
- 24: TIL A dad in China hired gamers to kill his son in video games so the son would start looking for a job and get a life (0)
- 24: TIL Prince was a sensational ten pin bowler who could pretty much get a strike at will and wore furry knee high boots when bowling. (0)
- 24: TIL Test audiences hated ‘Dirty Dancing’ and the producer was so disappointed in the final product he said “Burn the negative, and collect the insurance.” Expected to be a box office bomb, instead was a smash hit,was the #1 video rental of ’88, and was first film to sell a million copies on video. (0)
- 24: TIL about the Oakland Buddha, placed by a resident on a street corner to prevent illegal dumping, the statue has now become a shrine for the local Vietnamese population who leave offerings and have even built a shelter for the Buddah. Crime in the area dropped 82% (0)
- 24: TIL that wearing of the Fez hat is illegal in Turkey, having been banned in 1925 (0)
- 24: TIL the saying “when one door closes, another opens” is a Alexander Graham Bell quote which he then followed by saying “but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” (0)
- 24: TIL an Icelandic tradition called Jólabókaflóð exists, where books are exchanged as Christmas Eve presents and the rest of the night is spent reading them and eating chocolate. (0)
- 24: TIL a convicted murderer was once granted a retrial after it was discovered that four members of the jury used a Ouija board to contact the victim before rendering their verdict. (0)
- 24: TIL Hawaii has nearly one tourist die each week while engaged in common vacation activities like swimming, snorkeling, hiking and going on scenic drives (0)
- 24: TIL Quebec banned ads for toys and fast food aimed at children under 13, resulting in lowered childhood obesity rates. (0)
- 24: TIL- When Dolly Parton went to a Dolly Parton look alike contest she lost to a man dressed like her. (0)
- 24: TIL that as a child, Michael Jackson’s father would torment him about his appearance, calling him ‘fat-nose’. Michael went on to have four rhinoplasties and fussed over how his body and face looked for the rest of his life. (0)
- 24: TIL: In 2011, Fleshlight, a brand of artificial-vagina sex-toys, sent a complimentary package of its products to the members of the SEALs team that killed Osama bin Laden. (0)
- 24: TIL Sir Ian McKellen broke down on the set of the Hobbit, announcing “This is not why I became an actor.”, due to filming the entire movie alone with the dwarves edited in afterwards. (0)
- 24: TIL: Rick Moranis stopped acting in 1997, after this wife died from breast cancer, so he could raise raise his children. (0)
- 24: TIL that The Beatles had a specific clause in their contract that stated that they would not ever have to play for a segregated audience. (0)
- 24: TIL that the band playing most of the songs on Michael Jackson’s Thriller album was Toto. (0)
- 24: TIL that if you planted the seeds of a Granny Smith apple, you wouldn’t get Granny Smith apple trees. Apples aren’t “true to seed”. (0)
- 24: TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, “The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!” (0)
- 24: TIL the Wright brothers didn’t like to fly together in fear of both of them dying in an accident. They wanted at least one of them to survive to carry on research. (0)
- 24: TIL of Douglas Albert Munro, the only US Coast Guard to receive the Medal of Honor. Whilst providing cover for ground troops with his boat, Munro was fatally wounded. The last words he said were, “did they get off?” referring to the soldiers he’d saved. He was 22 years old. (0)
- 24: TIL that George Washington had his own personal recipe for egg nog that he would serve to guests, which included one pint brandy, 1/2 pint rye whiskey, 1/2 pint Jamaica rum, and 1/4 pint sherry wine (0)
- 24: ELI5: Depressive realism (0)
- 24: TIL that Trader Joe’s has a “try before you buy” policy – where employees will open nearly ANYTHING for you to sample (0)
- 23: ELI5: Why are some things “so cute it hurts?” (0)
- 23: TIL that Apelles, an ancient Greek painter, was considered by many, including Pliny, to be the greatest artist in the world. Pliny recorded that Alexander the Great so admired Apelles’s work that he gave his concubine to him. Today, none of Apelles’s original works have survived. (0)
- 22: TIL that the mysterious baroque painter Johannes Gumpp is known to have painted only one self portrait which also happens to be a triple self portrait in which he appears from behind painting his own face reflected in a mirror. (0)
- 21: ELI5: How does the satellite business work? How do the small telecom companies get access to satellites that costed millions to get into orbit? (0)
- 21: ELI5: How does the body separates water from stomach acid? (0)
- 21: TIL that parts of Africa no longer want your clothing donations. The vast amount of these imports have devastated local clothing industries and led the region to rely far too heavily on the West. (0)
- 21: ELI5: How distance is computed in video games? (0)
- 20: TIL that the snow in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ was asbestos. The Wicked Witch’s broom was made of asbestos, as was the Scarecrow’s entire outfit despite the fact that asbestos’ health risks were already known at the time in 1939. (0)
- 20: TIL Oprah Winfrey owns a private road across Maui which cuts out hours of driving time. No one else is allowed to use the road. (0)
- 19: TIL Robin Williams provided 14 hours of improvised lines for his first animated voice work in ‘Ferngully: The Last Rainforest’. Originally given an 8-minute part, after impressing the director, Williams’ screen time was tripled. (0)
- 19: TIL that GameStation, a UK video game retailer, added a clause to their T&C’s that stated that you surrender your immortal soul when you place an order through their site, to show that people don’t read them. They now own 7500+ souls. (0)
- 18: TIL when George Westinghouse fell into financial problems and asked Nikola Tesla for relief from the royalties Westinghouse agreed to, Tesla tore up the contract that would bring him millions. “I’m not interested in money, I’m interested in leaving something behind for the humankind”. (0)
- 18: TIL for the first 40 million years that woody trees were around, wood was not biodegradable…until a fungus figured out how to rot it (0)
- 18: TIL that a company in England accidentally sent letters to some of their wealthy customers that began “Dear Rich Bastard” and one customer complained who did not receive the letter because he felt that his wealth warranted the “Rich Bastard” title (0)
- 17: TIL Rob McElhenney from “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” willingly gained 50 pounds in preparation for Season 7 of the show. He consumed 5000 calories per day, and only stopped when his doctor said that his lifestyle was putting too much stress on his heart. (0)
- 17: TIL that years before she was famous, Keira Knightley played Natalie Portman’s double in “The Phantom Menace”, and when the girls were in full makeup, even their mothers had trouble telling them apart. (0)
- 17: TIL Those who see Earth from space experience “The Overview Effect:” A remarkable sense of connection with the rest of the human race, and a desire for world peace. (0)
- 16: TIL Pearl Jam discovered Ticketmaster was adding a service charge to all their concert tickets without informing the band. The band then created their own outdoor stadiums for the fans and testified against Ticketmaster to the United States Department of Justice (0)
- 16: TIL Humans are the only mammals that develop breasts that are permanently enlarged. (0)
- 16: TIL that double stuffed Oreos are only stuffed 1.86x more than regular Oreos. (0)
- 15: ELI5: How was Russia able to redirect all cloud traffic through their country from multiple sources like Apple, Microsoft… Etc. Wouldn’t they have to compromise all the individual systems (like apple) to do this? What are the broader implications of this? (0)
- 15: TIL that one of the main engineers behind NASA’s Challenger rocket, which exploded in 1986, revealed that after NASA would not heed his warnings against launching in the cold weather, he told his wife the night before the launch, “It’s going to blow up.” (0)
- 15: TIL in the 1880s, many farmers communicated by connecting their phones to barbed wire fences. This process often allowed for up to 20 people to be connected at once, everyone’s phone would ring regardless of who called, and the invention helped many farmers overcome depression and loneliness. (0)
- 15: TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger started a bricklaying business when he first came to America and became a millionaire after buying and selling houses before he became an actor. (0)
- 15: TIL that 2,000-year-old seeds were discovered in 1963 inside an ancient jar in Israel. They were planted in 2005 and a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted. (0)
- 14: TIL British celebrity Katie Hopkins condemned parents who give geography-inspired names to their children in an interview. When the presenter pointed out that her daughter is called India she said “that’s not related to a location” (0)
- 14: TIL Thomas Jefferson believed Jesus’s teachings were “the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man,” but that they had been appropriated by his followers, resulting in a Bible that contained both “diamonds of wisdom” and the “dung” of ancient political agendas. (0)
- 14: TIL that pepper spray is banned from being used in war since it is considered a chemical weapon but is generally allowed as a riot control agent. (0)
- 14: TIL that in WWI trench guns were given to US soldiers skilled in trap shooting so they could shoot incoming grenades out of the air (0)
- 13: TIL: John Spinello, the inventor of the game ‘Operation’ sold it for $500 USD in 1964 to a toy inventor. It has since made more than $40 million in sales for the Milton Bradley Company. In 2014, he had to crowdfund to afford a $25,000 operation to fix his teeth. (0)
- 13: TIL Researchers suggest that the discovery of fire influenced human evolution. Fire allowed humans to cook their food, which made food easier to chew and digest—which, in turn, contributed to the reduction of human tooth and gut size. (0)
- 13: TIL that Axe advertising was targeted to work on insecure males. The ads were so successful that the brand eventually backpedaled, as the brand was being too closely associated with their target group. (0)
- 12: TIL during the exceptionally cold winter of 1795, a French Hussar regiment captured the Dutch fleet on the frozen Zuiderzee, a bay to the northwest of the Netherlands. The French seized 14 warships and 850 guns. This is one of the only times in recorded history where calvary has captured a fleet. (0)
- 12: TIL In 2013, a Pizza Hut GM Stood Up and Refused to Force His Employees to Work Thanksgiving, Believing They Should Get to Spend Time With Family Instead. (0)
- 12: TIL that because a patch of clovers usually contains around 10,000 plants in 13 square feet, you only have to search an area around the size of an office desk to find a four leaf clover. (0)
- 12: TIL in 1988, Cosmopolitan magazine ran an article stating that women had no chance of contracting HIV from sex with a man because HIV could not be transmitted in the missionary position (0)
- 11: TIL that in 2013, Star Wars was dubbed in Navajo, making it the first major film to be dubbed in a Native American language (0)
- 11: TIL Astronauts attach pieces of Velcro into their helmets to scratch their noses during space walks. (0)
- 11: TIL A 3M adhesive tape plant accidentally created a force field of static electricity that was strong enough to prevent humans from passing through. A person near this “wall” was unable to turn, and so had to walk backwards to retreat from it. (0)
- 10: TIL John Barrowman, who is gay, auditioned to play Will on “Will & Grace” but was turned down for being “too straight”. The role went instead to Eric McCormack, who actually is straight. (0)
- 10: TIL businessman Armand Hammer got asked so much if he worked at Arm & Hammer, he bought enough stock in the company to get on their board of directors (0)
- 10: TIL a Japanese professor searching to find out what happened to Einstein’s brain discovered that it was being kept in a mason jar by a retiree in Kansas, who would occasionally shave off slices with a kitchen knife and mail it to people if they asked for some of it (0)
- 10: TIL that peeling scotch tape in a vacuum produces radiation powerful enough to xray the human body (0)
- 09: TIL actress Kate Mara is the great-granddaughter of both Tim Mara (founder of the NY Giants) and Art Rooney (founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers). Her acting contracts have a clause stating that if any of these teams make it to the Super Bowl, she will attend the game before work. (0)
- 09: TIL Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, believed that his professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper from George Orwell. He received a B-. (0)
- 09: TIL that Monster and similar companies make cans of water, so it appears that celebrities are drinking their product while actually just drinking water. (0)
- 08: TIL: De Beers has spent millions trying to detect the difference between “real” diamonds and modern lab-grown diamonds – so far to no avail – as the diamond supply floods with cheap chinese lab-grown gems. (0)
- 08: TIL A town in West Virginia named Mole Hill, WV changed it’s name to Mountain, WV so they could literally make a mountain out of a mole hill. (0)
- 08: TIL that James Cameron decided to quit his job as a truck driver to enter the film industry after watching Star Wars. (0)
- 07: TIL” George Washington allegedly said before his death that he “would never set foot on English soil again,” so when they erected a statue of him in London, they put US soil under the statue to honor that claim (0)
- 07: TIL A man from Spain skipped work for 6 years whilst still being payed before anyone noticed. (0)
- 07: TIL about James Fallon, a neuroscientist who studied the brain scans of psychopaths, only to discover that he was one himself (0)
- 06: TIL Carrie Fisher used gaffer’s tape to hold down her breasts because George Lucas ‘didn’t want her looking too aggressively feminine’. Carrie Fisher joked about it saying: ‘No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire’. (0)
- 05: TIL When Tim Schafer, co-designer of Secret of Monkey Island was being interviewed for LucasArts, he said he was a big fan of LucasArts’ game “Ballblaster”. The interviewer told him the game was named “Ballblazer” and only the pirated copies were named “Ballblaster” (0)
- 05: TIL Marcia Lucas, George Lucas’ then wife, was the reason for major changes to the Original Star Wars film. Obi Wan’s death, Leia’s good Luck Kiss and re-editing the trench run to increase tension were all her ideas. She won the Academy Award for editing the film while George did not for directing. (0)
- 05: TIL when men don’t masturbate for 7 days their testosterone levels increase by 45.7%. (0)
- 05: TIL that the Chinese use drones equipped with flame-throwers to fight trash stuck in power lines. (0)
- 04: TIL that over 1983-2000, 96% of US plane crash victims survived. (0)
- 04: TIL – During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally led the defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son enlisted in the infanty. (0)
- 03: ELI5: Why does popular software like Spotify, Firefox or Google Chrome have very small (less than 1 megabyte) installer files when all they do is download larger amounts of data immediately after starting? (0)
- 03: TIL that whilst Filming the Wizard of Oz, Judy Garland was shunned by the Scarecrow, Tinman and Cowardly Lion due to jealousy. Her only friend on the set was Margaret Hamilton who played the Wicked Witch of the West (0)
- 03: TIL it takes more water to make a water bottle than the water it contains (0)
- 02: YSK: You can use incognito mode to get around most “you’ve ran out of free views” paywalls, like on WaPo (0)
- 02: YSK How to safely approach a dog, and your kids should too (0)
- 02: YSK: Copiers have internal hard drives that store every document copied, faxed and printed. (0)
- 02: YSK: You are personally responsible for keeping copies of your immunization records. (0)
- 02: ELI5: Surveyors who survey land and roads before a new construction project. What are you doing? (0)
- 02: TIL of Magdalena Solis, a Mexican prostitute who was paid to imitate an Incan goddess as part of a scam. She then began to genuinely believe she was a goddess, took over the cult, and started sacrificing her followers. (0)
- 02: TIL of the “Pompeii Masturbator:” a man who appears to have been forever immortalised in the midst of some personal time. (0)
- 01: TIL if you threw a stone overboard above the Mariana Tench (6.8 mi deep) it would take an hour for it to hit the ocean floor. (0)
- 01: ELI5: Why do car windows get a grid pattern on them (0)
- 01: TIL Ronnie O’Sullivan, considered one of the greatest snooker players of all time, once purposely missed a maximum score of 147 by one point because he didn’t think the £10,000 prize was high enough. (0)
- 01: TIL that John Cleese once defaced his school’s grounds “as a prank, by painting footprints to suggest that the statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet” (0)
- November 2017 (139)
- 30: TIL The invention of cultured pearls largely destroyed the economy of Kuwait due to the reliance on pearl diving. (0)
- 30: ELI5: Why does chewing mint gum make everything you drink feel like liquid nitrogen? (0)
- 29: ELI5: As the universe expands, what is happening on a micro level where new space is being created (or stretched)? (0)
- 29: Dog going the distance & Octopus outsmarts the shark (0)
- 29: TIL Nearly 8% of the human genome is virus DNA. Meaning some of our ancestors survived a virus but still carry the DNA it inserted. (0)
- 29: ELI5: Is there a chemical reason we don’t make banana jam or jelly? Or is it just some weird flavour preference that the whole world seems to share? (0)
- 29: TIL it is illegal under German law to deny the holocaust, which is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. (0)
- 28: ELI5: What’s the difference between UEFI and BIOS? (0)
- 27: IWTL How to make electronic music (0)
- 27: IWTL about the most basic equipment I need to play music shows and sing and how to hook it all up properly and in a time effective manner. (0)
- 27: Why some animals live for so long compared to others (0)
- 27: TIL that Starbucks sometimes operates at a loss intentionally and clusters several locations in a small geographical area to become anti-competitive in the market. (0)
- 27: Learn to read Korean – It’s pretty easy (0)
- 27: TIL In 1651, when king Charles II was forced into exile by Oliver Cromwell, the king was aided in his escape to France by the Pendrill family. After the restoration of the crown in 1660, the king rewarded them, and a yearly pension is still paid to the descendants of the Pendrill family to this day. (1)
- 27: ELI5: How can a piece of paper folded 103 times be larger than the observable universe? (0)
- 27: TIL A researcher once played a recording of an elephant who had died. The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The family went wild calling, looking all around. The dead elephant’s daughter called for days afterward. The researchers never again did such a thing. (0)
- 27: ELI5: Maternal haplogroups mean we’re all descended from the same woman? (0)
- 26: Technique with speed (0)
- 26: ELI5: With all the technological advances of the current millennium, why are flights from Point A to Point B the same duration as decades ago? Why aren’t commercial airplanes flying significantly faster today than decades ago? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What causes the sticky, frictional feeling you get on your hands after using bar soap? (0)
- 26: ELI5: What was the Old Fashioned cocktail called before it was old enough to be old fashioned? (0)
- 26: TIL in 1921, “Black Wall Street” was the wealthiest Black community in America before being attacked by an angry mob which killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed 35 city blocks. (0)
- 25: TIL of Regulatory Capture, when a governmental regulatory agency ceases to promote the interest of the public, but instead does the exact opposite by advancing the commercial or political concerns of special interest groups that dominate the industry or sector it is charged with regulating. (0)
- 25: ELI5: Why is chicken pox relatively harmless in children but potentially fatal in adults? (0)
- 25: TIL After the British set fire to Washington D.C. during the War Of 1812, a tornado appeared out of nowhere and put out the fire saving Washington D.C. (0)
- 25: ELI5: What is Dwarf Fortress and why it is made difficult? (0)
- 25: TIL The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day for Plumbers around the United States (0)
- 25: ELI5: How do we know when we’ve chewed something long enough? (0)
- 25: ELI5: How come spent nuclear fuel is constantly being cooled for about 2 decades? Why can’t we just use the spent fuel to boil water to spin turbines? (0)
- 25: TIL in Interstellar the depiction of a black hole required completely new CGI rendering software and was so accurate that it provided enough scientifical insight to publish three scientific papers (0)
- 25: ELI5: Why does increasing the time before stopping reduce the force of an impact? (0)
- 25: ELI5: How does being vegetarian change your body? What happens to your body if you started to eat meat after 20 years of being veggie? (0)
- 25: ELI5: When there’s a mirror scene in a movie or television show, how do they get the shot without showing the camera in the mirror, especially with a head on face shot? (0)
- 25: ELI5: Why does boiling water stop rolling when you stir it? (0)
- 25: ELI5: In extremely cold weathers, why is it that we layer 3-4 and sometimes more pieces of clothing for our upper body, but not do the same for our lower body? (0)
- 24: ELI5: Why can’t retail deodorant sprays (Axe, Old Spice, Dove) replicate the fragrance of boutique colognes (Burberry, Hugo Boss, even CKs)? (0)
- 24: TIL 2000-year-old graffiti was discovered in the ancient city of Pompeii, such as “On April 19th, I made bread.” and “If anyone does not believe in Venus, they should gaze at my girlfriend.” (0)
- 24: ELI5: How can dust float in the air? Surely the dust particles are heavier than air, so they should sink. (0)
- 23: TIL Thomas Jefferson was Deist, the belief that a God created the universe but hasn’t interfered with it since. (0)
- 23: TIL Eaths magnetic poles flip on average every 200,000 – 300,000 years. Last time it flipped? 780,000 years ago. (0)
- 23: ELI5: The economics of the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade? (0)
- 23: ELI5: Can someone explain how what happens when you consume sugar? I hear terms like Glucose, Insulin, some gets transferred to fat cells etc etc (0)
- 23: TIL that after its tourism sector boomed, Kazakhstan’s foreign minister thanked Sacha Baron Cohen in 2012 for the release of Borat after the country saw a 10x increase in issued visas. (0)
- 23: TIL: When FDR died, Eleanor Roosevelt told Harry Truman that the president was dead. When he asked there was anything he could do for her, she replied, “Is there anything we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.” (0)
- 23: ELI5: How do smelling salts wake you up after you’ve been unconscious? (0)
- 23: Watch the moment a North Korean soldier defected to the South (0)
- 23: Chainsaw Elvis (0)
- 23: ELI5: Off Camera flash Duration and Shutterspeed (0)
- 23: ELI5: Why scientists can’t create a living organism from scratch (0)
- 22: TIL that Mother Teresa did not work to alleviate poverty, lied to donors about how contributions were spent, allowed the sick to suffer as she believed suffering was a gift from god, but opted for advanced heart treatment for herself. (0)
- 22: TIL that a 2012 survey of 1,000 Americans found that 45% of them wished they could skip Christmas due to financial pressures (0)
- 22: TIL as a child, martial arts actor Jet Li was asked by Richard Nixon to be his personal bodyguard. Li replied, “I don’t want to protect any individual. When I grow up, I want to defend my one billion Chinese countrymen!” (0)
- 22: TIL the word “dashboard” originated as a barrier of wood or leather fixed at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect the driver from mud or other debris “dashed up” (thrown up) by the horses’ hooves. (0)
- 22: ELI5: How do small, isolated groups of people (like the people who live on small islands) maintain enough genetic diversity to avoid genetic defects in the long term, both in modern times and in antiquity? (0)
- 22: Ninja Dad reflex of a bike mechanic saved not only 1 but 2 children! (0)
- 22: TIL that 28 fossils of the largest extinct species of snake were discovered in a coal mine of Columbia. The “Titanoboa” lived about 65 million years ago. The species clocked out at about 48 feet long and weighed roughly 2,500 lb. (0)
- 22: ELI5: How is it possible that ISP’s can see what you are up to online? I thought HTTPs encrypted your traffic so it can’t be read? (0)
- 22: TIL John F. Kennedy’s brain was removed and stored in the National Archive after his autopsy. The brain was subsequently lost and remains missing to this day. (0)
- 22: TIL The League of Women Voters used to run presidential debates that gave every nominee a equal amount of time to speak, Republicans and Democrats joined together to make the Commission for Presidential Debates, making it harder for third parties to be fairly represented (0)
- 22: Currently the residents in Barrow, Alaska are saying goodbye to the sun. Until January 22nd. (0)
- 22: TIL that Aeschylus, the ancient Greek tragedian, was supposedly prophesied to die from a falling object, and therefore stayed outdoors. He was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock. (0)
- 22: ELI5: What happens that makes beer taste terrible after warming up and then re-chilling? What makes beer ‘skunky’? (0)
- 22: TIL that the World Bank stopped tracking inflation in Zimbabwe in November 2008, when it reached 79.6 billion percent. One year later, the country abandoned its currency. The exchange rate at the time was $35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars to $1 USD. (0)
- 22: ELI5: What’s special about CO2 that we add it to water/soda and not other gasses? Why not use compressed air or another gas? (0)
- 22: ELI5: How do “text x to xxxxx” phone shortcode numbers work? (0)
- 22: ELI5: If/do our bodies swell in certain areas to protect a hurt or damaged area. Why do we use things like ice packs to reduce swelling of that area? (0)
- 21: Bonsai tree castle (0)
- 21: TIL that due to the way a rotting apple releases ethylene (which accelerates rotting), one bad apple really does ruin the whole bunch (0)
- 21: ELI5: When food goes stale, does it also become less nutricious? (0)
- 21: ELI5: How do mines handle snow? Like several meters. Aren’t they pressure sensitive and wouldn’t the added pressure just blow up the mine? (0)
- 21: TIL on 9/11, despite security telling people to stay, Aon executives began evacuating their employees and thus saved 924 lives. (0)
- 21: TIL that the ADE 651; an inert rod of metal with a plastic hinge, was sold as a bomb detector. It was used by the militaries of Iraq, Afghanistan and more than a dozen other countries for years before anyone noticed that it did nothing at all. (0)
- 21: ELI5: What exactly stops our bodies from defecating and urinating as we sleep? What acts as an “alarm” that jolts us awake when we do need to do these things? (0)
- 21: TIL that the Slinky was invented by accident, when a Mechanical Engineer was working to devise springs that could keep sensitive ship equipment steady at sea. After accidentally knocking some samples off a shelf, he watched in amazement as they gracefully “walked” down instead of falling. (0)
- 21: TIL that the Nintendo character Kirby was named after John Kirby, the legal counsel for Nintendo who helped them win their lawsuit with Universal Studios in 1982. John Kirby was gifted a sailboat Christened the “Donkey Kong” and given exclusive rights to name any boat he owned “Donkey Kong.” (0)
- 21: ELI5: why do tongues get weird bumps when burnt or after eating something really sweet or really salty? (0)
- 21: World highest climbing wall (0)
- 21: Smart Crow (0)
- 21: ELI5: Why do singers from earlier eras (such as the 1920’s) sound different from singers today and why can’t many people still replicate that tone? (0)
- 21: TIL that early humans hunted animals by chasing them to exhaustion. “Persistence hunting” takes advantage of humans’ two legs and ability to sweat, which makes us stronger distance runners than prey. (0)
- 21: Bikeball (0)
- 21: TIL that Peter Weller, the actor most famous for playing Robo Cop earned PhD in Art History, writing a dissertation on the Italian Renaissance in 2014 (0)
- 21: TIL roman emperor Diocletian retired in 305 AD to grow cabbages and tend to his vegetable gardens. (0)
- 21: Archer shoots arrows that change direction mid air (0)
- 21: TIL Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets’ was deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” enough for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the United States Library of Congress in 2016, the first metal recording to do so. (0)
- 21: The bald Uakari’s head looks like it belongs on a different animal. (0)
- 21: ELI5: Why do companies (Google, Apple, etc.) that have billions of dollars worth of debt not pay it off when they have the money for it? (0)
- 21: Urban Skiing (0)
- 21: 3D-Printed Millenium Falcon (Timelapse) (0)
- 21: TIL the human eye is capable of seeing some ultra-violet light but it is filtered out by the lenses in our eye. Painter Claude Monet had that lens removed due to cataracts and may have been able to see ultra-violet in his right eye. (0)
- 20: The Saiga antelope looks like an animal out of a science fiction movie or video game (0)
- 20: ELI5: How do air breathing sea animals like dolphins or whales not drown during violent seastorms? (0)
- 20: ELI5: why is math (statistics, calculus, etc) so important for a strong programmer? (0)
- 20: TIL the German Parliament has the grafiti “I f**k Hitler in the a**” preserved as a historic monument on one of its walls (0)
- 20: TIL that during Charles Manson’s trial, the judge began carrying a revolver under his robe after Manson charged at him with a pencil. (0)
- 20: The Most Painful Word Search Ever (0)
- 20: TIl that in Welsh folk legend, corgis were a gift from the woodland fairies, and that the breed’s markings were left on its coat by fairy harnesses and saddles. (0)
- 20: Scary security camera footage of the recent Mexico earthquake (0)
- 20: ELI5: If computers are lightning-fast at running calculations and performing tasks, why does “freezing” take seconds or even minutes? (0)
- 20: TIL that despite US denial for 26 years, eight members of the Alabama Air National Guard volunteered to pose as Cuban rebel pilots during the Bay of Pigs invasion. Of these 8, 4 were killed when promised air cover never arrived, with two of the pilots dying in a firefight after being shot down. (0)
- 20: TIL that Sir Richard Branson dislikes the formality of neck ties so much that he often carries around a pair of scissors with him, ready to cut the ties off of unsuspecting tie wearers. He even has a cushion that he keeps at his home on Necker Island made up from the ties of some of his victims. (0)
- 20: How pencils are made (0)
- 20: Turkish Coffee being brewed in hot sand (0)
- 20: TIL there was a German architect who devoted his whole life to promote his grand scheme of damming and draining the Mediterranean to create vast amounts of land and to unite Europe and Africa into one super continent. (0)
- 20: World Formula 1 champion driver Lewis Hamilton playing s dangerous game with a tiger (0)
- 20: Creepy Spiderman – Ribbon worm shooting its proboscis (0)
- 20: TIL King Gustav III of Sweden commuted the death sentences of a set of twins to life imprisonment if one drank 3 pots of coffee and the other drank 3 pots of tea to test the effects of the newly introduced coffee. (0)
- 20: TIL That the stormtrooper who hit his head on the door in the original Star Wars was also the stormtrooper who got mind tricked with “these are not the droids you’re looking for”. His name is Wanten. (0)
- 20: ELI5: Submariners, from the point of view of the crew aboard. Once submerged, do subs ever experience “rough seas”? (0)
- 20: ELI5: When doing the same amount of physical labor, why do some people sweat a lot while others don’t? (0)
- 20: TIL that by law, no United States officer can outrank George Washington. He was posthumously promoted to Six-Star General in 1976. (0)
- 19: TIL that Nintendo sued Galoob to prevent the release of its NES cheating device, the Game Genie; a legal battle followed. But for the Sega Genesis version, Sega not only allowed its release, but officially licensed it. (0)
- 19: ELI5: Why do we wake up starving the morning after a night of binge eating? (0)
- 19: ELI5: They say 70% of taste is smell. When we smell, let’s say a public restroom, are we actually inhaling and “tasting” particles? (0)
- 19: TIL Christopher Columbus was stuck in Jamaica with angry natives refusing to give him food. Knowing that a lunar eclipse was going to happen, Columbus told the natives that his gods were angry for refusing him food. After the eclipse, the scared natives gave him lots of food and begged for mercy. (0)
- 19: TIL that when humans domesticated wolves, we basically bred Williams syndrome into dogs, which is characterized by “cognitive difficulties and a tendency to love everyone” (0)
- 19: TIL of ‘The Great Impostor’, who successfully impersonated a career as a ship’s doctor, a civil engineer, a sheriff’s deputy, an assistant prison warden, a doctor of applied psychology, a hospital orderly, a lawyer, a child-care expert, amonk, an editor, a cancer researcher, and a teacher (0)
- 19: TIL That 7% of all American adults (which equates to around 16 million people) believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows (0)
- 19: ELI5: How does modern recycling work? How are containers filled with food handled? What percentage of recyclables are actually thrown out? (0)
- 19: TIL that adding salt on pineapples makes it sweeter. The salt reacts with the acids of the fruit, thus converting into a neutral compound and losing the sour taste. Because of this, the pineapple then becomes sweeter. (0)
- 19: TIL that the song “Dick In a Box” by the Lonely Island won an Emmy (0)
- 19: ELI5:What are the main differences between popular opiates and why do people choose to do some over others for recreational purposes? (0)
- 19: ELI5: Why is it so difficult to type (i.e. move your fingers quickly and precisely, or even at all) when your hands are very cold? (0)
- 19: ELI5: Why do some alcoholics suffer life threatening withdrawl symptoms when others with the same drinking habits don’t when they quit? (0)
- 19: TIL that Homer Simpson’s iconic exclamation “D’oh!” is never explicitly used in any Simpson’s Script. All the script ever says is “annoyed grunt” (0)
- 19: TIL in 2008 Dmitry Agarkov changed a credit card agreement to his benefit – and the bank signed it. When in 2010 the bank wanted him to pay late fees, he sued it, as according to the changed deal, it owed him money – 24m rubles (ca. $727k). It all ended with an out-of-court settlement. (0)
- 18: TIL the original developer of Plants vs. Zombies was fired after objecting to its sequel becoming more pay to win (0)
- 18: TIL that the five-mile-long Mackinac Bridge has a program that sends a crew member to drive people across if they’re too afraid to drive themselves. It gets between 1,200 to 1,400 calls every year (0)
- 18: ELI5: Water is H2O, hydrogen peroxide is H2O2, how can one extra oxygen molecule turn into something that can kill you (0)
- 18: TIL the oldest known individual tree in the world is 5,067 years old, yet there are no photos of the tree online, and its location is kept secret to protect it (0)
- 18: ELI5: Why do planes need to turn? (0)
- 18: ELI5: How can a needle on a Vinyl record recreate music perfectly including the Audio highs and lows? (0)
- 18: ELI5: How can the gunpowder inside the ammo shell explode of there’s very limited oxygen for combustion? (0)
- 18: TIL: The NHS in the UK had only one man registered as a rectal teaching assistant, offering his anus to be examined by trainee doctors. TIAL: He has lost his job to a robot anus. (0)
- 18: TIL butterscotch is made with butter and brown sugar. Toffee is made with the same ingredients, but cooked longer. (0)
- 18: TIL Vitaminwater is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny’s worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage (0)
- 18: TIL the city of Melbourne gave email addresses to trees so locals could report problems, but they received thousands of love letters instead (0)
- 18: ELI5: Why do Large Planes Require Horizontal and Vertical Separation to Avoid Vortices, But Military Planes Fly Closely Together With No Issue? (0)
- 18: TIL That the US Treasury planned to replace Alexander Hamilton’s face on the $10 bill with a notable woman from US history, but decided to instead change Jackson’s face on the $20 bill, almost entirely due to the popularity of “Hamilton” (0)
- October 2017 (8)
- 20: Mawlynnong ancient tree root bridge in India (0)
- 18: TIL that the Polish medal for couples who have made it to 50 years of marriage has a higher rank than the medal for deployment to Afghanistan (0)
- 18: TIL if you are thrown out of a Las Vegas strip club, you are entitled to be reimbursed your cover charge and the cost of any alcoholic beverage you purchased. (Las Vegas Code of Ordinances sec.6.06B.090(O).) (0)
- 18: TIL we call letters “uppercase” and “lowercase” because the original printing presses kept letter blocks in literal cases; since small letters were used more often, they kept them in the bottom case for easy access; thus, lowercase (and uppercase) were born. (0)
- 03: Kingfisher catching a fish underwater (0)
- 02: The “Sea Angel” slug swimming (0)
- 01: View inside the bomb bay from a B-52 (0)
- 01: TIL that most Americans aren’t aware of blackcurrant flavour (one of the most popular soft drink and confection flavours in the world) due to a ban on the plant in the 1900s because of its role in spreading disease among white pines, a principle industry of the growing American republic. (0)
- June 2017 (8)
- 15: ELI5: Why can’t the asteroid belt accumulate into one rocky planet? (0)
- 15: ELI5: Why is it important to do stretches before exercising (i.e. pull-ups, push-ups, weightlifting, etc)? (0)
- 15: ELI5: Since our bodies aren’t 100% efficient at absorbing nutrients from food, wouldn’t the nutritional information found on most food packaging be inaccurate, as not all of the calories, protein etc. are absorbed? (0)
- 15: ELI5: Why do we lose Appetite when we are anxious/Nervous? (0)
- 15: ELI5: Encryption and decryption with prime number factorisation (0)
- 15: Why do we switch over to other mammals milk, instead of sticking with breast milk, if it is made specifically for humans? Wouldn’t it be better for us, then say cows milk? (0)
- 15: Why do we continually need to search for new porn to arouse us? What exactly is it that eventually drains all previous porn off its original arousability? (0)
- 11: What is it about electricity that makes it so dangerous to the human body? (0)