✈️ In 1962, US Air Force ejected a live black bear named Yogi out of a bomber plane flying at supersonic speed to test their new ejection seat system. It was the first time a living creature was ejected from a supersonic airplane (the bear survived the ordeal!)

🏥 When YouTuber Will Osman got a $69K hospital bill, he decided to MacGyver his own functional X-Ray machine.

🎂 Love playing Wordle? This Wordle-themed birthday cake hits all of the right boxes!

🏆 If learning is not a competition, then there shouldn't be winners, right? That's what the Cherry Creek School District in Colorado reasoned when they decided to stop recognizing valedictorians. Needless to say, that decision was controversial.

🐵 A naughty young chimp in a zoo threw a rock at a nearby human visitor ... and got instant karma when a momma chimp spanked it with a stick. Whack!

🐓 A rooster stranded by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana found a new home and a job as a mascot at a local Popeye's fast food restaurant.

🍸 How to make a disembodied eyeball for your Zombie Martini Cocktail out of radishes and olives.

🎨 The Tolkien estate has released never seen before Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit artwork by J.R.R. Tolkien. Gorgeous!

🛸 When a mysterious item crashed near their home in Turkey, these elderly couple thought that they were visited by an alien spaceship.

✋ Lastly, mere hours after the slap heard 'round the world, here's the Will Smith Slap Meme Generator.

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😺 It's a fact of life that cats shed (and sometimes, they throw up a hairball) but you don't have to let all that fluffy fur go to waste. Instead, just do what Twitter user @MiniraDairy did and needlefelt some house slippers for your cat. A-meow-zing!

🐋 This lost young narwhal have found a new family: a pod of beluga whales that "adopted" it.

🎹 There are many cover of this famous video game theme music, but Scott Bradlee of Postmodern Jukebox has managed to give us chills some playing the Super Mario Bros. theme music as ragtime piano medley. Fantastic!

🗄️ The one thing that's more impressive than the quantity of Sailor Moon collectibles owned by @clipnotebook is the next level organization she employed.

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🤖 Doctor Frankenstein, I presume? Scientists have made lab-grown living "xenobot" robot that can replicate and make more of themselves. And they're shaped like Pac-Man!

💑 Hollywood rom-coms are wrong: science has debunked "opposites attract" as researchers found that friends and lovers actually tend to share beliefs, values, and hobbies.

🦥 Got a home gym? Perhaps a Peloton that's now serving as a laundry station? Then this comic title "Smart" Home Gym Equipment for the Less Active by Gemma Correll will surely resonate.

🎵 "Every song has been tempo matched, beat synced, harmonized and spliced together perfectly. Honestly, it's a work of genius": 600 Songs from 1990 to 1999 remixed. What a fun musical blast from the past.

Image: @Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman

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🎨 Here's a nine-panel AI generated artwork by @TDRAW_Ai_Art, with each panel depicting a futuristic cityscape. But when the nine panels are put together, you'll see the Mona Lisa, as drawn by AI. I'm sure Leonardo da Vinci would approve!

😺 This cat was so engrossed watching The Lion King on TV until Simba came along and ... sent him tumbling off the ledge! Poor kitty.

❤️ A young woman had all kinds of matters of the heart in a single day. No, we mean literally all kinds of matters of the heart: she got married and got a heart transplant surgery all in one day.

🎃 From our new site Spooky Daily, where we celebrate everything Halloween 365 days a year, here are some celebrities that were born on Halloween. Some of them probably got sick and tired of candies as birthday presents.

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😻 Florida artist Nella F created this fantastic "Flat Tom" rug from the cartoon classic Tom & Jerry.

🐦 Designer Marsia Holzer created a stylish table shaped like a bird that can expand by spreading its wings.

🐂 When Landis Hook saw his son Cody got thrown off a rodeo bull and knocked unconscious, he did what every father would do: he jumped in, shielded his son's body with his own against the bull's horns.

🥧 I'm drooling for Gustav Klimt's The Kiss made in pie. Lemon pie to be exact (the artist called it a "Klimt Klemon Pie" which is all sorts of clever. Kissable AND edible, a rare combo indeed).

🥪 This California bear cub opened a man's car door twice trying to steal his St. Patrick's Day corned beef sandwich. The bear must be very hungry or that's one helluva corned beef sandwich (or both, I suppose).

🦑 You may be stylish, but you'll never be as stylish as the flamboyant cuttlefish.

Image: Rachel Sally/La Peche Fraiche

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🌙 The International Space Station orbits the Earth at a speed of 27000 km/h (16,800 mph) so it takes it just half a second to transit the Moon. But amazingly, astrophotographer Thierry Legault managed to take this phenomenal photo of the International Space Station crossing the Moon.

🏀 During a basketball game between the Indiana Hoosiers and Saint Mary's Gaels, a basketball got stuck between the backboard and the shot clock. But when even the tallest player and a referee with a mop standing on a chair couldn't dislodge the ball, it was time to call in the big guns: cheerleaders.

⚗️ Of 575 chemistry professors in the United Kingdom, just one is black.

🇺🇦 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy minifig and teeny tiny LEGO Molotov cocktails raised $145K for Ukraine.

👻 Ghostbusters 1954 is a clever mashup of 17 movies, including The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello meets the Invisible Man, and The Day The Earth Stood Still and stars Hollywood luminaries such as Bob Hope and Dean Martin. It's a YouTube masterpiece!

🥢 What do you do with used wooden chopsticks? Upcycle them into housewares and furnitures!

🕹️ In 2005, a fan-made render of the portable GameCube Advance went viral and people have been wishing for Nintendo to make it real. A hacker by the name of GingerofOz got tired of waiting and decided to build his own GameCube Advance.

🐼 Some animals are just endowed with higher cute quotient than others. Take, for example, red pandas (which you might learn from the new Pixar movie Turning Red). But there is one thing cuter than a red panda: baby red panda! And the Taronga Zoo in Australia got two new baby red pandas guaranteed to make you say "awww!"

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🦆 Photographer Rhys McKinnon snapped this beautiful photo of three ducks at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island in Massachusetts during sunset and later discovered that he had also captured a fourth hidden animal. See if you can find it before you click the link to find out where the animal was.

🦋 We know that Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever are smart, outgoing and affectionate, but this one named Milo is on another level of friendliness: the dog is best friends with butterflies in his fur mom's flower garden!

Image: @rhysmckinnonphotography/IG

From Pop Culturista, where we showcase everything pop culture:

📞 If you love putting together plastic models from model kits as a pastime, then you should visit Shizuoka City, Japan. The "model city" - home of the famous model kit company Tamiya - has unique and functional art installations that pay homage to the toy, including a mailbox and a public payphone that look like a plastic model kit.

👠 Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II has a staff member whose job is to break in Her Majesty's new shoes by wearing them?

🎵 Brick artist Julius von Brunk has recreated the rock band Nirvana in LEGO. Smells like brick spirits!

Image: @NTTWestOfficial/Twitter

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🤣 Security camera caught this four-year-old kid from Andover, Kansas, having a particularly bad case of the Mondays.

💨 Warm front moving in from the South: Did this Louisville weatherman fart on air? Turn your volume up and brace for 100% chance of Twitter comment storm.

From Homes & Hues, our architecture and home decor blog:

🏊‍♀️ This former asylum's church was converted into a stunning indoor swimming pool. There's just something about crystal blue water and gothic arches!

🧷 Don't settle for ho-hum furniture for your nursery. Check out how this father turned an ordinary toolbox into a "Crap-On" diaper changing station.

From Pictojam, our science and technology site:

🔥 Inside a marbles factory: Here's how they turn lumps of red-hot molten glass into perfectly round marbles.

🦑 A newly discovered 10-armed, 325 million-year-old squid fossil is named after President Joe Biden. Fun fact: the species is the ancestral grandfather of the "vampire squid from hell" (who says science can't make politics fun?)

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🏠 Normal people would leave their attic to gather dust in peace or perhaps use it as an extra storage space, but not Blake Weaver. He built an EPIC secret fort (complete with a ball pit) in his attic.

🎬 8 Reasons why people thought that James Cameron's Titanic would be a huge flop. But instead of sinking (heh), the movie was the first to ever gross over a billion dollars!

🐱 You won't guess where this missing cat was found.

🚗 Hero: North Carolina woman fights the DMV to keep "FART" license plate.

🕹️ Mr. Bean inserted into Half-Life 2 worked so well that there's now Episode #2.

🌊 I can hold my breath for, like, 30 seconds tops but this Croatian free diver can hold his breath underwater for 24 minutes and 37 seconds. Hey, that's longer than the average TV show!

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There's no such thing as a bad hair day when you're this cute! Meet Lockland Samples, a toddler from Roswell, Georgia, who looks like a rock star all day, every day. He's got a rare condition called "Uncombable Hair Syndrome." The condition is so rare that he's one of just about 100 known cases in the world.

Psst, wanna stay at an Airbnb shaped like a Hobbit's house? It's one of the most popular vacation home made by the Queen of Offbeat Airbnbs.

Forget Tinder! Competition for single females in London is fierce so young Jeevan Bhachu knows that the way to meet his future wife is by taking out an ad in the tube station (Oxford Circus? That's high-street shopping district so you know he's aiming high!)

Image: @uncombable_locks/IG

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These Stranger Things Demogorgon kitchen sponges have got us jumping upside down with excitement!

Isn't a meteorite hitting your house basically the universe taking a potshot at you? If so, then Roky the German Shepherd is one lucky dog. A meteorite slammed into his doghouse and punched a 7-inch hole in its roof. Roky survived AND his humans sold the doghouse at auction for $44K! That'll buy a whole lot of dog treats!

This hairdresser describes the 5 types of moms who bring their children to the salon for a haircut. So, which one is you (or your mom)?

Nature is metal. This photo of a leopard seal about to devour an unsuspecting Gentoo penguin by photographer Amos Nachoum won the grand prize of the 2021 World Nature Photography Awards.

Add this to the list of reasons why your parents should let you play video games: it makes young surgeons perform laparoscopic surgeries better and with fewer errors.

The latest in the Scream movie franchise hit the theater a while ago, but if you haven't seen it (or if you have seen it), then check out this scarily honest Honest Trailer for Scream 5. But who answers phone calls anymore these days?

Image: Amos Nachoum/World Nature Photography Awards

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Now this is the modern-day Golden Girls.

Home-owning in this day and age is tough due to the ever-rising cost. What these ladies did is quite ingenious. These three single moms in Takoma Park, Maryland, decided to buy a house together, saving thousands of dollars in rent.

The idea began with Holly Harper. Faced with D.C.’s expensive rent, she roped in her best friend Herrin Hooper to pool money to find a living space for themselves and their kids after divorce. Soon they found a third single mom who agreed to move in. 

The three began remodeling their home, each family getting their own separate fully-functioning units. Thanks to this arrangement, they were able to save approximately $30,000. As a bonus, their children get to have live-in bestfriends to spend the days with.

Image: Fox5

When life gets you down and weary, sometimes all you need is a few words of encouragement. That is the basis of the PEPTOC Project devised by Jessica Martin and her students at West Side School in Healdsburg, California.

The project sets up a hotline that anyone can call up. Once you’re connected, you get the options to press different numbers in order to hear the message you need most.

“If you are feeling mad, frustrated or nervous, press 1. If you need words of encouragement or life advice, press 2. If you need a pep talk from kindergartners, press 3. If you need to hear kids laughing with delight, press 4. For encouragement in Spanish, press 5,” says the kid at the other end of the line.

And for nearly a minute, the kids will offer both profound and whimsical advice. Each in their own voice.

Martins’ idea for the hotline is inspired by the “Callin’ Oates” hotline launched a decade ago in which callers could press either 1 or 2 to listen to different songs. She believes that with the dire state of the world nowadays - wildfires, pandemic, wars - people could use a little pick-me-up.

Image: John Burgess/The Press Democrat

🧱 During the Pandemic lockdown, San Diego's North Park resident Ben Smith decided to build replicas of iconic buildings in his neighborhood out of LEGO bricks. It's amazing how he's managed to get all the architectural details into his microscale model builds.

👖 World's oldest pants are 3,000-year-old and surprisingly still very fashionable. But alas, they're no cargo pants so we'd have to dock some style points there.

💨 Weatherman can't control wind and farted live on air ... or did he? Take a look and decide.

🌴 Here's the neat reason why In-N-Out Burger joints have palm trees shaped like a giant X outside the restaurants. Sadly, no hidden stash of loot under the trees but you can always console yourself with a Double-double and Animal Style Fries.

👨‍🚒 Firefighters of the Chino Valley Fire District got some cute new additions during the Pandemic: babies! Fifteen of them, in fact, though we think that playing with LEGOs above might just be a tad cheaper than putting all these cuties through college. Congrats, new dads!

🐂 This is one tough bull: it got swept 50 miles in a flooded river and survived going over a waterfall.

Images: @northparklego/IG and Chino Valley Fire District

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We all complain about the terrible state of healthcare in modern times, but medicine has gone a long way towards saving people from preventable and treatable diseases. Take, for example, this gruesome chart above listing the deaths due to the diseases and other reasons in 1632, London.

The data was compiled from bills of mortality, a weekly death statistics produced by several parishes of the City of London during the outbreaks of plague in 1592 to 1595 and then continuously from 1603.

Some definitions:

• Affrighted = stress-induced heart attack
• Ague = fever with periods of shivering and sweats (like malaria)
• Apoplex = stroke and aneurysm, Meagrom = migraine or severe headache
• Bit with a mad dog = rabies
• Bloody flux, scouring and flux = dysentery
• Cancer and wolf = malignant tumor
• Childbed = infection after childbirth
• Chrisomes, and infants = babies less than a month old
• Colick, stone, and strangury = abdominal pain and painful urination
• Consumption = tuberculosis
• Cut of the stone = surgery to remove bladder or kidney stones
• Dropsie and swelling = edema or swelling of a body part
• Falling sickness = epilepsy and seizures
• Flocks and small pox = smallpox 
• Fistula = abnormal connection of two body parts
• French pox = syphilis
• Jaundies = jaundice or yellowing of the skin due to liver failure
• Jawfaln = “jaw fallen” or lockjaw, tetanus
• Impostume = abscess
• King’s evil = scrofula, where tuberculosis bacteria infects the lymph nodes in the neck
• Livergrown = rickets, caused by vitamin D deficiency
• Lunatique = mental illness
• Made away themselves = suicide
• Over-laid = infant smothered when a parent rolled onto them while sleeping, Starved at nurse = insufficient breast milk
• Palsie = paralysis
• Piles = hemorrhoids
• Planet = “planet-struck” or a sudden and severe paralysis, thought to be due to the forces of particular planets
• Pleurisie = swollen and inflamed tissue that surrounds the lungs
• Purples = bruising, Spotted feaver = typhus
• Quinsie = inflamed tonsils
• Rising of the lights = severe coughing. “Lights” are “lungs,” named so because they are light-weight organs.
• Surfet = overeating
• Teeth = babies that have not yet gone through teething
• Thrush = yeast infection
• Tympany = cancer in the abdomen
• Tissick = cough

Accio beaucoup bucks! If you've got a first edition Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (which was renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the USA market), it could be worth a lot of money - even if the book is well thumbed or even doodled on!

This hardback copy of the first Harry Potter book - one of only 500 in the first print run in 1997 - was just sold at auction for a staggering £15,500 (USD 20,400), more than five times the top estimate of £3,000. That's a lot of galleons in the Gringotts Wizarding Bank! The book was sold to an anonymous online bidder.

The book seller, a businessman who wished to remain anonymous, picked the book up at a charity shop last year for only 50p. Charles Hanson, owner of the Hansons Auctioneers and the auctioneer on the day the book was sold, said this about the doodled book:

“What a battle for the battered and bruised Potter! We’re calling it the Mancunian Potter because it was found in a charity shop in the city.

“In my opinion, it deserves to be in a museum. Those doodles, penned by a child who loved the book and its characters, encapsulate the power of the Potter phenomenon. It really is quite charming. I’m absolutely delighted for the seller – and the buyer who has purchased a piece of book history.”

Images: Hansons

👨‍🍳 That smiling man on that can of pasta was actually a real guy. Ettore Bioardi moved from Italy to New York at the tender age of 16, became head chef of the Plaza Hotel by the age of 17 and made spaghetti sauce so good that his customers bought it packed in milk bottles. He's the real Chef Boyardee!

🐱 This black cat can really sing the blues. He's probably just channeling John Lee Hooker by meowing, "I had a dream last night / God knows a black cat had crossed my trail."

📷 Ever posted a selfie on social media? That photos may just have been hoovered up by a facial recognition company that aims to identify every human on Earth. All 7.9 billions of us.

🦪 I usually get an upset stomach eating clams, but this man got something nicer. He found a pearl while eating dinner at his local seafood restaurant.

🏠 Turn your world upside down ... literally! The upside down house of Casaloca Guavita in Colombia is a tourist attraction.

🐞 I get famished between lunch and dinner, but a species of tick called Argas brumpti can last 8 years without eating anything. Now that's going on a diet!

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🦦 Do otters see optical illusions? Here's what happened when two Japanese otters named Kotaro and Hana were given an optical illusion rug that looked like a sinkhole.

🏘️ Got $1.8 million? In San Francisco, that'll buy you an unlivable house with "zero bedroom", but in Golden, British Columbia, Canada, that amount of money will buy you an entire "Edelweiss Village" with chalets fit for Swiss mountaineers.

🕹️ Professional freerunner Calen Chan brought Assassins Creed II to life through parkour (with an equally neat behind-the-scenes video clip). The amazing architecture of Khiva, Uzbekistan served as a backdrop in the short film.

👞 Cryptide Sneaker: 3D printed shoes that leave footprints that look like they belong to a mysterious cryptid animal (like a chupacabra, for example).

😂 This man was careful enough to cover his face when he committed a robbery at a Chicago's train station but he didn't count on his own mother recognizing him and dragging him to surrender to the police.

🥤 Why did old-timey soda bottles have round bottoms? There's logic to this weird design. See if you can figure it out without reading the answer.

🤔 This millennial found the creepiest thing at her grandpa's house: a huge, dusty old book with thousands of pages full of names, phone numbers, and addresses of everyone in town. What does it mean?

🎬 Here's how the Bride of Dracula nearly killed off Nosferatu, one of the first Dracula films, by using a horrifying creature that even the vampires dread: lawyers.

🦸 Think you know your comic book superheroes and cartoon characters? This young woman has just set the Guinness World Record for naming 88 Marvel characters and 102 cartoon characters in one minute. See, reading a lot of comic books can really pay off!

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🤣 Before he was the leader of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky was a popular actor and comedian with fantastic comedic timing. Case in point: this 2016 skit where Zelensky and others dropped trousers and played the piano without using their hands ... and brought the audience to tears with laughter.

👶 Parents with a young child know how difficult it can be to work and keep an eye on the kid at the same time. But this should help: a parent workstation and child play station combo.

🐦 Don't mess with Emily the Curlew! According to Robert Irwin (son of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin) the grumpy bird has got some real anger management issues.

🦷 If you're having trouble breathing, it could be a tooth growing inside your nose.

❤️ ABC 6 reporter Myles Harris was doing his news report in Columbus, Ohio, when he got interrupted by his own mom, who yelled out "Hi, baby" from her car. Easily one of the best moments of 2022!

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