Wednesday night, the security cameras outside radio station KIRO in Seattle caught a vandal trying to break the window on a truck. With a mop. They reported the incident to the police, and then got morning show host John Curley to narrate it in play-by-play fashion.

Last night we captured surveillance footage of a vandal trying to break in to one of our employee's vehicles in our parking lot. While the suspect is still at large, we took the liberty to have John Curley give his play-by-play of the incident.

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— KIRO Radio 97.3 FM (@KIRORadio) February 1, 2018

The guy will soon know that the entire internet has seen his shenanigans. -via Alexis Ohanian

Working in an office can be a horrifying experience, and when overworked and underpaid cubicle dwellers face a daily combination of boredom, stress and forced socialization the rat race can drive previously sane people batty.

"I once had a coworker who showed up to our office in a wedding dress. Like, an obvious white wedding dress with a crinoline and beading, the works. When our manager asked why she wore a wedding dress to the office, my coworker replied, 'I was out of clean clothes and didn’t feel like doing laundry.'"

—Lauren Emily, Facebook

"There was a lady who brought her little container of paper clips into the kitchen and washed them."

—ihateredroses

But workplaces are strange no matter where you work, and unless you work alone you're bound to work with someone who's a bit of a kook.

Still, I've never worked with anyone who brought rotten teeth in a jar to work:

"I stopped asking my coworkers how their weekends were after one had responded with, 'Not good, my husband’s teeth rotted and we had to spend all night at the dentist getting them pulled.' As if that wasn’t bad enough, she proceeded to pull out a pill container, open it, and say, 'They’re so gross. Smell them,' and tried to hand them to me. Nope."

—mcom

Members of the BuzzFeed community were asked to share "the most WTF thing they've ever seen a coworker do on the job", and their responses made me very happy to work from home...so nobody sees the gross stuff I do!:

"I saw a coworker use his fingers to pluck out his beard hair, then bit the hair, and used it to floss his teeth in front of a number of other coworkers!"

—rgjones630

See 18 WTF Things People Have Done At Work here

Every once in a while, Hollywood will put its performers in the place of the audience -in a movie theater, watching from the seats. When I saw "scenes that take place inside movies theaters," I immediately thought of the Coen brothers movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?  

Considering that this exchange followed Everett’s discovery that his wife divorced him while he was in jail and is now about to marry a man named Waldrip and declare that he is the new father of their girls you might think it’s allowable for Everett to vent just a little. And poor Delmar, he’s got to listen to every word of it, and the confusion on his face when he’s asked about having a woman is priceless.

Yeah there are other awesome film scenes that are set in movie theaters, but if you don't immediately recall them, you'll want to go see them at TVOM.

Gotta Go Fast by Alan Bao

Going fast doesn't come easy to everybody, but Barry the sloth discovered he couldn't even go fast when he was given the super powers of a speedster during a freak accident at the sloth sanctuary. But that didn't stop Barry from buying a cool superhero costume, and the speedster power did make Barry at least a little faster than he was before. However, it also increased his appetite, so Barry ended up spending all his newfound free time foraging for food instead of fighting crime!

Show the world the speed you're comfortable going with this Gotta Go Fast t-shirt by Alan Bao, it's the perfect tee to wear while you're tearing up the track, visiting your local zoo or just hangin' around watching TV.

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We assume people who can figure out the exact day of the week for any date you throw at them are geniuses or some sort of clairvoyant, but the bubble bursting truth is they're just doing a type of mental magic trick.

More specifically they're using an algorithm developed by mathematician John H. Conway in 1973 called the Doomsday rule, and as you'll see in this video by It's Ok To Be Smart using this algorithm isn't as hard as you think.

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Now with a little practice you can start wowing people with your astounding mental abilities!

-Via Geeks Are Sexy

The Chicago Bears did not know they were going to win the 1986 Super Bowl when ten of the players got together to record a novelty song six weeks earlier. They didn't even know they'd be in the game. "The Super Bowl Shuffle" was a collaboration between wide receiver Willie Gault and Richard Meyer of Red Label Records. Other players wanted in on the fun, and besides, the song lyrics promised to "feed the needy." The song was an instant hit in Chicago, then went nationwide and ended up at #41 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Incredibly, the VHS copy of the video moved so many units it threatened to unseat Michael Jackson’s Thriller on sales charts. In February of 1986, the song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. (It lost to Prince & the Revolution's "Kiss.") Best of all, the Bears’s victory at Super Bowl XX was, at the time, the highest-rated in the game’s history. What started as a glorified joke had become a lucrative venture.

Just how lucrative would quickly become an issue for Illinois’s attorney general.

Gault and Meyer had succeeded in orchestrating an unlikely hit, but they did fumble one detail: No one had checked in with the head office of the Chicago Bears to see if “The Super Bowl Shuffle” had their official blessing.

Complicating matters, no one had determined how much of the profits would go to food charities, or how. Read how "The Super Bowl Shuffle" came about and mess that resulted at Mental Floss.

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The more we learn about other parts of our galaxy, the more we are intrigued with the possibility of finding life on other planets. In reality, that life would be nothing like our science fiction stories. That's exciting, but the odds are that contact would not be good for us.   

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Aliens could be harmful to us, whether they are what we'd consider "intelligent" or not. And intelligent aliens would almost certainly be our doom. Where do we fit in with alien life? It's all up in the air, so to speak. The latest video from Kurzgesagt explains some of the possibilities of what we might find ...someday. -via Boing Boing

The following article is from the book Uncle John’s Uncanny Bathroom Reader.

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Losing baby teeth is one of the earliest and most anticipated rites of passage for a young child. In our part of the world, it often involves a visit from the tooth fairy. But just how old is the tradition, and what came before it? This visit from the trivia fairy will reveal all.

TOOTH OR CONSEQUENCES

“Shed tooth rituals,” as anthropologists and folklorists call the traditions that accompany the loss of baby teeth, have varied widely from one place to another and from one time to another. Every human culture has such rituals, and many have a feature in common: whatever is done with the baby tooth is done in the belief that it will protect the child from harm or ensure that a strong, healthy permanent tooth grows in to replace the old tooth.

For centuries in Europe, it was common practice to “plant” baby teeth in the ground as if they were seeds. Doing so was thought to encourage the growth of the new tooth. Planting the tooth also kept it from falling into the hands of a witch, who could use it to cast spells on the child who lost it. (If there was any question as to whether the tooth had already been bewitched, throwing it into a fire destroyed the tooth and broke the spell.)

THE FIRST TOOTH FAIRY

One of the more crucial components -and often the most overlooked by spectators- is the ice and snow under the performing athletes. The Games cannot rely on the weather providing the required conditions for skiing, skating, and sledding. And the quality of the ice and snow is important for the fastest races and the most intricate stunts. Bumps on a bobsled run? They'll not only ruin an Olympic race, they're also dangerous. Tracy Seitz of Whistler Sliding Centre in Canada explains the intricacies of Olympic ice.

The quality and purity of ice is so important that a special position—the Ice Master—has been created to ensure its viability. Forget sculptors who make intricate ice sculptures; Ice Masters shape ice into some of the most impressive structures on earth. At least a year in advance of the Games themselves, they spray hundreds of paper-thin coats of this ultrapure water on a concrete course or rink, which is chilled by an embedded refrigeration system for rapid freezing. It takes around five days of non-stop work to lay the frozen track for a bobsled run, says Seitz.

This process prevents the formation of frost layers, which form when humid air freezes over the icy surface. Frost layers can trap air bubbles in the ice, which can work their way out as tiny pockmarks. “We don’t think of it [ice] as fluid, but it is very much so fluid, and it’s moving all the time,” says Seitz. “Those layers of air in the ice will create weaknesses that can break out and create inconsistencies in the ice surface.” For a bobsled, one tiny pockmark can cause a sled to bounce, perpetuating the problem. “One bump creates two bumps creates three bumps, and on and on and on,” he says.

The ice for indoor rinks is built to different standards for speed skating, figure skating, curling, and hockey. And the snow under skiers and snowboarders is engineered for speed as well, with the added difficulty of dealing with the vagaries of actual weather. Read about the different kinds of snow and ice and how they are created for the Olympics at Smithsonian.

Three-year-old Ruby went to the zoo in Tulsa with her toy Beast (from Beauty and the Beast) and set it down in the viewing area of the tiger enclosure. The tiger was instantly attentive!

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Did the tiger want to play? Or eat it? Or possibly adopt the Beast? The zoo staff should get that tiger a plush Beast and find out. -via Digg

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Discovering a new batch of memes is like uncovering a treasure trove of visual comedy, only this trove is guarded by a geek who spends way too much time online, breathes Cheeto dust instead of fire and is married to his pillow.

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That's right, this treasure trove is full of anime-themed memes, so you can take your online meme-ing power level to well above 9000 and impress your friends with the power of

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Now good anime memes don't come along every day, so when you find a stockpile of anime-themed visual tomfoolery you've gotta snatch it all up byte by byte, because a well-crafted anime meme can really make you stand out in a crowd.

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See 20 New Anime Memes That Hit Way Too Close To Home here

What in the world is this thing? The formations found in the 19th century in Nebraska resembled huge corkscrews, and locals called them the Devil's Corkscrews. Yeah, scientists knew they were fossils of some sort, but what made them: a vine, a tree root, or a worm from an ancient sea bed? Maybe a monster? These things could have been the inspiration for the movie Tremors! But if you looked at the picture and thought "spiral staircase," you'd be on the right track.   

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With all the different theories, it took decades for scientists to come to an agreement about what made these "Daemonelix." The final bit of evidence that confirmed the theory wasn't discovered until 1977! -via Mental Floss

There's a common misconception that old timey tattoos either looked like crap or were all images and symbols associated with sailors, but just like the myth that women never got tattoos, this too has proven to be untrue.

And aside from the speed of application and the type of ink used there is very little difference in quality between the tattoos people get today and the ones they got back in the 19th century.

There were, however, far fewer tattoo artists out there applying their art to skin, but as you can see in these vintage photos the tattoos being applied by Sutherland Macdonald were top notch.

Sutherland Macdonald was one of Britain's first tattoo artists, having been exposed to the art of tattoos while serving in the British Army in the 1880s, and he was also an innovator who patented an electric tattooing machine in 1894.

He also supposedly came up with the idea to add blues and greens to the tattooist's palette.

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This is the truth of raising children. You may recall doing plenty of chores for your parents in your own childhood, but they remember it differently. For them, it was a matter of either teaching you how to do them or getting you to do them, and they always ended up expending the lion's share of the effort. That's because it is a parent's job to teach you the things you need to know to deal with life. That's one reason being a grandparent is so great. You reap that sweet, sweet karma when your kids find out how hard they made it for you. This comic is from Zach Weinersmith at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.

Fight the Beast by Crumblin' Cookie 

The Knights of the Round Table were quite good at singing and dancing, they rode their imaginary horses like champion horseymen, and they deflected taunts like a swallow deflects curses flung at them by coconut farmers. But it seems they'd never considered what might happen if they encountered a little bunny in a cave, so the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog was able to get the jump on the well-trained heroes and bite their heads off before they even knew what hit them. That's why I'll take the Knights Who Say Ni over those holy rollers from Camelot any day!

If you eat ham and spam a lot and enjoy fine comedy films featuring very silly men then you'll love this Fight The Beast t-shirt by Crumblin' Cookie, with a bloody good design that definitely doesn't bite!

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