If ever you see this type of octopus being sold at your local market, alert the authorities immediately. While it may look good and smell good, these octopus are not edible, as they can kill people.

These are Blue-ringed octopuses, one of four most poisonous species of octopus and among the most venomous marine animals.

… The bodies of these octopuses contain tetrodotoxin, a powerful neurotoxin that can cause respiratory issues, nausea, heart failure, paralysis, blindness, and yes, even death.

Thailand's Department of Marine and Coastal Resources state that the poison is so strong that it cannot be neutralized by cooking the octopus. There is also no cure in the event that a person gets poisoned by this neurotoxin.

Unfortunately, not everyone is aware of such dangers posed by eating this type of octopus. The said department has issued a warning about these octopus after a woman alerted them that these were sold at the night market in Thailand.

Yikes!

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If you’re wondering how entities like Goodwill sell people’s donations and where the profits go, this piece from Good Day LA will fill you in. With people cleaning and emptying their closets, Goodwill has received a surge of donations. Find out how they sort, organize, and sell them here. 

(via Flipboard) 

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I have a large red cat, and I see cats on the internet all the time who look just like him, so I know how common they are. Redditor teoman_asyn got a lesson on how common they are as he got into a strange situation.

My cat went missing for 2 days, so I put an advert on Facebook. Literally 5 mins after my cat comes to the door. 30 mins later, my neighbour comes and drops off what he thought was my cat. Now I have two identical cats.

You may consider two identical cats a bonus, but the cats aren't all that happy. The picture sparked quite a few puns, but also some imaginative speculation.

1. The original cat goes away for only two days and when he gets home, he finds that his human has already bought an identical replacement. Imagine what that can do to a cat's ego.

2. This is what happens when Schrodinger's cat participates in the double slit experiment.

3. The owner of the new cat will place a missing cat notice on Facebook, and will suddenly have three cats.

4. It's possible teoman_asyn always had two cats, but they were never in the same room.

5. It's also possible that neither one of these is the original cat, and there may be even more big red cats show up before the original cat comes home.

6. Of course, teoman_asyn now plans to advertise a "found cat." He'll have to be pretty careful not to return the wrong cat to the rightful owner.

Donnie Darko is described as "a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film," which is a lot. I didn't see it, and only became aware of it later as a movie about an imaginary rabbit, kind of like Harvey but darker. It became a cult favorite among misunderstood teenage geniuses contemplating the more sinister aspects of existence. This Honest Trailer explains the movie further, but I am still far from understanding what it's really about.

Twitter user @kikai_RGB sends out this image of what appears to be a shiitake mushroom claw machine game in the prefecture of Shizuoka. That's just the appetizer. Elsewhere you can find an onion claw machine and a live crab claw machine.

-via Super Punch

Would you throw  $10,000 on a bet? I wouldn’t! Well, at least Alpharad is aware of the fact that people won’t like where that huge amount of sponsored money will go- but hey, it’s content, right? Watch as he pulls other YouTubers into betting on Mario Party NPCs like it’s a horse race. Maybe the future of gambling will be betting on NPCs! 

We’re going full Vocaloid this time? Just in case you have no idea what Vocaloids are, they are AI singers that are fed songs to sing- actual songs created by humans. Back to the topic at hand, Spotify submitted a patent application to the European Patent Register. The patent, which offers near real-time plagiarism analysis for artists, also has another side to it. The patent, as Input Magazine points out, seems to be a building block for the streaming company to create its own AI-generated music: 

Earlier this year, Spotify filed a patent application for a process that required a plagiarism interface. This process is focused on creating content using an AI model. Instead of training the model directly on existing content, however, it would clone the existing content and train its model on this cloned content — if it passes the plagiarism interface unscathed.

This process creates lawsuit-proof samples that could be used by Spotify to create its own music or be sold by the Swedish company to record labels, producers, etc. Considering all the data Spotify has on its users and how they respond to its music library, the potential for AI-generated bangers is limitless.

Image via Input Magazine

It takes special cameras to film in high speed, night vision, and x-ray photography. Here you will see all three! In slow-motion, you can see how they appear to be swimming through the air, appearing a bit awkward compared to bird flight, but still much better than any other mammals would be at the task. -via Laughing Squid

Pantone has announced their color of the year, or shall we say, colors of the year, because there are two. For the upcoming year, pick the vibrant, uplifting, and optimistic PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating (which most of us would call yellow), or the very neutral and cautious PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray. Or use them together, which seems a bit strange, but it's almost 2021, which seems strange in itself.  

A message of happiness supported by fortitude, the combination of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is aspirational and gives us hope. We need to feel that everything is going to get brighter – this is essential to the human spirit.

As people look for ways to fortify themselves with energy, clarity, and hope to overcome the continuing uncertainty, spirited and emboldening shades satisfy our quest for vitality. PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is a bright and cheerful yellow sparkling with vivacity, a warming yellow shade imbued with solar power. PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray is emblematic of solid and dependable elements which are everlasting and provide a firm foundation. The colors of pebbles on the beach and natural elements whose weathered appearance highlights an ability to stand the test of time, Ultimate Gray quietly assures, encouraging feelings of composure, steadiness and resilience.

Okay, if you say so. One commenter called these colors "caution tape" and "sweatpants." -via Boing Boing

In 1886, Teddy Roosevelt, still in his twenties, boated down the Little Missouri River and stopped to hunt cougars. How like him. When he returned from his side trip (without a cougar), someone had stolen his boat. While this story so far seems like one of those movies where everything goes wrong, you have to remember this is Theodore Roosevelt, and so he took matters into his own hands.  

Roosevelt and the two cowboys with him built themselves a new boat, and they piled into it and headed after the scoundrels. They sailed for three days. The makeshift vessel didn't offer a ton of shelter, and temperatures dropped to around zero. But they did have blankets, as well as enough bacon and coffee to sustain themselves, and really, that's all a man needs.  

Build another boat, just like that. Roosevelt and his companions caught up with the boat thieves, and that's where the tale gets exciting. The future president actually took photographs! Read the rest of Roosevelt's adventure, and other stories like the time Abraham Lincoln was distracted from the Civil War by three motherless kittens, and how Peter the Great started his reign sharing the throne with his brother, in 5 Ridiculous Side Stories Starring Famous Historical Figures at Cracked.

Viewed a flat today and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to stop thinking about the back door... pic.twitter.com/uscUF7pLH9

— Jamie Wilkes (@jamwilkes) December 8, 2020

Jamie Wilkes, an actor on the TV series His Dark Materials, is shopping for an apartment. He viewed one with a hidden and ingenious back door. Entering the home from it may be hard, but exiting is quite straightforward.

-via Unnecessary Inventions

Simone Williams of New York City has clenched the Guinness World Record for the largest afro on a woman. It has a circumference of 4 feet and 10 inches, beating out the previous record by 6 inches. The New York Post describes her nearly decade-long project:

It took Williams nine years to grow her now unmatched afro, after years of getting perms and straightening her hair from middle school up through college. “I chose to transition [to natural hair] around the age of 23. It began because I wanted to save the money spent at the hair salon to help with the costs of moving into my first apartment,” she said.

Appropriately, this stylish woman works as a fashion designer.

-via Oddity Central | Photo: Simone Imaani

History has done these women a disservice. However, an exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts aims to give them the recognition they deserve for their contribution to the fashion industry. The exhibition, called Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion, highlights female designers, artisans, and innovators who made their mark in fashion, as Fast Company details: 

“While we’re interested in how women have contributed to fashion design, there are lots of other stories that emerge,” says Petra Slinkard, the museum’s curator of fashion and textiles who put together this exhibit.

She points out that for much of history, making clothes was one of the few socially acceptable professions for women. But female workers were often doing the most dangerous, back-breaking work. Two centuries after the French seamstresses formed a guild, 145 workers—most of them women—lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City.

Today, women make up 85% of the 40 million garment workers, which are some of the lowest-paid laborers in the world. “Since women’s job options are limited, women have been treated as expendable,” Slinkard says. “Employers also thought they could pay women less because they had husbands who could support them, which was not always true. We feature many single mothers in the exhibit.”

Image via Fast Company 

Hoops Désolé is an acrobatics troop tha consists of six men who jump through hoops in a manner more literal than you and I do. Each choreographed show demonstrates astonishing strength, agility, precision, and teamwork. You can watch some of their training sessions on their Instagram page.

-via The Kids Should See This

Not My Job is a subreddit for posting evidence of people doing a job badly. Maybe it really is their job, but they don't know what they're doing, or are just phoning it in that day. Or maybe they were assigned a task that is beyond their knowledge or experience.



See 50 examples of a job done badly in a ranked list of images taken from the subreddit at Bored Panda.