Sometimes a little censorship can do wonders. The Seed Company by EW Gaze put a post about their sweet Walla Walla onions seeds on Facebook, and a week later found the ad flagged for products with "overtly sexualized positioning." Store manager Jackson McLean could hardly believe it, and finally decided that someone somewhere might have thought the onions were too round or something. He contacted Facebook and found it was no "someone," it was just an algorithm that was overstimulated by the onions.  

"We use automated technology to keep nudity off our apps, but sometimes it doesn't know a Walla Walla onion from a, well, you know," Facebook Canada's head of communications, Meg Sinclair, told BBC.

"We restored the ad and are sorry for the business's trouble."

The sexy onions are not only back on Facebook, but they've made the company go viral. Read more about the incident at BBC News. -via Digg 

Almost 22 years after the release of Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, a new game has been added to the numbered Crash games — Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. But what about the other Crash games? Are they non-canon? Canadian Guy Eh discusses this matter in this video. Although I guess this won’t matter if you enjoyed all Crash games.

Well, what do you think?

(Image Credit: Canadian Guy Eh/ YouTube)

You have probably seen pictures or videos of the PS5 in news sites and on video-sharing platforms. But what is usually shown in these videos is the PS5’s front, and you might be wondering how the video game console looks from the back. If you still are reading up to this point, then I think that you really are interested in looking at the PS5’s butt. So, what does it look like? Well, it looks like the butt that you’d expect from an electronic gadget.

What do you want me to say about it? It's the back of a console. It has two USB ports, an HDMI port, an Ethernet port, and a power connector. It also looks like there's plenty of ventilation so that the PS5 can run quietly, something that a number of recent previews have already confirmed to be the case.

Viewing the console from the back also gives us an entirely new perspective on the console's unusual shape...

And to that, I agree.

Well, what do you think?

(Image Credit: Sony/ LADBible)

This may look like a Halloween fright wig, but it's really a caterpillar called a puss caterpillar. If you see one, don't touch it! That fur is nothing to trifle with. And they are surprisingly common in Virginia this year.

Puss caterpillars’ fuzz hides spines filled with poison. It’s the most poisonous caterpillar found in the U.S., and its sting can cause nausea, vomiting, swelling and itching, and feelings of anxiety. Not pleasant, to say the least. In recent weeks, Virginia residents have unfortunately had a chance to experience this. A woman in the Richmond area touched one and said it felt like a “scorching-hot knife passing through the outside of my calf.” She was admitted to the emergency room to treat the sting. This is Virginia’s second outbreak of weird bugs this year. Cicadas overran the state this summer, buzzing up a storm.

Read more about the puss caterpillar at Gizmodo.

(Image credit: Virginia Department of Forestry)

Do you want to spice up your daily routine? Try eating some glass shards! Okay, not actual glass shards (I mean, eating actual glass shards would spice up your life, but that’ll be the last moment of your life); edible glass shards. Watch BORE.D’s RPG-esque tutorial on how to cook some edible glass shards.

Timothy Dexter was born into Boston's working class in 1748. He achieved some success as a leatherworker, but became rich through marriage. He moved into a high-society area, where his neighbors included some of America's Founding Fathers, and although they found Dexter tasteless and annoying, they put up with him. But having money, he went on to make more money.

With the upward trajectory of Dexter's life in full swing, it was his ability to seemingly fall ass-backward into piles of cash despite the lack of any skill that brought him the riches he became known for. The first, and the one that set the tone for everything to follow, was his directionless speculation on American money. The Continental dollar was one of our first attempts at making money, and ... we weren't that good it turns out. A comical failure to the point of becoming a punchline at the time, Dexter made a ludicrously risky and stupid decision to hoard up the currency at its lowest possible value on the slim chance that it may one day be reinstated as the dollar of choice for this great new country. Though, of course, this never happened, Alexander Hamilton did work the constitution to allow for the trade-ins of these bills for 1% of face value and, overnight, Dexter became filthy rich. Despite having zero intention of playing the game how it worked out for him.

Dexter then built a notorious 20-room mansion and festooned it with 40 statues of prominent Americans, including himself. Later business ventures made him even richer with a combination of reckless risk-taking and unbelievably dumb luck. Read the story of Timothy Dexter in the snarky and colorful language you'd expect from Cracked. 

(Image credit: John H. Bufford)

Many have heard of the Excalibur, a sword which had to be drawn out from an anvil atop a stone. But only a few have heard of the Eggscalibur, a frying pan that has a hilt instead of a regular handle. It is said that whoever possesses this legendary item will have the ability to make perfect sunny-side up eggs.

Image via 9GAG on Facebook

Due to some quirks of both nature and human interference, there is an area of sand dunes in Maine called the Desert of Maine. Naturally, it was made into a tourist attraction early in the 20th century. A freshwater spring was found on the property in the 1930s, which was fortunate for thirsty tourists. However, just because you can own it and profit from it doesn't mean you can control it.

At some point in the late 1930s, the then-owners of the property built a gazebo-like structure around the well-head. “For a time, visitors could go over and get a drink of water from the groundwater spring,” Smith says. And though he hasn’t seen any historic advertisements, he adds, “I would be strongly surprised if they weren’t advertising healing properties or something.”

Trouble is, dunes are always on the move. The dunes at the Desert of Maine are said to have swallowed entire trees: One visitor, recounting a 1936 ramble for a New Jersey newspaper, recalled standing on dunes that had recently overtaken an apple tree, whose branches still seemed alive and jutted out through the blanket of sand. “That’s what sand dunes do, migrate from place to place,” Smith says. And the dunes marched right over the gazebo.

The gazebo, called the Spring House, was labeled as unsafe due to encroaching sand, and by the 1960s, it was completely buried. This fall, the owners of the Desert of Maine hired Josh Smith to dig up the Spring House. Read how that is going at Atlas Obscura.

(Image credit: Josh Smith)

You’re looking for something and you can’t find it. Suddenly, something happens in your brain and you find what you are looking for. Turns out that object was right in front of you all along. What did just happen?

When it comes to searching for objects that are faint or difficult to find, a type of brain wave called traveling brain waves help us to perceive, and, eventually, find objects. This type of brain wave is what Professor John Reynolds and company discovered in their study, which is in the journal Nature.

"We've discovered that faint objects are much more likely to be seen if visualizing the object is timed with the traveling brain waves. The waves actually facilitate perceptual sensitivity, so there are moments in time when you can see things that you otherwise could not," says Reynolds, senior author of the paper and holder of the Fiona and Sanjay Jha Chair in Neuroscience. "It turns out that these traveling brain waves are an information-gathering process leading to the perception of an object."

More details about this study over at MedicalXpress.

(Image Credit: geralt/ Pixabay)

You might not believe it, but there are no vegetables in this advertisement, except for the word “vegetables”, that is. (Peppers are considered fruits.) I’m afraid that’s the only thing that I can tell you about this. The poster doesn’t say much, either. So from here, just imagine that I said something meaningful, or something funny.

What would you add to this poster?

(Image Credit: u/ambitiousshark/ Reddit)

Ann Trow Sommers immigrated to the US from England in 1831. After her husband died, she supplemented her job as a seamstress by selling contraceptive potions. She arranged for pregnant women to relinquish infants for adoption. She referred women to abortionists, then she learned to do abortions herself. Sommers took the name Madame Restell and grew quite wealthy, as there was such a demand for her services. But the newspapers vilified her, and gave her the title of the "wickedest woman of New York."  

At the time, birth control and abortion weren’t illegal in New York or the wider United States—at least not before “quickening,” which was when the mother felt the fetus move. In addition, “abortion was not considered a medical issue,” explains Linda Gordon, New York University professor and author of The Moral Property of Women, explains to Mental Floss. It was performed by midwives, and it wasn’t unusual for city abortionists to call themselves physicians, even with no formal training. (There was no accreditation for medical schools until 1912 and no standard training for doctors until around 1915.)

This didn’t stop Restell from being arrested many times—and the press loved to sensationalize each of her trials. “Restell became well-known for her medical practice because she was made scandalous and it sold newspapers,” Leslie Reagan, history professor at the Univeristy of Illinois and author of When Abortion Was a Crime, tells Mental Floss in an email. “She was wealthy and had fabulous homes, all of which drew attention to her.”

Madame Restell was arrested every time New York changed its laws, and she eventually served a year in jail. She gave up doing abortions, but that wasn't the end of the arrests, because contraceptives were illegal by then, too. Read about Madame Restell at Mental Floss. -via Strange Company

Because the competition is fierce, fast-food companies always create food products that will surely attract the eyes and provoke the taste buds of the customers. During the process, however, these companies sometimes create food products that are rather strange, if not gross. Many of these products were a result of combining foods that tasted great when eaten individually.

Cracked.com lists 16 strange fast-food products that were once served in popular fast-food restaurants. See them over at the site.

(Image Credit: Cracked.com)

Alan McElligot was at a recycling bin dumping old clothes. When he dropped an old pair of shoes in the bin, he suddenly heard the cries of the cat inside. Alarmed, McElligot immediately called the police to get the cat out of the recycling bin.

Police and firefighters responded to the scene and agreed that there seemed to be the sounds of a trapped cat -- possibly two cats -- inside the container.

"One of the police officers suggested we drop food in there in case the cats had been there for a few days. So I went to Sainsburys as I had my car nearby and bought wet cat food," McElligott told Deadline News.

But when the fire brigade used their heavy tools to open the bin, they did not find signs of the cats. What they found instead was a battery-operated cat which was made by FurReal Friends. McElligot remarked that the cat made “very convincing meows.”

McElligott said the firefighters and police officers had a good laugh at the outcome of the unusual rescue.

"The two community officers, three police officers and the two firefighters started laughing," he said. "I went red faced and apologized. We all then left as quickly as possible."

Still wholesome.

(Image Credit: Alan McElligot/ Twitter)

3D Bat Air Freshener

Halloween is almost here. Now is the perfect time to freshen up your car, cave, or belfry with the 3D Bat Air Freshener from the NeatoShop. This frightfully fun, and practical item, comes in a lovely blood orange scent. It is a wonderful way to make your spirits take flight.  

Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more great items. New items arriving all the time. 

Don't forget to stop by the shop to see our huge collection of customizable apparel. We carry baby 6 months all the way to 10 XL shirts. We know that fun, fabulous, and Halloween loving people come in every size. 

Sci-Fi fan Phil Stiller spent a year building a home theater, and made it exactly what wanted. Behind these Space Invader doors is the bridge of the starship Enterprise! It has all the Star Trek details, plus four comfy recliners and ample video screens.  

Yes this room is TOTALLY my inner 12 year old and I make no apologies. I'm a total space/scifi/tech geek and it was really fun creating a cool theater room for my family to watch movies. (which we love to do) and NASA/SpaceX launches.

Stiller gives some specs on this build at the YouTube page, and you can see progress pictures at imgur. He's not an exclusive Star Trek fan; he also has a TARDIS for a front door. -via Geeks Are Sexy