Looking forward to Halloween? We've got some neat posts over at our Halloween-centric blog Spooky Daily to keep you entertained till October 31.

👻 If you're having a Halloween party, you can make these Hocus Pocus charcuterie board and Scream cheese platter.

🎃 Better than wearing a cumbersome costume: 10 Halloween T-Shirts that are Spooky and Fun

🧙‍♀️ Count down the nights with Disney's Hocus Pocus 13 Frights of Halloween Countdown Calendar

If you're not looking forward to Halloween (what's wrong with you?) we've got other neat posts, too:

🦀 This nature-lover decided to build a rainforest ecosystem in his bedroom.

🎨 Bob Ross of The Joy of Painting didn't make mistakes, just happy accidents but this Bob Ross of War is all about the joy of warfare. Pro-tip: When he says, "Let's get crazy", run away.

🛏️ In Reverse Pinterest, people rescue handcrafted furniture from "Pinterest-paint hell" and restore them to their original glory.

😡 Which city is the rudest in America?

🥞 You probably have no hope of living like a royal, but there's one royal thing you can do in the kitchen: bake the Queen's own Royal Scottish pancakes by following her recipe.

😺 Lastly, what do you get when you make a cat the lead singer of a heavy metal band? Cattera, of course, and it's a-meow-zing!

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Uh oh, we've got some bad news if you love sriracha: a hot chili sauce shortage is looming.

Huy Fong Foods Inc, the maker of the beloved hot sauce, has suspended production of the Sriracha Hot Chili Sauce, Chili Garlic and Sambal Oelek because they ran out of chili (they use about 50,000 tons of chili every year).

"Several spiraling events, including unexpected crop failure from the spring chili harvest," said the company as reported by San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

A recent letter sent by the company to its vendors advised them "not promise any products to your customers unless you have the product in stock."

BRB! Going to the supermarket to hoard me some Sriracha (doesn't this seem just like the good ol' days of the pandemic?)

Image: Chris Liverani/Unsplash

Sick and tired of playing Wordle? Here's something that may replace that daily word game obsession: Cell Tower by software developer Andrew Taylor.

It's a game of finding hidden words in a stack of random letters. You may immediately see certain words in all of those letters ... but the way to solve the game is to utilize ALL of the letters to make words, not just some letters.

Like Wordle, there's a Cell Tower game released daily. Try to see if you can solve it without asking for a hint (which will make the game not count towards your streak).

It's harder than it looks, but it's quite a bit of fun!

This sea lion named Wendy sure acts like she owns the joint. First she waddles into a luxury hotel's pool, swims a bit, then kicks a man out of his very own deck chair to do a little sunbathing!

Early in Nike's history, the company was in a fight for its life against a crushingly large tariff assessment. So what's a scrappy little sneaker company to do? Phil Knight revealed the story of how Nike actually produced its own counterfeit Nike shoes called The One Line to fight the US government ... and won!

"A Young Boy Running at Midnight" is a touching story of a journalist who came across a teen running at midnight, after he got off work at a local McDonald's in the northern Indian city of Noida near New Delhi. But why did the young man run? You'll never guess the reason.

This biblically accurate Clippy is an angelic Microsoft Office Assistant drawn by illustrator Evangeline Gallagher.

Clippy with many eyes didn't scare you? This Furby wrapped Xbox video game controller will.

Thousand-year-old conical vessels dug up in Jerusalem turned out to be ancient hand grenades used against the Crusaders and perhaps also against the Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Usually, when you need to reach something a bit too high and all you've got is a chair, well, you stand on the chair like it's a stepladder. Apparently that inspired the creation of this artful Stepladder Chair: it transforms from a regular kitchen chair into a three-step staircase though at $1,800 a piece, you could presumably buy a chair and an actual stepladder instead, or simply hire a butler to do your bidding.

Concert at the cemetery is a touching event by the Last Words Legacy Project to help people heal.

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Why aren't they wearing capes? Looks like anyone can be a Bat in the Hat in Mana-hatta! This funny What We Do in the Shadows-inspired t-shirt design is by indie artist Nemons.

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🏠 Some old houses have a tiny door that opens to the outside of the kitchen. Whatever could it be for? Find out the reason behind this mysterious door, as well as many other bygone features found in older homes that would confound modern homeowners.

🦈 See the inside of a shark's mouth while it's chewing without losing any limb. Nom nom!

💀 How many video games feature skeletons? A lot, that's for sure, and this Twitter account is dedicated to finding 'em all.

🎬 Blooper reel: for a famous comedian, Gene Wilder sure had trouble keeping a straight face while filming Young Frankenstein.

😈 Hell has a new mayor, and she's particularly good lookin' (for having such big eyes).

🎃 Need to grow a giant pumpkin for a giant Jack O'Lantern for Halloween? We've got you fam.

🤣 Lastly, drummer recreates Attack on Titan theme music with rubber chickens. LOL!

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🤖 Computer are good at things that can be done by brute force, but jobs that require creativity are safe from artificial intelligence. Right? Well, perhaps it's time to think again: new advancement in AI brings us DALL-E 2 which can create realistic images from simple text descriptions.

Tell it to draw "teddy bears mixing sparkling chemical as mad scientists in a steampunk style" - and you'll get that image above. The technology is so good, it's scary.

⛏️ Why did Sir Rod Stewart pick up a shovel and fill potholes near his house?

🐶 And talkin' bout someone with musical talent, check out this small dog that sings karaoke better than anyone I know.

😊 This one is cute: a 3-year old toddler repeats his morning affirmations on his way to school. "I am smart. I am blessed. I can do anything." Yes you can, little guy, yes you can.

🦢 This Mother Goose has 47 goslings. Perhaps it would've been easier to lay that one golden egg instead!

🕯️ What? Did you think that this candle salad looks like a certain male body part? You perv.

🏠 As a homeowner, I sure don't ever want to find pictures of my house in this structural inspector's gallery of horrors.

Image: Mike Digout

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🎲 When Yolanda Frontany and her husband bought this old house, she didn't realize that she'd find herself owning a piece of history. It turns out that her house was the one where Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson invented Dungeons & Dragons! But after taking critical hits from the elements for 100 years, the old house is in dire need of repairs, and Frontany has started a crowdfunding campaign to save it. Here's The Quest to Preserve the Birthplace of Dungeons & Dragons | Indiegogo campaign.

🎵 When a news team was looking for historical footage of a teacher's strike, they made a surprising find: a video clip of Prince as an 11-year-old boy.

🥔 Damn you shrinkflation: a bag of Doritos will now contain 5 fewer chips due to inflation.

🐶 Everyone who's watched Mad Men know that you've got to get the pitch just right. In this case, to get shelter animals adopted, second graders from St. Michael's Episcopal School in Richmond, Virginia, created posters and letters for potential cat and dog "parents" from the perspective of the animals.

Sounds silly? You can't argue with the result: after the kids wrote the stories, 8 shelter animals were adopted right away.

🏨 After a hotel owner instituted a racist policy that banned Native Americans, the Great Sioux Nation dusted off a 1868 treaty that allowed them to evict the hotel!

🏠 How you doin? Love Friends? Then you'll love The One Where The House Looks Like The Sets from Friends.

👮 What has this world come to when you can't rely on a pinky promise anymore? Like this news story where the robber made his victim pinky promise that he wouldn't call the cops.

🏠 This is a cross stitch that I can get into: May Godzilla Destroy This Home Last - now that's what I call a blessing!

💣 During the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, Union soldiers were loading a canon when a Confederate shell hit the canon's muzzle and plugged it up! It's the perfect shot.

🦦 Lastly, here's a romp of otters being completely fascinated by a vacuum cleaner.

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✈️ Need a place for your upcoming event? Don't rent a boring dance hall for your party or wedding - rent Mexico's presidential jet instead! After more than 3 years failing to sell the airplane (it's too expensive to reconfigure into a typical passenger jet), current Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has decided to rent it out for special events.

🍭 Check out this massive 4-story building shaped like a pink lollipop that houses a kindergarten.

🙀 Cat vs treadmill: who wins?

Image: Marco Ugarte/AP

🦏 There are only 80 Sumatran rhino left in the world. Well, make that 81 as a new baby was just born - check out the super cute pics of the baby Sumatran rhino!

🍺 We all want to get away from our family sometimes, but this Chinese man has been living in the Beijing Airport for 14 years to get away from his family. He said that he had a falling out with his family, who wanted him to quite smoking and drinking but he'd rather live in an airport than do either.

Image: Biro Humas KLHK

🎧 Dyson's new air-purifier and noise-cancelling headphones combo named Dyson Zone looks like it came straight out of a dystopian sci-fi novel. The company made the product launch announcement dangerously close to April 1 and had to confirm that it's actually not an April's Fool joke.

✋ If you're sick and tired of "The Slap" stories, skip this. For the rest of you, check out the infamous Will Smith Slap in Tattoo and cake forms. Also: Will Smith Slap Meme: The Ultimate Collection | SNL Skit: Oscar Seat Fillers Meet Will Smith

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😻 Winters can be harsh in Tekirdag, Turkey, so a dentist and cat lover named Şebnem Ilhan decided to build a "cat ladder" so stray kitties can climb into her house for warmth.

🎵 Who sings it better: Led Zeppelin or this rubber chicken?

🦠 Scientists asked participants to rate pictures of people for attractiveness and found something interesting: people infected with "mind-altering" toxoplasmosis are more attractive! So, what's going on? Does the parasite Toxoplasma gondii change facial symmetry by changing endocrine levels, or do attractive people just have a higher chance of contracting the parasite?

Image: Sebnem Ilhan

🏀 Usually, studios pay for billboards to advertise their new releases but HBO decided to do a Euro step. To promote Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, they refurbished a basketball court in Inglewood, south central Los Angeles, and donated $10K to a local school. Now the community can enjoy a game of hoops on a new basketball court. Slam dunk!

🐓 After Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana, a lost rooster showed up at a local Popeye fast food restaurant and the staff there decided to make it into a mascot. I guess that's better than introducing it to the deep fryer in the kitchen!

🚲 Wales found something that works better than ambulances: paramedics on bicycles!

Image: HBO

🍌 This is not a banana, but it is the ultimate in banana dessert. Watch pastry chef Amaury Guichon create an amazingly realistic banana pastry. (Now I'm hungry!)

🏠 Why don't we all live in steel houses? In the late 1940s, steel houses with steel on the outside and the inside was the hot new thing. For a while, it was considered the future of housing ... until it wasn't. Here's the story of the rise and fall of the steel house.

✋ Not tired of the whole Will Smith slap saga yet? Here's the Will Smith, Vladimir Putin and Batman Venn Diagram. Previously: The Wrong Will Smith and Will Smith Slap Meme Generator.

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🐼 Meet Qi Zai, the world's only Qinling or brown panda in captivity. He's one of about 100 brown pandas in the world, so he's not only cute - he's quite rare, too!

🚀 All eyes are on NASA's fancy new James Webb telescope, but while you weren't looking good ol' Hubble Space Telescope spotted the farthest star ever seen: Earendel, which is now 28 billion light-years away.

"A large portion of downtown Indianapolis remained evacuated. Report are sketchy at this point but we do know that apparently there are terrorists holed up in the downtown part of our city with nuclear devices."

💣 Fortunately, that wasn't real: the fake newscast was part of a 1986 training video developed by the Nuclear Security Administration, the federal agency that's responsible to avoid nuclear catastrophes in the United States. The video was part of "Mighty Derringer," a multi-agency exercise in which a large city was devastated by a nuclear blast.

🕹️ Atari's 1970 prototype of "Home Pong" sold for $270K.

Image: He Xin

🍔 Great food, terrible service sounds like a bad Yelp review, but it's actually the motto of Karen's Diner in Sydney, Australia. The retro 50s themed restaurant features rude waitresses who expect you to go full Karen at them.

🤔 Can a piece of furniture be creepy and absolutely gorgeous at the same time?

🎸 Got a bad experience at a local business? Most of us would just grumble but not Layne Barton. When he got a bad experience at his local Western Dental & Orthodontics clinic, he rocked his protest: he set up his amp on the sidewalk in front of the dental clinic and shredded his guitar.

🖥️ My favorite link of the day: Clinton Jones challenged his fellow artists from around the world to design CG art on the theme "Infinite Journeys" and 2,448 of them answered the call. Jones featured the Top 100 3D renders in this fantastic clip. Don't miss this one!

✋ Have we reached peak Will Smith news yet? If you're tired of hearing celebs give their take on the infamous Oscar slap, consider what people who just happen to share the same name as the actor must be feeling. They're the wrong Will Smith, and they're taking abuse online.

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🐦 When Hannah Bourne-Taylor found an abandoned baby finch, she not only nursed it back to health but also let it nest in her hair for 3 months.

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✈️ 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.

Image: @MiniraDiary/Twitter

🤖 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.

Image: @TDRAW_Ai_Art

😻 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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🛹 Featured art: Slasher Girls by indie artist glitchygorilla. These ladies of horror sure knows how to slash AND shred! Don't forget to check out NeatoShop's new T-shirts.

🌙 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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Image: Thierry Legault/Twitter

From Supa Fluffy, our new amazing animals and cute pets blog:

🦆 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

Need a little humor to pick you up today? From Laughosaurus, our new humor and odd news site:

🤣 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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