🏠 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!)

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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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🐶 It's not wise to upset a Wookie ... or Brussels Griffon. Meet Proshka, the Brussels Griffon dog that looks like Chewbacca.

🕹️ Who are the best pets in video games? See if your favorite goodest boy (or girl) made the list of the 15 Best Pets in Gaming.

✈️ During Storm Eunice, Jerry Dyer of Big Jet TV livestreamed airplanes struggling to land at Heathrow airport due to strong crosswinds. The live stream was so popular that it hit a record of 200,000 concurrent views - more than the Olympics at some point. Dyer's excitable commentaries as the planes land (or make a go-around) are pure Internet gold.

🏠 Model homes look so enticing (no mess and no clutter) because no one actually lives in those houses. Designer Nick Lewis dishes out the details of home design trends that are beautiful but actually impractical for daily life.

🦠 The world's largest bacterium can grow up to 2 cm (three quarters of an inch) long and is visible to the naked eye.

🎨 Fantastic ice art: David Popa draws ephemeral portraits on an ice float in southern Finland.

🐱 Akkodha is a cat that says "OK" to everything. Like, would you like to become a TikTok Star? "OK," she said and got over 95K followers.

🧟 For those of you who love Halloween 365 days a year: Here's how to make a ghoulish cake brain with cherry blood. It's the perfect zombie food!

🤣 Boba Fett wasn't too happy with Mando muscling in on his series The Book of Boba Fett on Disney+. But apparently, a duel isn't the way sophisticated and modern bounty hunters resolve internal conflicts anymore. So Boba Fett and Mando went to couples therapy instead.

🍬 Lastly, in the name of art, here's E.T. made from Tootsie Roll candies.

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😊 When Jared Walls found out that one of his students was bullied for wearing Spongebob Squarepants shoes, he decided to buy himself matching shirts and shoes so he could "twin" and support the boy. 'Tis a gesture that'll melt even Mr. Krab's stone cold heart.

🐻 "Hank the Tank" is a chonky 500-lb bear that keeps on breaking into people's houses in search of pizza. So far, he's broken into 28 homes in South Lake Tahoe.

🐦 Who knew that this "Ghost of the Forest" bird could be so cute? And such attitude, oh my!

🎬 The Spider-Man meme has finally been recreated by actual Spider-Men: Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire.

Image: Darla Mullins

💪 Move over, T-rex! Paleontologists have discovered a new dinosaur with even tinier arms.

🎵 The ultimate air guitar: Japanese musician Ei Wada plays the electric fan. Yes, he turned an electric oscillating fan with a stand into a musical instrument. The tune's pretty catchy, too!

🚁 Get in da choppa and ... relax inside, because this helicopter is actually a romantic rental cabin.

Image Credit: Fred Wierum/ Wikimedia Commons

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🤣 YouTuber Jean-Paul (PaperPaul) has turned famous Internet memes into pop-up cards, and we're mad that we didn't think of this first! Genius!

🧠 Researchers were monitoring the brain activity of an 87-year-old man when he suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest and died. The unexpected death of the patient yielded a surprising scientific data: for the first time ever, researchers were able to record brain activity during death and revealed what the dying person may be experiencing during the final moments.

🚪 Why are these mother-in-law doors of Newfoundland so high up from the ground? Is it because they are witches and can float?

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🤔 This guy is not Tom Cruise, but it's nearly impossible to convince your eyes that you're not actually looking at Tom Cruise. The age of deepfakes is here and you can't believe what you're seeing anymore.

🦈 Meet baby ghost shark, who is both terrifying and kind of cute at the same time.

🛹 Urban Isolation is a neat video of a skateboarder on the empty streets and highways of Los Angeles. Empty streets? Impossible, you say, but the filmmakers managed to do it by editing out all the vehicles.

I🖤U: Late grandmother sent family a message of love from the afterlife.

🏀 Boomshakalaka! Arcade 1Up has finally made a Shaq-sized NBA JAM arcade cabinet.

🎃 For those of you who love Halloween 365 day a year: Hilarious DIY Halloween costume ideas from 1986.

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👍 When Stevo Pendarovski, President of North Macedonia, heard that an 11-year-old girl with Down Syndrome in his country was bullied at school, he decided to step in and walk her to school.

💡 Fiat Lux: a charming stop-motion movie made with light painting. Neat-O!

🏈 These three men never missed going to the Super Bowl. In fact, they've attended every single one of them since the first one was held 55 years ago. But with tickets going for $2.5K, this year might be the last for the Never Miss a Super Bowl Club (consider this: in 1967, a ticket to the Super Bowl was about $6).

🏰 The jewel of Escondido is for sale, and at $2.6 million asking price, this historic Queen Anne style mansion is a steal.

🤣 "Even u is handsome, nut hair even u is Mirror knife mix ng drop girl!" That may be nonsense but, the Hairror exists outside the realm of sense and logic.

🎈 Firecrackers are banned in Singapore for safety reasons (and because they're annoying to a lot of people) but you don't need those teeny tiny micro-dynamites to ring in Chinese New Year. There is a workaround, like these "firecracker" balloons.

🦌 Found: the Arnold Schwarzenegger of moose.

🤖 Chief scientist of an artificial intelligence research company recently said that "it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious." Next up, Skynet! (Cue the Terminator theme music).

Image: Pretsedatel.mk

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🐦 It's a chilling scene that lasted just a few seconds: a grainy security video camera footage showed how hundreds of birds fell out of the sky and smacked onto a neighborhood street in the city of Cuauhtémoc in northern Mexico. While most of the birds seemed to be able to fly away, scores of dead birds were left on the ground. But what caused the birds to plummet from the sky like that?

🙀 In the 1960s, the CIA trained cats to spy on the Soviets and, needless to say, it went just as well as trying to herd cats.

⚡ Our first glimpse of Natalie Portman as the Mighty Thor (from the upcoming Marvel movie Thor: Love and Thunder) comes from ... an action figure.

🎬 It's got everything: Jack Black as a runaway astronaut and Owen Wilson as a talking motorcycle. Ron Wilson plays the villain (as himself). Oh, and the rest of NASA are the bad guys, too. Here's the best TV pilot that never got picked up but became a cult favorite: Heat Vision and Jack, as directed by Ben Stiller.

🦌 Stuck in your car because of a traffic jam? That's bad but how about being stuck in your automobile because a moose calf is eating snow off the car's hood? It's Internet gold.

🏂 Dad attached a microphone to his young daughter to get a glimpse into her thought process while she zooms down on her snowboard, and we all can learn from how this four-year-old thinks. "I won't fall. Maybe I will. That's okay, 'cause we all fall." Life lessons!

🤣 Who's cuter than Timothée Chalamet? Elmo, that's who. Here's the Sesame Street muppet replacing him as the protagonist in Dune during the intense Gom Jabbar scene. F is for Fear!

🪑 Weebles wobble but they don't fall down. The Virén Chair, on the other hand, falls down, but it always gets back up.

⚗️ Scientists are usually long-winded, but not clinical psychologist Dennis Upper. He wrote the shortest scientific paper ever published.

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