🐻 An Amazon driver was trying to deliver a package when a black bear suddenly appeared! So who will win the face-off of an Amazon delivery driver vs a black bear?

🅰️ It's amazing to see how letters in the modern Latin alphabet evolved from Proto-Sinaitic script (c. 1750 BCE). Did you know that "A" evolved from the shape of a cow's head and "D" from a fish?

🚗 Those crazy Russian mechanics of Garage 54 flipped a Lada. On purpose.

🏠 We all know that The Simpsons is fiction because its about a middle class family with a single working parent owning a house and two cars. But did you know that the Simpsons' house would be worth $450K in today's real estate market?

ICYMI: The Mystery of the Alaskan Killer Bigfoot and 3D Printed SpongeBob SquarePants Sponge Holder

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🚗 Can this driver pull off a U-turn on a narrow road with rocky hill on one side and a drop off on the other?

💰 Expert predictions about 2022 turned into a bingo card.

🏠 How crazy hot is the real estate market in San Francisco? Take a look at what $2 million buys you: a "zero bedroom" unlivable house that should've been condemned for being hazardous. In other words, a charming fixer upper!

🐱 Cosplay is better with a cat, especially if said cat is very chill about dressing up in costumes. Amber Maureen Lu took wonderful photos of her cat in more than 300 hand-made costumes (image: eatdrinkcat).

⚾ Wholesome: Grandfather has a collection of baseball caps from each university his grandchildren attended.

🎬 Quentin Tarantino was on the verge of scrapping his film Inglorious Basterds until he met a little known Austrian actor named Christoph Waltz, who played the Nazi villain named Hans Landa to perfection. Tarantino even considered Landa to be the greatest character he's ever written and many people think that he's one of the most terrifying villains in movie history. Find out why.

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Featured art: Dark Side of Impossible by indie artist Artstuff.

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🎤 (In my best Ron Burgundy "news anchor voice") A new TikTok challenge has swept the nation. Earlier this month, a TV news host issued a challenge on TikTok, saying "In your very best 'News Anchor' voice, I would love to hear you narrate yourself doing something super mundane around the house." Here are some of the best clips on that News Anchor Challenge. Now, back to you at the studio.

😷 Covid schmovid*. There's finally a good reason to wear masks: face masks make people look more attractive. When I asked my kids about this, they replied that it's obvious: most people are ugly, so face masks make an immediate improvement.

*Seriously though: Follow CDC guidance, stay safe and healthy.

💀 How do you convince people in Montreal that jaywalking is dangerous? First, get them to have a little bit of fun and then - WHAM! - give them this gruesome message.

🕹️ LAPD officers fired for ignoring a robbery so they can play Pokemon Go.

🔥 Amazon's The Lord of the Rings new Title reveal video is pretty neat, but it's mindblowingly awesome when a behind-the-scenes clip reveal that instead of CGI, the whole thing was shot at a foundry with molten metal!

🏰 Real estate opportunity of a lifetime (or is it an afterlife-time?): This haunted Scottish castle is up for sale.

🐕 When this man dropped down to one knee and proposed, sure his girlfriend was excited ... but not as much as this dog, who stole the spotlight.

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🤖 It's amazing what 17 motors underneath its grey face could do. Meet Ameca, a humanoid robot by UK company Engineered Arts, which took the Internet by storm with its lifelike facial expressions.

📺 Bumbling thieves in Brazil shows us what NOT to do when stealing a big-screen TV.

🐼 Snow is fun: Snow day for panda cub Xiao Qi Ji at the Smithsonia's National Zoo.

One of my favourite kids was on the news tonight in Toronto and I have officially died. I’m dead. The name plate alone. Gold. pic.twitter.com/3XNs27oHoh

— Meaghan Derynck (@MeaghanDerynck) January 18, 2022

❄️ Snow is not fun: This 9-year-old kid is basically everyone who's exhausted and sick of the snow (the good news is that the boy, whose name is Cater Trozollo, is now a viral star)

🎬 Ewan McGregor shows us what it's like playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in front of the green screen for Revenge of the Sith.

🎙️ Behind the Scenes: Watch Mark Hamill voice Skeletor in Masters of the Universe: Revelations. The voice acting is transcendent triumph!

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Featured art: Jurassic Pug by indie artist edsonramos.

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🦄 Myths often have kernels of truth buried deep beneath layers of fairy tales passed down through the generations. Scientists have now found evidence that the horned Siberian beast called the Elasmotherium sibiricum may have lived among early humans 35,000 years ago, and thus gave rise to what we now call the unicorn. Now if only we can explain the jackalope!

🛩️ Not for the faint-hearted: watch how an airplane lands at the world's most dangerous airport. The Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, Nepal has a single runway that sits between a mountain and a steep drop-off. I get queasy just watching the clip! 😱

🕹️ You can now play the once-forbidden video games from Communist Czechoslovakia. There's a Rambo game where he's actually the bad guy.

🎵 We told you about The Butts Remix before. Now, there's the Teletubbies singing Black Eyed Peas' song My Humps.

🕷️ Genius inventor created a real-life Spider-Man wall climbing suit (and proceeded to climb a really tall building).

🕷️ How do you spy on red crabs on their annual Christmas Island migration? Why, with a spy crab, of course.

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Image: Elasmotherium sibiricum by DiBgd/Wikimedia

🌹 Featured art: Kiss from a Rose, sung by an actual seal by indie artist louisros.

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🐄 It may be borderline Black-Mirror stuff, but who can argue with udder success? A dairy farmer in Turkey created a bovine metaverse by giving cows VR headsets displaying green pastures. This reduced the cows' anxiety and increased milk production.

🤖 What happens when you let a chatbot talk to another chatbot? Watch the insults fly when it's AI vs AI.

💰 Hulk smash sales: First edition of The Incredible Hulk Comic sold for $490K ... and the Hulk wasn't even green in this edition!

🐀 This rat plays Doom better than me: Here's how a neuroengineer trained rats to play Doom on a custom VR setup.

🎃 Watch this nifty time lapse of a pumpkin growing from a small seed to a giant 1,322 lb behemoth.

📷 Woman took a selfie on top of her sinking car. In her defense, that is primo selfie opportunity, after all, it's not everyday that your car sinks into an icy river. Plus, doesn't the insurance company require photo proof of the incident anyways?

🐻 After humans abandoned the Kolyuchin Island in the Chukchi Sea between Russia and Alaska, polar bears moved into their houses. What squatters!

👂 Lastly, not for the squeamish: man's ear blockage turned out to be a [OH OMG!] (with picture)

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🌎 This is a true story about a fake country: A con artist named Gregor MacGregor (yeah, his actual name) sold the dream of moving to a new country named Poyais in South America to hundreds of would be settlers. Problem was, Poyais never existed.

😷 We don't talk about COVID No No No: A parody song and a catchy tune by The Holderness Family.

❤️ Think your blind date is uncomfortable? This Chinese woman met a blind date for a home-cooked dinner, and during the date, the government announced a sudden Covid lockdown. So her dinner date turned into an extended quarantine date for days on end.

🎨 Psst, got $547 million? You can buy this Italian villa with the only Caravaggio painted mural on the ceiling.

🐈 If you think sleeping with cats is tough, try sleeping with cheetahs. Dolph C. Volker did and lived to tell all about it (they're just large kitties!)

🎬 Film writer Kevin L. Lee asked a question on Twitter: "What is the best an actor has ever looked on screen?" He got thousands of replies, and compiled the most popular answers. See if you agree with the actor/actress and movies combo.

🎃 Love Halloween? If you think that every day should be Halloween, then you'll like our new site: Spooky Daily. We're adding new Halloween and horror-related content there regularly all year long. Like this one: A List of the Greatest Horror Comedies.

Featured art: Everybody Thinks I Suck by indie artist Edu Ely.

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🐄 Technically, Ollie the calf is a micro mini cow, but from the looks of it, this cow thinks he's a dog and part of the family. He swims, watches TV, and even goes on a jet ski ride. What an a-moo-sing pet!

💀 19th century house painter John Renie was a pious man who didn't want the devil to steal his soul upon his death, so he devised a puzzle on a gravestone to "confuse the Devil."

🏠 This is nifty: Habitat for Humanity built the first-ever owner-occupied 3D printed home in the world. Amazingly, the main structure of the house was built in just 12 hours (instead of 4 weeks of construction of a typical house).

👻 In 1984, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray made a promotional film to promote Ghostbusters to a bunch of theater owners telling them that they should show the movie because it appealed to kids, and kids buy a LOT of candies and snacks which would translate to big profits for these businessmen. You can tell that Aykroyd and Murray basically bullsh-tted through their intro, but they seemed to have a great time doing it!

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Love cats and fantasy movies? These four tees by indie artist Tobe Fonseca are for you: Brave At Heart, Wisdom is Power, Honesty Before Glory, and Great Ambition.

🚗 Honda's newest electric car tops out at just 5 mph and seats just one very small driver. It'll never be in the showroom but it may just be the best thing Honda's ever done. Meet the Honda Shogo, which lets pediatric patients drive on the hallways of children's hospitals.

🦌 Oh dear, this is a traffic stop surprise: Pennsylvania Police found a live deer in the trunk of a car during a traffic stop.

🏰 Got $6 million? Make the real estate agent an offer he can't refuse and buy yourself The Godfather's Sicilian castle in Italy.

🤣 Pokemon lovers know that even though he's nearly useless, the bumbling Bidoof will never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down.

🧙‍♂️ Here's a story you can tell your little children or grandchildren: The Wizard and the Unfillable Hole by Nathan W. Pyle. See if they laugh or groan.

🎵 This CGI Rube Goldberg xylophone plays the intro to One Summer's Day, the theme of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. Clever!

🐶 Cute of the Day: let the plush Amagami Ham Ham robot bite your finger.

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🕹️ Featured art: I Want To Play by indie artist DAObiwan. A video game design in the style of the sci-fi I Want to Believe poster.

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Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains. @CBSLA pic.twitter.com/JvNF4UVy2K

— John Schreiber (@johnschreiber) January 13, 2022

If you're still missing that package that you ordered online a while ago, this could be the reason: it's stolen off cargo containers aboard freight trains traveling through southern California.

Apparently, thieves in Los Angeles discovered that stealing packages off people's porches are so ... inefficient, so they moved up the logistics chain: they're now raiding cargo containers on trains.

In the tweet above, photojournalist John Schreiber took videos of thousands of boxes strewn along the railroad tracks near downtown Los Angeles. Trains frequently slow or stop in the area as they arrive at Union Pacific's intermodal facility and thieves simply hopped on the train, break open the cargo containers and grab what's inside. "I'd say every 4th or 5th rail car had opened containers," Schreiber tweeted.

In a letter, Union Pacific wrote that in the last 3 months of the year it had made over 100 arrests of "active criminals vandalizing [their] trains," but the arrested individuals are released from custody within 24 hours.

🔪 Twenty years after enhanced airport security, people are still trying to board airplanes with forbidden items like a meat cleaver above. The TSA has compiled its "Top 10 Catches of 2021" featuring bear spray, antique gun, gun that doubles as a belt buckle, and so on. You'll never guess the number 1 forbidden item.

🪑 This "nervous chair" is afraid that you'll sit on it.

🗺️ The world's largest dungeon map is probably bigger than your dungeon master's basement.

🦀 How do you spy on the Christmas Island red crab during its annual migration? With a robot spy crab, of course.

🚗 The Honda Shogo: A mini motorized car that let young pediatric patients roam around the children's hospital hallways and have a little bit of fun during their hospital stay.

🦷 Marlon Brando's "dental plumper" gave him the jowls of Vito Corleone in The Godfather.

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🤡 Hey, hey, kids ... take a look at this featured art: Kamp Krystal Lake by indie artist jorgetiradoart

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🎨 Japanese miniature artist Tatsuya Tanaka compiled his best mini diorama art from 2021 and we are all in awe with his creativity.

🐶 Can't get a Covid test? Let these specially trained Covid sniffing dogs smell you to see if you have the virus.

🏠 The Chemosphere in Los Angeles is a modernist house worthy of a movie villain.

🧾 Tax season is almost here, so the IRS is warning criminals not to forget to report income from illegal activities in their federal tax return. After all, that's how they nabbed Al Capone.

📺 No, it's not your eyesight or your television monitor, movies and TV shows are indeed lacking colors these days.

🦀 Cheeky coconut crab tries to steal a golf club but ended up snapping it in half with its claws.

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Featured art: Paper Wars by indie artist Dr.Monekers

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🎬 A while ago, we told you that the Foo Fighters secretly made a horror-comedy movie. Today, the trailer for the Foo Fighters' Studio 666 has just dropped. It looks pretty good, so perhaps if that music thing doesn't work out for Dave Grohl, he can always be try the movie thing 😉

🪑 Psst, got an old piece of IKEA furniture? It may be worth a lot. Turns out, secondhand vintage IKEA furniture can be quite valuable.

👅 SilentSpeller lets you text with your tongue (without making a sound, that is).

🎉 Woman married the color pink in a fun wedding ceremony in Las Vegas (where else?), and we're red with jealousy that we didn't think of it first.

😸 A couple of days ago, we told you of cats holding a couple's blender hostage. Now, they're using this man's Starlink Satellite Dish as a chair. Cats are just a-holes.

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🐺 Featured Art: Scoot at the Moon by Hillary White

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🦕 Todd Perkins of Washougal, Washington, spared no expense to create this Jurassic Park-themed vacation rental house, which comes complete with five animatronic dinosaurs. Welcome to Jurassic Retreat!

🩺 Can you figure out why a woman patient is more likely to die if her surgeon is a man?

🐿️ Bet you didn't know that beavers actually help prevent wildfires and droughts.

🍩 In this gloriously wrong game show answer, the contestant was thinking of the wrong Homer.

🚀 This Trekker converts a teardrop camping trailer to look like a Star Trek shuttlecraft.

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🤖 Featured fan art: Omni Smart Home Security by indie artist jorgetiradoart.

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🗺️ This is an amazing story: Thirty-three years ago, a four year old boy was kidnapped from his village and sold to a child trafficking ring. The man was finally able to find his long-lost mother by drawing a map of the village he remembered growing up in and sharing it on social media.

🚀 Resistance is feline and futile: Behold, the Star Trek cat towers.

🏎️ Couple found a sports car in a storage unit they bought for $100. It turned out to be a James Bond car, so they sold it to Elon Musk for $1 million. As if that story wasn't crazy enough, the car turned out to be the inspiration for Tesla's new Cybertruck.

🐱 Jessica and Nikii Gerson-Neeves were excited to get a Vitamix blender as Christmas gift. The problem? Their cats are holding it hostage and an Internet saga is born.

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🦝 Featured art: Give Us Our Daily Trash by indie artist Hillary White

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