A trainload of poop that's parked near your home, of course.

That's what's happening to Parrish, Alabama. Right now, dozens of train cars loaded with 10 million pounds of poop from New York and New Jersey are stranded in a rail yard in the rural Alabama town.

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— WHNT (@whnt) April 5, 2018

CBC Radio has the story:

So how did Parrish end up a trainload of sewer sludge from out of state? It was originally en route to Big Sky Environmental, a private landfill in Adamsville, Ala. But in January, the nearby town of West Jefferson filed an injunction against Big Sky to stop them storing the waste in a rail yard near them.

West Jefferson won its legal battle with Big Sky in February. "The railroad decided: Well, if we can't go to West Jefferson, the next closest rail stop to Big Sky would be the town of Parrish. They have a really large train yard so we're just going to bring it there," Hall said. "And that's what they did. And it kept coming and coming and coming."

It's now proven by science: dishwashing is bad for your marital relationship ... or more accurately, not helping your spouse with dishwashing will get you in trouble.

A study by Daniel Carlson and colleagues at the University of Utah, found that amongst a variety of common household tasks (like shopping, laundry, and housecleaning), dishwashing is the most unpopular chore and the one that's most likely to cause marital strife if left unshared:

Women who wash the vast majority of the dishes themselves report more relationship conflict, less relationship satisfaction, and even worse sex, than women with partners who help. Women are happier about sharing dishwashing duties than they are about sharing any other household task. ...

The most unpopular household tasks, Carlson told [Caroline Kitchener of The Atlantic], also tend to be the ones most often associated with women. Traditionally, women have shouldered full responsibility for chores that involve cleaning up after someone else: doing the laundry, cleaning the toilet, washing dishes. Men, on the other hand, are often associated with mowing the lawn, taking out the trash, washing the car—tasks that don’t require getting up close and personal with somebody else’s daily grime. Today, women who have to shoulder those traditionally female chores alone “see themselves as relegated to the tasks that people don’t find desirable,” Carlson said. That breeds resentment.

Caroline Kitchener of The Atlantic has the story (Photo: Elnur/Shutterstock)

Suelen Schaumloeffel's dog Lana is one generous puppy! The dog, which was rescued from the streets of Brazil and adopted by Schaumloeffel and her fiancé, shared a blanket with a stray dog outside the fence!

"I thought, 'How beautiful what she did for her friend,'" Schaumloeffel tells The Dodo. "My best four-legged friend reminded me of something so important: generosity!"

Street artist Pejac (previously on Neatorama) visited Brooklyn, New York City, and created this optical illusion art titled "Fossil."

The artwork looks like the image of a tree made from missing bricks on the building's wall - but in actuality, Pejac created that illusion by spray painting "shadows" on the individual bricks.

From the artist's Instagram:

‘Fossil’ works as a harbinger of a hypothetical fatal future where the only memory we have of nature is the fossilized form of a tree in a brick wall.

When James Fox of Apex, North Carolina, checked the footage of his home security camera, he saw something that looked like a flurry of snow ... only that it wasn't snow. It was actually ... pollen.

"I think it was dramatic last night because of the wind," he explained. "Driving home from our farm last night it actually impacted visibility. At times it was pretty dense, like fog, or smoke," Fox said to ABC11. "I just noticed they (cameras) were getting triggered from the movement and thought it looked cool"

Oh, my allergies! My nose stuffed up just looking at the video clip!

Move over, cronuts! Here's something new: a cube croissant from San Francisco's Baker Doe.

To celebrate the 67th anniversary of the LP being released in Japan, the Panasonic corporation assembled 37 renowned DJs to create the world's first turntable orchestra. Enjoy!

Psst! Want some free money? Artist Blake Fall-Conroy can hook you up - all you have to do is turn the handle, and some coins will fall out of this nifty "Minimum Wage Machine."

The catch? Turning the crank will yield only 1 penny every 4 seconds thus giving you only $9 per hour - the minimum wage in the state of New York (as of 2016).

You've seen the letter 'g' in books and magazines countless of times (in fact, there are two in the sentence you just read) - but do you know how to write it?

Easy, right?

Well, not so fast. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University found that many people actually can't pick out the typeset form of 'g' out of a lineup:

"We would say: 'There're two forms of g. Can you write them?' And people would look at us and just stare for a moment, because they had no idea," said first author Kimberly Wong, a junior undergraduate at Johns Hopkins. "Once you really nudged them on, insisting there are two types of g, some would still insist there is no second g." ...

"They don't entirely know what this letter looks like, even though they can read it," said co-author Gali Ellenblum, a graduate student in cognitive science. "This is not true of letters in general. What's going on here?"

After the massive scandal in which they were discovered cheating on vehicle emission testings, Volkswagen has spent over $7.5 billion buying back about 350,000 diesel cars.

So where did they put all those cars?

In 37 "graveyards" of cars, with tens of thousands of parked cars stretching as far as the eyes can see ...

In the Southern Italian region of Puglia, there are over millions of olive trees - many of them ancient with knotted and gnarled barks. This particular one, named the Thinking Tree looks stumped.

When he was only seven years old, Marcos Rodríguez Pantoja was taken to the mountains by his parents and abandoned. But he wasn't alone: a pack of wolves adopted him and raised him as one of their own.

Twelve years later, the Spanish Civil Guards found him and brought him back to civilization. Now in his seventies, Pantoja reflected upon his experiences living amongst humans and wolves, and told us that living with wolves was actually better:

His last happy memories were of his childhood with the wolves. The wolf cubs accepted him as a brother, while the she-wolf who fed him taught him the meaning of motherhood. He slept in a cave alongside bats, snakes and deer, listening to them as they exchanged squawks and howls. Together they taught him how to survive. Thanks to them, Rodríguez learned which berries and mushrooms were safe to eat.

Today, the former wolf boy, who was 19 when he was discovered by the Civil Guard and ripped away from his natural home, struggles with the coldness of the human world.

Silvia R. Pontevedra of El Pais has the full story (Photo by Oscar Corral).

Who'd ever guess that skating on thin ice could be so ... (dangerously) fun?

Hear how skating on black ice - a precariously thin layer of ice that forms on a recently frozen lake - can produce otherworldly, laser-like sounds in this fascinating video clip by Nat Geo.

Swedish photograher and filmmaker Henrik Trygg and mathematician Mårten Ajne, both ice skating enthusiasts, explain how black ice makes those weird sounds:

Why is black ice so good at producing those amazing, laser-like sounds?

In the video, the sounds are created by me skating on it. There is a distinctive sonorous tone and the noise from cracks striking.

Black ice doesn’t expand and contract because it’s kept warm by the underlying water, even when it’s cold out. Isothermal would be the technical word for it—in a narrow temperature range.

The sonorous tone is the song of black ice, best heard (and recorded) from a short distance. The layman explanation would be that the tone is inversely related to the thickness of the ice. The thinner the ice, the higher the tone. Intriguingly, the ice is about to collapse at high C, the supposedly highest note of a soprano opera singer, for example in Puccini’s Turandot.

Image: Texas Medical Center

When hand tremors made it difficult for musician Anna Henry to play her flute, she decided to undergo brain surgery. The procedure, called deep brain stimulation, involves inserting small electrodes in the brain to deliver electric current that reduces tremors.

After the procedure, doctors at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center gave Henry her flute to see whether her hands were stable enough to play. The result? An operating room solo performance of a lifetime!

Image: Sekaiminzoku - via My Modern Met

Tired of making shiny mud balls, some (very patient) people of Japan have moved on to making balls from aluminum foil (YouTube link). Oooh, shiny!

Pray that they don't ever discover Baby Bell wax as a substrate.