🐍 This has got to be one of the weirdest murders ever: a man in India was convicted of the murder of his wife, with the murder weapon being a deadly cobra.

👻 Do you need to prove that a house is not haunted? Who you gonna call?

🦠 Neat: cryo-electron tomography lets scientists look at teeny tiny stuff inside of cells.

🍰 Family gatherings are almost always improved with cakes, and I think these Thanksgiving cakes gone wrong are no exceptions. If anything else, the sheer wrongness of these cakes will bring the family closer together.

🛵 If you need to escape an office meeting quickly, there's no better way than to unfold the eBike you've got stowed under the desk and ride away in style.

🐊 Gators don't make good house pets, so when they need to be rescued, they end up in a place like this shelter for rescued alligators.

🎄 A bar in Texas sensibly banned Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas" until December 1. Thankfully, you can listen to that song simply by going to practically any store in the mall by now. But if you do go to the mall, be kind to the workers there, because they've been listening to aural torture Christmas music all day long.

❤️ Lastly, you may like your local grocery store, but not like this couple! They love the Berkeley Bowl Grocery Store so much that they took their engagement photos there. Romance on aisle 9!

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Image: Ganesh SahSudi/Wikipedia

🛰️ Here's the ultimate home tour video: Take a tour of the International Space Station in this 360-degree video tour, courtesy of ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Who knew that there's so many cables there?

🌼 The corpse plant blooms once every three to four years, but when it does, boy, it's worth it!

🏠 Got $5 million? You can buy this fascinating McMansion in Illinois that's a compendium of pretty much all known architectural styles throughout history.

👜 Don't have $5 million? No worries, you can still get the world's most beautiful randoseru backpack for school children for a mere $500.

☀️ Impressive: 15-year-old Vinisha Umashankar of India invented a solar-powered ironing cart.

🎵 Three up-and-coming comedians got the opportunity of a lifetime when Pete Davidson asked them to be in his music video. They soon realized that the point of the video was basically to make fun of them, but all of the humiliation is worth it in the end because they get to be touched by Taylor Swift.

🚲 Here's the cutest and safest way to take your pet along on your eBike ride: Mopet.

🍪 Cookie artist duo WHIP SUGAR recreated the Laputian Robot from Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky in sugar cookie. Amazing!

📷 Lastly, something touching and beautiful: Photographer Lauren Smith-Kennedy offers end-of-life photo shoots to pet owners whose dog is about to die.

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🎈 A few months ago, airline pilots saw what looks like someone flying with a jetpack near Los Angeles International Airport. Now, new video from the LAPD helicopter crew suggests that what they saw was a human-shaped inflatable balloon that looked like Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

⛏️ Archaeologists revealed the largest mosaic floor in the world. It's made from 5 million pieces of stone and depicts 38 different geometric scenes and floral patterns, including a fascinating "Tree of Life" design.

🚀 Forget launching satellites using rockets! The new method is to yeet it into orbit.

🎬 To celebrate Monsters, Inc's 20th anniversary, Pixar has just released a 4-minute old timey silent film version.

🏠 You can now rent Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw's apartment on Airbnb.

🦎 The one thing you don't expect to find in your toilet: an iguana. But apparently that's a thing in Florida.

😻 Coconut the cat loves to bring "gifts" to its owner, Taryn Troutman, who compiled the best (candy, toys, and green bean) to the worst (knife, garbage, and litter, oh yuck).

🦊 And lastly, here's a curious fox who loves to be serenaded with banjo music.

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🐳 How much does a blue whale eat every day? If you guessed "a lot," you'd be right: a new study revealed that a blue whale eats between 10 to 20 tons of food a day, or about 20 to 50 million calories. To put that into perspective, that's the equivalent of about 80,000 Big Macs. Every. Single. Day. (Image above: Duke University Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab)

🚂 Instead of turning it into scrap metal, a retired train in Tokyo's Miyazakidai Station is reimagined as a shared office space that you can rent. And while the interior is not exactly the same, the train has all the vibes of the train featured in Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away.

🎬 Talking 'bout Studio Ghibli, this guy created a fantastic replica of Howl's Moving Castle using trash and junk items.

🎃 Understanding semiotics using pumpkin spice as an example. At the end, I still don't understand semiotics, but now I'm thirsty for pumpkin spice latte.

📷 Winning photos of the Close-up Photographer of the Year 2021 include this super cute Rat in Tyre Hub shown above. (Image: Ezra Boulton/CUPOTY03)

❤️ Paul Rudd is named Sexiest Man Alive, and his wife basically said, "sure, dear." Rudd said, "I'm going to lean into it hard. I'm going to own this. I'm getting business cards made."

Let's end with two fun and uplifting stories:

🐶 Good boi: Dog saved more than 100 koalas during brushfires in Australia

😻 You may love your Amazon delivery packages, but this cat loves the delivery drivers.

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🦆 The 50th New York City Marathon this past Sunday had 33,000 humans and one duck participants. Meet Wrinkle the Duck, the viral Tiktok star who ran the NYC marathon in a stylish red webbed footwear.

🏠 This woman found hidden stairs under her patio that led to a secret room under her house.

🐂 150 bison are coming straight towards your car and there's no where for you to go. What do you do? Film the stampede, of course.

🎬 Forget the Matrix, enter the Keanuverse instead! How many Keanu Reeves movies do you recognize in this supercut?

🕹️ Best IKEA hack ever: Fan created Donkey Kong shelf using IKEA Lustigt Wall Shelf.

😴 The best time to go to bed for your health, according to science.

🤣 This last one is a funny one: Taking three boys to school is like The Three Stooges IRL.

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Image: @seducktive/Tiktok

🥔 Colin and Donna Craig-Brown of New Zealand found a strange object in their garden that they thought was a puffball mushroom at first, but upon closer examination turned out to be a giant 17.4-lb potato the size of a small dog. Naturally, they named it "Doug" and built a small cart to tow it around. (Image: Donna Craig-Brown)

🏠 Psst, got $5 million? You can buy the narrowest house in New York City, which stands at 8'7" (2.6 m) wide on the inside - that's a mere $48,500 per inch (practically a steal!). The house is actually surprisingly nice: Take a look inside.

🤖 Robots are taking our jobs, but at least they have the decency of cooking us some chicken at this fully automated KFC restaurant in Moscow that's run entirely by robots.

🛏️ Robots are taking our jobs, but we're not going to take that lying down ... or are we? We are if we work lying down with this peculiar desk. (Note to John: ramming speed!)

🌮 Dream wedding at the world's most beautiful Taco Bell.

🍔 Well, these McDonald's may not be the most beautiful in the world, but they are definitely the most unusual. Behold, the weirdest non-standard McDonald's from around the world.

🐱 You've probably seen the images of the Topiary Cat that's been making the round on the Internet. It turns out that it's a memorial for a pet cat, drawn by artist Richard Saunders. This is the story behind the viral Topiary Cat pics.

🦆 Lastly, something that'll bring a smile to your face: morning rush hour at an animal rescue farm.

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🐍 When this landlord in Kitui, Kenya, wanted to lock out his deadbeat tenant, he didn't bother with locks that could easily be cut off. No sir, he used a venomous snake to lock the gate.

⚡ This decorative outdoor wall panel not only looks good and give you some backyard privacy, it also harnesses wind power to generate electricity. Behold, the Wind Turbine Wall by Joe Doucet.

✋ Stunning: "Hand ballet" as choreographed by Sadeck Waff, who orchestrated 128 performers for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. Featured on Pictojam a while ago, but worth seeing again.

💎 Two words: bejeweled carpet. Okay, make that three words: bejeweled royal carpet. Take a look at this art installation by Dutch artist Suzan Drummen at the Royal Palace Amsterdam.

💨 Who farted? Blame the farting waffle iron.

😸 One day, Gustave Fersenheim, a deaf postal clerk in New York City at the turn of the 20th century, found a kindred spirit: a deaf cat that he adopted. Soon, the cat became part of the post office's feline postal police. Read this wonderful story of The Deaf Cat of New York's Post Office.

🎲 In 1981, Dungeons & Dragons published stats for eight cartoon characters. For example, Donald Duck is a berserker who cannot be killed once he goes into a rage and Bugs Bunny is a 15th-level illusionist.

👨‍🍳 Lastly, this is what 3D printing is invented for: to make a 3D-Printed SpongeBob SquarePants Sponge Holder. Just what every chef and fry cook need in the kitchen!

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🍦 They look like chicken nuggets, but they're actually ice cream covered in cereal crumbs by Milk & Cream Bar in New York. The snack comes in cardboard containers you'd usually get with actual chicky nuggies, and even comes with a container of honey dipping sauce. Yum!

🚁 It's 2021, where's my flying car? Well, that may still be ways off, but how about a flying electric multicopter? Swedish startup Jetson unveiled its eVTOL (electric vertical take off and landing vehicle) called Jetson One that looks like a podracer straight out of Star Wars.

😻 When Liam Thompson noticed that his 20-year-old cat named Frodo had trouble walking up and down a set of stairs, he decided to to help by building a cat elevator.

🕹️ Thumby: a teeny tiny game system the size of your thumb.

🏰 A man's home is his castle, but this house in Michigan is actually shaped just like one. And now it's for sale for $2.3 million. Look inside.

🧶 If you ended up buying that castle above, then this would be the perfect bed for your pet cat: crocheted cat castle pet bed.

🌳 Mill Ends Park, the world's smallest park, is moving ... 6 inches to the left.

🖖 Star Trek replicators, how do they work?

🎲 Lastly, a cafe like no other: a retired elementary school teacher in Virginia opens Unplugged Cafe and stocks it with 700 board games to encourage family to play together.

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Image: Milk & Cream Cereal Bar

🎵 Love music and snacks? Combine the two by turning band names into food puns! Like Fleetwood Mac and Cheese, James Brownie, Stevie Wonder Bread, and many more.

🏠 This man's family lived in a 500-year-old house for 30 years before he discovered that there's a secret room behind his bookshelf, and a mysterious old safe. So, what's inside the safe? Let's find out.

💰 This city will give you $5000, gift cards to the farmer's market, home cooked meals and "grandparents on demand" if you move there.

👶 Man recreated their maternity photoshoot with his one-year-old daughter to honor his late wife.

🐱 Woman messed with this cat by turning it into a zen garden. But whatever you do, don't mess with this cat, who'll defend its food from a wild bobcat.

🌎 This is what the Earth and the Sun look like from the South Pole of the Moon.

🐊 Three eyelids, retractable in battle, and night vision: why crocodile eyes are an engineering marvel.

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🐶 Why do dogs tilt their heads when you talk to them? No, it turns out that they're not trying hard to be cute. According to science, dogs tilt their heads when they're trying to understand English words. I can't blame them - I tilt my head whenever I hear some people speak as they sound like gibberish to me.

🙀 Can't stand cute dogs who tilt their heads? The Demon Cat of Washington, D.C. doesn't bother with such a cute gesture. If DC (that's Demon Cat for you) tilts its head, it's probably getting ready to eat you.

🤖 Start me up! Spot Robot imitates the Rolling Stones and we can't get no satisfaction watching and welcoming our new robot overlords.

👑 Anyone can be a king or a queen! Rock Bridge High School in Missouri just voted for the first male homecoming queen.

🦹‍♂️ Man flees crime scene in a lawn mower. No, not Florida Man - this one happened in Hawaii.

💡 No ladder, no problem. Here's how you change a lightbulb using a drone.

⭐ This nebula looks like Godzilla.

🌋 The ultimate selfie to end all selfies: Japanese man took a selfie in front of an erupting volcano.

🛒 Lastly, a feel good story of the day: Lunch lady and her metal worker husband created a custom school cart for a boy with dwarfism.

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(Image: Sommese, A., Miklósi, Á., Pogány, Á. et al. An exploratory analysis of head-tilting in dogs. Anim Cogn (2021)/CC BY 4.0)

🎢 What do you do with an old decommissioned oil rig? Saudi Arabia has a wild idea: turn it into an oil-themed extreme theme park. Rides include heart-thumping roller coasters, bungee jumping and other thrilling rides for adventure seekers. Meanwhile, us normal people get heart palpitations just looking at the rising gas prices.

👻 A Babylonian clay tablet dating from 3,500 years ago was revealed to have the oldest known drawing of a ghost ever. Bonus: the back of the tablet contained instructions on how to get rid of such a ghost. No wonder the Babylonians ain't 'fraid of no ghost.

📘 Here are some homes of famous authors that you can visit.

🐕 Aww story of the day: couple driving through the Spanish mountainside noticed a small Shorkie chasing their car in the middle of nowhere, so they adopted it (Maybe the dog was just running away from high gas prices)

🎥 Studson Studio made Howl's Moving Castle out of trash and pieces of junk, and we are absolutely enchanted by it.

🍦 I scream, you scream, we all including even the dog - scream for ice cream. Here's a dog getting excited to see the ice cream truck.

🏠 The house featured in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street is for sale for $3.25 million, and if you love horror movies (and have $3.25 million), it may just be your dream house.

🚢 What do you do when you want to move your house but there's no overland route? You float the house across the bay, of course. The REAL nightmare started when the house sprung a leak and began to sink, and one of the boats pushing it stalled. Not even Wes Craven could've thought that up.

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Kenneth Kong saw a social media post from his friend saying that he was so stressed out by his work that he couldn't sleep at night, but he could fall asleep while riding the bus. That was the spark that gave birth to this genius business idea: a 5-hour bus tour for people to take a nap on wheels.

Kong, the marketing manager for a local travel company in Hong Kong named ulu travel, organized the first "Sleeping Bus Tour" with tickets ranging from HK$129 to $399 (US$13 to $51) per person depending on whether they sit on the lower or upper deck.

According to ulu travel's website, the bus tour features "zero-decibel sleeping cabin," eye-mask and ear plugs, as well as a "food coma lunch" before starting the bus ride.

The Sleeping Bus Tour's first trip was sold out entirely, with some passengers bringing their own pillows and blankets, according to AP News.

But why do people (especially in Hong Kong) like to sleep on the bus? "People in Hong Kong don’t have enough time to sleep," said Shirley Li of the Sleep Research Clinic and Laboratory at the University of Hong Kong, "That’s why we have to kind of use other times to sleep, which is our daily commute, especially when we are travelling on public transport. For some people, they may tend to associate public transport with their sleep. And that’s why they found it easier to fall asleep on the bus."

Images: Kin Cheung/AP

The Giant Robot Doll from Squid Game tells bus riders to "Keep Quiet" ... or else!

Halloween is almost here, and so here's a cute post over at Supa Fluffy to whet your appetite: Meet a guinea pig named Lord Cesario, a "highly-opinionated four-legged potato," who loves ❤️ to review Halloween costumes.

🕺 This is mesmerizing: watch the captivating dance routine for the Paralympians as choreographed by Sadeck Waff.

🦿 This prosthetic leg doubles as a fold-out skateboard.

🪑 Pokemon-inspired furniture line for grownups. Gotta catch 'em all (especially the Snorlax rug!)

🎨 Arist Naci Caba creates impressionism-style Star Wars paintings

🎈 Viral TikTok video of siblings playing "Don't Let the Balloon Touch the Ground" Inspired an International Tournament with $11,000 in Prize Money.

🎤 ... and lastly, woman interviews rescue animals with a tiny mic.

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Image: Bernadette Banner/YouTube

This gorgeous image of Malui, a female western lowland gorilla walking through a cloud of butterflies with a serene look on her face won the top prize of the Nature Conservancy Photo Contest 2021. Don't miss the rest of the winning photos 📷!

🕘 Read the clock, literally! Author Clock uses quotes from classic books to tell the time.

Here's how to get away from it all: live in an hermitage inside a volcano.

Keempossible: Self-taught master baker paints roll cakes with designs inspired by pop culture (don't miss the one with the Giant Robot Doll from Squid Game!)

Besides for recording idiots on the road, it turns out that dashcams can be used to track down meteorites.

Here are two kittens re-enacting Mufasa's Death Scene from the Lion King.

Is it just pandemic ❤️ romance? This cat loves delivery drivers.

Here's (yawn) why warm milk makes you sleepy ... Zzzzzz ...

Medical mystery: doctor baffled when a blind dog aced an obstacle course.

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🔥 On Earth, fire is shaped like, well, fire because of gravity. In space, it is nothing like what we've ever seen: NASA did a combustion research and showed that fire is spherical in microgravity.

🐱 Cats of the Wedge Tour is a walking tour of neighborhood cats in Minneapolis that drew in hundreds of people.

🏠 Wife complaining of the same view out the home window? Build her a rotating house.

🦠 Watch COVID-19 spread across the USA from Jan 2020 to Oct 2021

🧱 Now this is charming: Calvin and Hobbes Crossing the Bridge in LEGO

♕ Let's play! The Queen's Gambit mosaics made out of chess symbols.

🧛 Is this a smiling vampire bat or a cat?

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Image: NASA