For many people, it was their first introduction to motorcycle officers. While the show was entertainment, it inspired plenty of riders who eventually chose a career in law enforcement.
— Orange County Sheriff's Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) March 6, 2026
CHiPs, which stands for California Highway Patrol, was an hour-long television series that aired from 1977 to 1983. The Orange County Sheriff's Office recently created a shot-for shot remake of its iconic introduction showing two of their officers in the place of Jon and Ponch.
How long does it take for you to poop? How does that compare with other people and species?
According to a recent study on the fluid dynamics of poop reported on by PBS News, mammals spend an average of 12 seconds (plus or minus 7) performing excretion. From cats to bears to humans to elephants, 12 seconds is about all the time that you need.
That said, the distribution of pooping speeds is not uniform. In general, larger animals tend to pass droppings faster. Elephants, for example, poop at about 6 centimeters each second. For humans, the speed of poop is about 2 centimeters per second.
I for one do not care for my species to be known as sluggish. We're the dominant species on this planet and it's time that we act like it.
An essential component of disaster preparedness and response for libraries is consideration for the protection of the library collection. A library in Sicily resorted to extreme measures to rescue approximately 400 rare books in danger of destruction when a landslide left its facility hanging off the edge of a precipice.
The Guardian reports that firefighters made a detailed plan to enter the precarious building, strap together bookcases, and extract them quickly. This entailed serious risk to the firefighters, as geologists anticipate that the library will soon fall off the cliff. Their leader of the firefighters compared the planning and execution as akin to "pulling off a bank heist."
-via Super Punch | Photo: Sicilian Unit of Firefighters
Admiral David Dixon Porter was one of the Union's most successful naval commanders during the American Civil War. After an excellent combat record, he served as Superintendent of the US Naval Academy and, in retirement, wrote his memoirs of the war and a naval history of it.
Chatelain's wife, Brittany, promised to read one of these novels if he ever found one in print. Chatelain found a copy of Allan Dare and Robert le Diable. She was underwhelmed when her husband interviewed her about the experience:
How does Porter’s writing style compare with romance writers today?
Brittany: It’s actually interesting. He writes men in a way women might want to read about men physically, but the men are mostly focused on being strong. So, they have no real personality. Women are described as just vapid and materialistic and physically they all have small feet, which is apparently what men desired in the 19th century. Few of the women were very strong in character. All of this is in direct contrast to modern romance novels where women have a large depth of character, which highlights the difference between a female author and a male author writing a romance.
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What was the best part of the book?
Brittany: None of it was particularly enjoyable.
What did you not enjoy about the book?
Brittany: The entire book. I would say more, but it would spoil the plot for any potential readers.
Would you recommend other romance novel readers take a chance with Admiral David Dixon Porter’s writings?
Brittany: Absolutely not.
She concludes by giving the novel a rating of two out of five stars.
In the 1994 film Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Jim Carrey must escape his robotic rhinoceros by squeezing out of its butt while naked.
The prop is quite sophisticated. You can see Adam Savage's complete walk-through of the mechanism and how it functioned to create the scene here.
I'm sure that you're already imagining how enjoyable it would be to own the prop and to role-play the scene yourself on a daily basis. Well, then, good news! The Propstore in Los Angeles is auctioning it soon. The starting price is $2,000, but it's clearly worth more given its obvious office workplace applications.
The march of progress continues, building better lives for ourselves and our posterity. New wonders in this age of abundance, prosperity, and innovation harken to a utopia that is no longer on the distant horizon, but approaching with celerity.
How do we know? Because it's possible to buy and then use Reese's flavored toothpaste. The Hershey Company and the toothpaste firm Hismile are releasing this life-altering dental product. FoodBeast reports that it is, at the moment, only available in Australia and New Zealand. But keep in mind that it is possible to travel to those nations to partake of this Promethean bliss.
Andrew Hiers is a professionally trained opera singer with a highly successful stage career. He's a true artist and a master of his craft.
But the hard truth is that financially thriving in the performing arts is chancy. Road & Track reports that when his gigs dried up, he got a job selling cars at a Chrysler leadership in Cocoa, Florida. Hiers is a good sport about this unplanned career change and uses his musical skills on the lot to pitch purchases to customers. On his Instagram channel, you can listen to him try to seduce a sale out of you with his voice.
One redditor refers to this novel airline seat design as the "Cheek Splitter 9000." /u/themondyone shares this photo from an older Boeing 737-800 operated by Japan Airlines. The text on the hump says, in English and Japanese, "Do Not Sit Here"--just in case the intention is unclear.
Various redditors claiming experience in aviation propose that the hump is there to take the seat out of use. Just putting a sign on the seat will not deter people from sitting there. This change is sometimes made to restrict the number of passengers that can travel or to make safety equipment easier for the crew to access.
The 1993 video game Doom was one of the earliest first-person shooter games and popularized the genre. It has become a hobby among eccentric engineers to play the game on unconventional platforms, such as a chainsaw, a rotary phone, and a cooking pot.
It was only a matter of time before the engineers started to go too far. Now, New Scientist reports, the Australian firm Cortical Labs has been able to run the game of Doom on human brain tissue.
In 2021, the company was able to recreate the vintage game Pong with human brain cells. That took enormous effort over a long period of time. Thanks to technological advancements, a programmer named Sean Cole was able to code the game with Python into the brain tissue in a short period of time.
Perhaps the next step will be to run Doom on a human brain still inside its standard casing. Such as yours.
Michael Koopmans is a Trekkie and dedicated collector of the most obscure and bizarre items of Star Trek merchandise. Yes, we are all familiar with the Spock helmet, an ongoing source of mirth on the internet for the past decade. But did you know about the Star Trek metal detector?
Yes, this is a real metal detector that has been branded as an authentic, licensed Star Trek tool with the application of a few decals. Now you can go metal detecting on the beach, just like Scotty must have done at some point.
Michael "Pac-Man" Leroy Luther loved playing Pac-Man as a young man. He did it so much that, after his death in 2007, his family commissioned a gravestone with images from the classic arcade game. It stands atop his final resting place in Thetford Township Cemetery outside of Clio, Michigan.
Pac-Man lived a full life, having served 10 years in the US Air Force and then working for General Motors. He was married and had three children at the time of his passing.
You can view other photos of the grave taken by Graves with Grace, an Instagram account that photographs unusual graves.
Hobby dogging takes its name from the hobby horse, which itself has spawned an eccentric sport. But in hobby dogging, participants lead imaginary dogs through real canine agility competition courses. This activity began in Germany with humor in mind, but has become at least semi-serious to participants who see it as a way to socialize and develop communication skills.
-via Aelfred the Great, who quips "Affection for commands, order, and training without anything as dirty and distressing as life, it’s the perfect German hobby."
Acclaimed musician haruka_2go_ can expertly play two recorders with her nose (one for each nostril) at the same time, which is two more recorders than I can manage. Her performances are precise and masterful.
She usually props the second recorder on an object, such as this loaf of bread. But she also will use a raised knee and complete a performance while standing on one leg.
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Phantasms," Data explores the world of dreams. As a result, he behaves strangely while awake.
In one dream, he sees his colleagues in the Ten Forward lounge. Deanna Troi has turned into a cake with a human head. It is, specifically, a cellular peptide cake with mint frosting. Worf thoroughly enjoys eating her. Holographic Sigmund Freud interprets the dream as Data struggling with sexual dysfunction (contra the experiences of Yar).
So there's a lot to unpack in the episode. But it makes for a straightforward and amusing cosplay. The host of the Trek Profiles Podcast snapped this photo of two cosplayers on the Star Trek cruise currently underway.
They say that, like opinions, everyone has one of these. But anuses are rare in the fossil record. Anuses generally do not survive the ravages of time. But, the New York Post reports, paleontologists found a fossilized anus dating back 300 million years.
They found the anus in a Thuringian Forest in Germany. It belonged to a reptile and was, properly speaking, a cloaca--a multipurpose orifice that, unlike your anus, can be used for urinating, laying eggs, and mating as well as defecating.
The reptile was about 3.5 inches long and has been named by scientists Cabarzichnus pulchrus. I'm not sure what Cabarzichnus means, but pulchrus means "beautiful." And it is lovely, don't you think?
-via Jarvis Best | Photo: Lorenzo Marchetti/Natural History Museum
