The Takeout has compiled a list of 11 tiny eateries in these United States, including the famous Squeeze-In in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.

This hot dog joint has been in continous operation since 1945. You might want to order your dog for takeout because it measure sonly 8 by 16 feet. If you insist on dining indoors, you'll have to squeeze in next to other customers at the handful of stools available. You can browse the menu here.

After 81 years, the Squeeze In is a cherished local institution with a devoted local fan base.

Photo: The Sqeeze-In

Boxers and other hand-to-hand fighters sometimes get "cauliflower ear", which is referred, medically speaking, as "auricular hematoma." It's a deformity that results most commonly from getting punched in the ear.

So a guy with cauliflower ears looks like someone who's been in some hard fights and is ready for more. From a particular point of view, it contributes to an aesthetically appealing appearance.

Oddity Central reports that some men in Russia are getting cauliflower ears not the hard way, but through cosmetic surgery. When matched with a muscular physique and a confident demeanor, they convey an overall impression of physical dominance.

Perhaps women find this look attractive.

A rat king is an entanglement of rats by their tails. It refers to a rare but real phenomenon among rodents but also a symbol of social and political disorder as outlined by Lucas Reilly in Mental Floss.

In this case, it's a dumpling dish prepared by the girlfriend of redditor /u/Curious_Psychonaut.

The latest food hack going viral online is to combine potato chips and chocolate by pouring molten chocolate into cans of Pringles. After it cools, cut the cans off. Then slice the cylinders into chunks of salty chocolate potato chips about an inch think.

There are different ways to improve upon the concept, such as adding marshmallow to the mixture. But as a Southern boy, I know the right ingredient: pickled pigs' feet. Anyway, I now have plans for the weekend.

-via Sora News 24

Pacific Counter is a chain of tropical-themed Asian cuisine restaurants in the Tampa Bay area. Among their treats are aloha whip, which is pineapple-flavored soft serve ice cream, and hot dogs.

On April Fools' Day, the business promoted the Aloha Hipdog, which is a hot dog inverted and stuffed inside an ice cream cone and then wrapped with aloha whip.

It's a joke, of course. But I suspect that the mixture of sweet ice cream and savory meat would actually be tasty and worth a try. Perhaps it could prove even tastier with whipped cream and a cherry on top.

-via Born in Space

Most of us, I expect, have used electric irons. I've seen in antiques displays "sad irons", which are slabs of metal that are heated in fireplaces and stoves. There were, though, many alternative designs between these two extremes. Among them is this gasoline-powered iron patented in 1936 and sold through the Montgomery Ward mail order catalog.

YouTuber Gilles Messier traces the technological history of the iron before addressing in detail this particular design. The video begins with him pulling on a starter cord like it's a lawnmower with an internal combustion engine, but that's now how gasoline functioned in this iron.

Rather, gasoline (or, in some similar models, naphtha or kerosene) was slowly burned to heat the bottom. These designs had a tendency to start fires and thus came with certain risks attached. But they remained popular in regions where electrification was limited.

-via Hack-A-Day

Or, if you're a bit older, think of the Mikiphone as the world's first Walkman. This invention by Miklós and Étienne Vadász manufactured in Switzerland in 1924 was one of the first means of providing portable music. It's powered by a hand-cranked spring turned a few dozen times.

It would not have occurred to me that the landlocked Idaho has access to the sea for oceanic transport, but it does. The Snake River touches the Port of Lewiston on the western border of the state. That river connects to the Columbia River and thence the Pacific Ocean.

The US Department of Transportation refers to this route as Maritime Highway M-84. Note that this route does not provide sea access for the US Navy's submarine base in Idaho.

I should mention that Lewiston is not the most inland port of the United States. That would be Duluth, which can dock oceangoing vessels traveling along the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

-via Battle Beagle

New recruits for the Pontifical Swiss Guard are sworn into service annually on May 6. That day is special to these soldiers--the last Papal army in existence--because on that date in 1527, the Swiss Guard made its heroic last stand to defend Pope Clement VII during the sack of Rome by muntinous Imperial troops.

Yesterday, Pope Leo XIV attended the admission of 28 members to this revered unit. These men pledged to give their lives, if necessary, in his defense.

The official band of the Swiss Guard then performed for the Pope's pleasure, including a favorite from American popular music: "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond.

Before World War II, dirigibles appeared to have a promising future and much effort and money were spent developing them. According to a 1995 article in the US Naval Institute's Proceedings, the first attempt to build a metal-skinned airship was conducted in Germany in 1897, but the design concept was not successful until the Detroit Aircraft Corporation built one in 1929.

Robert Guttman of History.net says that the ZMC-2 was covered with very thin sheets of aluminum riveted together using a process that kept the structure airtight. The helium was not contained in multiple bags inside. Rather, the hull was one single envelope to contain the gas.

Three crew members could pilot the vessel at a speed of 50 miles per hour for a range of 680 miles. It operated for 12 years and completed 2,265 safe flight hours. Nonetheless, the US Navy decided that its range was too short for anti-submarine patrol and scrapped the vessel in 1941.

-via Aviation Archive

Did you know Korea sells “one-a-day” banana packs?

Instead of every banana ripening at once, each one is at a different stage.

One is ready today.

The next one is ready tomorrow.

The last one is still spiritually in college, “experimenting.”

Simple. Genius. Solves the entire… pic.twitter.com/f3r5lXhm5J

— Sovey (@SoveyX) May 4, 2026

Leaving aside sorting bananas by radioactivity as a backup power generation source, you can sometimes eat bananas for food. X user @SoveyX says that consumers in South Korea can buy week-long packs of bananas that become ripe individually by day.

This prompts @smimik11 to quip, "how are we supposed to lie to ourselves about our intentions to make banana bread?"

-via Marginal Revolution

Someone put audio from CASINO over Looney Tunes and its perfect 🔥😂 pic.twitter.com/mBE6AbdxDc

— Todd Spence (@Todd_Spence) May 1, 2026

Content warning: very foul language.

Toni Nunes of the Instagram account Growing Up 80s added dialogue from a scene in the 1995 mafia film Casino with one from "Bugs & Daffy Get a Job," a 2011 episode of The Looney Tunes Show. Nicky (Daffy) confronts Ace (Bugs) in the desert about an underhanded play in casino management.

Here is the source material from Casino and here is the source material from The Looney Tunes Show. It is very easy to see Daffy as a gangster, but I doubt that Daffy could be so easily whacked.

-via Tim Newman

Tortellini the tortoise is fully equipped for a day at school. His human has made a scaled-down JanSport backpack, complete with the iconic label and a functional zipper. He keeps his lunch (grapes and berries) in it, which he takes out at the appropriate time for energy to power through the school day.

Our little friend loves mango, either for eating or wearing, as well as strawberries (again, either for eating or wearing). Tortellini's many outfits and disguises show that he is well-loved by his human.

Rob Williams is a comedian, acrobat, and general stage entertainer in Austin, Texas. Years ago, while working as a regular in an improv show, he needed to quickly come up with a stunt. Making use of his remarkable dexterity, that stunt was making a complete sandwich with only his feet. Williams later secured a Guinness World Record for the fastest sandwich made with just the feet. That record is 1 minute and 57 seconds.

Watch him recreate that performance in great detail, including peeling the baloney and opening the jar of mayonnaise with only his feet. Don't worry about hygiene: he cleans them before each performance.

-via Born in Space

New Yorker cartoonist and professional illustrator Brooke Bourgeois imagines a more modern Beauty and the Beast story. She comments about her love of the Libby ebook app, especially its collection of audiobooks.

I love Libby and Hoopla, which allow public library systems to offer ebooks to patrons in an easy-to-manage system. If I'm not watching a screen or reading a print book, I have an audiobook playing. This is helpful to prevent that agonizing experience of being alone with one's thoughts.