Jalopik shares this terrifying video with us (content warning: foul language). It takes place at Cotswold Airport northwest of Swindon, UK.

That private and general aviation airport is an old RAF facility that can house aircraft much larger than the Piper PA-28 Cherokee seen in the crash. The airport is used for storing and salvaging old jetliners, which is why you see a line of commercial jets parked on the tarmac.

Accident investigators think that the pilot overshot the runway while attempting to land. Although one wing caught on the landing gear of one jet, no one was killed. The pilot and passengers were taken to a local hospital to receive treatment for their injuries.

Here's Lubbock, Texas, whose favorite son is the late rock star Buddy Holly. The people of Lubbock do, of course, honor him. The other famous names are mostly country and western stars, as well as a few football players, since this is west Texas. They're Waylon Jennings from nearby Littlefield, Texas.

We've previously looked at interactive maps of famous people in the United States. What sets this project apart is that it covers the entire planet by making use of a database of birthplaces of famous people from 3,500 BC to 2018 AD. Here's eastern South Africa. You may recognize some famous names.

Explore the map. Antarctica is especially interesting.

I am, though, a bit skeptical about the accuracy of data. The man that the map says was born at the North Pole was, as far as I can tell, born in central Mexico.

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This plot of land, which measures just over a square mile, might be called the Pennsylvania Wedge had the boundary dispute between that state and Delaware not ended in Delaware's favor. But the Delaware flag defiantly flies above this strip of land, so we call it the Delaware Wedge.

How did this land dispute arise? In State and National Boundaries of the United States, Gary Alden Smith explains. In 1682, King Charles II separated the land of Penn's colony from that of what would become Delaware by a 12-mile arc extending around New Castle. This is why the northern boundary of Delaware is round. Maryland's eastern boundary was later defined with a right angle, leading to this small plot of land left unaccounted for.

Pennsylvania claimed it, arguing that Mason-Dixon Line surveyed in the 1760s allotted the land, by default, to Pennsylvania. U.S. military engineers surveying the area marked it as Pennsylvanian territory. 

But the people who lived in the area identified as Delawareans, voted in that state, and paid taxes to Dover. In 1921, Congress approved of this de facto border after both state legislatures approved.

This historical marker notes the dispute that, thankfully, never boiled over into open warfare.

The Golden Girls went off the air over thirty years ago, but the old ladies retain enormous cultural traction to this day. The fanbase remains very strong, even among people who were born after it went off the air. That's why the events company Bucket Listers created a pop-up restaurant that, the AP reports, brings the Golden Girls experience to Beverly Hills.

The restaurant is designed to resemble the famous kitchen set from the show. The Golden Girls Kitchen features lasagna--one of Sophia's favorite dishes--and a variety of cheesecakes. So bring a friend and bond over past loves or tales of St. Olaf or Sicily in the old days.

Photo: The Golden Girls Kitchen

Fabricio André Bernard Di Paolo is a Brazilian pianist who goes by the stage name of Lord Vinheteiro. He has a popular YouTube channel in which he performes musical stunts, such as doing a live soundtrack of his wife's daily activities or playing a piano from several feet away using strings attached to the keys.

In this video, Lord Vinheteiro plays the famously challenging "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It's an athletically demanding task that requires spectacular coordination, but Vinheteiro is able to complete his performance in less than a minute while using only one finger.

Some people allege that there's some video manipulation going on.

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The British tabloid Daily Mail introduces us to Henry Gray of Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. He has an unusual medical condition called Lexical-Gustatory Synaesthesia. The areas of his brain which interpret sounds and smells are connected in a way that aren't for most people. As a result, when he hears sounds, he experiences smells, tastes, and sometimes textures.

This can sometimes be an unpleasant experience, as some names come with undesirable aromas. Dating can be problematic for Gray. It's not that Kristy herself reeks of urine--just her name. Daisy is rancid butter. Arabella is a smelly sock.

There are undesirable male names, too, on Gray's list. Harrison is an itch he can't scratch and listening to Ian's name is like having a plugged-up ear.

Gray is on the lookout for a Francesca, who smells like a warm, chocolate cappuccino, or an Abby, who tastes like orange bubble gum. Good luck to him as he smells his way to romance!

-via Weird Universe

I think that it's fair to say that John Locke (1632-1704) is better known for his contributions to philosophy than to the culinary arts. This English Enlightenment philosopher is famous in modern times for advancing liberal* politics and an empiricist approach to epistemology.

Feline brave: A Mississippi man says his cat helped prevent a home robbery. Bandit the cat meowed and clawed at owner Fred Everitt's arms to wake him when at least two people tried to break in. “You hear of guard dogs,” said Everitt. “This is a guard cat.” https://t.co/k4CCoPU3rH

— AP Oddities (@AP_Oddities) August 3, 2022

Bandit lives with her human, Fred Everitt, in Tupelo, Mississippi. At about 2:30 AM on July 25, Bandit began loudly meowing in the kitchen. Then she ran to Everitt's bed, pulled the comforter off of him, and clawed at his arms.

Everitt woke up to investigate what was going wrong. That's when he saw two men just outside his back door. One had a handgun and the other had a crowbar. Everitt immediately retrieved his own gun. By the time he returned to the door, the two men had fled.

Bandit, despite her name, demonstrated a deep aversion to thievery and loyalty to her human. Everitt attributes his safety to her quick thinking.

Did we just build the best toy ever? pic.twitter.com/vej6T9bZNX

— ActionMovieDad (@ActionMovieKid) August 2, 2022

In my home, we have a whiteboard that we use as a running shopping list. One of my daughters occasionally writes "flamethrower" on it as a joke (I think). I've never gotten her one because they're horrifically expensive, but now I may have an option courtesty of Action Movie Dad.

Daniel Hashimoto is a highly skilled digital effects artist. He uses his abilities to place his own children in tense, action-packed movie scenes. He also adds raptors to movies because raptors are always cool.

For his latest project, Hashimoto attached a tube of light, fire-colored fabric to a leafblower. The result is a flamethrower that the kids will enjoy without causing too much property damage.

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Gastro Obscura introduces us to the Cheese Zombie, which is a sandwich native to Yakima, Washington. The origin story, according to a 2013 article in the Yakima Herald-Republic, is that a cook at a local public school cafteria invented it in the late 1950s.

Which cook created the sandwich depends on who you talk to, as there are multiple claimants to the honor. But all of the stories say that a school received a huge excess of government-provided cheese. It was too much cheese to use productively in the normal menu, so the cook invented what would become known as the Cheese Zombie.

To make a batch of Cheese Zombies, lay out slices of cheese between two sheets of dough, then slice into individual squares. Brush the top with melted butter and then bake.

The result was so delicious that schools and restaurants in Yakima continue to make it to this day. It's especially popular to eat Cheese Zombies on Halloween for reasons that remain a mystery to me. Perhaps it's because of the spooky name.

The Čierny Hron Railway is a historical railway that operated between 1908 and 1982 in Slovakia. It was originally built to support logging operations in the Carpathian Mountains but was later provided passenger service. In 1992, it was reopened for tourists who want to experience a bygone age of rail travel.

Modern passengers get to experience a slow, scenic ride through a forest and, if they time the ride carefully, a quick view of a soccer match. That's because a soccer stadium was built around the original line and the train passes through it.

As you can see, the players don't stop just because there's a train on the field.

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The welbike- a British motorcycle fitted in an air drop canister for use during WWII. pic.twitter.com/pDukGVIhrJ

— Lost in history (@lostinhist0ry) August 1, 2022

During World War II, Britain wanted to ensure that its special forces troops who parachuted behind enemy lines had the ability to travel quickly away from the drop zones and to their mission destinations. In The Famous James Military Lightweight, motorcycle historian Peter Miller explains that the folded-up Welbike motorcycle had to fit inside a 15-inch wide drop container and weigh only 70 pounds. A trained soldier could get it working within 11 seconds.

The Special Operations Executive (SOE) was eventually dissatisifed with the utility of the Welbike, but it soon became popular with airborne troops and saw use during Operation Market Garden in 1944. Various British firms produced 3,853 Welbikes. One is on display at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

Arnhildur Pálmadóttir hails from Iceland, a nation that is volcanically active and has plentiful sources of low-viscosity lava. It's an abundant natural resource on an island nation with otherwise limited natural resources.

So, Fast Company reports, Pálmadóttir proposes digging precise trenches out of soil in lava fields so that when eruptions happen, the lava flows into these channels to form walls and foundations. When the lava cools, construction workers can remove the soil to expose the cooled and solid volcanic rock.

At this point, the project is speculative since it's expensive and predicting volcanic eruptions is an imprecise science. But with sufficient funding, Pálmadóttir may be able to test her idea at the Krafla vocano system in the northeastern region of Iceland.

-via Weird Universe | Photo: Arnhildur Pálmadóttir

WW2 RAF uniform buttons that become a compass for soldiers left behind enemy lines pic.twitter.com/OmyoB3YZC1

— Lost in history (@lostinhist0ry) July 28, 2022

This tiny button is actually a compass. During World War II, Royal Air Force crews were often equipped with these buttons in their uniforms. If they were shot down at night and needed to figure out their directions, they could remove the buttons and balance them to on pins and see which way the buttons turned.

Some of these buttons were on jackets, but this one was on a trouser fly. The Museum of Radiation and Radioactivity explains that dots marked on the buttons provided a marker that would point north. Doreen Galvin writes in Arts to Intelligence that the Germans eventually discovered the nature of these buttons, so RAF designers switched the direction of the indicator dots.

Sure, it's not unusual for business owners to find wallets and other personal possessions left behind by customers. But it is unusual to find that a lost wallet belongs to someone famous. In this case, the owners of the Fruit Barn--a roadside fruit stand in Gilroy, California--found that the wallet bore the identification of William Shatner.

ABC News 7 (warning: self-starting audio) reports that the 91-year old actor had visited the Fruit Barn, browsed a bit, and left with chilled cherries and corn. Employees who were too young to know Shatner found a wallet in the corn bin and took it to their boss, Gary Tognetti.

Of course, mere enlisted ranks like Tognetti can't just call up the Captain. So local police contacted Shatner and mailed the wallet back to him. The Captain tweeted out his thanks:

I would like to thank Gary and Natalie of B&T Farms @TfarmsB for their extreme honesty in returning my lost wallet. They are obviously good citizens. I would also like to thank Officer Mark Tarasco and Sergeant John Ballard from the@GilroyPD My best, Bill

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) July 26, 2022

-via Dave Barry | Photo: Keith McDuffee