Australian twins Bridgette and Paula Powers spoke to a TV journalist after witnessing a carjacking incident in which their mother tried to help after the car crashed. But you probably don't need to catch every detail of the crime, because that's overshadowed by how they told the story. The sisters are so in tune with each other that whatever one says, the other is already saying!

This interview is not the first time that Bridgette and Paula have gone viral. They've been called "the world's most identical twins" since they were quite young. Yes, they always dress alike, and they do everything together. The Powers sisters say they have tried in the past to speak on their own and to wear different clothing because people thought they were weird, but it never felt right to them. The way they speak in unison makes us wonder whether they have some kind of telepathy, or if they long ago got into the habit of predicting the next word our of their sister's mouth. -Thanks, Brother Bill!

Movie mistakes happen all the time. The process of creating a feature film involves so many details that it's inevitable that something wrong will make it to the final print. Usually these mistakes are so small and flash by so fast that the vast majority of viewers will never notice. But in the age of home video with pause and rewind capabilities, movie buffs will find them. Filmmaker Todd Vaziri shows us a few of those details from movies like Aliens, Glory, and Goodfellas, but the one he investigated himself is the real story here.

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith came out in 2005. It was ten years later that fans began discussing a strange artifact during the final battle on Mustafar between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker in which a human figure, which came to be called a force ghost, appeared. It was a complicated scene, and no one at Lucasfilm was able to explain it. But in 2024, Vaziri, who works at Industrial Light & Magic, decided to put in whatever time it took to investigate the glitch. He unearthed the raw footage from the scene before it was composited and discovered who that mysterious figure was and how he got into the movie. You can read that story at FXRant.  -via kottke

Visitors to Disneyland are often charmed by spotting cats in the park. They aren't trespassing; these cats live there. They serve an important role in rodent control, which is quite necessary when you consider the amount of food purchased (and dropped) and the amount of garbage Disneyland has to deal with every day. But they weren't brought in as pest control experts. When Disneyland was preparing to open to the public, the staff found that a colony of feral cats had set up housekeeping in Sleeping Beauty's castle. Getting rid of the cats would be difficult, so Disney decided to let them stay, and even made them official cast members. Their talents in rodent control was a bonus. The park has an estimated 200 or so cats who mostly stay in areas away from people when the park is open. They are fed and fixed, but are still feral. And in case you are wondering, Walt Disney World in Florida does not have an official feral cat program like Disneyland, but you may well spot cats in the park because Florida just has a lot of feral cats. -Thanks, WTM!

In 1911, Wyoming State Penitentiary got quite a bit of notice, not for scandal or abuse, but for its baseball team. New warden Felix Alston took note of a number of talented baseball players among the inmates and decided to form a team to boost morale. The Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars were a dozen players who were serving time, and at least two were slated for execution. Convicted murderer George Saban was selected as coach, but did not play because of prior finger amputations. Another convicted murderer, George Seng, was the star player.

While no deals with the players were recorded, Saban encouraged the team by telling them their performances would affect their sentences, which meant a stay of execution for Seng. The All Stars didn't last long, due to public outcry when the team made the papers, but they won every game they played. Read the story of the prison team with a perfect record at Cracked.

You might also be interested in Saban's crime and what happened to him after his stint as coach.

Young people in 2025 know that when someone "has drunk the Kool-Aid," it means they have bought into someone else's worldview, no matter how bizarre. But they might not know where the saying came from. The phrase originated after the 1978 Jonestown Massacre, when 900 followers of paranoid cult leader Jim Jones drank poison and died in the jungles of Guyana. And it wasn't even in Kool-Aid, but a generic knockoff drink.

The horrifying mass suicide came about after Congressman Leo Ryan went to Guyana to investigate the People's Temple. Ryan and four others were shot and killed trying to leave the cult compound, and Jones knew that the murders meant the end of the People's Temple. He had been preparing for such an event for years. Read about Jim Jones, how his cult began, and how more than a thousand followers ended up in Guyana, most of them for the rest of their lives, at Mental Floss.

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Art Weston and Kirk Kirkland set out on Lake Livingston near Houston on April 8 with the specific aim of catching a world-record fish. Weston was fishing with a two-pound test line, which means that a force of more than two pounds could snap the line. However, a swimming fish usually doesn't apply as much force as lifting a dead weight. Still, it takes finesse to bring in a fish that greatly outweighs the strength of the fishing line. Weston, a champion fisherman, was up to the challenge.

They caught an alligator gar that was seven feet, three inches long and weighed 153 pounds! That was after chasing the fish for four hours, twice as long as Weston had predicted. This catch could very well be a world record for a two-pound test line. That decision will rely on the photographs and measurements that Weston and Kirkland took, since they then released the alligator gar back into the water. Weston is an avid fisherman, but he's also a conservationist. Alligator gar can live for decades and grow to several hundred pounds, and you can't replace a fish like that. Read about the catch and see plenty of pictures at Smithsonian.

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Pac-Man has been running away from or killing the same ghosts for 45 years now (as if you can really kill a ghost). He's gotten to known them all and their individual quirks pretty well, and it works for him. But this day is different, and suddenly now he runs into a ghost he's never met before. A stranger in the Pac-Man grid? Say it ain't so! It turns out that one of the regular ghosts couldn't get out of jury duty and they had to call in a replacement. The problem is that the temp agency sends them ghosts who can't get a steady job for one reason or another. How bad do you have to be to be bad among ghost? We are about to find out, courtesy of Dorkly. The video is only 2:15; the rest is promotional. Contains some mild NSFW language. -via Geeks Are Sexy

After Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Disney and Lucasfilm swung heavily toward television series for the Star Wars universe. There has been talk about a new film starring Daisy Ridley as Rey Skywalker trying to resurrect the Jedi order, but nothing concrete is in the works yet. But that doesn't mean the end of Star Wars feature films.

Star Wars: Starfighter is a video game that was released in 2001. But it's also the next Star Wars movie from Lucasfilm. The official announcement was made yesterday during a Star Wars Celebration event in Tokyo. There's even a short teaser, although with little information.

The movie will be directed by Shawn Levy and will star Ryan Gosling. It will be set a few years after the events of The Rise of Skywalker, but Star Wars: Starfighter will be a standalone feature with all new characters. Filming is scheduled to begin this fall, and the projected released date will be May 28, 2027. Read what we know about Star Wars: Starfighter so far at People.

When French metal band Eons of Decay needed a video for their song "The Perfect Storm," they enlisted the talents of Fabrice Mathieu, who has delighted us with his film mashups for years. Mathieu turned to popular science fiction, dystopian, and disaster movies and used clips from more than 50 of them to illustrate how awful a perfect storm could be. Things go from bad to worse as we see war, wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, urban overcrowding, sandstorms, economic collapse, floods, asteroids, and the general mayhem that you would expect from armageddon. If you enjoy such mashups but you don't care for heavy metal, you should watch with the sound off to wallow in the utter destruction that Hollywood offers us, and tell yourself "It's just a movie..." In case you you don't recognize the clips, there's a list of the movies used at the YouTube page, under "more."  -Thanks Fabrice!

You may have seen a blurb or a passing headline about a musician who was still composing and playing music with his brain after his death. These stories are referring to experimental American composer Alvin Lucier, who died in 2021. Lucier gave his full cooperation to the experiment, which is more of an art installation entitled Revivification. But it's a stretch to say the installation includes Lucier's brain. The musician's brain is not a part of it.

What they did was to collect white cells from blood that Lucier has donated prior to his death, and comb through those to find stem cells. Stem cells can be stimulated to form many different tissues and organs. Lucier's living stem cells were prodded into forming a cerebral organoid, or a clump of brain tissue. The organoid is hooked up to a set of twenty brass plates and mallets, and the electrical activity causes the mallets to strike the plates. But is this music from Alvin Lucier after his death, or something else entirely? An article at Futurism explains this experimental art installation, but does not tell us whether the sounds of Revivification resemble music at all, or whether that music is good. -via Strange Company

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How many legs must a robot have to navigate over various obstacles in the terrain? Or does it really matter? Maybe the type of feet matter more than the number of legs. Or maybe the size of those feet are key. The Brick Experiment Channel built five different types of walking machines out of LEGO blocks and pieces, and then subjected each of them to seven different obstacles to see which design worked best. None of them had an easy time. Well, one did, but I won't tell you which one because this is a competition on video, and you may get really invested in your favorite walker robot. I will go as far as to express sympathy for the "simple 2-legged walker" because that little guy has no talent for walking whatsoever and no clue going into an obstacle. Yes, it's okay to laugh at a machine that doesn't work properly.

If you'd like to know more about these five walkers, you can see how they were built in this video. -via Metafilter

We've read about amazing dogs who can smell cancer and other human conditions, and now we know at least one person who can sniff out diagnoses like diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Joy Milne, 75-year-old Scottish woman, always knew that she had an extraordinarily sensitive sense of smell, which runs in her family. She could smell a change in her husband's scent years before he was diagnosed with Parkinson's. In a test, Milne was challenged with t-shirts worn by Parkinson's patients and by healthy controls. She only missed one, when she identified a control as a Parkinson's patient, but that volunteer was diagnosed with Parkinson's a few months later!  

Milne is now working with researchers to help isolate the substance that causes the smell that tells her of Parkinson's. Read about Milne's unusual talents that may lead to a diagnostic breakthrough at My Modern Met. -via Damn Interesting

There are certain species that can walk on the surface of water. Don't try this at home, because humans and most animals are far too heavy to even attempt it. But these insects have found their ecological niche because there are other species that don't have the same talents, and they can be eaten. These water walkers each use their own different method for moving about on the surface of water: walking, rowing, jumping, surfing, and even a sort of jet propulsion. They've developed these techniques and even specialized body parts to harness the science of fluid dynamics, meaning surface tension and capillary action, to out-maneuver whatever it is they want to eat. Yeah, there's plenty of science here to interest you, but this is also a True Facts video, so you get Ze Frank cracking jokes and making fun of these talented little creatures. There's a 65-second skippable ad at 4:56.

English is a weird language. It has evolved over centuries while also incorporating words from other languages until it's become fertile ground producing tons of puns. You'd think someone would try to do something about that. Well, they have. There's been a movement for hundreds of years to make English words easier by spelling them the way they are pronounced. Proponents say this would make spelling more consistent across the board, and we might even be able to drop a few of the 26 letters of the alphabet. But it doesn't really work that way.

“I attrybute my suksess in life to mi devoshun to spelyng.”      –Josh Billings

When you spell words as they are pronounced, you find that it's honestly a chore to read them. And they look funny. While serious linguists were just trying to make reading and writing easier, simplified spelling made the writer seem undereducated, to say the least. Quite a few humorists jumped onto the simplified spelling bandwagon as a means of comedy, including Mark Twain. Read about the comedy backlash to the simplified spelling movement and the giggles they produced at LitHub. -via Damn Interesting

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The What If? series from Randall Munroe and Henry Reich (previously at Neatorama) seeks to give serious answers to ridiculous theoretical questions. The most common question they receive, over and over, is "What would happen if the sun went out?" This is also a common question outside of the series, too. What they are actually asking is how long would it be before we all froze to death. The answer varies, because humans know how to keep warm up to a point. But we would lose our light, our food supplies, and pretty soon our orbit. Since those scenarios have been addressed all around the internet, Munroe and Reich decided to look at the bright side, as if there is one. The lack of a sun would actually solve some problems we have here on earth. Not that any of that makes up for freezing to death, but here you are anyway with a list of benefits from the sun ceasing to burn.