Hong Kong Bus Tour Company Puts Passengers to Sleep
Ulu Travel offers sleep-deprived passengers the chance to snooze and cruise on a dreamy five-hour tour to nowhere.
Places
Australia Pelted With Grapefruit-Sized Hail
Parts of Queensland were bombarded with the largest hailstones the country has ever seen!
Animals
Freaky Three-Eyed Dinosaur Shrimp Emerge from Arizona Desert
Visitors at Arizona's Wupatki National Monument were in for a spooky surprise this week when torrential rain summoned hundreds of creepy three-eyed critters from the great beyond.
Places
Taxi Graveyard Garden Used to Feed Bangkok Drivers
A car park in Thailand is in full bloom after a taxi company transformed its fleet into a community garden to help feed drivers put out of work by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Science & Technology
Bearded Protection and Cat Communication Win Ig Nobel Prizes
This year's Ig Nobel Prize Awards winners include upside-down rhinos, beards taking a hit, and just how germy sidewalk gum really is.
Food
New Study Shows Hot Dogs Shorten Lives
This week, researchers revealed that each hot dog a person eats could take 36 minutes off of their life.
Places
Three Alaskan Volcanoes Simultaneously Erupting
We're looking at some seriously newsworthy nature!
Vintage & Historical
Oscar Wilde and the Creation of Celebrity Cancel Culture
The Irish writer and master of witticism whose thirst for attention and ultimate social disgrace set the stage for celebrity culture as we know it.
People
Always the Backup, Never the Starter: Tom Brady’s Rise to Football Stardom
Things weren't always sunshine and Super Bowl rings for Brady, whose early career took a beeline for the bench.
Vintage & Historical
Hetty Green: Witch of Wall Street or Feminine Finance Icon?
Hetty single-handedly accumulated somewhere between $100 to $200 million—or $2 to $5 billion today.
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Sunday Cartoon! - February 2, 2025
Cartoon of the Day
NASA has an Office of Planetary Protection, just in case we ever find life on other plants.
Robert Ripley began the Believe It or Not! cartoon in 1918. Today, Kieran Castaño is the eighth artist to continue the legacy of illustrating the world's longest-running syndicated cartoon!