A Documentary About Four Years Living In A Mall And 11 Other Items That Might Be News To You
If you think high-fructose corn syrup sounds gross, count your lucky stars you’re not gulping down high-fructose pit-seed goosefoot syrup.
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The Shortest College Baseball Game of All Time
Liberty University forgot to add their starting pitcher to the roster ahead of a double-header, so the coach of the opposing team waited until he threw the first pitch to alert the umpire. After consulting the rule book and calling their bosses, they determined the proper outcome was Liberty forfeiting the game (by a score of 9-0, for some reason).
The Human Race Has Forgotten How to Grow the Weird Crops We Relied on Before Corn
Maize, wheat and rice have come to make up at least half of all calories consumed worldwide. But before we GMO’d those bad boys into the succulent morsels they are today, humans chowed on stuff like pit-seed goosefoot, maygrass and sumpweed. If you’ve never heard of them, it’s because we just don’t know how to grow them anymore.
How to Transport Your Rhino
One weird scientist has found that strapping rhinos to boards causes sail-like wind resistance that makes for an incredibly uncomfortable ride, and hanging them in nets compromises their breathing. Hanging them upside down by their feet is the most aerodynamic option, and they happen to breath really well in that position.
Is Homer Simpson’s Job Really All That Hard?
The Dalton Nuclear Institute at University of Manchester created a nuclear reactor simulator where you can try to meet energy demand while avoiding a meltdown.
You Can Hunt the Northern Lights, Anytime, Anywhere
A nonprofit polar bear conservation organization has permanent webcams set up in Manitoba, so you can check in at any point to try to catch aurora borealis.
A Group of Friends Secretly Lived in a Mall for Four Years
The documentary Secret Mall Apartment tells the story of four people who found a hidden 750-square-foot space in a Rhode Island mall, hung out there for the day and then decided to live there for the next four years.
The World’s Best Airports for Foodies
A survey found that the airports with the best food are Tokyo International, Zurich Airport and Singapore Changi Airport. Unsurprisingly, not a single U.S. airport cracked the top 10.
The World’s Oldest Surfboard
A Koa wood surfboard was discovered in 1905 in the well-preserved tomb of a 17th-century Polynesian princess named Kaneamuna. There was a high-quality toboggan found right next to it.
The World’s Largest Two-Headed Calf Museum
Punk musician Henry Rosenthal runs San Francisco’s Two-Headed Calf MOOseum, which is home to 50 taxidermied sets of heads from animals who had the genetic mutation polycephaly.
The First Bear Brain Surgery
A three-year-old brown bear named Boki had surgery to address a buildup of fluid in his brain that was causing seizures. He woke up from his post-op semi-hibernation and is “brilliant, happy and healthy.”
The Day of the Week to Avoid Scheduling Surgery
A study of 450,000 surgeries between 2007 and 2019 found that Friday surgeries are five percent more likely to lead to complications.
A New Jersey Police Chief May Have Pooped on the Station Floor and Stabbed a Guy in the Junk
North Bergen Police Department got a new police chief just last year, but he’s already being accused of pooping on the floor, jabbing a cop in the penis with a needle, shaving himself on a colleague’s desk and attempting to spike someone’s coffee with Viagra.