Archive for December 2024

An Australian snake catcher responded to a Melbourne-area home where a deadly tiger snake was found lurking underneath a baby’s bouncy chair.

Officials in a South Carolina city announced they have captured the second of two wallabies who escaped from a petting zoo.

A California couple’s engagement photo shoot in snowy Utah took a turn for the worse when their engagement ring vanished into the winter wonderland.

Speed eater Leah Shutkever took home a new Guinness World Record title when she consumed 49 grams of green cotton candy in sixty seconds.

Estuardo Gomez Diaz was about to go Christmas shopping when he realized he scored $20,000 in Mega Millions winnings.

Belarussian fashion brand ZNWR has been getting a lot of attention for its latest creations, a line of garments made from transparent bubble wrap. Fashion brands are known for pushing the boundaries, but sometimes their ideas are so out of bounds that they look downright silly. Case in point, the newest offerings of Belarussian brand…

A young Chinese woman suffered second-degree burns on her head by splashing herself with hot water that she threw into the air on a cold night hoping it would instantly freeze. You’ve probably seen this Instagramable winter trick before: a person steps out on an extremely cold day and hurls a container full of hot…

Designed to power giant container ships, the 14-cylinder Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C two-stroke turbocharged diesel engine is the world’s largest combustion engine. Measuring thirteen meters high, twenty-six meters long, and weighing a whopping 2,300 tons, the 14-cylinder Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C is a metal monstrosity worthy of the title of ‘largest combustion engine ever built’. The giant crankshaft alone…

A Maryland man who had some extra cash in his pocket made a stop on his way to work and won a $30,000 lottery prize.

Firefighters and animal control officers in Connecticut rescued a deer that fell through the ice covering a reservoir.