Archive for January 2025

A New York-based art firm announced its experts have verified that a painting bought for $50 from a Minnesota garage sale is a long-lost work by Vincent van Gogh.

A camera lost in the ocean off the coast of Victoria, Canada, was found by a diver eight months later and returned to its owner, with the videos intact.

Firefighters in Florida said drivers on a stretch of interstate faced a slippery — and potentially smelly — mess when a truck spilled approximately 4,160 gallons of milk.

A Pennsylvania museum dedicated to remembering the effects of a 19th century flood is temporarily closed because of an interior water leak.

China’s capital city of Beijing is all set to host an interesting half-marathon that will set thousands of human runners against dozens of bipedal robots developed by some of the world’s leading robotics companies. This coming April, the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (E-Town) will be hosting an interesting running event for both humans and human-like…

A Virginia woman found storing her lottery ticket in her Bible to be a lucky move when she scored a $1 million prize in Virginia’s New Year’s Millionaire Raffle.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a study analyzing the annual prognostications of weather-predicting groundhogs and found the most famous, Punxsutawney Phil, didn’t crack the top 10.

A book found in a hallway outside of a British library turned to have been due back at the facility 49 years and six months earlier.

A fireball seen breaking into pieces over Wisconsin and other Midwestern states is believed to have been a satellite reentering the atmosphere.

Firefighters and animal control officers in Florida came to the rescue of a curious canine that attempted to squeeze under a shipping container and became stuck.