Archive for February 2025

A park in Nagaizumi, Japan, has been officially named the worl’s smallest park, covering an area of just 2 1/2 square feet.

A Maryland man took some advice from a friend’s uncle and ended up winning a $100,000 lottery prize.

What began as a broken water pipe in Havana’s El Cerro neighborhood is now a small banana plantation, after local authorities forgot to fix the pothole. Cuba’s infrastructure crisis is a well-known fact, with around 70% of the country’s roads deemed in “regular” or “poor” condition, but some streets are in such a bad state…

Police and animal control officers in Connecticut were able to reunite a resident with a highly unusual escaped pet: an iguana.

Doctors in Henan, China, were shocked by the case of a middle-aged man who suffered a pneumothorax after mild physical exercise – 20 pushups and a few minutes of skipping rope. The unnamed man told physicians that he had decided to get in shape as part of a New Year’s resolution, but things didn’t really…

Authorities in Texas said a deputy was called out to wrangle a kangaroo seen hopping loose while wearing a red jacket.

With a holding capacity of up to 9,100 vehicles (conventional or electric), the Höegh Aurora holds the title of “world’s largest vehicle carrier”. Operated by Norway’s Höegh Autoliners, the Aurora was built by China Merchants Heavy Industry (CMHI) in Jiangsu, China, and made its maiden voyage last year. Measuring about 37.5 meters wide and 199.9 meters…

A young Chinese doctor has gone viral for his rapid weight loss, shedding 25 kilograms (55 pounds) in just 42 days and then entering and winning a professional bodybuilding contest. At the end of 2024, Wu Tian Gen, a 31-year-old surgeon at Hubei’s Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, weighed 97.5 kg (215 lbs), the heaviest…

Developed by the American-Polish company Clone Robotics, Protoclone is a unique humanoid robot that features a skeleton based on 206 human bones, 1,000 artificial muscles, and a water-based cooling system. Clone Robotics first attracted attention online back in 2021, when it released a series of videos showcasing its artificial muscle system based on the McKibben…

A New Jersey police officer came to the rescue of a dog that chased a goose out onto a frozen lake and fell through the thin ice.