Archive for February 2026

There’s a headline you don’t read every day, right? And yet it’s no joke. A “modern pig herder” recently came up with the brilliant idea of transporting his pigs to the nearby slaughterhouse by drone. Loading them on trucks was both time-consuming and cumbersome, so he decided to strap his animals to a large remote-controlled…

A prosthetic leg lost by a swimmer on a beach in England was found when it washed up 10 months later on a beach located about 14.5 miles away.

A Tennessee man scored a $100,000 prize from a Powerball ticket he bought while visiting with his family in Maryland during the holidays.

Australia’s Sydney Water confirmed there is a massive fatberg “the size of four buses” in a difficult-to-reach position under a wastewater plant.

Police in Minnesota came to the rescue of a deer that wound up with its antlers entangled in a rope hammock that had been left unattended.

A couple traveling on a Nevada road captured video when they were forced to stop by an unusual traffic hazard: an escaped zebra in the road.

An Illinois family’s 33-year-old pet cockatiel, named Sonny, was officially named the oldest bird of his species by Guinness World Records.

South Korea is famously obsessed with cosmetic procedures, with people of all ages going under the knife and getting filler injections to achieve flawless looks glamourised by K-pop and K-drama stars. But one young man is challenging the idea that plastic surgery is the only way to drastically improve one’s appearance, claiming that it can…

Alex Honnold’s recent free solo climb of the Taipei 101 tower has sparked the island’s interest in extreme climbing, but for years, the Ershui Junior High School in Changhua County has been requiring students to become great climbers to get their graduation certificates signed. The Ershui Junior High School grounds host the highest climbing wall…

A Maryland man said a $10 lottery voucher and a well-timed traffic light led to his winning $100,000 from a 50X the Cash scratch-off ticket.