Archive for February 2026

Firefighters in Britain learned their job “isn’t always glamorous” when they were called to help rescue a cow trapped in deep, sticky mud.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission teamed up with multiple agencies to rescue a manatee found stuck inside a storm drain.

A pet snake that escaped from its owner’s home in England was found 15 months later living comfortably under a neighbor’s compost heap.

A serial Guinness World Record-breaker balanced a chair on his chin for 1 hour and 20 minutes to recapture one of his previously-held titles.

A 12-year-old Dallas student’s four-year-long science project may have resulted in his becoming the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion.

A North Carolina man won a $150,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket he bought thanks to a trip to Ashtabula, Ohio, for his work.

Head-on collisions between players are common in physical sports like football or rugby, but they are never the main goal, just a means to an end. In Australia’s Run Nation Championship (RNC), the collision is the one and only goal! Two muscular contestants run at each other at full speed and slam violently to knock…

Humanoid robots are all the rage these days, with startups racing to build the most impressive iteration. We’ve seen robots capable of emulating the human gait, robots running marathons, and even humanoid butlers, but now, a Chinese company claims to have created the world’s first biomimetic humanoid robot powered by advanced AI. Recently unveiled by…

The Bad Bunny Look-alike Contest in San Francisco drew a crowd of about 300 people to watch 28 impersonators compete to best embody the star.

A “Stranger Things” superfan from Arizona proved his love for the recently-concluded Netflix series by amassing a record-breaking collection.