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Justin Salsburey, 43, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and his wife, Ruthann Rankin, were arrested December 30 on charges of drug trafficking. With about 18,000 such cases a year in the U.S. this would not be newsworthy but for an interesting fact: he is, or ...

Listen to an incredible cover of Laura Palmer's Theme from David Lynch's Twin Peaks by Dave the Cat Piano. This genius version retains the Lynchian mood but is sung entirely in meows from a plastic children's cat-piano toy. Each note produces a ...

Frost flowers sometimes appear on ponds during especially cold, still mornings, right as the water starts to freeze. Here's a stunning video of what they look like. As moist air rises off the open water and hits the cold air above, it turns into thin ...

There's a good chance you've heard the word "wenis" long before you wondered what it actually meant. It's the goofy name for the loose skin on the outside of your elbow -- the part that wrinkles when your arm is straight and smooths out when you bend ...

Very few images in modern politics have resonated like that of Jacob Chansley, better known as the QAnon Shaman, storming through the halls of power in his idiotic hat. He was the face of a conspiracy-fueled right-wing insurrection we're still ...

Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2257/94 -- the infamous "bendy banana law" -- really does exist. According to Wikipedia, the 1994 European Union regulation specified that bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature." British tabloids ...

From Blondie's Bowery loft to the esoteric frontier: Gary Lachman's remarkable journey

California's Privacy Protection Agency has launched DROP -- the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform -- a free tool that lets residents submit deletion requests to more than 500 registered data brokers in a single submission. According to the ...

Vice President JD Vance responded to the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis by blaming her for her own death. According to Newsweek, Vance posted on social media: "You can accept that this woman's death is ...

This video on circulating on Threads captures a moment at a Minneapolis protest that is difficult to watch and impossible to dismiss. A MAGA supporter openly celebrates the death of Renee Good, a mother of three killed by ICE, and threatens the crowd ...