Parents in South Korea are hiring intimidating ‘uncles’ to protect their child from bullies. With the ‘Uncle Package’ a big, intimidating man pretends to be a student’s uncle and gives a stern warning to the bullies, and accompanies the student on their way to school. The service costs about $450/day.
A TV station abruptly went off the air during their weather update on on Hurricane Florence because the newsroom was flooded by Hurricane Florence.
Fed up with the unwinding of proven science, Governor Jerry Brown announced that California will be launching “our own damn satellite” to track climate change.
Police in Alabama are testing an electric lasso that can ensnare a suspect up to 25 feet away and has been likened to a Spider-Man technology.
Golfers at the King’s Walk Golf Course in North Dakota can order food from the clubhouse and have it delivered to them by drone.
The 2nd oldest lightbulb in the world celebrated its 110th birthday.
The airline Cathy Pacific misspelled it’s name on one of its new Boeing 777s.
Coca-Cola is jumping on the CBD train and thinking about making a cannabis-infused drink.
That container ship that set off to attempt passage through the Arctic, over Russia, made it through and is due in St. Petersburg next week.
It was decided that if you’re going to have your kidney stones dislodged by a roller coaster at Disneyland, Big Thunder Mountain was the best one for the task.
After “months of torment” the Ipswich Borough Council finally tracked down why the children’s nursery rhyme It’s Raining, It’s Pouring was eerily playing from the industrial park in the middle of the night. Spiders.
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