Political rivals, running against each other for a House seat in Vermont, asked for extra time after their debate, to make music together.
A car thief in England was caught when his DNA was found on lip balm left in the car he had stolen and abandoned.
Due to an influx of Asian immigrants into Sydney, piano sales are booming.
The Museum of the Bible in Washington DC confessed that five of the Dead Sea Scrolls on display were, in fact, forgeries.
NASA scientists fixed the gyroscope in the Hubble telescope using the oldest trick in the IT toolkit, turning it off and back on again.
Volocopter, an air taxi company, announced that Singapore will begin trials next year of a new “driverless hover-taxi” that fly through the air to avoid traffic.
A man in India was killed by a group of monkeys that organized and threw bricks at him.
A work of art generated by artificial intelligence sold at Christie’s for over $400,000.
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