It was so cold in the Midwest that Chicago transit workers set fire to the commuter rail tracks to thaw out the switches, Post Offices stopped delivery, and even Hell froze over.
Somehow, a man got locked inside a 24 Hour Fitness.
Anthony Scaramucci, famous for his 10-day residence as White House Director of Communications, had an even briefer stint on the Big Brother house. He lasted 6 days.
A man robbed a bank and thought he could make a quick getaway on a rental scooter. He was easily tracked down by his digital trail. Austin Police retrieved the GPS data from the scooter company and followed his credit card address to his home. The time-stamped data to put him at the scene of the crime.
A 14-year old kid in Memphis built a nuclear reactor, in his bedroom.
A refugee in an Australian detention center wrote an entire book using the WhatsApp encrypted chat application. “I did not write on paper because at that time the guards each week or each month would attack our room and search our property. I was worried I might lose my writing, so it was better for me to write it and just send it out.”
A grown man posed as a human-sized cash register receipt for a full 20-minutes while his boss introduced a new law that he hopes would ban paper receipts in California.
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