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A 59-year-old Indian man found himself trapped in an elevator for 42 hours while heading to a doctor's appointment. Ravindran Nair was stuck between the first and second floor of a Kerala hospital on Saturday afternoon. In a series of…

A new study has found that coin flips aren't exactly 50/50. A team of researchers at the University of Amsterdam analyzed the results of 350,757 coin tosses to determine if the odds were fair. It was discovered that the coins…

A teenager in India went on a hunger strike until his mother bought him an iPhone. Video footage taken by a phone shop owner shows the boy confessing to refusing to eat for three days until his mother gave in.…

A 100-year-old woman is being mistakenly identified as a minor when she flies, due to a glitch. Mildren Kirschenbaum, born in 1923, still enjoys traveling. However, some airline systems appear to use the last two digits for birth year, and…

A Delta passenger complained on Reddit after losing their first-class seat to a dog. "I got upgraded to first this morning, only to 15 mins later get downgraded," the poster wrote. "I then board only to see this dog in…

How much would you pay for an egg? A nearly perfectly spherical egg purchased from a supermarket in Scotland resold for $187 at auction to Ed Pownell. Pownell admitted to having a few drinks before the impulsive purchase, and later…

Florida man Denny Dorcey purchased a foreclosure home 10 years ago...but was recently hit with fines accrued before he even bought the house. "The letter said that I owe the city over $1 million for code violation fines," Dorcey said.…

Nursing aide Regina Davis pleaded guilty to hiding cocaine in a lasagna that she attempted to smuggle into the Indiana State Prison. Davis was responsible for distributing medication to over 2,000 adult male inmates. In July, she brought a batch…

27-year-old Charles Smith was arrested after allegedly posting video of himself spraying bug killer on food in an Arizona Walmart. The footage shows a man holding Hot Shot bug spray and spraying the contents on fresh produce and chicken. Police…

New York man Chen Jinping has pleaded guilty to running a Chinese police station in lower Manhattan. US attorney Breon Pace claimed Jinping helped operate a "a secret police station in the middle of New York City on behalf of…

Some TikTokers are concerned that they can get more than a swole body at the gym...user @evolvewithfarai posted a video of her wiping down equipment to avoid catching chlamydia. Some users, like @grinny45, claim they contracted the STI after touching…

A Google Street View car caught someone moving a dead body, Spanish National Police say. The vehicle was driving through Tajueco in October 2023, and one image shows a man leaning into the trunk of a red car over a…

Scientists used to believe that snakes didn't have clitorises...but a woman researcher finally found it. Evolutionary biologist Megan Folwell in Australia discovered a lump of tissue in female snakes with "heaps of nerves" throughout. Like the clitorises found in other…

Footage of an airport brawl at Chicago O'Hare airport has made its way to social media. The fight involved four people, including a man in blue who appeared to have an ID badge. One man grabbed a wet floor sign…

Scientists in California have discovered that squirrels hunt. Footage have captured the cute creatures, who usually eat grains, catching and eating voles. "This was shocking," Dr. Jennifer E. Smith said. "We had never seen this behavior before." Between June 10th…

YouTuber and Flat Earther Jeran Campanella travelled to Antarctica to see if the sun really doesn't set there during the southern hemisphere's summer. According to his Flat Earth belief, there should be a wall of ice where the sun rises…

How much would you pay for a pair of "perfect snowman arms"? Some entrepreneurs in Russia are charging up to $50 for the snowman accessories, which look like twigs to most consumers. Classified ads in the country are filled with…

32-year-old Ottavia Piana has vowed never to enter a cave again after rescue teams spent 75 hours rescuing the scientist. Piana, a speleologist, was mapping an uncharted area of an Italian cave when she fell 15 feet and fractured her…

The Charlotte Hornets put on a skit during Monday night's game where they gave a 13-year-old fan a PlayStation 5. The only problem? The child didn't know he wasn't going to be able to keep the system. After Hugo, the…

A funeral home in Columbus, Ohio could soon start serving alcohol. Evergreen Funeral Cremation and Reception applied for and obtained a liquor license, the first funeral home in the state to do so. Owners say they want to change how…

Doctors in Chhattisgarh, India, were shocked to find a live chick inside the throat of a 35-year-old man. The man had recently passed away due to suffocation after reportedly swallowing the animal whole. Doctors who discovered the chick believe the…

NCC-1701 are the letters on the fictional Star Trek USS Enterprise...but was also the license plate for an earthbound New York woman. Unfortunately for Beda Koorey, she has been receiving citations when people with novelty Star Trek plates on their…

An Indian martial arts collective set a bizarre world record for most cucumber slices held in a person's mouth cut with a chainsaw while blindfolded. A Guinness World Records video shows a blindfolded member of Bir Khalsa using an electric…

X user Styro Steve has gone viral since Sunday, when an influx of users discovered the anonymous man's goal of covering a Styrofoam head with his girlfriend's hair. The account has 18,000 followers so far. The rules? The account owner…