April Fool's Day is now officially "Whopper Day" in Japan. Burger King has registered it with the Japan Anniversary Association. To celebrate the occasion they will offer a limited-time cologne with a "Flame Grilled" fragrance. The 30-milliliter bottles retail for 5,000 yen, or approximately $42.
Burger King will also be ... [Read More]
President Obama has insisted he doesn't have the power to single-handedly fix America's broken immigration policy but this week he announced he will take action if congress does not act. The bilingual speech was translated on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
"I've asked congress for their support but they ... [Read More]
Every year more than 1.7 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Italian artist Alexsandro Palombo re-imagined Disney princesses and other well-known female cartoon characters with mastectomy scars and pink ribbon pasties to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month in ... [Read More]
Eric Frein has finally been caught after a seven-week manhunt in the Pocono Mountains. Frein is charged with killing Cpl. Bryon Dickson and wounding Trooper Alex Douglass in an ambush outside the Pennsylvania state police barracks on September 12th. He was found hiding near an abandoned airport and surrendered peacefully ... [Read More]
Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm dared pedestrians to scan the QR code on a blank poster for a look at its latest attraction. They expected the ghost to appear on their phones, not in real life! A horrible screeching sound summoned a ghost that reached through the poster.
The prankvertising was done to promote Dr. ... [Read More]
You have to crawl before you can walk, unless you're a kangaroo. Modern kangaroos hop or use all four limbs and tail for pentapedal locomotion but prehistoric kangaroos walked, according to a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE. Sthenurus stirlingi (short-faced, giant kangaroo) lived for 12.5 million years until going ... [Read More]
We have a big appetite for chicken, which has directly led to bigger chickens. Modern chickens, known as Ross 308 broiler strain, are four times larger than their counterparts from 1957 and double the size of those from 1978 according to a study published in the journal Poultry Science. The supersized chickens aren't the ... [Read More]
