A man tried to hitch a ride on a jet by hiding in one of the engines. It's a good thing he was caught before the pilot started it up.… Read the rest of the article: Man attempts to stowaway in jet engine

The deadly 2013 El Reno tornado was 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and killed a team of tornado experts. But as Anton Seimon explains, his colleagues turned that tragedy into… Read the rest of the article: Watch how crowdsourced citizen data demonstrated how tornadoes form

OK, this bat, said to have been photographed in the Philippines, may very well be "human sized" as it's been described, but a more specific description is likely "human child… Read the rest of the article: Photo of a freaky human-sized bat

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt went on MSNBC to express his outrage over Trump's shocking inaction against Russia's well-documented program of paying bounties for dead American soldiers in Afghanistan: We've had… Read the rest of the article: Lincoln Project's Steve Schmidt: "Trump's betrayal to U.S. troops is impossible to overstate"

Eric Trump posted a photo of Chelsea Clinton's wedding in which suspected pedophile Ghislaine Maxwell can be seen in attendance. “Birds of a feather,” he wrote. Almost immediately, people responded… Read the rest of the article: Trump's dumbest son deletes tweet

Paraglider Hasan Kaval watches Tom and Jerry with a bag of chips and a can of soda as he sails over the Turkish Riviera on a couch. With no helmet… Read the rest of the article: Paraglider takes off on his couch eating chips and drinking soda

Next year, the United States Mint will release a silver dollar coin commemorating astronaut and elementary school teacher Christa McAuliffe who died with her six crewmates when the Space Shuttle… Read the rest of the article: US silver dollar coin design commemorating astronaut/schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe

Cory Olsen, aka The Tolkien Professor, explains how Tolkien's hobbit stories got fused with his earlier mythologic work around languages he created to become the Tolkien universe inhabited by Hobbits,… Read the rest of the article: Watch this Tolkien expert's master class on every race in Middle Earth

Someone outfitted a Boston Dynamics SPOT mobile robot with a silly fake horse head and suddenly the future of robotics looks a lot less scary. As esteemed futurist Jim Dator… Read the rest of the article: Excellent absurd video of Boston Dynamics SPOT robot wearing a horse head

British historian David Starkey was fired today from one appointment and resigned from several others after remarking that the existence of "so many damn Blacks" showed that slavery was not… Read the rest of the article: Racist professor fired

This rare color test footage of Boris Karloff goofing around during the 1939 filming of Son of Frankenstein is even more fun than the classic creature feature! (via r/ObscureMedia)

This new safety video put out by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission shows the many ways fireworks can spoil your Fourth of July. But, as you're probably aware, it's… Read the rest of the article: Government safety video reminds us that fireworks are no joke

Joshua Taylor and Brandon Dingman, two officers with Wilson Police Department in Oklahoma, were charged with second-degree murder after killing a man they tased 50 times. The New York Times… Read the rest of the article: Cops charged with murder after tasing man 50 times

"The film is an exploration on the nature of time, the relentless violence of entropy and creative energy and its relationship to music itself," write the filmmakers at Optical Arts,… Read the rest of the article: Beautiful film of plates and glasses smashing to a Bach soundtrack

The Washington Post reports: The Treasury Department announced Wednesday that it will loan $700 million to a trucking firm that ships military equipment, in exchange for having U.S. taxpayers acquire… Read the rest of the article: Trump administration gave a $700M bailout to a $70M truck company after it allegedly defrauded the Pentagon

I was thinking of picking up an old Hilux but one of these will do. Calum G: "Russia's Colossal Antarctic Cruisers which have been continuously operating in some of the… Read the rest of the article: Short documentary about Kharkovchanka, huge Antarctic off-road vehicles made by the Soviets

Michael Ramirez is a Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist who works for the Las Vegas Review Journal. And I am sure he has definitely read Mary Shelley's classic novel, Frankenstein (or, the… Read the rest of the article: I don't think the creator of this pro-policing political cartoon actually read "Frankenstein"

Singer/songwriter Stefan Murphy of the Mighty Stef posted this video on his Facebook, asking an important question I'm sure we've all wondered at some point in our lives: what would… Read the rest of the article: The Fresh Prince theme song as a tragic Irish pub ballad

Koko, a cat living in the Japanese city of Toyoma, was honored by local officials after alerting rescuers to an elderly man who had fallen supine into an irrigation canal.… Read the rest of the article: Officials honor hero cat who saved an old man trapped in a canal

Sealand is an unrecognized micronation off the coast of England, established in the 1960s and issuer of stamps, passports and occasional offshore business shenanigans ("BECOME A LORD"). But Sealand is… Read the rest of the article: Sealand's caretakers