🚗 Honda's newest electric car tops out at just 5 mph and seats just one very small driver. It'll never be in the showroom but it may just be the best thing Honda's ever done. Meet the Honda Shogo, which lets pediatric patients drive on the hallways of children's hospitals.

🦌 Oh dear, this is a traffic stop surprise: Pennsylvania Police found a live deer in the trunk of a car during a traffic stop.

🏰 Got $6 million? Make the real estate agent an offer he can't refuse and buy yourself The Godfather's Sicilian castle in Italy.

🤣 Pokemon lovers know that even though he's nearly useless, the bumbling Bidoof will never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down.

🧙‍♂️ Here's a story you can tell your little children or grandchildren: The Wizard and the Unfillable Hole by Nathan W. Pyle. See if they laugh or groan.

🎵 This CGI Rube Goldberg xylophone plays the intro to One Summer's Day, the theme of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away. Clever!

🐶 Cute of the Day: let the plush Amagami Ham Ham robot bite your finger.

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🕹️ Featured art: I Want To Play by indie artist DAObiwan. A video game design in the style of the sci-fi I Want to Believe poster.

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A common trope in Victorian melodrama that survives in stories today is the tale of a husband who comes home early and finds his wife with another man. The enraged husband shoots the interloper, and the question goes to the jury of how culpable he is of murder. Will he be acquitted of this crime of passion as a justifiable homicide? A case in Georgia from 1893 turns that story on its head.

When C. F. Stephens suspected his wife of carrying on with his employee Frank Wilkerson, who lived with the couple, he came home early one day and indeed found the two in the bedroom in a "compromising position." Stephens shot Wilkerson, but only wounded him. Wilkerson was armed (and therefore we can assume, not naked), and shot Stephens, hitting him between the eyes. Stephens, incredibly, lived long enough to jot down a note about the incident. Or did he?

Frank Wilkerson was put on trial. Was it murder or self-defense? There were a surprising number of witnesses for a crime of this sort. Read about the Wilkerson murder case at Murder by Gaslight.  -via Strange Company

If anyone has noticed my habit of posting iPhone-related tips and tricks, get ready because here’s another one! 

For iPhone users, clearing the memory storage or cache isn’t as straightforward as it is in Android phones. To compare, there’s an option to simply clear an Android phone’s cache in its settings. For an iPhone, however, things get a little complicated. Check out SlashGear’s tips in clearing your iPhone’s cache here. 

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More photos from photographer and astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s stay in the International Space Station were shared by the European Space Agency. After sharing the images of the ISS against the inky blackness of space, and the Earth, the organization shared a photo of the  ISS 250 miles above the Nile Delta in Egypt. The satellite can be seen shining against the darkness of space and the night lights on Earth below. 

Image credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA

Big Bend National Park reported that a visitor or visitors carved their names and the date in a pictograph panel of a 5,000 years old petroglyph in the park. The boulder and the engravings on it had survived millennia of punishing weather, but all it took for it to be ruined were people who had no right to ‘leave their marks.’

Park service personnel moved as fast as they could to repair the vandalism, but according to Big Bend’s chief of interpretation and visitor services Tom VandenBerg, much of the damage is permanent. 

Image credit: National Park Service

Hey, we’re all here for the drama. All jokes aside, sometimes it's best to part ways if your relationship will only bring harm to each other, right? Well, some couples have outrageous reasons for filing a divorce. Reddit user u/dankph asked divorce lawyers the juicy details that they were willing to share. From a husband thinking his wife was having an affair but the wife was just driving around to play Pokemon Go to another breaking it off with his wife after a car accident made her incapable of giving oral pleasure, Buzzfeed lists several outrageous and outright ridiculous reasons for divorce. Check the full piece here!

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Long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the popular monster movies of Universal Studios started doing crossovers, implying that Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, and others all lived in the same universe and time frame. It was a way to churn out more and more sequels, because everyone loves a good monster movie. However, even though these monsters could meet each other, their cinema versions were developed over decades.

That's why it's important to know the difference between Lon Chaney and Lon Chaney, Jr. The older Chaney was known as "the man of a thousand faces" in the 1920s. He played Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and the title character in The Phantom of the Opera. His son, Lon Chaney, Jr. played the Wolf Man, Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, and a mummy in three movies. This family had a whole universe of monsters in just two actors!

Find out a lot more movie trivia about the Universal monster movies in a list at Mental Floss.

Keep hearing of train burglaries in LA on the scanner so went to #LincolnHeights to see it all. And… there’s looted packages as far as the eye can see. Amazon packages, @UPS boxes, unused Covid tests, fishing lures, epi pens. Cargo containers left busted open on trains. @CBSLA pic.twitter.com/JvNF4UVy2K

— John Schreiber (@johnschreiber) January 13, 2022

If you're still missing that package that you ordered online a while ago, this could be the reason: it's stolen off cargo containers aboard freight trains traveling through southern California.

Apparently, thieves in Los Angeles discovered that stealing packages off people's porches are so ... inefficient, so they moved up the logistics chain: they're now raiding cargo containers on trains.

In the tweet above, photojournalist John Schreiber took videos of thousands of boxes strewn along the railroad tracks near downtown Los Angeles. Trains frequently slow or stop in the area as they arrive at Union Pacific's intermodal facility and thieves simply hopped on the train, break open the cargo containers and grab what's inside. "I'd say every 4th or 5th rail car had opened containers," Schreiber tweeted.

In a letter, Union Pacific wrote that in the last 3 months of the year it had made over 100 arrests of "active criminals vandalizing [their] trains," but the arrested individuals are released from custody within 24 hours.

During the Apollo program, when missions got long enough to require food for astronauts, they had to rely on nourishment like roast beef squeezed from a tube directly intones mouth. Now that astronauts  spend weeks or even months aboard the International Space Station, that fare won't fly. NASA Astronaut Megan McArthur explains how space food is engineered to be as much like normal food as possible, but it still looks like C-rations to us. They don't really cook, because everything they take with them is already fully cooked if needed, but they can warm it up or cool it down in the refrigerator. And since they can't wash dishes, everyone needs to keep up with their own spoon. At about six minutes in, we get to see the chaos of McArthur putting beef in a tortilla and chasing the stray bits around. -via Laughing Squid

Read the title again- this is not a list of the top-selling fast food chains. That ranking would rely heavily on the number of outlets, advertising, and longevity. You can see that list here, and as you might guess, McDonald's is on top. But a new list at Eat This, Not That ranked fast food by what people think of the chains.

According to YouGov, popularity is "calculated by taking the proportion of people who view something positively and showing it as a percentage of all of the people who have given any opinion about that thing, including 'have heard of.'"

This kind of calculation allows a higher ranking for a chain that does not cover the entire nation, and is less weighted toward customers that eat there often as opposed to once in a great while. So which chains benefit from opinions rather than sales? McDonald's came in at #14 in this list. The top chains in favorability lean heavily toward sweets! In fact, five of the top six are chains that specialize in sweet treats. Guess what they may be, then take a look at Eat This, Not That. -via Digg 

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🔪 Twenty years after enhanced airport security, people are still trying to board airplanes with forbidden items like a meat cleaver above. The TSA has compiled its "Top 10 Catches of 2021" featuring bear spray, antique gun, gun that doubles as a belt buckle, and so on. You'll never guess the number 1 forbidden item.

🪑 This "nervous chair" is afraid that you'll sit on it.

🗺️ The world's largest dungeon map is probably bigger than your dungeon master's basement.

🦀 How do you spy on the Christmas Island red crab during its annual migration? With a robot spy crab, of course.

🚗 The Honda Shogo: A mini motorized car that let young pediatric patients roam around the children's hospital hallways and have a little bit of fun during their hospital stay.

🦷 Marlon Brando's "dental plumper" gave him the jowls of Vito Corleone in The Godfather.

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🤡 Hey, hey, kids ... take a look at this featured art: Kamp Krystal Lake by indie artist jorgetiradoart

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Occasionally we have posted a nighttime satellite image that shows where the lights are on in one country or another. But now we have a composite image that shows the entire world on a Mercator projection and how it is lit up at night. Yeah, of course it would have to a composite, because it's never nighttime for the whole world. The huge number of individual images used to make this map also allows us to zoom in and see what the light -or lack of it- tells us about different regions. For example, there are no lines normally visible from space to tell us where national borders are, but the policies of different countries can make it seem that way when one nation has plenty of light, while its neighbor has none. Comparing images taken over time can show population growth, economic growth, or the effects of war.  -via Digg

Shawn Bradley played center in the NBA from 1993 to 2005. He is 7' 6" tall, making him one of the tallest NBA players in history. After retiring from basketball, Bradley became a coach and administrator at a school for at-risk youth in Utah. Then in January of 2021, he was struck by a car while riding a bicycle. Bradley suffered spinal injuries and was left a quadriplegic.

His life since then has been a struggle to return to any kind of normalcy. It is a paradigm shift for anyone to adjust to life in a wheelchair with professional aides for everyday activities, but for Bradley there are a few extra challenges. His very size makes everything more difficult. At 300 pounds, he must have a special crane to lift him from a bed to a wheelchair. His custom-built, 500-pound wheelchair causes his oversized van to list to the side when its lift is in use. During Bradley's initial hospitalization, the staff rigged up a padded table for his feet because he was too tall for the biggest bed they had.

There are also extra psychological challenges. Bradley's entire identity was centered around his height and his athletic ability. He went from looking down on everyone to looking up at anyone. His three-story home has a pool and gym he can't use and custom eight-foot tall doors he no longer needs. Read Bradley's story at Sports Illustrated. -via Damn Interesting

Watching a craftsman make something beautiful by hand out of raw materials can be so calming and satisfying. Watching omozoc build a milk crate is even more so, because he makes it look so easy! Don't tell anyone, but the secret is stop-motion animation, which can also be calming and satisfying. I particularly like the finishing, just as smooth as butter! He tells us this involved 2854 still photos. That's a lot of work, but the upside is that he ended up with a cool video and a really nice milk crate. -via Metafilter

🎨 Japanese miniature artist Tatsuya Tanaka compiled his best mini diorama art from 2021 and we are all in awe with his creativity.

🐶 Can't get a Covid test? Let these specially trained Covid sniffing dogs smell you to see if you have the virus.

🏠 The Chemosphere in Los Angeles is a modernist house worthy of a movie villain.

🧾 Tax season is almost here, so the IRS is warning criminals not to forget to report income from illegal activities in their federal tax return. After all, that's how they nabbed Al Capone.

📺 No, it's not your eyesight or your television monitor, movies and TV shows are indeed lacking colors these days.

🦀 Cheeky coconut crab tries to steal a golf club but ended up snapping it in half with its claws.

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Featured art: Paper Wars by indie artist Dr.Monekers

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