A Parisian engineer spent €100 on a raffle ticket and walked away with a seven-div artwork. It sounds like a plot twist written by chance itself, but it’s real. The prize is an original painting...

A resurfaced video of a Japanese novelty pen containing a real parasitic worm has sparked equal parts fascination and discomfort online. The so-called “Anisakis parasite pen,” first introduced in 2021, has gone viral again in...

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania is raising a timely question: Are we starting to trust AI chatbots more than we trust our own judgment? The research points to a growing phenomenon called...

Buying chocolate used to be simple: you picked your favorite bar and moved on. Not anymore. After a bizarre real-world theft involving thousands of chocolate bars, shoppers might soon be checking something else entirely: whether...

In 2016, Sayaka Murata published Convenience Store Woman, a slim, quietly radical novel about a woman working part-time at a convenience store. There are no murders, no sweeping romances, no dramatic twists. The protagonist stocks...

A visit to New York City turned unexpectedly turbulent for a German tourist who later filed lawsuits against a restaurant, a retail giant, and even the police. The claims ranged from overly spicy salsa to...

A chocolate-scented advertisement in the London Underground has left commuters both amused and confused after a “multi-sensory” campaign by ice cream brand Magnum filled a busy tunnel with the smell of chocolate. Installed between St...

A little-known Instagram feature that lets users view their oldest likes is suddenly trending online, sending people on nostalgic — and sometimes embarrassing — trips down memory lane. The feature itself isn’t new. It has...

Deepinder Goyal’s startup Temple is hiring engineers. But unlike most tech job postings, this one comes with a physical requirement: men must have less than 16% body fat, and women less than 26%. The announcement,...

A livestream meant for laughs turned into a violent confrontation that thousands watched in real time. An Australian-Lebanese Twitch streamer, Emmanuel Achmar, was allegedly assaulted by his father after being caught wearing a dress and...