In 1969, residents of Derry made a time capsule. Fifty years later, library staff cracked the old safe to see what was left behind. They were horrified to find that the safe was empty.
Many sports fans agree: If you're in the stadium watching your team, you have to have an ice cold beer. A video appears to show vendors at Estadio Azteca pouring ice water into beer cups.
"The ceiling heights were 4.5 feet to 6 feet tall on each level, depending on where you were standing," says a spokesperson for the New York City Department of Buildings.
Ten years after the financial crisis, it's like we're in another economic dimension. The old rules don't apply. Textbooks are being thrown out the window. It's time to talk about secular stagnation.
A Florida boy called 911 saying he was hungry and wanted to order a pizza. The police used it as a teaching moment, then went out and bought and delivered one.
The small desert town of Rachel, Nev., near the Air Force facility known as Area 51, is bracing for a gathering of UFO hunters. Matty Roberts talks about his viral Facebook page.
Engineers from Scotland have created a device that can taste whisky. You need human tasters to make sure the alcohol is up to snuff, but this is about preventing counterfeiting in the industry.
The Vienna transit authority tried out piping four pleasing scents through its trains: green tea, grapefruit, sandalwood and melon. Straphangers said they preferred the air au naturale.
Turns out the departing "visitor" wasn't a woman at all – but a drug trafficker sentenced to decades in prison and boldly trying to escape. He was reportedly caught because he was acting nervous.
Nobody else has ever tried to cross the body of water by hoverboard, which is powered by a backpack full of fuel. The last time he tried, he plunged into the sea.
The 7-year-old had long complained of pain and swelling in his jaw. Doctors say they found a "well-defined bag-like mass," which weighed 7 ounces and contained the tooth-like "structures."
A New Hampshire cop mistook a bobcat for a stray cat. In Brooklyn, baby ducks fell down a storm grate and had to be rescued. And then there's the South Carolina package theft with a hairy surprise.
Frank O'Rourke was surfing in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., when a shark bit his arm, leaving teeth marks. He made the best of a bloody situation, heading to the bar where folks kept buying him drinks.
A toddler in Minnesota wanted to go to the nearby Chicago County fair, so he drove there alone on his battery-powered John Deere toy tractor. His father has now removed the battery from the tractor.
In 2018, burglars looted 34,000 pairs of fajas from a Miami undergarment seller. The criminals cut a hole through the roof and disabled the alarms in a movie-style heist.
