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Corvids, like crows and ravens, are extremely intelligent birds. They’ve been known to solve puzzles, plan for the future, and now, make compound tools! Researchers recently discovered that crows could take two or more useless objects, and create a tool to help them get food out of a box. What clever crows!
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Musician Scott Hildebrand was visiting Australia and needed a lift. He succeeded when a van full of happy passengers said they’d take him. They soon pulled up to a helipad. It turns out he’d been picked up by actor Chris Hemsworth! Thor gave him a helicopter ride to his destination!
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Today is Greasy Food Day, World Pasta Day, and Sourest Day. It’s also Punk For A Day Day. So here’s what you do; make a big bowl of spaghetti, topped with french fries and lemons. Then eat it while listening to punk rock music, with spiked hair and a sour snarl on your face!
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Alastair Moffatt is a stunt driver who already holds a few world records, like having the tightest reverse parallel park and tightest single parallel park. He can officially add fastest figure of 8, 5 times between 2 cars, to his collection. He performed the maneuver in an Abarth 124 Spider in 45 seconds!
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A plant named Morticia bloomed last weekend, in the artificial rainforest at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle Washington. Morticia is a corpse flower that blooms once every 7 years, and smells like rotting flesh! The flower only lasts 48 hours, so thousands of people lined up to catch a glimpse and marvel over the awful stench!
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A device that looks like a shipping container, is actually a new way to provide clean drinking water to millions. It’s powered by biomass like twigs and dead trees. The box sucks in warm air, mingles with cold air inside, and forms condensation. Water droplets go into a tank, and out through a tap!
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Stephen King is an author who’s sold over 350,000,000 books. Many of his stories have been made into movies, like Pet Semetary and It. Some film students want to make a movie based on one of his short stories, so he sold them the rights for only 1 dollar, and a copy of the completed movie!
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Today is National Food Day, with the goal of getting people to eat natural, healthier foods. Go for the day without processed snack foods, and make a meal with fresh ingredients. It’s United Nations Day also. The UN works for all people on Earth, offering help during natural disasters, medical emergencies, and war.
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YouTube star Mr Beast, also known as Jimmy Donaldson, likes to surprise people with extreme acts of generosity. His latest act took place at Sup Dogs Restaurant in North Carolina. He ordered 2 glasses of water from waitress Alaina Custer, drank a few sips, then left a little tip: $10,000!
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The Oregon Zoo is getting into the Halloween spirit by sharing skelfies. They’re posting x-rays of awesome animals on their website. Bats, snakes, chameleons, and beavers look a little different when you’re just seeing their skeletons! Everybody has an amazing costume hidden inside.
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