Weird, Funny & Good News
Australian prospector Mick Brown, 42, still can’t believe his luck after he found a 87-ounce hunk of gold weighing more than 2kg in central Victoria, near Wedderburn. According to The Age, he named it the “fair dinkum nugget” because when people feel its weight they say “fair dinkum this is huge.”
In 1912, an unnamed Washington Post reporter asked Pauline Wayne, President Taft’s cow, if she was milked by a stranger without her consent, as had been reported. “It is true, Miss Wayne?” the reporter asked the 1,500-pound bovine.
His office is a parking lot. His exam room is a car. Now 88-year-old Dr. Carrol Frazier Landrum is being asked to surrender his medical license. Dr. Landrum has been seeing and curing patients in Edwards, Mississippi since 1959.
Rob Konrad walked stiffly into the room Monday morning, gingerly walked up two stairs with the help of his wife and fought back tears for the next half-hour as he related surviving an ocean ordeal after falling off his recreational boat nearly nine miles offshore.
When a little girl in England pestered her mother for chocolate, she was told that some people have nothing to eat this Christmas. Some kids would react by screaming and shouting, but Mya Woolley, 5, did something very different.
A man named Gabriel has created a charity called Colectivo Sustento, which provides a number of public services, including an organic gardening and theater program for juvenile inmates who are incarcerated in detention centers in Santiago, Chile.
In July, 2011, a 52-year-old woman presented to our psychiatric outpatient clinic in The Hague with a life-long history of seeing people’s faces change into dragon-like faces and hallucinating similar faces many times a day. She could perceive and recognize actual faces, but after several minutes ..
George Orwell ranks among the most profound social critics of the modern era. Some of his quotations, more than a half a century old, show the depth of understanding an enlightened mind can have about the future.
The Ferguson Pictures You Aren’t Seeing Enough of By Michael Hiscock | The Loop Fire. Tear gas. Riot police. There’s some good hiding amongst all the bad. That’s how most people would sum up the visuals they’ve seen coming out of Ferguson, Missouri, lately. And to a large extent, they would be accurate. Ever since …
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New York Boys Survive 7 Hours Trapped in Snowbank By Tom Boggioni Two boys building a snow fort near a roadside snowbank in Newburgh, New York, survived close to 7 hours buried under ice and snow when a passing snowplow caused their fort to collapse upon them, according to CBS New York. Cousins Jason “J.J.” …
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A Strange Metal Door in the Backyard, They Opened it and Found Something Unexpected By The Free Patriot A Wisconsin family who had been living in their home for over a decade, knew the whole time that there was a hidden metal door in the ground in the backyard, but somehow were never tempted to …
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Baby Elephant Escapes 14 Lions By Stefan Sirucek for National Geographic “Hercules” the elephant is the new king of the jungle after the youngster drove off 14 lions earlier this month in Zambia. Visitors to South Luangwa National Park came upon a pride of female lions attacking the elephant near the Norman Carr Safaris Chinzombo …
How Many Licks Does it Take to Get to the Center of a Tootsie Pop? Michael Rosecliff will be a guest on the show Friday, November 14 at 11:00 AM Central Time. He created a program called “Looking Glass”, a program, the design of which he is very guarded about, that now boasts a near …
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Orphans Win Fishing Tournament, Bring $250,000 Home to Share By Good News Network Orphans in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico were able to compete in the “World’s Richest Fishing Tournament” after a hurricane struck their area, putting the contest at risk, and a charity paid the hefty entrance fee for anyone who would hire struggling local …
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Mexican Jumping Beans Prompt 3-hour Bomb Scare BY Joel Landau A postal worker was delivering packages to a housing complex in Carlsband when he heard a ticking sound in one of them. He called police who evacuated the area before determining it was just novelty seeds. A postal worker spilled the beans about a suspicious …
