A plane hit Beijing’s tallest skyscraper, the pilot died, 13 were injured, and China’s response was to pretend the Beijing plane crash skyscraper incident never happened.
Qatar maids are scrubbing gold-inlaid antiques seven days a week in Cinderella palaces, and Cinderella at least got a pumpkin carriage out of the deal.
Medieval Bologna students fined professors for tardiness — proof that the urge to complain about lecturers is as old as civilisation itself.
Bogus social workers UK are staging a comeback, and nobody — not even folklore experts — can quite agree on whether they actually exist.
El Pedocin segregated beach in Trieste is still dividing the sexes with a concrete wall, and frankly, it’s doing a better job than most relationships.
Climate data rescued online by sacked scientists who apparently didn’t get the memo that you can’t just un-delete the internet.
Croatia’s house in a house is proof that the best response to a wealthy bully with a building project is simply to refuse to move and outlive the inconvenience.
Earth seeding Venus with life turns out to be something we’ve apparently been doing for billions of years, completely by accident, like a very slow interplanetary sneeze.
Dangerous dead folklore is finally getting the comprehensive treatment it deserves, and yes, apparently corpses have ‘habits’ we should all know about.
Southwest Louisiana experiences include eating crawfish the size of a small dog and navigating swamps that smell like your nan’s greenhouse after a flood.
