For nearly two decades, thousands of Santas take over the streets of Milwaukee in what’s known as the Santa Cycle Rampage — the “world’s largest holiday-themed costume group bicycle ride for charity.”
A visit to the last animatronics still singing in Chuck E. Cheese
A Chuck E. Cheese in Northridge, Calif., will be the last remaining stronghold of the chain’s signature animatronics. We visit the pizza arcade for nostalgia’s sake.
Holy Mole-y: A sniffer dog helps rediscover a rare mole
The De Winton’s golden mole was last spotted in 1936. But with the help of a mole-sniffing dog and new environmental DNA analysis, researchers are taking it off the most wanted lost species list.
How one family gave a Cardinals linebacker a ride from the gas station to the stadium
After Cardinals linebacker Jesse Luketa got stuck with a flat tire before a game on Sunday, an Arizona family helped him make it to the stadium.
Bowie the lobster is half-blue, half-red, and all kinds of rare
Bowie, named after pop icon David Bowie, has clawed its way to internet stardom. The split-color crustacean was caught by a lobster fisherman off the coast of Maine.
Rat plague hits an Australian coastal town, and thousands more wash up on shore
Months after the local shire’s council discussed what it dubbed a “Rat Plague,” thousands of rats are creating havoc in a small town on the coast in Queensland.
A car-sized tumbleweed made quite a scene on a California highway
A person shared video of “the mother of all tumbleweeds” on social media this week. That got us thinking about where tumbleweeds come from and their propensity for taking over roads and neighborhoods.
Why a single ‘Inverted Jenny’ stamp sold for $2 million at auction
History, intrigue and a misprint combine so that a single stamp from 1918 recently sold for big bucks.
This rare stamp sold for a record $2 million
Scott Trepel of Seigel Auction Galleries describes the rare “Inverted Jenny” stamp that sold for a record $2 million.
This book club finally finished ‘Finnegans Wake.’ It only took them 28 years
In October, after 28 years, a book club finally finished one of the most famously-difficult-to-read books in literature, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.