At 19, Loonkiito was one of the oldest lions in Kenya. He was among 11 lions killed in the past week, when he was speared to death by local villagers in retaliation for for eating livestock. Extreme drought has forced lions to wander from the safety of Amboseli national park in search of food.

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Ice T calls out covidiot

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Karen doesn't get response she was expecting from campground security, after she demands they stop fellow guests from smoking weed

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VP Harris's new desk was built by Navy Seabees out of wood and hardware salvaged from the USS Constitution during renovations

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A couple in Newfoundland purchased an old house, put it on barrels and floated it 1 kilometer across the bay to their property

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At the age of 20, Christopher Knight walked into the Maine woods, where he managed to live undetected for 27 years, while camping less than a mile from residences. He survived by burgling hunting cabins, until he was finally caught in the act by a game warden.

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$28 million Sikorsky MH-60S

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Investigation has determined that the wreck and fuel spill of the MV Wakashio in Mauritius in 2020 was caused by the captain diverting his course attempting to find a cell phone signal.

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That's gonna take a lot of Bondo

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A miniature heart called a cardioid started beating seven days after being developed from stem cells

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POS only received 5 years probation for breaking a 9-day-old infant's legs and causing traumatic injuries in 2019

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Refusing life saving heart surgery for your infant because you're an antivaxxer

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The USS Kidd is the only US Navy ship authorized to fly a Jolly Roger at sea.

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A six-foot-tall statue dating from 1450 to 1521 that a Mexican farmer unearthed on New Years Day

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Used coconut milk instead of heavy cream, bitches about it and then uses an alt to bitch again

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Infowarrior finds out

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A jade burial suit from the Han dynasty (202 BC – 220 AD)

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This car carrier is equipped with a system to continually remove microplastics from the ocean as it sails

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Use baking soda instead of powder, then complain about how the recipe ruined Christmas

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Norwegian Cruise Line's attempt at eggs benedict

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My new Nordic Ware aluminum meatloaf pan. Lifetime warranty and still made in USA.

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United Airlines asking me to pre-order snacks for my flight, without stating what the actual product sizes or content weights.

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The Wartsila RT-flex96C is the world’s largest and most powerful diesel engine. It can generate 107,389HP with more than 7,000,000Nm of torque, weighs 2,300 tons and stands 44-feet tall and 90-feet long. Redline is at 102 RPM, but the torque is enough to tear a tank to shreds.

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NTSB investigation has determined that 5/27/22 engine fire and over $1 million in damage to the OSV Ocean Guardian was caused by technicians installing a wrong size engine bearing.

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Sheep, goats, horses and deer are among grazing animals which keep their elongated pupils parallel to the ground by rotating them via cyclovergence, which enables them to maintain a wide field of view of the surrounding environment

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I'll be Frank, it's pretty trashy

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Broke an overhead sprinkler pipe and wedged himself in so tight that they had to remove the wheels and use two tow trucks to get it out

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Researchers have found that during thunderstorms plants emit electric discharges along with hydroxyl (OH) and hydroperoxyl (HO2), which can change the surrounding air quality by altering molecules.

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Ultra Large Container ship One Apus is currently limping to Japan after 1900 containers were lost or damaged during a storm at sea

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Workers replacing gas lines in Montorio Italy came across the remains of a Roman villa complex, believed to be associated with Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths between AD 471 to 526

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17 in Paramus last night

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She was already out on bond for DUI. Hit the guy so hard “Everything in his neck area was severed except his skin... His body made a backwards U, conforming to the front of the (truck),” Salazar said.

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Oh snap!

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Bratislava looking like an oil painting

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Mother of the year

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The face on this deep sea batfish

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Got drunk. Drove wrong way on I-95. Killed three people; a 28-year-old father of three, a 35-year-old mother of four and 36-year-old father of two.

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When you don't learn your lesson the first six times

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One of only seven known handwritten manuscript versions of the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. Among the rejected passages, present here: a passionate condemnation of African chattel slavery and the slave trade, the perpetuation of which Jefferson blames on King George III.

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The pocket fork really pulls the whole scenario together

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Disgraceful hussy flashing her ankles at Lake Hopatcong

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Knell for the cross

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Archaeologists have found vessels containing over 100 unfired clay cuneiform tablets inside clay envelopes, in the remains of a Bronze Age city at the bottom of an Iraqi reservoir which was exposed during low water levels.

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Mother of the year

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When a single bridge alone isn't strong enough to handle a 363 ton, 317 foot long load

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Just call him Mr Stripe

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The USS Ford was delivered in 2017 but just made its first full deployment, because it took 6 years to install and troubleshoot the onboard systems. It won't be capable of handling the F-35 until further modifications in 2025.

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Links from the 1,800-foot-long iron chain which was stretched across the Hudson River at West Point during the Revolutionary War, in order to prevent the British from sailing upriver.

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A Ctenoides ales or disco clam doesn't generate light. The effect is produced by rapidly flicking a flap of tissue which is red on one side and reflective on the other

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I guess he wanted to get a step ahead of traffic

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Late 19th century photo of an archaeological excavation of the courtyard of the House of the Diadoumenos on the Greek island of Delos

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The Hamilton Space Clock or Mars Clock built in 1955. The numbers around the face indicate Mars time, and the three subsidiary dials show Martian date, earth time and earth date.

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Recreation of a Bronze Age woman buried in Mikulovice in Eastern Bohemia between 1880 and 1750 BC, made using her skull and DNA analysis from her bones

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King of the apostrophes

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Just call her Dotty

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Analysis of the shattered skull of a medieval Italian man reveals the sword attacks which inflicted the damage

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A map of abandoned mines across Pennsylvania

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But he did his research

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There's Time Team and then there's the soon to be serving time team

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A piece of trinitite glass formed on the desert floor from the Trinity nuclear bomb test in New Mexico

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Part of a Roman millstone unearthed in the UK is decorated with a phallus

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Remains of a Range Rover which fell off a car carrier and struck a Honda in the middle of NJ 17 morning rush hour traffic.

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This truck decorated to look like a giant toy Hess truck

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I'm taking my Covid and leaving.

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A house carved out of solid rock in Uchisar, Turkey

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They didn't think their clever plan all the way through

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Scientists have been working since April to reassemble fragments from 220 sq meters of frescoes excavated from a Roman home in France. They hope to be done by 2023

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This 100-year-old house was constructed out of repurposed items, including a chandelier and balcony made from the anchor and oars from Jack London's boat The Snark

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Marble funerary shrine of four-year old child Tiberius Natronius Venustus, recently discovered in the Roman necropolis of Santa Rosa in Vatican City

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Tis the season

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Because haircuts are apparently more important than public health

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Current drought conditions across the US

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I could have been in hummus heaven, but don't have storage for the 300 lbs of chickpeas needed.

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Map said to indicate the location of a treasure stash looted from the Arnhem bank vault by German soldiers in 1944. According to contemporary accounts by a German parachutist who served in Velp near Arnhem, the treasure contains jewellery, watches, and gems, buried in four zinc ammo boxes.

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Musical notes are apparently symbolic of pedophilia

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A Playmobile toy pirate ship was launched off the coast of Guyana this week, in hopes that it will reach the Caribbean

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The most idiosyncratic exports for each state. These are defined as those which are exported by the smallest number of other states.

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HMC while I balance on this door

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They make such a lovely BIFL couple, my new Technivorm Moccamaster and veteran KitchenAid KCG0702CS burr grinder.

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The bow of the USS Johnston, which was recently located at a depth of 21,180 feet, after sinking during the Battle off Samar in WW II

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The head of a 3000-year-old stone giant from the Mont’e Prama necropolis in Sardinia.

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A bust of Dionysust at the museum Antiquarium in Pompeii

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Roof couldn't handle a heavy snowfall

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You can go for a ride on a train pulled by Thomas in Hampshire England.

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Russia has launched the world's largest icebreaker. With twin nuclear reactors generating a combined 350 megawatts (470,000 horsepower), she may well be the world's most powerful civilian vessel.

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Size matters

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The capstone on the 5,000-year-old Lligwy Burial Chamber in Wales is 5.5 m long by 4.5 m wide, with a thickness of around 1 m and weighs in at 25 tons.

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Homeless guy refuses to believe that his face tattoo is a hindering his housing hunt

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The pocket fork really pulls the whole scenario together

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Crunch time at the Port of Bayonne

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Meet me on the corner of Fisher and Fisher

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Such deals

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Why I always constantly scan the canopy as well as the ground while hiking.

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On her way to a smokin hot time in crazytown

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When you're out of clean clothes, but have a can of foam insulation spray

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How dare Viking have music and crew members dancing and clapping on the pier as passengers board!

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Spotted at an insurance auction.

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The Mount Athos peninsula in Greece encompasses 130 square miles, is home to dozens of monasteries, and all females including domestic animals except cats are forbidden from visiting

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Death mask of German author Frank Wedekind made in 1918, which was recently returned to Germany after it was taken to New Zealand in 1936 by Jewish emigrant who fled the Nazis

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Her friend leaked and it's all Target's fault

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This robot taught itself how to open the door and then grab and toss the box via ‘curiosity driven’ learning.

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NYC radio station hawking Giuliani autographed 9/11 tee-shirts

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Actress Marilu Henner has hyperthymesia, which enables her to remember specific details of almost every day of her life since childhood.

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Shot and killed an elephant seal while it was sleeping on a California beach, then cut off her flippers

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Happy St Joseph's Day, don't forget to pick up your zeppole and sfingi on the way home.

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Let's discuss something serious... Who makes the best crumb buns and or crumb cakes?

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