We humans have a tendency to not clean up after ourselves. But some do. Right up there with the best of them is the European Space Agency, which Space.com says is launching a 'suicide robot' to help rid the Earth's orbit of decades of accumulated space junk.
Read MoreIt's a common fantasy: If you suddenly became rich, what would be the first thing you'd buy? Even someone like Bill Gates, who now has more money than some countries, once wrestled with that particular situation. What was the first thing he bought when he got rich?
Read MoreSome say we're living in a golden age of political corruption, but the truth is that Congress has always been a bit corrupt. If there's a law, chances are a lawmaker has broken it. Just because you're the ones responsible for making the rules doesn't mean you have to like them.
Read MoreKFC will now sell "chicken-scented fire logs" to warm your buns in time for Christmas. The chicken purveyors have teamed with Enviro-Log to bring you the "11 Herbs & Spices Firelog," a shameless name from a company which delights in shining the light of capitalism into the world's darkest crevices.
Read MoreKanye West has been at the "super into religion" stage of his career for a while now, and it looks like we're well past the stage where Sunday church and scripture are enough to tickle Yeezy's fancy. Now, it's all about silver robes, face paint and nativity scenes. In an opera. On a boat.
Read MoreMaurizio Cattelan's $120,000 installation called "Comedian" was literally just an ordinary banana duct taped to a wall. It's not the most bizarre thing found in a museum, but it's up there. One day, some guy just walked up and ate the delicious, delicious wall banana. And he's not sorry about it.
Read MoreThe DeBarges are a big family. The musical group's biggest success was the 1985 hit "Rhythm of the Night," but the personal lives of the DeBarges have been defined by discord. Between their struggles with addiction, crime, and drama, the DeBarges have lived tragic lives.
Read MoreOne of the biggest stops for celebrities who are promoting a new project is the talk show circuit. Sometimes, though, TV interviews with famous people go horribly off the rails. Celebrities have bad days at work too, but they have them on camera. Here are some celebs who lost it in TV interviews.
Read MoreFiguring out what is and isn't appropriate for TV is tricky, as standards change all the time. Still, sometimes audiences themselves decide a show went too far.
Read MoreFrom Nelly lyrics, to Jordan ads, people have long been bombarded with messages telling them that their identity is tied up in sneakers -- the rarer the better. In fact, people literally kill for hard-to-afford (and thus hard-to-get) sneakers. So what are the rarest sneakers in the world?
Read MoreAt some point, we've all stared at the ceiling and thought to ourselves "I wonder how fast cars can go?" The answer, of course, depends on the car, and what your definition of "car" is. The point is, the world's fastest car is less of a car and more what you'd call a space shuttle on wheels.
Read MoreChristmas seems to start earlier each year, meaning everyone needs to suddenly figure out what they want for Christmas. This task is usually very easy for children, who can come up with some truly impressive, budget-stretching lists that seem designed to give their parents a financial heart attack.
Read MoreBetween 2009 and 2018, Amazon paid a whopping 3 percent tax rate on its many, many billions of dollars in profits. Obviously, Amazon won't go broke making billions and paying virtually nothing. But how much would you have to tax Bezos each day to take all his money away in a year?
Read MoreWhether you think Vince McMahon has the Midas Touch or the Merde Tush, he makes dump trucks of money. In other words, Vince McMahon earns more than enough money each year to tell any wrestler to kiss his green backside.
Read MoreProfessional wrestling, also known as "the sport of kings," has seen dozens of iconic performers come and go over the years. Sting didn't make the jump to WWE until the 2010s, wrestling in the 2015 Night of Champions event before promptly announcing his retirement the next year. So what happened?
Read MoreIt's difficult to know exactly why, but in recent days, the question has been raised: can the president of the United States extend a presidential pardon to himself? Maybe it's a societal innocent curiosity, or because Mercury is stuck in retrograde.
Read MoreIn a big win for fans of real world Michael Crichton novels, Chinese scientists have reportedly created living pig-monkey chimeras.
Read MoreAmerica spends more on military affairs than China, Saudi Arabia, India, France, Russia, United Kingdom, and Germany ... combined. Some of that spending is absolutely necessary, there's one thing that we can name that seems a bit excessive -- a missile packed with swords, called a "Ninja Bomb."
Read MoreIn a report that will warm your Grinch-ish heart this holiday season faster than the most crackling Yule log, the Korean Central News Agency made it known this week that the reclusive nation of North Korea has a "Christmas present" for the United States.
Read MoreThe world is a crazy place, full of bizarre plot lines that any editor in their right mind would reject as highly implausible.
Read MoreScandinavia's been getting a lot of attention lately. Sweden's got Greta Thunberg staring daggers of ice into anyone alive when PacMan was invented, Norway's got Olaf from Frozen, and Finland? Well, now they've got themselves the world's youngest prime minister.
Read MoreIf cats act like dogs, and dogs act like cats, then maybe their distinguishing behavioral traits aren't quite as distinctive as people think. Here's the canine most likely to get catty with you.
Read MoreLong before Michel Foucault learned that "knowledge is power," Nikola Tesla brilliantly illustrated that genius is AC power. Tesla had a goldmine sitting between his ears, and his fruitful mind produced world-changing inventions. But sometimes the world makes no sense, and Tesla died penniless.
Read MoreRussia has a bit of a reputation for making questionable decisions in order to further its interests. It might not be a surprise that the "World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has imposed a four-year ban on Russia from all global sport, including the 2020 Olympics and the 2022 World Cup finals."
Read MorePrior to the Rumble in the Jungle Muhammad Ali taunted Foreman mercilessly. Even the fans chanted, "Ali, bomaye" ("Ali, kill him"). That mugging marked the end of Foreman's undefeated streak and start of an unbeatable friendship.
Read MoreOld West narratives aren't just full of plot holes and mysteries; they're also riddled with bullet holes. Some of those bullets were fired by the fastest gunslingers ever to bust a cap. Here's the fastest gunslinger in the West.
Read MoreIt seems that some chickens -- no matter how kind you are to them -- just can't be saved from their own anger. So the best you can do is just save yourself from them. So what chicken breeds is most likely to reenact a Hitchcock film? Which chicken breed is the most aggressive in the world?
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