Kids have pretty crazy imaginations, and furniture store IKEA has harnessed the power to create 10 bizarre yet awesome cuddly toys, based on the drawings of 10 children. Ikea’s annual Soft Toys for Education campaign asks kids to submit their weird and wonderful animal…
The days are getting shorter, the nights longer, and the weather colder. It makes you just want to stay in bed all day. Well, you’ll be pleased to know that you can — with this Japanese kotatsu. It consists of a…
Sometimes, we aren’t as thankful as we should be for all the blessings we’ve been given. We have food, water, shelter, and much more besides. Christmas is often a time when we’re most reminded of this, with the in-your-face advertisements…
For anyone who’s ever been confused about what sexual consent means, the UK’s Thames Valley Police has just launched a brilliant YouTube campaign explaining it using a quintessentially English tea analogy. The video, titled “Consent: It’s as Simple as Tea,”…
#1. July 1863 — Battlefield at Gettysburg. Dead soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where more than 50,000 Union and Confederate troops were killed, injured, or captured during the Civil War. #2. April 1906 — Destruction after the…
She’s one of the world’s most watched women, and he’s not lacking in the fame stakes, either. There’s no doubt that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are the golden couple of Hollywood, and their family is photographed at every opportunity. But…
Josh Sundquist‘s life hasn’t been easy: he was diagnosed with cancer when he was just nine years old, and was told he had a 50% chance of surviving. After chemotherapy, he survived, but lost his left leg. He was thirteen when…
Don’t be fooled: this pink meadow is actually the world’s driest desert — which has been stirred to life by climate change. The Atacama desert in Chile is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, but occasionally this barren wasteland likes to make a grand spectacle.…
Is it better to have a baby or a cat? Well, if you’re deciding between the two, Matthew Inman from the awesome Oatmeal webcomic might be able to help. We should warn you though, his hilarious comic may be a little dark for…
A 10-year-old dinosaur enthusiast who has made a YouTube video every day for the past four months has seen his subscribers shoot up from just 22 to an incredible 88,000 — literally overnight. This Pterosaur flight video has over a million…
These wide-eyed and unbearably adorable Japanese and Siberian flying squirrels look like they’ve come straight out of a Disney cartoon, but they’re actually found in Japan and some parts of Europe. Old World flying squirrels, as they are known, don’t hibernate, but…
If cats went to a gallery, what kind of art would they be into? This is Paramount Picture illustrator Carrie Liao‘s take on it — and we think it’s extremely insightful. After spending a day at the Museum of Contemporary Art in…
If you’ve never wanted to go to Romania, you will now, because the world’s first ever kinetic steampunk bar has opened there, and it looks AWESOME. Enigma Café in Cluj-Napoca has working steampunk structures that guarantee an awesome setting on a night out.…
Lithuanian outdoorsman Darius Sasnauskas had the rare opportunity to witness the birth of two baby deer in his backyard near Yellowstone National Park in the US. Sadly, one of them injured her leg and was left behind by her family because…
The Force has awoken — in Odessa, Ukraine, where a statue of Vladimir Lenin has been transformed into the dark lord Darth Vader. While the rest of the world was trying to figure out what The Force Awakens trailer reveals about…
US-based photographer Freddy Fabris had always wanted to pay homage to the great Renaissance masters, but wasn’t sure how until he stumbled upon an old Midwest car shop. “The place screamed for something to be shot there,” Fabris wrote on Huffpost.…