Trees can get email in Australia.
In 2013, trees were assigned email
addresses by the city of Melbourne
so its citizens could report potential
problems, but people ended up
writing thousands of love letters
to their favorite trees instead. Source
The Spanish town of Huéscar
was at war with Denmark for nearly
two centuries. Not a single shot was
fired, and no one was killed- because
as soon as war was declared in 1809,
everyone completely forgot about it.
A peace treaty was finally signed in
1981, when a historian happened upon
the official declaration and realized they
technically should have been fighting
each other for the past 172 years. SourceSource 2Source 3
Chen Zhitong is a claw machine master.
He chooses machines carefully based on
the tightness of the claw, the angle of
claw rotation, and the layout of the toys.
Chen is so good that he’s locally known
as the ‘claw machine god,’ he’s won over
100 stuffed toys in one sitting, and arcade
managers have taken him to dinner just
to beg him to stop playing their machines. SourceSource 2
my family is so. fucking weird and resistant to talking about anything. when i was a small child i asked my mother why she had a lot of gifts and things where people called her by another name and she like. didn’t give me a straight answer? it was her Hebrew name. like that’s literally it. that’s all u had to say
great-great-grandma cohen refused to tell her younger children that they were related to her two eldest children
my family didn’t tell me about part of my actual name until i sent away for my social security info to get my driver’s permit in my junior year of high school. i have an entire middle name that no one ever felt the need to mention to me
i had to google my own brother to find out why we don’t talk about him anymore
one morning in seventh grade my mother was driving me to school and asked me if she was too overprotective. i told her “yeah, sometimes.” then she casually, calmly went, “maybe it’s because you were almost kidnapped as a baby”
she didn’t even elaborate until i asked her to explain
(my father later confirmed that i was, in fact, briefly stolen as an infant)
my mom just dropped this information on me for the first time and was then like “bye honey have a good day at school”
As an inside joke, the officers decided to have the cake decorated in police-blue ribbons and sugared bees (for a “sting”).
The band, led by a city police officer, announced themselves as a weed-loving group named S.P.O.C, which stood for ‘Somebody Protect Our Crops.’ In actuality, it was just COPS spelled backwards.
They played the song ‘I Fought The Law (and the Law Won)’ as a signal to begin the bust.
“Let’s have some fun,” an officer shouted. “Everybody here that’s a cop, stand up! Okay! All the rest of you motherfuckers put your hands on the table, because you’re under arrest! This is a bust!”
And yet, somehow I still feel like I’ve been to receptions that were worse for me than this one was for that guy…
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