By Simona Kitanovska Millions of drivers miss out on views and memories of road trips as they focus on GPS (Satellite Navigation), traffic, and avoiding road work. A poll of 2,000 motorists revealed almost three-quarters (72 percent) have turned up to their desired location with no real recollection of the route they took. Other common
By Simona Kitanovska A library has waived fines of more than $3,600 after an overdue library book was returned – a whopping 76 years late. Charlie Studdy came across ‘This Way To The Tomb’ – a play by Ronald Duncan – when tidying up a bookcase at his house and discovered it was due back
By Darko Manevski A taxidermist has created the world’s first ‘furry mice’ for cars – stuffed real animals which hang from rear view mirrors. Jack Devaney, 28, uses rats, mice, chicks, and even guinea pigs to create his unique ‘Hairy Dangler’ motor decorations. It is the latest bizarre item from his company ‘World Around Ewe’
By Simona Kitanovska This is the adorable moment a London Underground worker lets a train-obsessed toddler announce an incoming train. Footage shows five-year-old Sami Sementilli alongside the London Underground worker as they prepare to announce the arrival of a train. Sami and mother Ifat were at Bank subway station in central London after spending a
By Percy Lovell Crawford LAFAYETTE, La. — There is a powerful new baritone in town. Teddy Pendergrass, Gerald Levert, Wilson Pickett and Barry White carried that sound for decades. Since losing those legends, our ears have been somewhat deprived. Enter Marc Broussard of Lafayette, Louisiana. His soulful voice and classical approach to music is refreshing for
By Simona Kitanovska Grab your drumsticks, kids and get ready to rock! – one in six parents actually want their kids to learn to play drums, new research suggests. That’s just one surprising takeaway from a new study that asked 2,000 Americans – including 1,200 who’ve played at least one instrument – to weigh in
By Simona Kitanovska The owner of a flying car company has completed the ‘first ever’ commute in one of its $83,600 space-age vehicles. Tomasz Patan, the co-founder of the Swedish firm Jetson, piloted the Jetson ONE vehicle from his Italian home to a company building in Tuscany. The firm says the journey time was reduced
By Simona Kitanovska The pandemic overall has increased road anxiety, with sixty-five percent of Americans claiming they feel more anxious in cars now compared to before the pandemic, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 adults looked at how people are being more careful on the road and found that over half of drivers
By Simona Kitanovska Half of Americans can’t wait for summer so they can turn on the air conditioning (49 percent), according to new research. A survey of 2,000 Americans looked at the downsides of summer and found that on average, people said that five hours a day outside in the summer is just enough, but
By Darko Manevski The middle ear of humans evolved from fish gills, according to a study of a 438 million-year-old fossil fish brain. Scientists discovered the fossil of the braincase of a Shuyu fish. Despite its skull only being the size of a fingernail they were able to recreate seven virtual casts of the brain.
