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Prince Jefri’s Forgotten Luxury Fleet in Brunei’s Jungles

In the lush jungles of Brunei, Prince Jefri abandoned a vast trove of luxury vehicles, including more than 300 Mercedes-Benz cars, alongside an array of Rolls-Royces, Ferraris, McLarens, and Lamborghinis. Following a thorough audit, the Sultan uncovered about $40 billion in dubious “special transfers,” with Prince Jefri’s expenditure totaling $14.8 billion.

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Alexa Orders Dollhouse After TV Segment Sparks Citywide Shopping Frenzy

A 6-year-old girl interacted with Amazon’s Alexa to unintentionally buy a dollhouse and 4 pounds of cookies worth $160. Following a news segment about this event by a TV station in San Diego, the phrase “Alexa ordered me a dollhouse” triggered numerous Alexa devices across the city to attempt purchasing dollhouses.

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Japanese Lab’s Unbeatable Rock-Paper-Scissors Robot

A Japanese lab has developed a robot that achieves a 100% victory rate in rock-paper-scissors by leveraging high-speed technology to anticipate and counteract the moves of its human opponents.

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Mealworms Eat Plastic Waste

A Stanford research showed that common mealworms are not only able to eat various types of plastic, but they can also consume potentially toxic plastic additives in polystyrene with no side effects. They can eat and fully degrade plastic in a matter or hours. It takes around 3,000 to 4,000 mealworms to process a single Styrofoam coffee cup.

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The South Pole is significantly colder than the North Pole

The South Pole is substantially colder than the North Pole, with the South Pole experiencing average winter temperatures around -60°C (-76°F), while the North Pole’s winter temperatures can reach -40°C (-40°F).

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Burger King Thailand Launches Meatless ‘Real Cheeseburger’ with 20 Slices of Cheese

Burger King in Thailand has a new “real cheeseburger” that doesn’t have any meat. Instead, it’s made with 20 slices of cheese.

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Universe in a Lifetime with 1G Acceleration

If you accelerate constantly at 1g in a spacecraft, you can traverse the known universe in a human lifetime.

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Biertan’s Single Divorce in Three Centuries

In Biertan, a Romanian village, the church had a room where couples wanting a divorce were placed together for two weeks with just one bed, chair, table, plate, and spoon. This led to only one divorce in 300 years.

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Nanoplastic Particles Found in Bottled Water

A new study found bottled water contains up to 240,000 nanoplastic particles per liter, a concentration up to 100 times higher than previous estimates.

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Japan’s Citizen’s Holiday Workdays Turn into Extra Holidays

In Japan, legally, if a workday is sandwiched between two holidays, it turns into an extra holiday, known as a “citizen’s holiday.”