The Titanic’s last cracker sold for $23,000. It came from the survival kit on one of the doomed ship’s lifeboats.

The Wicked Aunt of the Year Award goes to the following woman. In Connecticut’s Superior Court , a New York woman asked a jury to hold her nephew accountable — to the tune of $127,000 — for the leaping hug that he gave her at his eighth-birthday party. She was knocked to the ground and broke her wrist. The court ruled in favor of the boy.

Insufficient slumber has been linked to greater risks of diabetes, heart issues, obesity, depression and other illnesses. If we continue to fight off sleep, our ability to concentrate and form short-term memories slackens.  Studies show that this can lead to insanity.

A woman in Indiana is recovering after being shot by her dog in a bizarre hunting accident, an environment official says. The woman, named as Allie Carter, 25, was hunting waterfowl on Saturday in the north of the state, Jonathon Boyd, an Indiana conservation officer said. She put down her 12-gauge shotgun but her chocolate Labrador stepped on it, shooting her in the foot.To add insult to injury, the dog was named Trigger. About one American per year is shot by a dog. Four of the 10 shootings since 2004 happened in Florida.

A Russian woman whose name is lost to history – holds the widely cited world record for bearing the most children. According to a local monastery’s report to the government in Moscow, between 1725 and 1765 Mrs Vassilyev gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets, over 27 separate labors. The grand total: 69 children.

Officials with the New York Jets confirmed the team brought 350 rolls of toilet paper to London so they wouldn’t have to use the thinner, British version.

By your 78th birthday, scientists estimate you will have spent nine of those years watching television, four years driving a car, and 92 days on the toilet,

Across China, people are sporting plastic decorations on their heads in the shape of vegetables, fruit and flowers. The fad escalated, especially during the current National Day holiday week when Beijing fills with visitors, it has grown to include a riot of plastic vegetation. Now heads are bristling with clover, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, lavender, mushrooms, chilies, cherries, gourds and pine trees.

Thought that planes were cramped enough as it is? Well, it could be set to get a whole lot worse, after plane manufacturer Airbus submitted a patent for a cabin that could see passengers stacked on top of each other.  According to the designs, a set of stairs or a ladder will allow passengers to get onto the higher seats – and they’ll also be able to lie down.

A German forestry minister accidentally started a forest fire. He should have known better than to dump ashes in a thicket. More people have died this year from selfies than from shark attacks.  So far 12 deaths have occurred. ,mainly from falls during attempts to catch that special moment.

In self-defeating news, a study about butter, funded by the butter industry, found that butter is bad for you.

Researchers looking into an increase in 911 calls in San Francisco said about 30 percent of calls to the emergency number are accidental butt dials.

The Nissan 250z from Fast and The Furious Tokyo Drift is now own sale for
$234k

Americans are getting married later in life. The typical man got married at 28 in 2011, up from 22 in 1960, according to the Pew Research Center. This is in part explained by the recession, which hurt the economic foundations people like to build up before marriage, and the rising number of college graduates, a group that is more likely to marry later in life.

The average length of a US marriage that ends in divorce is about seven years. Remarkably, federal data shows this has been the case since as far back as 1867. One popular explanation for this, according to Psychology Today, is the seven-year itch: the idea that people tire of their mates after seven years together.

By 2020, there will be three activated smart devices for every single human on Earth. Many of these—cameras, refrigerators, thermostats, electric cars—will live in our homes, which will contain contain thousands of processors, batteries, and micro-databases, each pushing data into the grid.