A California-based company has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission for authorization to deploy thousands of mirror-equipped satellites in low Earth orbit, where they would redirect sunlight onto Earth during nighttime hours. Read more below. #light #mirror #satellite #sunlight #OddNews

If you commute to work every day, you’re pretty much on autopilot from the second you walk out the door until the time you sit down at your desk (and maybe afterwards, but that’s a different story for HR to tell you). Read more below... #diapers #pkpintercity #poland #politicians #sheep #OddNews

Michigan state Rep. Bryan Posthumus’s legislative career has centered on protecting what he calls “traditional family values,” yet his name appears in leaked data from Ashley Madison, AdultFriendFinder, & Fling.com, according to records. Read more below... #AshleyMadison #MI #politicians #OddNews

Sometimes, trendy collaborations are just mint to be. The Los Angeles gourmet grocery store Erewhon is teaming up with toothpaste company Boka to offer a minty smoothie that doesn’t have any actual toothpaste in it. Read more below... #drinks #erewhon #grocerystore #smoothie #Toothpaste #OddNews

NEW YORK – New York City’s Mayor-Elect, Zohran Mamdani, spent portions of 2016 recording socially conscious hip-hop under the stage name Young Cardamom in Kampala, Uganda. Read more below... #mandani #MAYOR #newyork #nyc #rap #streetfood #Uganda #OddNews

In what may be South Australia’s 1st prosecution for unsanctioned sculptural animation, a 19-year-old woman appeared via telephone Tuesday before Mt Gambier Magistrates Court to answer charges that she improved public art without a permit. Read more below. #australia #googlyeyes #vandalism #OddNews

After 14 NHL games of what team officials are calling “a developmental phase” & what statisticians are calling “mathematically humiliating,” they have achieved a 3-11 record & pioneered a new frontier in sports analytics: asking a chatbot why they suck. Read more below. #calgaryflames #NHL #OddNews

Soccer’s governing body, FIFA, announced Wednesday it will award an annual peace prize, because “organization under perpetual investigation for corruption” was getting too long for business cards. Read more below... #DonaldTrump #FIFA #football #peace #soccer #Trump #OddNews

It’s often said that there’s an AI bubble and it’s about to burst. It’s also been claimed that AI is taking our jobs. Now, thanks to a Florida woman, because where else, AI is taking more than our jobs, it’s invading our homes & assaulting us. Read more below... #AI #florida #FloridaMan #OddNews

County Clare spent the weekend on lion watch after a timber haulier caught video of a “lion-like animal” padding through Mount Shannon woods, prompting at least one man to check his backyard shed for gladiators. Read more below... #dog #Garda #groomed #ireland #lions #police #OddNews

Tom Brady says his current dog, Junie, is an exact genetic reboot of his previous dog, Lua, a reveal that began like a normal pet story but then got super weird fast. Just like every Tom Brady documentary and/or reality show ever. Read more below... #DNA #dog #jurassicpark #TomBrady #OddNews

Kim says she studied for a law exam with ChatGPT & failed, which is apparently what happens when you ask an AI to pass the bar & it decides the bar is redundant. Now, the AI has given her notes on how she can improve. Read more below... #AI #barexam #chatgpt #kimkardashian #lawdegree #OddNews

In a brief statement issued with the caution of someone tiptoeing past a very awake cemetery, MaineHealth confirmed that a software malfunction dispatched death notices to 521 very much alive patients on October 20. Read more below... #death #derry #hospital #letters #Maine #StephenKing #OddNews

In a D.C. courtroom, BP agent Gregory A. Lairmore described the moment a Subway sandwich made contact with his chest armor. “I could smell the onions & mustard,” he testified. “It exploded on impact, like a grenade if grenades were delicious.” Read more below.. #arrest #DOJ #sandwich #trial #OddNews

Jury selection begins Monday in federal court for Sean Dunn, a former DOJ paralegal accused of throwing a Subway sandwich at a federal agent during the District’s “please stop doing that” surge. Read more below... #assault #jury #paralegal #sandwich #subway #trial #OddNews

A joint University of MD–Microsoft study has determined that AI takes instructions best in Polish, a result described as “surprising,” presumably because they’ve never tried arguing with a Polish grandma armed with 7 grammatical cases & a wooden spoon. Read more below. #AI #poland #research #OddNews

Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Germany, has discovered a new way to engage audiences: tours given by a man who hates them. For €7, you receive access to five centuries of culture & one man’s carefully cultivated weaponized disappointment. Read more below... #art #germany #grumpy #tourguide #OddNews

Alaska prosecutors filed seven felony charges against The Knights of Ni LLC & its owner, Ryan Carroll, alleging more than $500,000 in fraudulent Medicaid billing, an amount that easily buys both a shrubbery & a tasteful path down the middle. Read more below. #Alaska #holygrail #montypython #OddNews

PYONGYANG, North Korea — The Korea Central Zoo in Pyongyang is once again declaring itself “world-level,” a phrase that, in local usage, now apparently includes a single goose in a plastic pen. Read more below... #KimJongUn #NorthKorea #shihtzu #zoo #OddNews

Serial TV-Appearer & expert in literally nothing, Kim Kardashian announced during this week’s “The Kardashians” that the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing “didn’t happen,” a conclusion reached after what she described as extensive video-based research on TikTok. Read more below... #moon #NASA #OddNews

Millennials describe 67 as “brainrot slang”, which generally means “we saw this on TikTok and apparently this is happening.” The entry traces its modern life to music, basketball, & pure peer pressure, the holy trinity of modern etymology. Read more below... #sixtyseven #genx #genz #words #OddNews

A new study, “AI Makes You Smarter But None the Wiser” found that people using ChatGPT did better on logic problems and much worse at knowing they did better, a combination scientists are calling “an espresso shot for hubris.” Read more below... #AI #chatgpt #research #study #stupidity #OddNews

The Mako roller coaster at Sea World in Orlando has it all! Speeds of up to 73 mph, climb to 200 feet in the air, loops, & a duck. If you’re a thrill-seeker, nothing can be more exciting than a waterfowl smacking you in the face while riding it. Read more below... #ducks #Florida #seaworld #OddNews

A pet monkey briefly turned a Plano Spirit Halloween into a live-action obstacle course Monday night, swinging across rafters & wires for roughly half an hour before surrendering to law enforcement’s most preferred de-escalation tool. Read more below... #escape #Halloween #monkeys #texas #OddNews

Volunteers at the Community Church are searching for answers after a barefoot man broke into their sanctuary, stole an iPad, and attempted to perform what authorities are calling “an unsanctioned water miracle” in the restroom. Read more below... #church #florida #FloridaMan #ipad #thefts #OddNews

Authorities spent Tuesday afternoon chasing reports of “aggressive, disease-ridden monkeys” along Interstate 59, which is possibly the least surprising sentence ever written about Mississippi. Read more below... #accident #disease #escape #Mississippi #monkeys #Research #truck #OddNews

Scientists at the University of Georgia have confirmed that several species of North American bats glow a ghostly green under ultraviolet light, finally giving the state something bioluminescent that isn’t college football-related. Read more below.. #glowinthedark #science #ultravioletlight #OddNews

Police in Ingram Borough, PA, say they’re investigating after an 8-year-old returned from trick-or-treating with a small bag of white powder, a discovery that has reignited Halloween safety moral panic & several old family grudges. Read more below.. #candy #cocaine #Halloween #trickortreat #OddNews

VATICAN CITY — The Pope’s new chief astronomer has confirmed he would gladly baptize an extraterrestrial, provided they promise not to “probe” during confession. Read more below... #aliens #baptism #catholic #catholicism #pope #OddNews

In a move that scientists assure everyone is completely normal and not at all spooky, researchers at Scripps Research and the Allen Institute have embarked on a $14.2 million effort to chart humanity’s hidden sixth sense. Read more below... #Research #SixthSense #study #OddNews

Prime Minister Edi Rama announced that the country’s artificial intelligence minister, Diella, is officially “pregnant” with 83 “children,” one for each Socialist Party member of parliament. Read more below.... #AI #albania #baby #Minister #pregnant #OddNews

Police in Salta, Argentina, stopped a drunk taxi driver and accidentally discovered his wife hiding in the trunk, continuing the nation’s proud tradition of solving one problem by uncovering a much worse one. Read more below... #alcohol #argentina #DUI #infidelity #police #taxi #Trunk #OddNews

You know the feeling, you’re just trying to exist and express yourself in a way that makes everyone realize you’re an individual, and not one of the sheep – you’re a deer. Then suddenly everyone’s pointing at you and laughing... Read more below... #deer #hammocks #wildlife #OddNews

A new study confirms what connoisseurs of expensive nonsense have long suspected: coffee tastes better after being eaten, digested, and excreted by a small nocturnal mammal that doesn’t know it’s in the luxury goods business. Read more below... #civet #coffee #coffeebeans #poop #weasel #OddNews

Federal prosecutors have charged more than 30 people, including NBA figures & alleged members of multiple crime families, in what they describe as a “mind-boggling” poker fraud scheme that combined X-ray tables, custom lenses, & celebrity bait. Read more below... #FBI #NBA #poker #scam #OddNews

Police in Clearwater responded to what they described as “an unusually normal” call this week after a local woman discovered a 5-foot boa constrictor lounging on the hood of her car, sunning itself like it owned the place. Read more below... #car #florida #floridawomen #police #snake #OddNews

The animal rights organization PETA has sent a letter to Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant asking him to change his name to Robert Plant Wool for the duration of November, which is still less embarrassing than whatever Bono’s doing this week. Read more below. #name #robertplant #rock #wool #OddNews

CINCINNATI, Ohio — Long ago, man breathed through his lungs. Then came fire, language, and eventually, Ohio. Now we return to the source. Read more below... #breathing #Health #loach #lungs #OddNews

There are a lot of things criminal organizations traffic in. Gambling, drugs, prostitution, & we’re not even mentioning American politics. One thing you probably wouldn’t expect a bunch of criminals to be arrested for is the theft & resale of chairs overseas. Read more below. #chairs #spain #OddNews

For months, villagers living near the misty expanse of Dartmoor have reported a menacing shadow prowling the hills, the sort of animal you only see in grainy photos. Now, after weeks of speculation, the beast has been revealed... Read more below... #beast #cat #dartmoor #england #OddNews

Netflix has announced it has secured exclusive rights to adapt The Settlers of Catan, the 1995 board game responsible for ending more friendships than Monopoly and Risk combined. Read more below... #Netflix #realitytv #rights #settlersofcatan #streaming #OddNews

When Grand Theft Auto 6 finally drops, it may or may not feature dynamic weather, realistic crime economies, & motion-captured dance moves. What it will definitely not have, despite what Google’s AI Overview told millions of people, is a twerk button. Read more below. #AI #dance #gta #twerk #OddNews

Authorities say 76-year-old John Wesley Moss was arrested on multiple counts of drug trafficking after a search of his home uncovered a pharmacy’s worth of narcotics, handguns, pills, enough weed to start a reggae commune, & a handcrafted sign. Read more below... #FloridaMan #police #raid #OddNews

If you’re looking to hang ten in California, you’ve got some competition, as at least one sea otter in Santa Cruz (a city iconic enough to inspire a skateboard company) has a habit of commandeering surfboards after attacking surfers. Read more below... #california #seaotters #surfing #OddNews

AMHERST, Nova Scotia — It began, as most Canadian scandals do, with a bake sale and good intentions. The Lillian Allbon Animal Shelter announced a “lighthearted” contest to elect the first-ever Pet Mayor of Amherst. Read more below... #canada #cat #election #vote #OddNews

LIJIANG, China — A theme park has apologized after several of its “family-friendly” sculptures were described by horrified visitors as “something Guillermo del Toro would delete from his nightmares for being too much.” Read more below... #China #grotesque #NIGHTMARE #scary #themepark #OddNews

Roger Davis, a San Diego entrepreneur of undisclosed industry and very disclosed political opinions, says his problems with women began when he bought a Tesla Cybertruck. Read more below... #cybertruck #marriage #relationship #tesla #women #OddNews

Maj. Gen. William Hank Taylor, commander of the 8th Army, has confirmed that he’s been consulting ChatGPT on key leadership decisions, describing the relationship as “a productive partnership” and, at one point, “a really solid friend.” Read more below... #AI #army #chatgpt #military #OddNews

First joint prayer in 500 Years, expected to go off without a schism. Read more below... #catholicchurch #Catholicism #KingCharlesIII #PopeLeo #prayer #OddNews

Bears, is there anything more adorable? Whether they’re settling in for a good night’s rest after some tea, attempting to have a picnic, or hanging out with a pig and wandering around without pants on, they’re just so cute. Read more below... #aspen #bears #colorado #electricbearmat #gym #OddNews