If MacGyver loved dark chocolate, Potomac Chocolate might be his chocolate of choice. Its founder, Ben Rasmussen, creates award-winning chocolate out of his Woodbridge, Va., basement using equipment he hacked together himself. “I very much am a do-it-myselfer,” Rasmussen said. “I love building the machines. I...
The State University of New York at Buffalo was forced to apologize this week after mistakenly emailing 5,000 prospective students to tell them that their application for admission had been accepted. According to the Buffalo News, the admissions office gaffe meant the emails were sent to approximately 20 percent of...
A man had no choice but to have surgery after an 18-inch vegetable he carved in the shape of a penis got stuck in his anus. The patient, who has not been named, fashioned the veggie dildo out of cassava, a root vegetable native to South America. He had sensibly covered it with two condoms before inserting it, but had to call in...
One Starbucks really got the name wrong on one customer’s order label last Friday. A man who ordered a Grande White Chocolate Mocha at a St. Augustine, Florida Starbucks reported receiving the drink with a printed label that read, "DIABETES HERE I COME." The customer, who prefers to remain anonymous,...
America has a long and storied history with regulating alcohol, which has left us with a high drinking age, and a very strange requirement that all alcohol be slightly radioactive. As Tom Scott explains, the requirement stems from the fact that all alcohol sold for human consumption has to be made from plant matter—no...
Showman Ivan Urgant has launched an unusual section in his show — "Conversation without pants." The guest of the premiere issue of this new part of a show was a singer and composer Dmitry Malikov. Men were talking in white shirts, underwear and shoes. Interestingly, underwear of Ivan and Dmitry...
Celebrities are sure that fans will recognize them any way, even plastered from head to toe with mud. Let's check? Answers Regina Todorenko. Olya Polyakova. Masha Efrosinina. Lady Gaga. Anita Tsoi. Vera Brezhneva. Anna...
"Congrats … You've invented a whole new way to be awful at 35,000 feet." So read a tweet from airline passenger Dante Ramos after the person in the seat in front of him flung her ponytail over the back of her seat and let it dangle directly in front of his seat-back screen. Ramos snapped a pic and the photo...
A man and a woman were arrested on Saturday after a dispute over crab legs at a Connecticut restaurant turned physical. Fox 61 reported police were called to Royal Buffet in Manchester at around 8 p.m. Saturday after a 21-year-old man was punched in the face. Police said the victim's mother used pepper spray on his...
UK-based publication Hello! magazine has apologized to George Clooney for using old material and quotes he never made and implying the result was an exclusive interview. Hello! Group, which owns the magazine, said it purchased the piece from an agency it has worked with previously. But it has been established that the...
April Fool’s is here and everyone has a get-out-of-free card for the most inventive lie. Aside from the holiday of hoax, most people lie on occasion to avoid consequences or spare another person's feelings. But your doctor will tell you that fibbing may be harmful to your health. While many people lie to doctors for...
Google has removed an April Fool's Gmail button, which sent a comical animation to recipients, after reports of people getting into trouble at work. The button appeared beside Gmail's normal send button and allowed users to shut down an email thread by sending a gif of a Minion dropping a microphone. However, a flurry...