robert “mouseman” thompson was a british woodworker famous for carving a tiny mouse into every piece of furniture he made. born in 1876, his signature style became a family tradition, and the business continues today, with the little mouse still appearing on its handcrafted furniture. thompson died

cartoon network production files have reportedly leaked online, giving fans access to over 200gb of material, including editable animation files from early the amazing world of gumball episodes. some people are already modifying familiar scenes and adding their own characters, treating childhood ca

in 2013, plants vs. zombies promoted garden warfare with parody ads recreating famous video game artwork using its own characters. mass effect became “grass effect”, while dead space turned into “dead face”. the campaign continued in 2014 with references to games like sly cooper and ratchet & clank

on september 26, 2026, an underground club called spread in tokyo’s shimokitazawa neighbourhood transformed its dancefloor into a cosy reading space. carpets covered the floor as attendees sat, stretched out and read books to low-volume ambient electronic music, with a book exchange adding to the r

in 2009, artist hank schmidt in der beek hiked into the austrian alps to paint the landscape, but the mountains were so massive that he decided to paint his own shirt instead. the idea became an ongoing series called und im sommer tu ich malen, where he recreates the shirt patterns he wears while p

according to a former apple engineer, corporate employees are randomly assigned one of eight colours for their id badges when they join the company: blue, green, pink, orange, purple, violet, red or yellow, regardless of their role or seniority. retail employees reportedly get blue badges, while co

the 1965 cadillac coupe de ville stretched nearly 19 feet from bumper to bumper, with a huge 129.5-inch wheelbase and a 7.0-litre v8 producing 340 horsepower. parked beside modern cars, the enormous two-door coupe looks less like a car and more like a luxury yacht on wheels. #cartok #classicc

teenagers in belfast, photographed by michelle sank in 2005. rather than defining a generation through northern ireland’s political past, sank photographed young people as individuals, placing them in everyday environments without obvious references to the troubles. the portraits capture ordinary t

australian basketball player caitlin mary cunningham, better known as ‘caitlin dark’, brings her goth identity onto the court with distinctive dark makeup she describes as her athletic ‘war paint’. her look challenges the idea that athletes need to fit a particular image, showing that competitive s

in 2015, martin shkreli became infamous after his company raised the price of the drug daraprim by more than 5,000%. that same year, he paid around $2 million for wu-tang clan’s one-of-one album ‘once upon a time in shaolin’, occasionally streaming snippets online to prove he owned it. he also obta

welcome to liveinternet.ru, one of russia’s defining online diary platforms of the 2000s and 2010s. users filled their pages with personal diary entries, photo dumps and sometimes incredibly intimate details about their everyday lives, often posted publicly for anyone to read. #internettok #n

for centuries, the italian town of venzone lived alongside the naturally mummified bodies of its ancestors. after bodies stored near the chapel of saint michael were discovered remarkably preserved, the mummies became part of local tradition and were treated with familiarity and respect rather than

outfits from minecon 2011, the event where minecraft officially left beta and version 1.0 launched. after more than two years of public development, notch marked the full release by pulling a giant minecraft-style lever onstage in front of thousands of fans. the outfits from the event are now a per

in 2004, burger king launched ‘subservient chicken’, a deliberately low-budget website where users typed commands to a man in a chicken suit and watched him respond. despite looking like a live webcam, hundreds of responses had actually been prerecorded inside an la apartment. the site began spread

launched in 2013, coca-cola life was coke’s answer to the early 2010s wellness boom. sweetened with a blend of sugar and stevia, it had fewer calories and traded coke’s iconic red branding for green packaging designed to signal a more natural alternative. positioned between regular coke and diet co

there’s an entire subreddit inspired by the iconic ‘zoolander’ scene where derek mistakes a miniature architectural model for the real building and asks, “what is this? a centre for ants?” r/thingsforants is dedicated to hilariously tiny versions of everyday objects that look like they were made fo

while filming the ‘icarly’ special ‘ishock america’ in 2012, the cast spent an entire week together in new york city. between filming scenes with jimmy fallon, they explored the city, saw a broadway show and attended a live taping of ‘saturday night live’. jennette mccurdy later recalled that she a

at the height of venezuela’s hyperinflation crisis in 2018, everyday purchases could require enormous stacks of bolívar notes. photographer carlos garcia rawlins captured the scale of the crisis by placing basic goods beside the piles of cash needed to buy them, creating a striking visual record of

they just met and immediately locked in for the photo 🤝 photographer richard renaldi’s ‘touching strangers’ series brought complete strangers together on the street and asked them to pose as though they were friends, couples or family. photographed between 2007 and 2013, the project explores int

kunal nayyar, best known as raj from ‘the big bang theory’, has revealed that he sometimes spends his nights browsing gofundme and anonymously paying strangers’ medical bills. calling it his “masked vigilante” thing, nayyar said financial success has given him the opportunity to change people’s liv