12 Odd Facts and Current Events You’ll Wish You Could Wring Out of Your Brain Like an Old Dirty Towel

Meat products from animals who had horns, beaks or other parts removed without anesthesia will be labeled as such.

After scientific evidence came out that lobsters can feel pain, Switzerland made it illegal to cook a live lobster without first knocking it out.

Names are banned on a state-by-state basis, so you’ll want to check local laws before you name your kid Santa Claus, III or @.

After three World War II-era bombs weighing 50 tons total were discovered in Cologne, 20,000 residents were evacuated while crews disarmed them.

The five biggest hotspots for the game that’s sweeping the intramural bros of the nation are Seattle, Charlotte, Austin, Mesa and Cincinnati.

Sherwin-Williams announced the “loneliest” color of the year — or the hue that sold the least. Radiant Lilac SW 0074 sold less than 1,000 gallons in total.

Mondelez, the owner of brands like Oreo and Wheat Thins, is suing Aldi for making their store brand packaging look suspiciously like the real things.

Bucarasica, Colombia turns a street into a big ol’ waterslide every year, mainly because they have nothing else going on. According to mayor, “The community had this idea to attract people because, as you see, our town is small and people don’t have much to do.”

The Grand Tomatina Festival is a weekend-long event that has roots as far back as 1944, where residents and tourists collect and hurl over 100 tons of overripe tomatoes.

A study has found that an iron deficiency in pregnant mice can cause male babies to grow ovaries in the womb.

A wild elephant walked from a national park in Thailand to a nearby grocery store, where it pushed its way inside and started casually eating whatever it could find. It eventually left peacefully, having damaged very little, but took a single bag of chips for the road.

While playing disc golf, a man saw an osprey and two crows fighting in the sky. They landed in a nearby tree, and the osprey dropped something that fell right next to him — a small hammerhead shark.