In case you’re sleeping too well lately, take a look at this nightmare fuel––er…article––about a flesh-eating sexually transmitted disease. It’s called donovanosis and is spread by sexual contact or contact with an infected ulcer. If it puts you a little at ease, this disease didn’t just appear out of thin air. It has existed in tropical and developing countries for some time. It can also be cured, but of course time is of the essence. 

Harry Potter fandom is large and rabid, so posting this video is a bit of a risk. Even die-hard book fans still like the movies, which definitely isn’t the case for other fans of fiction (Lord of the Rings we’re looking at you). But maybe if there is one thing that fans can agree upon, it’s that the movies are a bit hit and miss. One of things that muck up the movies is the music. This video describes how inconsistency ruins the music across the series. 

Donald Courtney Biggs was a youth minister in Oregon. Allegedly, Biggs took recordings of juveniles during summer camps and church trips, videos involving “juveniles undressing, showering and using the bathroom in Biggs’ home.” During sentencing, Kevin Patrick Smith leaned over the courtroom railing and slugged Biggs in the face. Biggs fell to the ground and curled up in the fetal position. Within two days, a GoFundMe for Smith has raised over $11,000 out of its original $3,500 goal. 

Sacha Baron Cohen is famous for getting people in power to say the dumbest possible things. Mostly, we just love to laugh about that, and then we do not think too much more about it why we laugh. This Wisecrack video does that thinking for you. Basically, Sacha Baron Cohen participates in a long history of “clowning” or “jestering,” which is using humor to speak truth to power. This tradition dates back centuries, so get ready for a quick history lesson. 

Nintendo 64’s GoldenEye was a game changer, as it were. Many Millennials spent hundreds of childhood hours playing GoldenEye together. The words “License to Kill” or “Slappers Only!” or, God forbid, both combined are enough to get their blood pumping. But there was one part of the game that was frustrating. Some jerk would always pick Oddjob. Some groups called that cheating, others said it was fine. Well, the game’s creators have weighed in: using Oddjob is, in fact, cheating. 

Knock wood that it does not happen soon, hop over cracks, avoid ladders or whatever it takes––but at some time in the future Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom will die. She has had a pretty excellent run, considering she is the longest reigning monarch in English history. Naturally, the Brits have a plan for the inevitable, codenamed D-Day. This video walks you through, step-by-step, what will happen when Queen Elizabeth dies. 

A Colorado school district has made a very bold choice. They have opted to eliminate Mondays from the school calendar. Their goal is to attract teachers to the district, and also to 

“reorganize and create time to support teacher development and preparedness,” create a school calendar that increases instructional time and is “clean, clear and concise making it less difficult for families to manage.”

Teachers don’t get every Monday off, however. They will have to go in once a month on Monday to prepare. 

A BBC crew was working on a documentary at a hospital during the Westminster terror incident. The hospital staff found out in the middle of filming that they would be on standby for victims of the incident. The documentary crew was there to capture everything––how the staff dealt with the incident, how the police dealt with the staff, and so on. This hour-long documentary shows you everything that went on in the hospital during a major terror incident.

On a very long flight, such as the flight from Chicago to Japan, weird things can happen. People go a little nuts in the air, or they drink far too much. Recently, a twenty-four-year-old American man was arrested for urinating on a fifty-year-old Japanese man two rows behind him. He was restrained and then handed over to police upon landing. The urinator is believed to have drunk at least five glasses of champagne, and he claims not to remember the incident. 

At first, this story seems like something a cartoon super villain would do. Why would zookeepers trick a panda into thinking she just had one cub instead of two? As it turns out, about half of all panda births are twins. Unfortunately, most twin births end up with one dead cub. Pandas generally abandon one of the twins, leaving them to die––perhaps because they don’t have the milk or the energy to deal with two. That’s why this panda’s keepers play a shell game with this mother panda, swapping the cubs out every few hours to get fed. 

People feel very strongly about how to eat leftover pizza. Very strongly––seriously, do not tell a cold pizza eater that they’re doing it wrong because you might get punched. We are not here to say that one way of eating pizza is better than another, but only to offer a unique option for devouring your old pies: french toastify them! It seems crazy, but coating your pizza in a custard and then cooking it like french toast is actually really good. It adds a nice crunch to the pie. 

SR-71 was more than a pretty sweet alt-punk band from the late nineties, which we know is what you immediately think of. Well, stop thinking about them right now (get it?!) and take a look at this video. It describes the history of the SR-71 Blackbird, which was designed when it became clear that the U2 spy plane could be shot down.  The SR-71 flew higher and faster than any other plane––so high and so fast, in fact, that it was invulnerable.