Know this up front: This is an ad. But it's so fun, so awesome, so cleverly done and amazingly produced, the nanoseconds of product placement at the end are totally worth it. » 7/22/14 1:40pm 7/22/14 1:40pm

Good news, everyone: women have finally gnawed our way through the meat ceiling. Specifically, competitive eater Molly Schuyler has set a new world record after consuming an entire 72 oz. steak in under three minutes. The previous record, held by some dude, was 6 minutes and 48 seconds. GIRL POWER. » 1/09/14 5:30pm 1/09/14 5:30pm

I always thought that photo of the round, yellow Shiba Inu that everyone was Dogeifying was a painting that perfectly mimicked the Thomas Kinkade aesthetic, but I was much wrong. That there is a real picture of a real dog, named Kabosu, who was saved from a puppy mill by Japanese kindergarten teacher Atsuko Sato. » 12/31/13 3:10pm 12/31/13 3:10pm

The Facebook video that this is sourced from describes this as "pole dancing level 999," but I don't know if what these Mallakhamb athletes are doing could really be described so easily. Not to say that pole dancers aren't athletes in their own right because — dayum — that shit takes incredible strength (even… » 4/10/13 5:20pm 4/10/13 5:20pm

There are so many reasons why this video of YouTube singer Tasia Ann Thomas should be annoying — she's alone in her bedroom, singing to a webcam, wearing a cropped denim vest over another crop top and she opens with a song by fun. — and yet somehow she pulls the whole thing off and makes us like her. » 12/28/12 6:35pm 12/28/12 6:35pm

Ernestine Shepherd is a competitive bodybuilder and fitness instructor who wakes up every day at 2:30am to run 10 miles. Oh, she is also three-quarters of a century old. » 6/12/12 7:45pm 6/12/12 7:45pm

Digging Dan Considine's improv video in which he gives a mini-world tour of accents. » 4/28/12 4:15pm 4/28/12 4:15pm

Gymnast Johanna Quaas is almost ninety and is still working the exhibition floor like it's nothing. What did you accomplish today? » 3/29/12 5:00pm 3/29/12 5:00pm

Dergin Tokmak is a 37-year-old former breakdancer and Cirque du Soleil performer. He was also left partially paralyzed from the waist down after suffering from polio as a child. As the video shows, losing the use of his legs hasn't slowed him down one bit. » 2/22/12 6:30pm 2/22/12 6:30pm

Marthazon is a 70-year-old grandmother who's also a guildmaster in World of Warcraft. In an interview with WoW Insider, she explains that while her daughter got her into WoW, she's been a tech nerd forever: » 1/20/12 4:20pm 1/20/12 4:20pm

There are some writers who enter our consciousness at just the right time and remain firmly lodged there for life, affecting, like a penny in a drinking fountain, the taste of everything that comes after. I am speaking primarily of the books one reads between about the ages of 17 and 20. Whether classics or assigned… » 11/04/11 12:40pm 11/04/11 12:40pm

Wow, lady. Wow. Obviously, first and foremost, this is an insanely amazing display of athletic skill. But also, it seems like jumping rope is incredibly… stimulating? » 11/03/11 6:50pm 11/03/11 6:50pm

Police officer James Kneipp just happened to be driving by a Newark, NJ McDonald's when a patron got his attention and caused him to pull over. » 7/22/11 12:05am 7/22/11 12:05am

Elaine Davidson, who has about 6,925 piercings, was wed in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Wednesday. Ms. Davidson was born in Brazil and is a former nurse who does not drink or use drugs. When she was examined by a Guinness World Record official in May 2000, she had 462 piercings, 192 of which were in her face. » 6/10/11 11:35am 6/10/11 11:35am

A woman was kicked out of a movie theater in Austin, Texas for texting during a movie — a theater, might we add, that warns of the consequences of said behavior repeatedly. The joke pretty much writes itself, right? Not exactly. » 6/07/11 4:36pm 6/07/11 4:36pm

Happy Friday morning, everyone! » 6/03/11 10:25am 6/03/11 10:25am

This one is Nightmare Before Christmas, but Katie Alves has also portrayed The Lion King, Aladdin, and Alice In Wonderland. » 5/26/11 3:25pm 5/26/11 3:25pm

If you haven't already met 21-year-old conjoined twins, Brittany and Abby Hensel, prepare to be inspired. Despite being conjoined in such a way that eliminates the possibility of separation, and thus having to live as one person, the girls have two very different personalities and are clearly two very different… » 3/16/11 1:25pm 3/16/11 1:25pm

On Saturday, Kentucky's University of the Cumberlands Ladies basketball team took on the Campbellsville University squad. With less than a second remaining in the first half, senior Stephanie Quattrociocchi took—and, somehow, sank—an 86-foot, literal full-court shot. Watch inside. » 1/24/11 9:53am 1/24/11 9:53am

Just a week after being shot, Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is breathing on her own! She remains in critical condition but is fighting back hard. Docs have installed a tracheotomy tube and will now look for signs she can speak. » 1/15/11 5:55pm 1/15/11 5:55pm