A 2-year-old Chihuahua named Pearl is officially the world’s shortest dog, as confirmed by her vet, and Guinness World Records. Pearl measures 3.59 inches (9.14 cm) in height, meaning she’s shorter than a popsicle stick. She has her head to thank for being longer than a dollar bill, at 5…

Sometimes there are no limits to what a person will do for their family, and in the case of a NICU nurse that was true, seemingly, for one of her patients as well. Nurse Katrina Mullen cared for a 14-year-old teen mom of premature triplets, named Shariya Small, and feared…

On this day 490 years ago, the founding father of the Netherlands, William from the House of Nassau, known commonly as William of Orange, was born. A wealthy nobleman, William nevertheless risked it all to break the Spanish Habsburg’s concentration of power in the Low Countries, launching the 80 Years…

While tourists visiting Mexican beaches complain about piles of smelly seaweed, one Mexican gardener reckoned it was something like a gift. The governments in places like Cancun have been required to clear away as much as 40,000 tons of sargassum seaweed, which smells like rotten eggs, but Omar de Jesús…

According to a recent study, researchers found that, for senior citizens, every 500 additional daily steps reduces the risk of heart trouble. Compared to those who took less than 2,000 steps per day, adults who took around 4,500 steps per day had a 77 percent lower risk of experiencing a…

The couple behind one of the UK’s most-booked Airbnb properties says the innovative construction only took ten days to construct. Architect Roderick James and his interior designer wife Amanda Markham, designed and built the AirShip 002 in 2018. The “remote, cozy, compact, aluminum-clad capsule structure” looks like a futuristic air…

Criminal justice reforms signed three years ago in the U.S. state of Michigan took effect last week, with nearly 850,000 residents seeing at least one conviction automatically set aside. The bipartisan “Clean Slate” legislation, as advocates call it, triggered an automatic expungement process starting last Tuesday, wiping clean a range…