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    David Ingram

    David Ingram

  • Student wears same shirt for 7 years on school picture day

    Picking out an outfit for school picture day is an important part of any student’s academic career because it involves a decision you’ll have to live with for years to come. Taylor is an adult now and he recently took to Twitter to display his collection of old school photos that featured his unwavering dedication to the shirt through the years. “So from 6th to 12th grade I wore the same shirt in every school photo,” Taylor writes on Twitter in a post accompanied by his photos.

  • 'Go back to China,' woman says repeatedly at Toronto store

    A woman’s angry tirade against several employees who couldn’t speak English at a Chinese speciality grocery store in Toronto has gone viral over the weekend. Teenager Frank Hong captured the incident on his cellphone and posted the video to Facebook last Friday. The 85-second video shows a woman in a wheelchair attempting to order food and becoming enraged with staff working at a Foody Mart located in Scarborough, a suburban district of Toronto.

  • Octopus nabs crab from fisherman in viral BBC video

    It was a rough day out at sea for this crab fisherman whose entire catch was stolen from underneath him by a brainy octopus looking for an easy meal. Footage released Sunday by the BBC Earth program Super Smart Animals shows a fisherman named Steve throwing out traps in an effort to catch a haul of crabs. More than 200,000 people have watched this mollusk outsmart Steve in the viral YouTube video.

  • Angry pedestrian yelling at motorist walks face-first into pole

    YouTube user Chris Smith posted the video last Thursday, which shows his encounter with an upset pedestrian walking a dog on the streets of Adelaide, Australia. Wearing a red hat and sunglasses, the man can be seen angrily yelling and pointing towards Smith’s vehicle just as it pulls up to a red light at an intersection. “He was gesturing at me that I was going too fast, even though I didn’t think I was at the time,” Smith told The Advertiser newspaper, which is based in Australia.

  • RC truck speeds across water without sinking

    Normally, if you accidentally drove your toy truck into some deep water, it usually meant you could kiss it goodbye. With a quick rev, the tiny truck can be seen speeding out onto a lake as water billows behind it in a YouTube video published Monday. The crowd watching it all unfold seems to eat it all up as they cheer on the RC truck operator’s high-speed manoeuvres before the vehicle eventually makes it back to dry land safe and sound.

  • Experiment finds most Americans surveyed can't locate North Korea on a map

    Where in the world is North Korea? The survey asked a total of 1,746 U.S. adults to locate the country on an unlabelled map of Asia, and the majority of people missed the mark. In total, only 36 per cent of those surveyed were able to correctly identify North Korea by identifying it on the map, the newspaper reported.

  • Bird attacks man outside pharmacy in amusing viral video

    Aspiring bird watchers should know it’s never a good idea to come between an animal and their young. That is unless you don’t mind the possibility of getting aggressively attacked from time to time. The recently uploaded video, which already has more than 950,000 views since being uploaded Sunday, attempts to show a bird’s fury as it confronts anyone caught wandering near its nest in a nearby bush.

  • Video showing unique perspective of animals drinking water goes viral

    Water is a precious commodity for any living thing, let alone those living in the extremely dry conditions of a desert. John Wells uploaded this soothing footage to his YouTube channel last Friday after it was recorded in southwest Texas. Various animals including small birds, chickens and larger farm animals can be seen dipping down to wet their whistles with water while calming music plays in the background.

  • Injured sea lion receives treatment from Vancouver Aquarium

    A sea lion found sick and injured along the coast of British Columbia is now on the mend thanks to a helping hand from the Vancouver Aquarium. Staff members from the aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre were called to the scene of Vancouver’s Spanish Banks Beach last Friday after receiving several reports of a wounded California sea lion. Found dangerously underweight, the male sea lion had also sustained several injuries including a missing tooth, a damaged left eye and various wounds across its body, the Vancouver Sun reports.

  • Group photo baffles Internet thanks to girl's absurdly long arm

    Taking an iconic group photo can sometimes be a difficult task, especially when it comes down to nailing the perfect pose. Eleanor Bailey, 18, recently shared a photo on Twitter of her sister Tabitha and a group of friends at a nightclub in Utrecht, Netherlands. “My sister’s arm in this club photo looks about 6ft long I’m crying,” Eleanor wrote on Twitter.

  • Man creates water-powered hammer using primitive technology

    The YouTube channel Primitive Technology is a blast from the past that harkens to a time before the tools of modern society made everyday life so much easier. The video series features various projects, such as ancient tools and structures, being crafted entirely from scratch using only all-natural materials available to primitive society. The YouTube star’s latest project is a water-powered hammer.

  • Rescue kitten tries disappearing act with new owner

    Anyone who’s ever adopted a kitten knows they can certainly be a handful at times, and that’s exactly what one pet owner found out when her furry friend suddenly pulled a disappearing act right from under her nose. Twitter user @Britneydortiz recently adopted a tiny kitten named Chanel from an animal shelter in San Bernardino, California after learning the tiny ball of fluff was scheduled to be put to sleep that day.

  • Parents build homemade Blockbuster for autistic son after local store closes down

    Parents surprise son who has autism with mini ‘Blockbuster’ store. Twitter user @Javiii_Zuniga posted these photos showing the touching moment his parents unveiled a customized ‘Blockbuster’ video display rack for his brother. “My autistic brother was sad that Blockbuster was closing down, so my parents made a mini one at home for him!,” he wrote on the Twitter.

  • Justin Trudeau gives men tip on using urinals at bar bathrooms

    PM Trudeau has some advice for men when it comes to flushing a urinal at a bar. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has some advice for men concerned with cleanliness after relieving themselves at their local watering hole. Trudeau recently sat down to record his first ever podcast as Canada’s prime minister for the April 24th episode of The Jonah Keri Podcast.

  • Aggressive seal tries to steal shark from fishermen in Australia

    A mischievous seal with a bad reputation was filmed trying to snag a shark away from anglers in Victoria, Australia. Patrick Willmore was visiting family in the town of Port Fairy over Easter weekend and he decided to take his two children down to the waterfront to catch a glimpse of a local seal. The sneaky marine mammal is known to hang around the town’s fish cleaning station in a clever attempt to score an easy meal from fishermen.

  • Cat goes crazy for whipped cream in viral video

    Chris Poole, who posts videos under the YouTube account Cat Man Chris, has shared some footage of what happens whenever he starts shaking a can of whipped cream in his kitchen. Like clockwork, a few shakes of the can and his pet cat, Marmalade, immediately bursts into the room and eagerly begins to beg for a taste. People online seem just as happy watching Marmalade enjoying whipped cream as he is receiving it. The video has quickly gone viral with more than 550,000 people viewing it on YouTube since it was published on Apr. 15.

  • Georgia Tech students combine tricycle, chainsaw to create 'chainsaw trike'

    A group of students from Georgia Tech University in Atlanta put their academic skills to the test recently to mash together a chainsaw motor and a children’s tricycle to produce a motorized version of the tiny three-wheeler.

  • Alberta man jumps into icy water to save his pet dog from drowning

    It was a split-second decision that could have ended in disaster for one Alberta man who heroically risked his life by plunging into freezing cold water to rescue his small pet dog. Duncan MacIver was walking his French bulldog, Cosmo, at an off-leash dog park in St. Albert, Alta., when his canine companion fell through the ice covering a pond. Knowing Cosmo was a poor swimmer and in danger of drowning, Maclver didn’t hesitate and immediately plunged into the icy cold water to retrieve his four-legged friend.

  • Utah student dumps boyfriend via Spotify playlist

    There’s a new soundtrack for heartbreak and rejection after a teenager gave her now former boyfriend a Spotify playlist that made her feelings clear. The story begins with Kirsten Titus, a 19-year-old student at Utah’s Brigham Young University, who was dating 20-year-old Wyatt Hall. The two had gone on several dates, but apparently the spark just wasn’t there anymore and Titus decided to end the relationship.

  • Man seen carrying pizza boxes sideways leaves many baffled online

    A photo taken in Toronto of an unknown man carrying some takeout pizza has left some social media users scratching their heads in confusion. A Reddit user posted this image on Imgur over the weekend showing an individual transporting pizza boxes in an unusual way. It appears this man made the decision to carry his pizza boxes vertically in a plastic shopping bag instead of the universally-accepted method of holding pizza boxes horizontally.