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- Nationwide, coronavirus cases have hit a seven-month low.
- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell confirmed yesterday that "100% of [his] focus" is on blocking the Biden administration's agenda, making clear that Republicans aren't playing ball on infrastructure or anything else.
- A lot of people who stopped showering every day during the pandemic discovered that they like this new hygiene style of theirs.
- While RVing has boomed during the pandemic, at least one guy who tried it out discovered that the whole thing is a pain in the ass.
- Behold the work of "recycle art activist" Thomas Dambo, who builds these massive trolls out of reclaimed wood and nestles them in forests around the world.
- A four-year-old from Brooklyn "accidentally" ordered $2,618 worth of SpongeBob ice cream pops off Amazon, but good Samaritans on GoFundMe rallied to help his mom, an NYU social work student, cover the costs.
- Due to a massive drought in Mexico, a 19th Century church that had been submerged at the bottom of a lake has risen again.
- Hollywood studios and talent agencies are hiring "rage coaches" to teach bosses how to not be bullies anymore.
- And finally, this might be the most patient man on earth:
Published May 6, 2021
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