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- The State Department is urging Americans not to travel to "approximately 80% of countries worldwide" due to the threat of COVID-19.
- Carbon emissions are expected to jump 5% this year (which is a lot) as the global economy rebounds from the pandemic.
- About 60% of Russians are fans of Vladimir Putin, and nearly half think the jailed opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was rightly imprisoned.
- Finnish people, who consider themselves melancholic and acknowledge that they have low self-esteem, are a bit confused as to why they keep ranking as the happiest nation in global surveys.
- For you movie buffs who've always thought Steve McQueen would look a lot cooler in The Great Escape if he was holding a Bud Light Lime, good news: Ad companies have developed the technology to "seamlessly" insert product placement into classic films.
- The Feds want viewers like you to report instances of commercials being way louder than the show you're watching.
- Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, a supposedly family-friendly anime film that recently became the highest grossing movie in Japanese history, is now coming to American screens, but it'll have an R rating because the slaying of the titular demons involves heads getting chopped off.
- A boba boat got stuck in a port pile-up, but worry not: There isn't going to be a nationwide boba shortage.
- And finally, we don't know what this dog is capable of:
Jake Dobkin
Published Apr 20, 2021
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