Parents across the US say their children are acquiring British accents, thanks to Peppa Pig. Linguistic experts have cast doubt on such claims, but some parents insist the “Peppa effect” has their American children saying “mummy” instead of “mommy”, using phrases such as “Give it a go”, and pronouncing tomato “to-mah-to”, not “to-may-to”.

The award for “Best Small Talk on a Flight to Space” goes to Oliver Daemen, the 18-year-old from the Netherlands who was part of Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed flight to space earlier this week. On the roughly 10-minute flight, Daemon told Amazon founder Jeff Bezos what probably sounded like blasphemy to his billionaire ears: He had never bought anything on Amazon.

Sheffield Cathedral has just had a book brought back after being taken out by a reader – and it is believed to be 300 years overdue! Delighted staff at the 800-year-old venue opened a parcel that arrived in the first class post this week, to find the book with a note explaining its owner, who had recently died, had left a note asking for it to be returned.

Are you looking to find out some interesting and real facts about America? Then you are in the right place. It is the fourth-largest country by area. Most Americans think they already know a fair amount of the country’s history and interesting facts about America. A lot of unique aspects of such a vast and diverse country make it more surprising. You may already know a few. After all, the country is always in the news every day. I have concluded the 10 most important facts about America that you may not have heard before. So get ready to know the 10 important facts that will blow your mind.

Did someone say Power Glove? Plenty of super-clever, super-talented researchers across the globe have been pretty busy trying to save the world recently, but hey, even scientists need to work on something fun every once and a while.

Grounded by the pandemic and bored? If you’re a young man in China and have time on your hands, a Chinese sperm bank may have just the right summer program for you. The Human Sperm Bank of Shanghai is inviting college students to join a competition to see who has the best semen, in order to promote reproductive health and recruit donors, who are offered up to $1,160 for replenishing the bank’s supply.

Do you have golden boobs? Here's what new mothers should know about the controversial breastfeeding awards trend.

Have you ever picked up a forgotten handheld and thought: “I want to play you, but I know I’ll have to charge you.”? What If I said you’d barely have to worry about charging your device again for the rest of your life? Well, one YouTuber has an unconventional solution: a nuclear-powered Tetris game.

Tel Aviv has found an innovative way of dealing with dog owners who don’t clean up after their pets in the city streets — testing the excrement’s DNA and sending a fine to the owner by mail. The city council on Monday approved a motion setting up a DNA database and stating that dog owners will be required to submit their pets’ genetic details to authorities upon receiving or renewing a license, Hebrew-language media reported.

Geoff Bagshaw’s pre-pandemic daily schedule was hectic, never-ending — and he loved every minute of it. “Fitness is not a nine to five job. I was regularly at work from 6 am until 7 pm. I often had up to 45 people in my classes, but I loved the energy,” he told Daily Hive.

A Chinese man has been reunited with his son after a 24-year search that saw him travel over 500,000km (310,000 mi) on a motorbike across the country. Guo Gangtang's son had been snatched aged two by human traffickers in front of their home in Shandong province. His son's disappearance actually inspired a movie in 2015, which starred Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau.

Posse up, Red Dead Redemption 2 players. The results are in and science says that if you know your sturgeon from your steelhead trout you may have Rockstar's surprisingly detailed cowboy 'em up to thank for it. A published research study has found that RDR2 players, especially those who've played recently, are more likely to be able to visually identify 15 different species of animals that appear in the game.

The vehicle runs on regular fuel and can travel up to 1,000km while airborne, its creator says.

As video game designers continue to inject more realism into their narratives, they’ll inevitably find themselves designing fully-functioning bathrooms for players to interact with. After all, the real world has bathrooms all over the damn place! As this article from Heterotopias points out, these digital washrooms are largely ancillary to the plot of the game and, at best, function as a vessel for “environmental storytelling,” i.e. places that add a bit more color to the world the players will inhabit.

Here’s a headline you don’t see often: an reported exorcism at a local home improvement store. The exorcism in this case was for trees and it took place in Dickson City at the Commerce Boulevard Home Depot in Pennslyvania. Dickson City Police responded to a call of “bad behavior” occurring in the lumber aisle.

A child who went missing in Italy has been found by a reporter sent to cover his disappearance, several kilometres from the boy's home. The 21-month-old toddler was last seen in his bedroom on Monday night and was reported missing by his parents the next day.

Some said they didn't know their thermostats were being accessed from afar until it was almost 80 degrees inside their homes.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is going to space next month, and more than 60,000 people have signed petitions politely requesting he stay there. The 57-year-old Bezos and his brother Mark will be passengers on the first human spaceflight conducted by Blue Origin, the aerospace company he founded more than two decades ago.

The Real Doll (@realdoll) Instagram account exposed the inner workings of a sex robot factory showing a woman surrounded by the busty unfinished dolls to their 46k followers.

By the end of Ronaldo's press conference, Coca-Cola's shares had already started falling.