San Francisco, for all of its problems, is still the most beautiful city in America.

 

The Castro theater, San Francisco 

 

In an extraordinary act of compassion, an aquarium manager built a tiny underwater “wheelchair” for a goldfish unable to swim upright.

Using zip ties, tubing, and small pieces of Styrofoam for buoyancy, he created a supportive device that allowed the goldfish to float normally and move around again.

This story touched millions online, showing how innovation and empathy can change lives—even for the smallest creatures.

Goldfish with swim bladder disease often lose control over their buoyancy, causing them to sink or float uncontrollably. In most cases, such fish cannot survive long, but this inventive solution gave the goldfish a second chance at life. Videos of the fish swimming with its custom device quickly went viral, sparking admiration worldwide.

This simple invention also highlights broader possibilities in animal rehabilitation. With creativity and care, even low-cost solutions can improve animal welfare. It reminds us that technology does not have to be complex to make a meaningful impact—it only needs compassion and ingenuity.

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What you’re looking at isn’t a horror movie prop, it’s an actual piece of furniture, made from human skin, faces and bones, discovered in the home of Ed Gein, one of the most disturbing criminals in American history. When police entered his rural Wisconsin farmhouse in 1957, they found chairs, lampshades, bowls, masks, and even a belt, all made from human skin, faces, and bones.

Ed Gein wasn’t a prolific serial killer, but what made him infamous was what he did with the bodies. Most of his gruesome "crafts" came from corpses he dug up from local graveyards. But he did kill at least two women, including a local hardware store owner whose body was found decapitated and gutted like a deer.

The horror inside his home was beyond anything authorities had seen. Among the findings: a box of noses, a wastebasket made of flesh, and a human face used as a window shade pull. Gein confessed that he wanted to create a “woman suit” so he could become his dead mother, a fixation that would later inspire some of Hollywood’s most iconic killers, including Norman Bates, Leatherface, and Buffalo Bill. He was declared legally insane and spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, dying in 1984.

 

Gorilla seen using club to save baby from crocodile in congo creek A wildlife photographer following a family of gorillas in the Republic of Congo captured an astonishing moment on camera. While recording the troop near a creek, a sudden yelp pierced the air. The alpha male instantly sprinted down the bank, where he found a baby gorilla caught in the jaws of a crocodile.

Grabbing a heavy branch, the alpha swung with explosive force, striking the reptile until it released the infant. The baby scrambled free as the crocodile slithered back into the water while the photographer snapped the once in a lifetime photo.

 

 

 

He doesn’t need camouflage. He is the hide and seek champion. This tiny damselfly knows how to vanish in plain sight — by using the oldest trick in the wild playbook: stay still and let the world miss you. Balanced perfectly on a twig, only his bulging, alert eyes betray the fact that he’s even there at all. For a predator scanning the foliage, one blink… and he's gone. No speed, no fight — just silence and stillness. And sometimes, that’s enough to survive. Fun fact: Damselflies can rotate their heads and have nearly 360° vision. They often perch in narrow vertical spaces — like this — to break their outline from predators. Sometimes the smallest creatures have the smartest strategies.

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Hi, I'm a crane fly, commonly known as a giant mosquito. Due to the ignorance of many people, they took my life without me posing any danger.

I don't suck blood, I'm not a vampire. Feeding on the nectar of flowers and helping with pollination, just doing my natural duty. Now that you know me, please don't kill me.