On June 2, an elephant from a wildlife park, strolled into a small grocery store in Thailand, walked up to the counter, and began chomping on snacks. Park workers slowly shooed the pachyderm out the door. He exited, still holding a bag of snacks with his trunk.

Over 1,000 people gathered last Saturday in an upscale Minneapolis neighborhood to witness a man sharpening a pencil. But not just any pencil, a giant twenty-foot-tall #2 pencil, to be precise.

On a stormy Philadelphia night, an elderly couple entered the lobby of a small hotel and asked for a room. The desk clerk apologized, explaining that they were completely booked. “But I can't send nice folks like you out in the rain at 1:00 AM,” he said. “You can sleep in my room.

I was flying over central California at 20,000 feet. The pilot announced “If you look to your right, you’ll have a great view of Yosemite National Park. Sure enough, right below us a miniature version of the Yosemite Valley stretched before us, including Yosemite Falls. It was like someone scooped up Yosemite and put it inside a snow globe.

The world record for the most expensive dress ever designed belongs to a garment entitled “The Nightingale of Kuala Lumpur,” valued by Sotheby’s at $30 million.

A businessman vacationing in Mexico observed a fisherman bringing in his catch for the day. As the fisherman walked past him, the businessman said, “Looks like a good catch.”