Quirky News / 15 May 2023
Feline like a new job, space comes to New Jersey, and a hungry hungry turtle
Know a cat-lover who’s feline like a new job? A Sydney family is hiring a full-time, live-in nanny for “the most beloved, gorgeous cat in Australia” to cover her daily feeding, walking, and “enrichment activities”. If you know the purrfect person, send them this way.
New Jersey woman Suzy Kop was shocked when a warm “potato-sized” metallic object shot through her family home’s roof last week… And now, scientists have confirmed that it’s a “rare stony chondrite meteorite” – not the “random rock” the family first thought it was.
Chicago has a new city icon after a video of a snapping turtle relaxing along the Chicago River went viral over the weekend. And if that doesn’t sound particularly impressive to you, what’s got locals excited is its rotundness. They’ve dubbed it “Chonkosaurus”…
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