/ 06 September 2023

Not that kind of shortcut, Paris cinemas get the bed bugs, and Big Things get minted…

A statue of a magpie pecking a hot chip

A pair of workers have been detained after allegedly excavating a hole in the Great Wall of China… all because they were looking for a shortcut home.

Parisian cinemagoers have been hit by a plague of bed bugs in the city’s movie theatres. They weren’t even there to see The Seven Year Itch…

And soz to Canberrans who have known about this for ages, but we just discovered there’s a new Big Thing in Australia: Big Swoop. The magpie and its hot chip are set to be recognised in a new coin series released by the Royal Australian Mint, which, thankfully for collectors, is regular-sized…

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