A hiker came around a blind corner on a trail at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park Alaska and found herself face to face with Bear 909 - one of the most well known Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears in the park - along with her two cubs.
Instead of panicking she stepped off the trail about 12 to 15 feet, stopped when the terrain ran out, stayed calm, used one voice, and let the bears pass.
That is textbook bear encounter protocol and she executed it perfectly under pressure that would have most people completely frozen. The bears at Brooks are habituated to humans and have a high tolerance because of the salmon food source in the area but they are still wild animals that can turn defensive in a split second if they feel threatened. The number one rule - never run.
Running triggers the predatory instinct and at that point the encounter changes completely. Always carry bear spray and know how to use it before you ever set foot in bear country.
Could you remain that calm in that moment?
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: "My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It is an invaluable & inexhaustible mine of knowledge & virtue."
Tomorrow is National French Fry Day!
In celebration, we are giving away small servings of 100% beef tallow fries! Just ask us for one tomorrow. Limit one per customer; no purchase necessary. Taste the very best fries since fries were invented, cooked in traditional oil.🇺🇸🍟
Waymo just STOPPED in the middle of the road for no reason 🛑
Tesla FSD: "Cute."
Then casually overtook it like it was nothing.
This is the difference.
FSD or Waymo? 👇
Google has added its flight simulator to the web version of Google Earth, making it available to all users worldwide.
>The feature runs directly in any modern browser at https://t.co/7ikROIXtSA with no downloads or installations required.
>Users can open the simulator from the Tools menu after selecting Explore and pilot a virtual aircraft over detailed 3D terrain, buildings, and satellite imagery across the entire planet.
>It uses simplified flight physics designed for casual exploration and works with standard mouse and keyboard controls.
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After more than a century of construction, La Sagrada Família reached another milestone on 10 June 2026 when the Tower of Jesus Christ was lit for the first time
On December 16, 1997, a single Pokemon episode sent 600 kids to the hospital in one night.
The cause: Pikachu's thunder attack. 12 red/blue flashes per second for 6 seconds.
In the days after, thousands more kids reported symptoms. But it wasn't epilepsy. It was mass hysteria.
The episode has never been rebroadcast. Anywhere. Ever.
"What is this? Is this a dunk tank?"
Marco Rubio doesn’t hold back after Democrat Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove cuts him off and refuses to let him answer her questions during a House Foreign Affairs hearing:
"Why am I here if I don’t get to answer your questions or your defamatory statements?"
"You get asked questions for five minutes and you don't get time to answer? It's not a hearing!"
In 2018, Tina Hines suffered a massive heart attack and was clinically dead for 27 minutes.
Her husband performed CPR while waiting for paramedics, who shocked her heart multiple times on the way to the hospital. Doctors eventually managed to revive her.
When Tina woke up, she was unable to speak, so she quickly asked for a pen and paper. She then wrote two words that stunned everyone in the room:
“It’s real.”
Her family asked what she meant. Tina pointed upward, later explaining that she had seen heaven while she was clinically dead.
The message had such a deep impact on her family that her niece later tattooed the words on her wrist in Tina’s handwriting.