In the late 1990s, when he was still a struggling actor, Zach Galifianakis started taking his laundry to a Santa Monica laundromat where an older woman, Marie "Mimi" Haist, worked in exchange for a place to sleep, she'd been homeless since her marriage ended decades earlier.
The two became genuine friends long before Galifianakis was famous, and as his career took off with films like The Hangover, he quietly found her an apartment nearby (which Renée Zellweger, another friend Mimi made, helped furnish) and brought her along to red carpet premieres, where she happily played the role of his date.
Their friendship became the subject of the 2015 documentary Queen Mimi.
Haist passed in 2021 at 96, having spent her final decades not on the street, but surrounded by famous friends who adored her.
Streamer HMBLZAYY has officially completed his walk from Philadelphia to California after 124 days. - He walked 3,000 miles and raised nearly $200,000 for charity. “God used me as a vessel to show the world, to show the youth that anything is possible.”���🏾
Eagles signing DT Jalen Carter to four-year, $152 million extension, including $106 million guaranteed, that makes him the highest-paid DT in NFL history. (via @AdamSchefter)
NASA’s battle-scarred Curiosity rover has been crawling across Mars since 2012, its aluminum wheels taking a relentless beating from the planet’s razor-sharp rocks. Over the years, those wheels have collected dents, holes, and snapped structural ribs known as “grousers”—the very features that keep them from folding like cheap soda cans. A few broken grousers? No big deal. Too many, though, and a wheel could cave inward, shredding the delicate wiring inside and leaving Curiosity stranded in the red dust.
Mission engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory aren’t sitting idle. They’ve already rewritten the rover’s driving playbook—scouting gentler routes and obsessively photographing the wheels with onboard cameras to catch damage early.
But they’ve also prepared a nuclear option: “wheel shedding.” If a wheel ever reaches the brink of collapse, Curiosity could deliberately slam its inner section against a carefully chosen sharp rock, then twist and grind until the damaged core tears free. What’s left would be a stripped-down but far tougher outer rim—proven in tests to still roll. The procedure would be slow, painstaking, and dependent on finding the perfect rock, potentially stretching across weeks. Yet it could mean the difference between a dead rover and one that keeps exploring.
Fortunately, current forecasts suggest Curiosity’s wheels still have years of life left. The dramatic self-amputation remains a last-resort contingency—one the team hopes stays safely on the drawing board.
For 16 years, Briana and Brandon Frier from Texas have been going to the same restaurant, Chili's Grill & Bar, wearing the same outfits to celebrate their anniversary.
This lady took to the internet to show the series of abuse her disabled veteran boyfriend had to endure from his Karen neigbor, and want advise on how best to handle this situation. 😭💀
WNBA player DiJonai Carrington reveals on Threads that her partner and former teammate, NaLyssa Smith, cheated on her with multiple WNBA players, including Deja Kelly and Aaliyah Nye.
Meet the snake-necked turtle
Unlike most turtles, the snake necked turtle cannot pull its neck straight back into its shell. Instead, it folds its remarkably long neck sideways beneath the edge of the shell, using it to strike quickly at fish, tadpoles and other aquatic prey
The 2000s era of hip-hop was one of the most influential periods in rap history, with artists pushing the genre into mainstream culture worldwide. Rappers like 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, Eminem, Ye, and Jay-Z dominated the charts with classic albums, unforgettable mixtapes, and radio hits that still get played today.