- TikToker finds her Temu croissant lamp is a literal croissant. TikTok user Neta Murphy came home one hot day to “hundreds of ants” crawling beneath a croissant-shaped lamp she’d been gifted — only to discover it was an actual croissant that’d been hollowed out and covered in resin. In a viral video with 13m+ views, Temu’s latest victim cracks open her so-called “lamp” to find flaky layers inside and, after making the inadvisable decision to eat a piece, confirms that “it’s literally f*cking food.” Our thoughts and prayers are with her stomach.
- People lose a lot of things at hotels, including plenty of dentures. Over 25% of hotel stays result in lost items, according to one-third of hotels surveyed in Hotel.com’s annual Hotel Room Innsights Report. The most common items left behind by guests include the expected (i.e., toiletries, dirty laundry, and device chargers), while some of the weirder things — a $6.1m watch, a pet lizard, a car tire, two full leg casts, and stacks of cash — require their own backstories. Unfortunately, the report doesn’t provide any, but feel free to let your imagination run wild.
- Iceland is low on cucumbers, thanks to a TikTok trend. A viral cucumber salad recipe by Canadian TikToker Logan “Cucumber Guy” Moffitt, whose tagline is “Sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber,” is being blamed for the Nordic country’s shortage. Popularized locally by Icelandic influencers, even the recipe’s ingredients are reportedly coming up short at grocery stores across Iceland, which is currently relying on cuke imports from the Netherlands to meet demand.