- What’s scarier than a shark? A shark on cocaine. Unfortunately, this is not a Cocaine Bear sequel: 13 sharks off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for the drug, per the journal Science of the Total Environment. While cocaine has been found in other marine life, the concentrations found in sharks were up to 100x higher than what’s previously been detected. Researchers can’t definitively say why, but suspect the region’s booming drug trade has something to do with it, offering one possibility: They’re eating bricks of cocaine dumped by traffickers.
- Someone almost ate a scientific anomaly for dinner at Red Lobster. An orange lobster, which was spotted by a dishwasher at one of the seafood chain’s Colorado locations, was spared from being eaten (it is called “Red” Lobster, after all) thanks to his ultra-rare coloring. The one-in-30m crustacean is currently being studied by researchers at the University of New England, after which he will live out his life at the Denver Aquarium — unlike his average-looking red friends who will be boiled alive.
- A Wienermobile flipped over following a high-speed collision. One of Oscar Mayer’s famed Wienermobiles — a 3.6k-pound, 15-foot-long, hot-dog-shaped promotional vehicle — collided with another car in a near-tragic accident that left it rolled on its side on an Illinois highway. Luckily, no one was injured, including the Wiener’s two passengers, AKA “Hotdoggers,” who we imagine are relishing in the fact that they narrowly avoided some ridiculous obituaries.
- It’s pumpkin spice season already. Didn’t know that? Why would you — it’s July. Yogurt company Chobani and coffee roaster La Colombe collabed on a new line of pumpkin spice products that are available now — in the dead of summer. They are the latest of several brands abandoning seasonality to satisfy consumers’ obsession with the ~$1B fall flavor. Starbucks, which introduced the PSL in October 2003, now rolls out the fan-favorite in August. (What’s next, Halloween in June? Oh, wait.)
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