Coltharp exploited postal rates, shipping individually wrapped bricks in 50-pound boxes to build his Utah bank. In the early days of America’s Parcel Post system it seemed everything that could fit within the rules was fair game for delivery. Farmers sent crops, families sent food and household goods, and businesses soon discovered that the postal…

Pop star Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, have spent more than a decade working to make mental-health support more accessible to young people. Their efforts reached a new milestone in May 2026, when the Born This Way Foundation announced that more than 100,000 Be There Certificates had been earned worldwide through a free…

A goldfish swimming inside a water tank has earned a Guinness World Records title after steering a motorised vehicle for 12.28 metres in just one minute. The unusual invention was created by Dutch computer engineer Thomas de Wolf, whose pet goldfish, Blub, became the unlikely driver of a motion-sensing car that translates the fish’s movements…