As part of a new promotion, Burger King customers in Japanese restaurants can add 15 strips of delicious bacon to their Whopper for a mere $1.20. And, because Burger King’s motto is “Your Way, Right Away,” there is obviously no limit to the amount of bacon they are willing to add to your burger. So, what does an $80 Whopper with 1050 strips of bacon look like? One local reporter just had to find out … Discuss

There is, of course, a whole story behind this picture of a Cork, Ireland resident who ended up stuck in a McDonald's highchair for three hours while police attempted to free him. But isn't it more fun to just look at the picture? Why does there have to be a backstory to everything? Instead, just let this picture wash over you, and carry you off towards Friday ... Discuss

Someone—or something—has deflated the massive rubber ducky floating in a harbor outside of Hong Kong. The duck’s only crime was bringing joy, laughter and surrealist wonder to the good citizens of the city and fans of weird Internet news, and now, it is just a deflated pile of yellow rubber. The organizers of the duck display—a touring art installation that garnered international headlines during its latest stop to Hong Kong—initially seemed to be unsure what caused the collapse, but later said it was an “intentional deflation.” Hmmm. In the words of a CSI Hong Kong investigator, “Something sure does sound fishy, about the fate of this ducky” … Discuss

The ceiling of a factory in Cambodia that makes shoes for the brand Asics collapsed early this morning, killing at least two workers. Nine more were injured—three of them seriously—when steel beams that supported a large concrete-floored area broke. The incident comes just weeks after a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers making clothes for several Western brands.

For the last two decades, officials in Cambodia have consulted with international advisors to draft laws and regulations to ensure worker safety, though according to The New York Times, those rules often go unenforced. A spokeswoman for the Clean Clothes Campaign—a group that advocates for safe working conditions for international garment workers—told the NYT, “The shoe and garment industry is built upon huge profits and little concern for the well-being of their workers. It is inherently unsafe and dangerous to work in. As long as workers are marginalized and deprived of their basic rights, the situation will not improve” … Discuss

OK. Hang on for this one, because it's weird. Early this week, this thing started oozing out of a crack in the sidewalk in the Pukou district in Nanjing, China. At this point, nobody's exactly sure what it is, but they are sure that authorities showed up, cordoned off the street and evacuated nearby homes. Eventually, the whatever-it-is seeped back into the ground, leaving local residents with no real clues as to what it was—but that wasn't stopped them from theorizing ("looks like some kind of alien," notes one observer on a Chinese blogging site, who is just saying what everybody's thinking.) China's Propaganda Ministry is now saying that the substance was being used to soften soil for subway construction, but not many locals are buying it ... Discuss