Police In Jamaica Almost Shot Down Jimmy Buffett’s Plane (Cruel Weird Awful 15)
Back in 1996, Jamaican authorities almost did away with a plane piloted by pop music’s greatest champion of the laid-back life, and a few big-name passengers.
Humans Have Their Fingerprints All Over The History Of Fingerprinting (Cool Weird Awesome 346)
Today is said to be the day in 1858 that a colonial magistrate in India began using fingerprints for identification. But that's just one part of the history of how and why our prints are such a valuable bit of biometric information today. Plus: a guy in Jamaica showed up to collect a big lottery prize in a Darth Vader costume, because why not?