We watched Miley Cyrus' new music videos 711 million times this year. All of us.

A newlywed couple in Pennsylvania placed a craigslist ad, lured a man to their house, and killed him for the thrill of it.

Sometimes you go for a jog and nothing happens except for maybe a cramp, and sometimes you go for a jog and a deer falls from mid-air and crushes you. So it went for an unnamed 27-year-old Virginia woman who was jogging when she was hit by a deer that had been sent airborne by a 71-year-old woman driving on a highway.

Four homeless people have died of hypothermia during this week's frigid weather in San Francisco.

The Federal Register, the daily journal of the United States government, still uses floppy disks to carry out important tasks, including the transfer of the text of executive orders, proposed rule changes, and presidential proclamations. Yes, floppy disks.

Last night, the nominations for the 2014 Grammys were announced. Whoever you want to win will not.

Five years out from the financial collapse, one would almost expect that we wouldn't still routinely be finding out about ways in which banks like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America manipulated financial markets in order to essentially pillage the American economy. Alas!

Six men have been arrested in Mexico for the theft of that truck that was carrying radioactive waste. While one of them was experiencing some symptoms of radiation sickness, the rest have been cleared medically and handed over to local police.

Merrill Newman, the 85-year-old Korean war veteran who had been held by North Korea for more than a month, has been freed. Newman had been visiting the DPRK as a tourist in October, when he was pulled off a plane and arrested by North Korean authorities, who considered him an American spy.

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[Freezing cold temperatures gripping much of the U.S. today led some to call it "Ice Friday." But while the weather made for a pretty map, it's also been blamed for nine deaths so far. Be safe out there. Image via Business Insider]

Thompson, Manitoba residents Ted Goossen and his wife have themselves some good, clean Canadian fun in -45C (-49F) weather.

A Canadian pro-atheist nonprofit tried to get its ad campaign up on urban billboards, and the media conglomerate in charge of the billboards said no, which is kinda weird, since the conglomerate was cool with pro-life ads featuring fetus heads.

Like, a big bunch. And it was apparently caught only because of some random, non-routine dragnet:

A Georgia man who promised to marry his girlfriend but then didn't has been ordered to pay $50,000 after the woman sued him for fraud and "breach of promise to marry."

Our condolences to all the high fee-paying hedge fund investors out there. Better luck next year.

Did you know those tasty little Northern Shrimp can live for five years? That's kindergarten age! Anyway, you'll be eating a lot less Maine shrimp next year, because the fishery collapsed due to warming oceans. No more Maine shrimp.

"Breading," a viral meme where people put their cats' heads in pieces of bread, still exists.

An Ohio woman who teaches at a private Christian prep school in the Cincinnati area was placed on administrative leave this week after having stolen nude photos of her posted on a "revenge porn" website.