– Um, I like to cook too!!! A woman in South Korea has a remarkably thriving webcam business, but it’s not what you might think (perv). According to the Huffington Post, she makes around $9,000 per month cooking elaborate meals and eating them, all in front of her webcam. People watch—and tip virtual currency convertible to cash—so they can “have a friend at the dinner table.” I suppose the biggest downside is that she has to do it every day. The phenomenon is called Meok-Bang, and it’s a big deal in places that aren’t America.

Somehow I doubt that I could get as famous cooking my signature melted-cheese-on-a-tortilla recipe for all the internet to view.

– You’re literally not yourself: A woman in Washington state might have been convicted of welfare fraud after genetic testing revealed that she had no biological connection to her two children—this despite the fact that both she and her doctor distinctly remember her giving birth (h/t Chris). She gave birth to her third child with a court-appointed witness present, and sure enough, that child wasn’t related to her either. Turns out she had a ridiculously rare condition called chimerism, in which she mostly absorbed her twin in the womb, but kept parts of the twin’s genetic material in her body. She was literally her own twin. She was lucky, in the sense that another woman with the same condition was the subject of a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, and one of the prosecutors on her case happened to hear about the paper.

Photo credit: Chimera di Arezzo by Lucarelli (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.