Local residents participate in the annual carbide shooting on New Year's Eve in Zwolle, the Netherlands on December 31, 2023. (Photo by Vincent Jannink/EPA/EFE/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Hundreds of Marilyn Monroe impersonators wearing blonde wigs take part in the Marilyn Jetty Swim in coastal suburb of Brighton Adelaide to raise money for cancer charity in Adelaide, SA Australia on February 4, 2024. (Photo by Amer Ghazzal/Alamy Live News)

Bodies of Palestinians, who lost their lives after Israeli attacks, are brought to Indonesia Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza on May 16, 2025. Palestinians who lost their relatives were saddened. It was reported that more than 100 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attacks on northern Gaza, which started at midnight and intensified in the morning. (Photo by Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Portuguese firefighters and Spanish military personnel work together to battle a forest fire in the parish of Bouses, Oimbra, Ourense, Galicia, Spain on August 18, 2025. (Photo by Pedro Pascual/Anadolu Agency)

American drag queens Laganja Estranja and Morphine Love Dion perform at OUTLOUD Music Festival at 2024 WeHo Pride on May 31, 2024 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Sarah Morris/WireImage)

A child dressed as a New York Fire Department member watches the Veterans Day parade behind a New York Police Department officer on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City on November 11, 2025. (Photo by Kylie Cooper/Reuters)

In more “raccoons are getting more like us” news, a drunk raccoon was found in a liquor store in Virginia, US in the first decade of December 2025. The animal had got into the shop via some loose ceiling tiles, knocked bottles of spirits off the shelves, lapped up the contents and passed out in the toilets. Once it had sobered up, it was released back into the wild – no doubt with a crashing hangover. (Photo by AP Photo)

Demonstrators run inside of subway after clashing with riot police during a protest to denounce the housing crisis and evictions, in Barcelona, Spain, on September 25, 2024. (Photo by Nacho Doce/Reuters)