Our daily trip around the world

🇲🇽👽 A researcher presented what he claims are two alien corpses to a Mexican government committee. Jaime Maussan, a journalist and UFO researcher who has previously been connected to similar claims of extraterrestrials that were later proven false, testified under oath before Mexico’s congress yesterday that he uncovered the remains of the three-fingered aliens in Peru in 2017. Maussan claims researchers at the National Autonomous University of Mexico extracted DNA evidence from the corpses and, upon comparing it to other samples, found over 30% of their DNA was “unknown.”

🇬🇧🍺 The UK’s largest pub operator is rolling out surge pricing for beer. Stonegate, which owns popular chains like the Slug & Lettuce and Craft Union, has implemented price hikes of ~25 cents during busy times like weekends, similar to how airlines, hotels, ticket companies, and ride-share operators charge more during periods of high demand. The average cost of a pint of lager in a UK pub is currently $5.72, up from $4.62 in 2019, per government data.

🇳🇱🖼️ A Van Gogh painting stolen from a Dutch museum in 2020 was anonymously returned. Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, aka “the Indiana Jones of the art world,” said he was handed an Ikea bag by a man who came to his front door Monday night that contained the 139-year-old Spring Garden painting (worth between $4 million–$7 million). According to communications intercepted by police, the painting was stolen by an organized crime group in an attempt to negotiate a reduced sentence for one of their leaders.