“A substance akin to dots of chewing gum will be used to keep the cans grouped, instead of the plastic web that traditionally holds cans together in their six-pack constellations. The company tried out about 40,000 different variations of glue before settling on the chewing gum variation.” Popular European beer begins gluing cans together, abandons plastic rings. (I liked beer. I still like beer.)

+ If you can take another oversized orange mutant invading your space, there’s this: New Hampshire Man Grows 2528-Pound Pumpkin.