Oddities, Weird stuff, Strange things of our world.
What’s the best 6-second video you’ve ever seen? Vine, the new Twitter-owned social network, lets users create these extremely short videos from their smartphones and it’s quickly becoming this year’s biggest trend. Check out some of the best ones so far, and get more every day by following us at @VineBest. (NOTE: To play the …
As you are reading this post, Brazilian president Lula is probably inaugurating the world’s largest graffiti on earth up to this date, 3500 square meters (over 37,000 square feet) at Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil on the 2nd of September of 2010. Oddee’s exclusive reporter Priscilha Benitez sent us the very first photos published on the …
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Formed in 1960, the fab four from Liverpool quickly became the most successful and critically acclaimed band in the history of rock and roll. Meet fifteen fascinating, little-known facts about the band that changed the world. (Infographic by Israel Peralta for Oddee.com) (Click the image above to display the infographic) Webmasters: please don’t copy-paste / …
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A worldwide business of over 60 billion dollars per year, the music industry claims to be a huge victim of online piracy. What do the numbers actually say? Find out on our new infographic. (Infographic by Israel Peralta for Oddee.com) (Click the image above to display the infographic) Webmasters: please don’t steal our work. If …
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Now the longest-running comedy in television history, THE SIMPSONS immediately struck a chord with viewers across the country as it poked fun of itself and everything in its wake. With its subversive humor and delightful wit, the series has made an indelible imprint on American pop culture, and the family members have become television icons. …
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by Jason Topa Bolivia. We’re standing on a mountain pass called La Cumbre, 45 minutes from La Paz. It’s 8:30 AM, the air is crisp and thin at 15,680 feet. The passengers on the bus exit into the cold and stand waiting in anticipation. They are here today to ride a full-suspension $2500 bicycle down …
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Bacon… is there anything it can’t do? Ten crazy bacon-inspired products you can actually buy. 1Bacon Bandages Heal your wounds with bacon! Wait… with bacon? The makers of the Bacon Bandages ($3.50)maybe be weird but, they are onto something. Each tin of Bacon Bandages comes with 15 sterile adhesive strips cut into the bacon shape …
You’ve seen them all around the web, CAPTCHAs are those distorted images of letters and numbers used to prevent the automated use of websites.They are supposedely random, but sometimes they seem to be “telling you” something; others are just plain ridiculous or humanly impossible to read.Here’s a collection of the strangest, most bizarre tests agains …
With all the fear and paranoia about the Swine Flu, it seems mexicans still found a way to put a smile on their masks.
29-year-old Vanessa Dualib is a Brazilian artist who gets an almost embarrassing amount of fun at photographing veggies and fruits that were, clearly, ‘born’ to be something else in this world. Her latest work, Playing with my Food, is an on-going project she’s still enthusiastically working on. “It actually started about 5 months ago when …