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They say heroes come in all shapes and sizes. But it takes a very special kind of person to decide that having a full set of limbs would just slow you down. Yet, that is exactly what a New Jersey lifeguard determined before jumping into Newark Bay and swimming out to pull a man out …
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Germans don’t really have a reputation of being a fun-loving people. There must be thousands of jokes about how Germans don’t understand humor. It might then come as a surprise to you that Berlin, the capital of Germany, is also the party capital of Europe. Really, the city’s nightclubs are famous for throwing some of …
Continue reading “German Court Officially Recognizes Techno as Music”
Ah, the Vikings. The legacy of these fascinating and brutal seaborne plunderers from Scandinavia is pretty much a staple of popular culture. Vikings are regularly directly featured in or inspire the stories of books, movies, games, names of sports teams… The couple of popular TV shows that aired in the past few years didn’t make …
Continue reading “Ancient Viking Burial Ground Ruthlessly Desecrated… By Surprising Culprits”
We get it, Chick-fil-A is delicious. We want to eat it all the time. Whether it’s for their delicious breakfast, their new mac and cheese or their delicious chicken sandwich, if we pass one on a Sunday, we’re sad they’re closed. We wanted to go. Well, this lady loves Chick-fil-A. She loves it so much …
There is a difference between bringing a hiking snack, and bringing a whole ass chicken to see if you can cook it in the geysers at Yellowstone. Yup, that’s what these men did. The three men have been temporarily banned from the national park for attempting to cook whole chickens in the park’s famous geysers. …
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“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.” These are the famous opening words to British author J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved book The Hobbit, which would eventually expand to the world-famous The Lord of the Rings saga. As anyone who’s read the book knows, the hobbit hole of Bilbo Baggins is a nice place. …
Continue reading “Rhode Island Sports Club Offers Middle-Earth Dinners in a Hobbit Hole”
You know that annoying feeling when you send someone a message and never hear back? Of course you do. It’s even worse if you’re using a messaging service that doesn’t tell you whether the message went through. You’re stuck in a limbo, left wondering if the addressee just didn’t bother replying, or ever even received …
Continue reading “French Hiker Finds Century Old Pigeon Message from World War One”
We could start this story by saying that the travel industry has hit hard times since the COVID-19 pandemic started. But what’s the point? You know that already. In case you don’t, well, we won’t speculate what kind of a rock you’ve been living under. But just from reading Oddee, you should at least know …
Continue reading “Cruise Ships Are Allowed to Sail Again… Without Passengers”
Snow is coming and so are snow sports. However, if you need to transport your snowmobile, please don’t do it by tossing it on the roof of your car. Or, maybe do. But know that you will get pulled over if you’re seen. In Clayton, Wisconsin, a state patrol officer pulled over a car with …
Continue reading “Trooper Stops Wisconsin Car with Snowmobile on the Roof”
With bulbous steel-and-glass towers, funnel-like hangars, and a rippling roof dotted with cupolas and patches of greenery, it looks like something out of a science fiction movie. But this structure could leave the realm of fiction and become Japan’s first commercial spaceport. Not only that, the whole building complex would float on water. This is …
Continue reading “Japan Plans a Floating Spaceport for Out-of-This-World Travelers”