Focused on odd news and bizarre occurrences around the world, these daily articles explore everything from science and technology to lore and pop culture.
With over 3 million readers each month, Oddee impacts people from around the world in the most unexpected ways.
Imagine you’re facing a difficult problem. How would you go about solving it most efficiently? The mature and sophisticated way would be to carefully analyze its root causes and address them with intricately planned measures. Or you could just bomb it until everything in a 100-mile radius around the problem is a lifeless wasteland. Look, …
Continue reading “Scientists Plan to Stop Albatross-Eating Mice by Carpet Bombing Them to Oblivion”
Not enough people are dying in Scotland. Hmm, maybe we should phrase that better… Alright, so, Scotland’s hospitals are struggling with a bizarre problem. They simply don’t have enough corpses. While that is generally very positive news, it does put Scotland’s medical students in a difficult spot. After all, nothing helps you learn the anatomy …
Continue reading “Scotland is Running Out of Corpses (for Medical Study)”
In nature, things are often not as they seem. A gluttonous bald eagle in Missouri recently demonstrated that by causing animal conservationists unnecessary worry. The bird was spotted sitting around without doing anything, which isn’t something they usually do. Believing the eagle was injured, they captured it without much resistance. Yup, that sure sounds like …
Continue reading “‘Injured’ Bald Eagle Turns Out to Be Simply ‘Too Fat to Fly’”
Stranded in Space sounds like the title of a classic science fiction movie. Honestly, we’re kind of surprised it’s not an actual thing. For Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, however, this scenario has become regrettably real. The two NASA astronauts traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) in the Boeing Starliner. With more than a …
If you’re famous, you’re bound to inspire imitators. A popular Florida pizza joint recently found that out in the hardest and most bizarre possible way. Roman’s Pizzeria has been serving pies to the residents of Miami Springs for ages. At the same time, however, they’ve been dealing with a strange problem. People who have never …
Continue reading “Florida Man Arrested for Impersonating Famous Pizzeria in Weird Fraud Scheme”
The Bath County History Museum is a small, local museum in Owingsville, Kentucky. It might not be a place you’d ever think to visit, unless you happen to have family in the area or something. But you should if you want to learn more about the bizarre event known as the Kentucky Meat Shower. Nearly …
Continue reading “New Museum Exhibit Commemorates the Mysterious ‘Kentucky Meat Shower’”
Nobody likes bed bugs. They’re impossible to eradicate, bloodthirsty, disgusting, and unpleasant in ways we’d prefer not to think about. That was a bit of an issue for the recent Paris Olympics. You see, the City of Lights is kind of run over with bed bugs. Now that the games have wrapped up, athletes and …
An inmate manages to escape the jail by digging a secret tunnel under the facility’s walls. This prison escape story is as old as time, familiar from movies like Shawshank Redemption. Recently, these events played out scene by scene in the Czech Republic. However, there’s a bit of a plot twist — the escapees weren’t …
Continue reading “Shawshangaroo Redemption: Two Kangaroos Tunnel Out of Czech Prison”
As anyone with a taste for chicken wings knows, those little morsels can be pretty darn expensive. Looking at how much some restaurants charge for a plate of wings, you’d imagine they’re made of gold instead of meat. That said, it’s no wonder they’ve ended up at the center of a bizarre fraud case. Vera …
Continue reading “Illinois School Worker Pleads Guilty to Stealing $1.5 Million — In Chicken Wings”
Nuclear fusion is something of a Holy Grail of energy production. Harnessing fusion reactions would allow us to produce immense amounts of emissions-free power that can’t blow up in a chain reaction and only produces a small amount of low-intensity radioactive waste. However, it’s not easy to make nuclear fusion happen on Earth. It requires …
Continue reading “How Mayonnaise May Help Physicists Unlock Nuclear Fusion”