Wherever you are in the world, two people joining together in marriage is an occasion for joy. And that’s where the similarities sometimes end. Different places have different traditions, and that also goes for weddings. For some people, walking down the aisle might seem like an awfully dull ceremony. Here are eight unusual wedding traditions …
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Fascinating or terrifying times are approaching in several U.S. states, depending on how much you like bugs. Brood X cicadas are about to emerge from the ground. In case you don’t know what we’re talking about, Brood X is a brood of periodical cicadas in America. These bugs spend 17 years in the ground as …
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A while back, we wrote about the new internet fad of eating rotten meat to get high. While this is only a fad – at least we hope so – people do actually eat some pretty gross things. Now whether or not a food is disgusting depends completely on how you view it. Culture influences …
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In Denmark, an excavation of massive scale has begun. But the project isn’t just any regular construction or landscaping project. Instead, the Danish are digging up millions upon millions of corpses. Granted, they’re corpses of minks, but corpses nonetheless. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Scandinavian country exterminated every single farmed mink in the country. The …
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There’s a lot of things we see in our neighborhoods, and with that being said, you never know what’s going to happen. But even so, if you saw a tiger, you’d probably be pretty freaked out. This Houston neighborhood was and stated ‘It was scary.’ A tiger was on the loose Sunday night before it’s …
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A woman is sleeping soundly in the dead of night, when she suddenly wakes up. Something wet is dripping on her from above. Concerned that it might be a plumbing issue, she turns on the light and wipes her face. She looks at her hand and her eyes fly wide with terror – its smeared …
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If there’s one thing people love more than competing, it’s being the best. But becoming the world champion in conventional games and sports requires years and years of hard work – and even then there might be someone better. It’s no surprise, then, that people have come up with some pretty weird competitions to prove …
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We’ve seen many kinds of Martians in speculative fiction over the years. They’ve been little green men, slightly bigger gray aliens, something that gets killed by a flu virus, and any number of other incomprehensible lifeforms. But that’s all just fiction. Everybody knows there’s nothing actually living on Mars… Right? Well, we haven’t found any …
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Yesterday, we brought you a story about moonshine distilled from apples grown in Chernobyl. This (not actually) radioactive drink got us thinking – what are the weirdest cocktails and alcoholic beverages in the world? So, we did a bit of research and threw this list together for you. We can’t promise these drinks taste good, …
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When you think of Chernobyl – the site of the infamous 1986 nuclear disaster – you’re probably picturing something from Stalker. You know, gas masks, radiation, strange mutants, that sort of stuff. Whatever your mental picture, though, you probably wouldn’t be too thrilled about consuming anything grown in the seclusion zone. Ukrainian authorities seem to …
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