Oddities, Weird stuff, Strange things of our world.
The Lincolns left Indiana in March of 1830 when the future president was 21 years old. They headed west for the 225-mile trip to their new farmstead near present-day Decatur, Illinois, where Abraham and his father built a new log cabin and a barn and Abraham split wooden rails to fence their land. In the …
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Abraham Lincoln became proficient with an ax when he helped his father, Thomas, clear the forest and build a cabin on the land the Lincolns had bought in Indiana after moving from Kentucky in 1816. Lincoln also learned basic carpentry from his father and became adept at building simple furniture (e.g., three-legged stools). In a …
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“Do what you love” is a good approach to work. A Chinese chef is doing what he loves and bringing influences from his other passions. The result is “fashionable sushi.” From Fubiz: “Chinese chef Yujia Hu based in Milan combines his two passions in his culinary creations: cooking and fashion. He revisits traditional sushis rolls …
World Records fall every week and this world record is not for the faint of heart. Juggling expert Josh Horton set a new Guinness World Record for the most samurai swords juggled at The ART Factory warehouse in Paterson, New Jersey. Horton juggled a total of four insanely sharp samurai swords. The same day, Horton …
Ruby Silvious is a visual artist and graphic designer, whose recent work includes experimenting on recycled and found materials. In 2015, she started a project called 363 Days of Tea, a visual daily record of her impression of the moment, using the emptied-out tea bag as her canvas, and altering it to create a new …
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Matthew “Megatoad” Stonie is an American competitive eater and is the number three ranked competitive eater in Major League Eating. He won the 2015 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest, dethroning 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut. When he’s not entering eating competition across the country, Stonie is completing homemade eating challenges and posting the videos to …
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In case you missed it, here is part one of the weirdest news stories of 2017. Model May Lose Sight After Tattoo Gone Wrong Catt Gallinger’s foray into body art ended just as quickly as it started, but not soon enough, as she may have been rendered partially blind by her tattooist. Man Suspected Of …
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