Oddities, Weird Stuff, Strange Things in Our World.
As our world edges closer to a dystopian Cyberpunk future, we mark the small steps it takes. Like digital religion. Can the ClickToPray app bring you closer to God? In January Pope Francis introduced the ClickToPray app. A social-media-esque style app that let you post prayers, click on posted prayers, or leave comments. Every month …
A menace plagues California’s Fresno County. Goats have gone missing over the last two months. Could it be a goat thief? Or a crew of goat thieves? Mountain lions or coyotes, perhaps? Or is this menace far more nefarious? A chupacabra? Whatever the source of the menace, it has cost Fresno County $27,000, so …
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There you are, floating along, minding your own business. You and your pal from work are catching some fish to fry up later. Things couldn’t be better! That’s when you realize the boat is getting a bit lower. And… is that water inside the boat?! Then you remember about the crocodiles! Things start to go …
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There you are, swimming in the ocean, photographing and recording sharks eating bait balls. Normal weekday. Then you’re swallowed by a whale. But the whale doesn’t even want you. It SPATS you out like you’re bad meat. “This is NOT the Jonah I asked for!” Such picky eaters… South African Scuba Diver, Rainer Schimpf, had …
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Maybe you’ve been married for a while now. You’ve gotten stuck in a rut. Things have gotten complacent. As a result, you aren’t making love as often as you used to. Sure, you could try communicating more. Or actively wooing your spouse – do the chores they find tedious, clean up without having to be …
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The smallest baby from Keio University Hospital in Tokyo went home weighing a whopping 268 grams. That’s just under 10 ounces. The newborn stopped growing in the womb at 24 weeks. He was deemed healthy enough to go home even though he is as small as a large onion. After 5 months of treatment by …
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When you work in a crematorium you expect a certain amount of occupational hazards. Excessive heat, exhaust, even mercury in the metals added to a person’s body. Maybe even the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. But what you might not think about as a hazard would be exposure to radiation. A 69-year-old Arizona man …
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Want a hippopotamus for Christmas? Might wanna think again. A region of Colombia is figuring that out the hard way. Pablo Escobar, the notorious cocaine drug lord, was shot dead in 1993. The government took control of his huge estate, including hundreds of exotic animals. But somehow, the hippos were missed. Escobar housed 4 hippos …
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Philip K. Dick wrote Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep. Which spawned the loose adaptation Blade Runner. In turn, he launched the Cyberpunk genre of a dystopian future. I wonder if he ever considered this might be the reality so soon. Japanese company Cyber Agent in collaboration with tech giant Sharp has developed tiny robots …
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Celebrities do some really strange things in the name of health and beauty. They stick things in places things weren’t meant to be stuck. They use creams made from the cells of parts of bodies don’t sound like they should be rubbed into your face. But twins Tia and Tamera Mowry have taken a …