Oddities, Weird Stuff, Strange Things in Our World.
As a Wisconsin girl that has never been to Australia, I have never seen or been around koala bears, with the exception of the zoo. Koalas are cute and can only live in one place in the entire world, and that’s just a small part of what makes them so fascinating. A baby koala is …
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There’s always a darker side to every tale. You’d think that programmers automating their jobs would be the darker side of the programmer story. It gets much darker, though, all when a programmer makes his employer dependent on him… David Tinley The 62-year-old programmer pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of intentional damage …
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The FBI found “buckets of heads, arms, and legs, a cooler full of male genitalia and ‘Frankenstein’ corpses.” We knew that some people were sick, but did you think that’d they be going as far as creating ‘Frankenstein’ experiments? It Started About Six Years Ago, In 2013 The FBI started investigating shady “body brokers,” …
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Ever wonder how much damage two love-crazy kookaburra birds could do? Well, Australia can tell you, and it’s not TOO much. You know, just enough to knock the electricity of more than 1,000 homes… It Happened In Perth, Australia A pair of “horny birds,” ( as Vice.com calls them) are believed to be the …
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You’ve probably thought the man in the moon was fake, right? Well, technically… Planetary Science Pioneer, Eugene Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker is often credited with the invention of the field of planetary science. Or, maybe you’ve heard of the comet that hit the planet Jupiter, and the impact made national news. He discovered Comet …
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There are more weird colors in the world than you know. Did you read The Weird Color Names You Didn’t Know Existed: Part One? This was my first piece I wrote about weird colors. Here are even more! Zaffre This bold and beautiful blue is named after the ancient blue pigment that comes from fire. When …
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Christian Poincheval, a French inventor, has created a truly extraordinary pill. A pill, to make your farts smell good… What Goes On In France, With Their Magic Fart Pills? This 65-year-old inventor from north-western France has five scents. Ginger, Lilly, Violets, Chocolate, and Roses. They cost roughly twenty US dollars. He is creating these pills …
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Is YOUR child a malformed mutated FREAK?! Well, maybe, but not to the extent you might think, despite the way they might act sometimes. It Started With A Goat… Born in the Netherlands in the spring of 1939, a goat had a deformity in both of his front legs. The right was a stub with …
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These two stories will prove to you that bugs are taking over our lives in 2019. First, ladybugs filled the sky for 80 miles. Yes, 80. Then, your grapes may have black widow spiders in them, so you better check them before you eat. It was the meteorologists who noticed something was off that Tuesday. …
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Pink for girls and blue for boys, right? Or at least these colors are very typically associated this way. But the thing is, there are some weird colors out there. Here are some of the colors you have never heard of before. Malachite We have all seen this color, we just didn’t know this was …
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