Mistaken Identity As dog-walkers passed the Seascape Cafe in Chapel St. Leonards, England, on Sept. 6, they were startled to see what they thought was a "ritual mass murder" inside, […]
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Cute Poop Museum
Inexplicable In Yokohama, Japan, near Tokyo, one can visit the Unko Museum — a whole interactive experience built around “cute” poop. (“Unko” means poop in Japanese.) For example, reports the […]
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Wait, What? Vaev, a Los Angeles-based internet startup, is offering consumers the “luxury to choose” when to become sick with a cold, gushes 34-year-old Oliver Niessen, the company’s founder. For […]
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Fashion Foibles • Because white shoes are so distracting when you’re lining up your putt? According to Time magazine, Nike will be mowing over the competition with its new Air […]
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Straining Logic, and Great Art!
World Solution When Victoria Amith, 18, headed to college last fall, she couldn’t take along her beloved cats, Tina and Louise. And her dad, Troy Good, 43, couldn’t keep them […]
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The Old “I Was Too Drunk To Have Done That” Defense
Regifted? Rakhi Desai of Houston didn’t think much at first of the gift she brought home from a white elephant party in mid-December — a brown stuffed bear with a […]
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Suicide by Balloon and Friendly Drones at Work
Mystery Solved On Jan. 25, 71-year-old Alan J. Abrahamson of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, went for his regular pre-dawn walk to Starbucks. What happened on the way stumped police investigators […]
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Drone delivery at prison, and sock smelling addiction
Special Delivery Staff at the Martin County (Florida) Correctional Institute spied some suspicious activity on the morning of Dec. 16. Around 1:30 a.m., a drone was spotted hovering over an […]
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Valdosta, you do you
Ewwwww Construction workers in Valdosta, Georgia, were rattled on Oct. 30 when they tore down a second-story wall in a turn-of-the-20th-century building to find about 1,000 human teeth secreted inside. […]
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Killer clowns
People Different From Us Halloween won’t be quite so frightening for residents of Nottinghamshire, England, now that a “killer clown” has been apprehended and sentenced to 11 weeks behind bars, […]
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Take the meth out of your pocket
Compelling Explanations A Tesla showroom in South Salt Lake, Utah, was the nexus of four different arrests on Nov. 24, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, in which at least […]
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Eyelid shaving and cheesesteaks in the afterlife
People Different From Us Chengdu, China, street barber Xiong Gaowu offers a most unusual service at his roadside location in Sichuan province. For $12, Xiong will scrape the inside of […]