Drunken clowns, Pope hats and spaghetti bathers are just a few of the things traded on Craigslist. Earlier this year the website agreed to drop its “erotic services” section over claims that it promoted pornography, but otherwise the unmoderated, anything-goes ethos on which its success was built continues. Below we present a selection of some [...]
September 20, 2009
A 1,000 foot long bridge in southeast China is providing an essential lesson in that country’s culinary tastes: The Chinese are not wild about butter. The proof is in the fact that Guangzhou authorities have resorted to coating the bridge in butter, in order to hinder suicide attempts, as well as the troublesome traffic jams [...]
September 20, 2009
A two-headed cobra has been born in China. Such anomalies among snakes are rare but they do happen. As far as anyone knows, this is the first incidence of such an occurrence with a cobra. The owner of the snake is a railroad worker who breeds snakes as a hobby. He bought 10 snake eggs [...]
September 20, 2009
NORTH EAST, Md. – A severed human hand has been unearthed from the yard of a Maryland home, but police say this is no whodunit. Investigators believe it’s a decades-old medical school specimen left by a former resident. Still, it was an odd discovery for the electrician who dug it up in the northeastern part [...]
September 20, 2009
LONDON – The Wellcome Collection a museum in London has acquired a beautiful, yet unusual new sculpture which will be on display September 25 until October 18. The work depicts the virus which causes swine flu, it said Friday, and it offers “a point of departure to explore the impact such viruses have had on [...]
September 19, 2009
What’s a college for, exactly, without some crazy shenanigans? On April 2, 2009, Rutgers University broke the Guinness World Record for Largest Gathering of people dressed as Waldo. A total of 1,052 Waldos showed, nearly doubling the previous record. All participants were asked to bring a children’s book to donate and a total of 3,186 [...]
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