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No Country for Gnome Men: The UK Is Facing a Garden Gnome Shortage

Garden gnomes are scarce in the UK.

No Country for Gnome Men: The UK Is Facing a Garden Gnome Shortage

Misbaken Identity: Mysterious Beast Reported in Poland Turns Out to Be a Croissant in a Tree

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Misbaken Identity: Mysterious Beast Reported in Poland Turns Out to Be a Croissant in a Tree

11 Strange Stories From the National UFO Reporting Center

Get in, loser, we're going planet-hopping.

11 Strange Stories From the National UFO Reporting Center

Panera Has Made a Bread Bowl Glove Because Panera Thinks It’s Still 2020

Panera has developed a novel way of insulating hands from chilly iced coffee.

Panera Has Made a Bread Bowl Glove Because Panera Thinks It’s Still 2020

Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast With Jeni's New Everything Bagel Flavor

PRNewsfoto/Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams

The CIA’s Entire Collection of Declassified UFO Documents Is Now Available to Download

Time to find out what the CIA has been keeping from us.

Watch a Bright Blue UFO Zoom Over Hawaii in Eyewitness Video

Louis Droege, Unsplash

Pedro Lascuráin: The Man Who Was Mexico's President for Only 45 Minutes

Pedro Lascuráin, Mexico's unlikely president.

Police In Wareham, Massachusetts Beg Residents to Stop Calling In About a Sunfish

K Schneider, Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0

6 Bizarre Halloween-Related Lawsuits

Halloween scares can sometimes invite legal action.

Profane Polly: Expletive-Spewing Parrots Have Been Removed From an England Zoo

"F*ck off!"

UFO Sightings Are Up 51 Percent During the COVID-19 Pandemic

With more free time as a result of the pandemic, people have been reporting more UFO sightings.

Candy Land: It's Raining Chocolate in Switzerland

Recent weather in Switzerland has involved chocolate precipitation.

Meet Ian Brackenbury Channell—the Official City Wizard of Christchurch, New Zealand

In Christchurch, New Zealand, wizards ride buses, not brooms.

A Wily Fox With a Passion for Fashion Stole More Than 100 Shoes From a Berlin Neighborhood

The smirk.

A Two-Toed Sloth Accidentally Hitched a 40-Mile Ride in a Truck's Engine Bay

Tony Hisgett, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 2.0