The fuzzy green balls are revered as national treasures, celebrated in religious ceremonies, and kept as pets.

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Piezoelectricity can turn bones into batteries.
In February 1959, a group of students went on a camping expedition in the Ural mountains. They never returned.
Lodging website Airbnb isn’t hurting for unusual accommodations, but none of them have the spook factor of its latest listing.
In some places, death is a crime. Alas, no one has figured out a suitable punishment just yet.
The first photo of Nessie was taken in 1934. But the first mention of the lake-bound monster? An account of a sighting back in 564 CE.
In November, it will be moved from museum storage to the castle where she died in 1938.
"I've never seen anything quite like that before, nor have my colleagues, and we were very excited."
It wasn't the first time fish rain has fallen.
"Unconscious ventriloquism" was used to explain one of the most bizarre supernatural cases in history.
In the mid-'90s, Kermit the Frog was the face of the 40-year-old Muppet brand and had both a movie and a TV show to promote. So he did what any single-person empire does while sitting atop their celebrity throne: he released a fragrance.
People could only submit their resumes after they solved two math puzzles.
Blood-soaked tales of murder, rape, and other crimes were written into popular songs and sung merrily in the streets.
This little town in upstate New York has stayed true to its spiritualist roots.
To this day, no one knows how or why hackers chose to take over two Chicago-area TV stations—or who, exactly, was responsible.
A few poorly phrased tweets don't seem nearly as bad when you see what these people did for press.