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Everyone loves getting packages in the mail—assuming it’s what they ordered. But occasionally, delivery services make mistakes, and depending on what gets misdelivered, the results can run from mildly amusing to straight up catastrophic.

Sonia Weiser








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Was that mysterious "bloop" in the ocean made by a whale? Or by something much more mysterious? Investigators still don't know.

Caitlin Schneider






Colored photograph of Violet Jessop, survivor of the Titanic.

If you survived multiple shipwrecks, including the 'Titanic,' you might start wondering if you were the angel of death—or Violet Constance Jessop.

Stacy Conradt


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Everyone knows you can buy cheese, fruitcake, and really good beer from monks, but those aren’t the only businesses that these holy men dabble in. Here are some stranger things you can acquire from them.

Rebecca OConnell
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Wondering how to profit off your impressive collection of belly button lint? Looking to avoid big cats while exploring the Amazon? The world of perfume has the answers.

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From burrowing in the soil to popping baby frogs out of their backs, the frogs in this list have some very strange habits.

Erin McCarthy




There have been people throughout history whose bodies have stubbornly refused to decompose as expected.

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Lily Landes

On a cart in Anna Dhody’s office sits a small, innocuous box marked “caramel Danish rolls.” Open it up, though, and you won’t find a pastry; instead, there’s a human skull nestled inside. Nearby, there’s another cardboard box—this one labeled “brain slice

Erin McCarthy