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10 Magnetic Hills, Gravity Roads, and Mystery Spots

12 Weird Movie Tie-in Products

Colored photograph of Violet Jessop, survivor of the Titanic.

The Unsinkable Violet Jessop

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

10 Odd Things You Can Buy From Monks

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.

The Bizarre 19th Century Art of Making Furniture Out of Animals

Pro tip: Don't forget to yell "hey, bear!" when entering outhouses in Alaska.

5 Animals That Might Show Up In Your Toilet to Terrify You

A woman using an outhouse in Alaska got more than she bargained for when a black bear bit her backside.

16 Very Strange Christmas Ornaments You Can Buy

5 Perfume Scents from Unexpected Places

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.

5 Freaky and Fascinating Frogs

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

Would You Eat this Pumpkin Spice Latte Burger?

Remembering the Deadly London Beer Flood of 1814

More than 200 years ago, one of history's most bizarre disasters befell London when a 15-foot wave of beer flooded an entire neighborhood.

5 Bodies That Refused to Rot

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

Jack The Squeezer: Attack of the Serial Hugger

Street harassment is no laughing matter. Unwanted touching is gross and intimidating. But we promise not to judge if you chuckle, just a little, at the following story.

14 Wonderfully Odd American Newspaper Names

The history of American newspapers is a vibrant one, and the publications that fill it have had some pretty colorful names to match.

11 Things You Won't See on Display at the Mütter Museum

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

8 Strange Amusement Parks From Around the World

These parks might not be the happiest places on earth, they just might be some of the weirdest.

6 Times Creepy Crawlies Ended Up in People's Ears

A team of surgeons work on a patient in the operating theater of London's Charing Cross Hospital while men in the gallery observe the procedure.

9 Strange Things You’d See in a Hospital in 1900

Hospital technology has come a long way since the beginning of the 20th century. Which is a good thing, as it means that doctors and nurses wear face masks and surgical gloves.

10 Bizarre Food-Related Kickstarters (That Aren't Potato Salad)

People will crowdfund anything these days.

5 People in the Wrong Place, at the Wrong Time—Multiple Times

Twins: The Mid-'90s Restaurant Staffed by Identical Twins

Employees had to work at the same time and wear the same outfit, and if one called out sick, the other twin was forced to take the day off.

6 Crazy Science Experiments That "Worked"

From Dr. Frank-N-Furter to Dr. Doofenschmirtz, we've all grown up hearing about our fair share of mad scientists and their crazy experiments. A trip through history teaches us that these insane geniuses aren't just works of fiction. Let's look back at six

The Spanish Village “Kill Jews” Has Decided to Change its Name

Nestled in the arid plains of northwestern Spain lies a little village that for a few hundred years has gone by the name Castrillo Matajudíos—in English, Castrillo Kill Jews (or Jew-Killer). How did it get such a name? There are a few different stories.

A Rube Goldberg Zipper-Zipping Machine

Since the late 1980s, Purdue University has invited students to make Rube Goldberg machines accomplishing simple tasks in absurdly complex ways.

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