Bizarre, hilarious, and outlandish stories from around the globe.
Bizarre, hilarious, and outlandish stories from around the globe.
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As young people face growing social pressure to have children, an anti-natal movement has gained traction in India. The collective urges people not to procreate, citing a strain on the world's resources and a myriad of children already waiting to be adopted. Some supporters call the campaign the Voluntary Human…
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You know what they say: desperate times call for desperate measures. Last week, a 14-year-old girl found herself in need of a ride to her boyfriend's house, and decided she was just about desperate enough to commit grand theft auto in order to get there. Josie Bigelow, a Florida resident,…
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Martina Big, the infamous self-described transracialist and model, who has had tanning injections to darken the pigment of her skin because she 'identifies as black' has revealed that she wants to move to Africa and live there permanently, and is now crowdfunding in an attempt to buy a house somewhere on…
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Charles Dion McDowell, a convicted felon whose mugshots went viral due to his wide neck, has allegedly been arrested again in his hometown. In case you missed out on the news the first time around, on Thursday, November 15, the Escambia County Sheriff's Office posted the mugshot of McDowell on their official Facebook page.…
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Every winter, the United States is hit by a polar vortex, an expanse of swirling cold air traveling south from the North Pole. However, this year the temperatures are unusually chilly, plunging as low as sixty degrees below zero (Fahrenheit). This arctic blast is mainly affecting the Midwest, where it's…
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After a long night of drinking, a man was rushed to hospital in mysterious circumstances, but healthcare officials were astonished to find that he had a live catfish lodged in his throat. Writing in the Acta Oto-Laryngologica Case Reports, a team of doctors looked to delve further into this astonishing story…
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Remaking the revered British sitcom The Office in an American setting didn't seem like a particularly good idea to fans at the time, but the US version of the show soon found its footing and gave us dozens of hilarious episodes over its nine-season run. One of the best episodes…
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As a devoted Doctor Who and Back to the Future fan, I've always wanted to own a time machine. It would be amazing to travel all through history. To see famous events from the past: like the birth of Christ, or the Gettysburg address, or Woodstock. Even more exciting is…
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Leo Blanco is only 22 years old, but he's already had numerous cosmetic procedures, from botox to liposuction to facial reshaping. All of this is to further his goal of looking exactly like his idol, Michael Jackson. The King of Pop was himself said to have had numerous cosmetic surgeries…
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Petty crimes such as shoplifting rarely make it to national news, especially when the incidents aren't violent in their nature. It's even rarer for them to become known internationally. For one man in Blackpool, England, his viral fame came not so much from what he was doing - but who he…
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A French student has caused travel disturbances by phoning in a faking bomb threat to an airport to stop his parents from visiting him. The plane his parents were travelling on was carrying 159 passengers and flying from Lyon to Rennes. It was forced to turn around shortly after take-off…
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A kebab chef has been arrested by police out in Turkey, accused of murdering his own daughter by slicing her into pieces, in what's already one of the more shocking stories of the year. Hasan Uslu, a kebab chef from Keslan in northwestern province of Edirne, Turkey, was accused of killing…
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A Kendall Jenner superfan has amused social media users with his comedy Instagram account, in which he photoshops himself into the background of her pictures. A man calling himself Kirby Jenner has made it his mission to edit himself into every one of Kendall's pictures - and the results on…
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A 72-year-old grandmother has claimed to found love with a 19-year-old that she met at her son's funeral. Almeda and Gary Hardwick wed back in 2016 - two weeks after they first met. The pair became acquainted at the funeral of Almeda's son, Robert, who died aged 45 after suffering…
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Earlier this week, you may have heard about the outrage that occurred in response to Gillette's commercial about toxic masculinity. Razor users flipped out, flushed their blades, and proclaimed that they wanted nothing more to do with the company (which sort of proved their point, in a way). But if…
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You might not know much about Flat Earth Theory, or have had a serious conversation with a believer. I imagine that most Flat Earthers don't put their beliefs out there publicly, because they know they will immediately be ridiculed by most people they come across. So when you think about…
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When you're a parent with a sick baby, then it's reasonable that you'd try anything available to help nurse your child back to health again - no matter how strange or potentially embarrassing. This week however, one ingenious mom has managed to provoke division and controversy on social media, after…
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For many young children, a Kinder egg is one of the best candies ever invented. When you're an adult, they kind lose their appeal, but as a kid they were inherently exciting. I used to remember getting really excited about the little toy inside them, wondering what it could be…
