Friday's Top 50 Bizarre & Weird News & Stories
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Tampa Bay's most-beloved manatee becomes more adorable with each passing year. As Snooty approaches his 66th birthday, he's showing a few signs of aging. His skin has turned lighter grey and he has a little extra waddle under his chin. S...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) gave an interview to KDKA NewsRadio in Pittsburgh on Friday and reignited the suggestion that immigrant children crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. carry diseases with them. "We also are concerned...
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Need a lift? Not these guys. These innovative forklift operators have figured out how to extract a maximum amount of lift from their rigs, with a maneuver likely to make OSHA inspectors sigh. While most forklift operators use their rigs ...
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As automotive ideas go, this one's all wet -- and that's exactly how its inventors want it. Two Los Angeles-based engineers are on a race to set the first world record for the fastest hot tub ever, according to Barcroft TV. It's been a d...
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Welp, you heard it from the horse's mouth, so it must be true: your sports team sucks. Watch the parody king lead a marching band in his latest music video for his " Mandatory Fun " album. Though we're sad our sports team is apparently t...
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Washington state regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of cannabis-infused treats by marijuana dispensaries, with one exception: nothing that may appeal strongly to kids. "There are no bans except those products that may be 'especial...
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OK, so full-contact skydiving was fake. But we've got an airborne sport that's real and perhaps almost as crazy: wingsuit racing. On Friday, Red Bull wrote on YouTube that it had staged a " first-ever wingsuit competition format ," in wh...
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(Reuters) - A woman whose mummified remains were found in her garage in a Detroit suburb up to five years after her death has been identified through DNA tests, an official said on Friday.
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For some people, a simple pool float or Slip'N Slide just isn't going to cut it. If you're looking to drop some serious cash on a summer toy that probably isn't worth the hype, check out these prime examples found online.
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The same pilot who made an emergency landing last week in the median of a Long Island highway did the exact same thing Friday. Suffolk County police say a single-engine Challenger ultralight plane landed on the eastbound lanes of Sunrise...
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The American Cornhole Organization will crown its world champions as about 380 competitors from 17 states vie for $10,000 in prize money in singles and doubles events. Cornhole involves tossing one-pound bags filled with plastic pellets ...
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We miss a lot in movies. Some of it is cool little details moviemakers hope we miss and discover later, but most of it is unintentional stuff they're glad we did.
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How is it possible to be turned off by a Dolce & Gabbana model hitting on you? One word: helium. Swide went backstage at the Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2015 fashion show to make models recite some corny pick-up lines after inhaling fr...
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Once you go bald you can't go back -- but you CAN turn it into a really cool party trick . Recent obnoxious vertical video from Charleston, South Carolina, surfaced showing a man using his forehead to open a beer, because simply cracking...
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From the neck up, Hideaki Kobayashi is a middle-aged, bald man with a bushy mustache. From the neck down, this Japanese man could pass for a Japanese schoolgirl as he parades all over Tokyo dressed in "Seifuku," the name for the sailor o...
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This lil' pup can teach us all a lesson or two about apologies. When Charlie the dog borrowed his human sibling's stuffed animal without asking, the baby wasn't too happy about it. The guilty pup felt so bad for making the baby cry that ...
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Farrah " I'm not a porn star " Abraham has officially released a line of sex toys made from molds of her own anatomy . This past September, news of the former "Teen Mom" stars' sex toy line broke, along with a video of Abraham having the...
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Ze Frank knows how to connect to humans. In his latest TED talk, Frank asks a crowd a series of questions to connect them to their humanness. The questions prompt us to think about our funniest, most private thoughts and actions, and the...
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NOME, Alaska (AP) — A rare blue-colored red king crab was part of a fisherman's catch earlier this month in Nome, Alaska. Scott Kent, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Nome, says he has no idea why the red king crab is blue,...
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From the physics labs at Yale University to the bottom of a played-out gold mine in South Dakota, a new generation of dark matter experiments is ready to commence. The go-ahead has been given to the Large Underground Xenon-Zeplin, a key ...
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(AP) — A 24-year-old man who a month after being released from prison for a bank robbery held up the same bank and teller has been sentenced to more than 10 years behind bars. A detective recognized him from security footage, and the tel...
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TAMPA Fla. (Reuters) - Two men hired to clean out a Florida rental house thought they found a mannequin hanging in the garage so they cut down what they believed to be a Halloween-style prank and took it to a landfill.
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Twisting a screwdriver, removing a bottle cap, and peeling a banana are just a few simple tasks that are tricky to pull off single-handedly. Now a new wrist-mounted robot can provide a helping hand -- or rather, fingers. Researchers have...
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The mystery behind the movements of flocking starlings could be explained by the areas of light and dark created as they fly, new research suggests. The research found that flocking starlings aim to maintain an optimum density at which t...
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Over a 150 years since it was first described by Darwin, scientists are finally uncovering the secrets behind the super strength of barnacle glue. Still far better than anything we have been able to develop synthetically, barnacle glue -...
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Defense attorneys appealed, saying a criminal contempt charge was inappropriate in this case. Maura's office door bears a sign directing people to "pull your pants up" and showing a cartoon of three people wearing baggy pants.
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A bomb squad was called out to the coal-fired power plant. Sweetwater County sheriff's officials say bomb experts looked over the device and even X-rayed it.
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On the same day the state approved mandatory outdoor watering restrictions with the threat of $500 fines, the Southern California couple received a letter from their city threatening a $500 penalty for not watering their brown lawn. "Des...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Rob Brown of HBO's "Treme" has settled a federal discrimination lawsuit against Macy's Inc and the city of New York, the retailer said on Thursday, resolving part of a "shop-and-frisk" controversy over racial p...
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What's a good “career move†for a comic book character who has fought countless fights and has gotten out of every one? Kill the character!
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Actor Rob Brown of HBO's "Treme" has settled a federal discrimination lawsuit against Macy's Inc and the city of New York, the retailer said on Thursday, resolving part of a "shop-and-frisk" controversy over racial p...
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(Reuters) - A Southern California couple who scaled back watering their lawn amid the state's drought received a warning from the suburb where they live that they might be fined for creating an eyesore - despite emergency statewide order...
