Friday's Top 50 Weird & Bizarre News & Stories
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Forty years after his death, Pablo Neruda will once again write and recite love poems and walk through Santiago's streets to the admiring gazes of Chileans — virtually, that is. The Nobel Prize-winning poet will bree...
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Finally, an interactive map designed for everyone’s inner 12-year-old. Geotechnologist Gary Gale compiled a list of dirty-sounding or crassly named places in the world and put them on a map, titled “ Vaguely Rude Place Names Of The World...
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DALLAS (AP) — Federal officials say that a Georgia man posed as an airline employee to score cheap travel and resold the tickets for thousands of dollars. The U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles said that 37-year-old Gilbert Myers Jr. ...
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Know why John Wayne's family is mad? If you do, take the Fark Weird News Quiz.
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The best advice we have for wedding guests who fancy themselves photographers is to leave the picture-taking duties to the professionals. Unfortunately, there is always going to be someone who doesn't heed that advice. In a new video fro...
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We knew the Internet was full of buried gems, but this video -- uploaded way back in 2011 by Carlos C. -- wins (the wrestling match of) the day. While we're certainly familiar with wrestlers yelling in the heat of the moment, we've never...
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The great thing about social media is that it allows whatever stupid thing you want to say to reach your audience instantly. The terrible thing about social media is that it allows whatever stupid thing you want to say to reach your audi...
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A 10-week-old kitten plummeted from a tall Savannah, Georgia bridge into the water below but survived and swam to shore. Police suspect somebody threw the animal off the span and are looking for suspects. The kitten ...
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At HuffPost Weird, we don't have much faith in humanity. But we do have enough faith to believe that almost nobody seriously thought this photo was real: Well, "real" in the sense that it seriously portrays a slaughtered animal. It IS re...
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Sometimes, the only thing that stops a bad woman with a gun is a good woman with an 8-pack of beer. That's the unorthodox crime-fighting technique employed by Lein Nguyen, a 70-year-old convenience store employee clerk in Oklahoma City. ...
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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — When a woman's pickup stalled on a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico, local chef Jackson Ault stopped to lend a hand. Ault and the driver both ended up with a surprise Thursday when Ault popped the hood and found a bro...
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Undressing someone for the first time can be a little awkward -- best case scenario, it's adorably so. Slipping a shirt over someone else's head is usually easier said than done, and belts never unclasp quite the way you want them to. Yo...
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This human lollipop baby and her gentle pup just may be the most lovable little duo we've ever seen. As you can tell, the youngster's caring canine pal likes to keep her clean ... or she happens to taste like candy. Either way, they sure...
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A pregnant, Mexican Red Rump tarantula is crawling its way through Brooklyn. According to a flyer spotted in South Slope and posted onto Reddit for the world to collectively gasp at, the "mostly harmless" creature recently went missing a...
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Nope, that's not a beachside oil spill (thank goodness!). That's millions -- possibly billions -- of anchovies swimming unusually close to shore. Scientists and graduate students at University of California, San Diego's Scripps Instituti...
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Little Minnie seemed unconcerned about her situation, even dancing along to music on the car radio on her way to hospital.
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The slide - called "Verruckt", German for insane - sends riders down a near-vertical descent that lasts up to 20 seconds.
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Busy Hong Kong residents de-stress and burn calories in a class called 'Laughter Yoga'. Elly Park reports.
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Hessy Taft was literally the poster child of Aryan beauty before World War II. Taft is also Jewish and tells her story. Elly Park reports.
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Local fishermen believe the crocodile is a princess and the reptilian romance will improve their catch in the Pacific Ocean.
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Seattle-based company that makes marijuana-infused drinks and candies has become the first business in Washington approved to make edible pot products for the state's newly opened stores, officials said Wednesday.
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ORLANDO Florida (Reuters) - Kush the cat was quarantined in central Florida after her owner called 911 over the weekend for help, saying the ferocious feline had her trapped in her home.
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Passengers stuck on the tarmac were shocked when flight attendants appeared with dozens of pizzas.
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The blooms so far are "low-key" with yellow anthers sticking out, Joe Mooney, a spokesman for Matthaei Botanical Gardens, said Wednesday. The agave began sprouting up at a pace of 6 inches a day in the spring and now stands at more than ...
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Nemesis of New York museum's 21,000-pound blue whale: dust bunnies. Roselle Chen reports.
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The Philadelphia Zoo announces the birth of four baby lions - the first lions born at this zoo in 18 years. Roselle Chen reports.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Police here believe they have quacked the code for finding followers on social media. The 80-officer Bangor Police Department, which serves a city of about 33,000, has attracted more than 20,000 likes on its Facebo...
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Kevin Whitney's phone fell into an Oklahoma grain silo - and then went on an eight-month international journey.
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Scientists at the University of Missouri discover that the mustard plant can discern the sound waves predators make when feeding and defend themselves by creating a chemical repellant. They hope the research will lead to better methods o...
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Naked images of the Greek God Apollo have graced buildings and paintings for centuries, but his disrobed body has so shocked one Russian lawmaker that he wants to change the country's 100-ruble banknote.
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Rare newly-released footage has shown North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un limping onto a stage in the country's parliament building.
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KENNERDELL, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman says her late father has received notice to register for the nation's military draft — some 102 years too late. Martha Weaver, now in her 80s, tells The (Oil City) Derrick (http://bit.ly/VJQzHh...
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(AP) — Faced with potentially hungry — and grumpy — passengers, a Frontier Airlines pilot treated them to pizza when storms diverted a Denver-bound flight to Cheyenne, where the plane was stuck for a couple of hours. [...] they were supe...
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SEATTLE (AP) — It was little comfort to the residents of a Seattle home along Lake Washington when the naked man who crashed through their front door began loudly reciting Scripture. Police say a woman in the home called 911 at about 2 a...
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(AP) — A 4-year-old Russian blue cat named Kush is being quarantined after apparently going berserk inside a central Florida home, prompting its owners to call 911. Police say the feline scratched owners Teresa and James Gregory on their...
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PARIS (Reuters) - Mountain-climbers have made a grisly discovery in the Mont Blanc range of the Alps - the body of a young climber preserved in ice for 32 years.
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The Seneca County District Attorney's office unsealed an indictment Monday charging acting Waterloo village judge Roger Barto with five felonies, including grand larceny and insurance fraud, and four misdemeanors. Barto told police he wa...
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Why? "Because I'm mud queen!" she said, beaming. The event, hosted by the county park system, included T-shirt giveaways, mud limbo and wheelbarrow races and a cleanup area in which firefighters hosed down participants.
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How far will some actors go to get into character? Meet 10 intense artists who push themselves to the limit to add depth and realism to the characters they portray.
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(Reuters) - All Zack Danger Brown wanted to do was make potato salad and find a few dollars for ingredients. He has amassed 4,000 supporters, and at one point on Tuesday, about $50,000 in financial support from a campaign on Internet fun...
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Astronomers have studied the carbon monoxide in a galaxy over 12 billion light years from Earth and discovered that it's running out of gas, quite literally, and headed for a 'red and dead' future. The galaxy, known as ALESS65, was obser...
