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The scene started out as a peaceful protest against rising tuitions.  An estimated crowd of 50,000 too to the streets of London, England, to march, wave signs, and generally complain about the government’s latest fee hike pushed off on students.  Then, according to some reports, leftist militant groups hijacked the protest, turning it from a peaceful demonstration [...]

There are lots of intimidating, thick books in the world, but if you believe the record mavens in Jakarta, Indonesia, there’s no book bigger than the book recently put together by artist and director Damien Dematra.  Dematra is the author of The Collection, Obama and Pluralism, reported to be the thickest book ever put together. [...]

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and apparently that goes for everything from HD screens to McDonald’s franchises.  Amusingly enough, both the Cowboys HD screen and the largest McDonald’s built since 1990 are located in Irving, Texas.  The Irving McDonald’s is a supersized fast food seller, covering 7800 square feet and employing 80 people [...]

Well, that was fast.  A few weeks after the alcoholic energy drink Four Loko appeared in the national consciousness by making nine partiers sick, the drink known as “liquid crack” or “black-out in a can” has already been the recipient of its first banning.  Then, a few hours later, it was banned in a second [...]

It only took them two days to come to a decision, but the government has officially closed the book on the mysterious missile-like contrails that appeared off the coast of Los Angeles nearly two days ago.  Despite the fact that they don’t know what the plane was that caused the condensation trails, the government has [...]

Osiris the cat has a particular place he likes to roost.  Like all cats, he likes things flat, warm, and out of the way, so rather than finding a sunny windowsill, he took a perch on top of the family toaster oven.  It’s warm, flat, and out of the way of the family dog.  However, [...]

Well, this is a great example of the difference between certain cultures.  A 10-year-old Romanian girl in Spain gives birth and her mother is thrilled.  An 11-year-old Bulgarian gypsy gets married and has a baby on the same day.  However, when an 11-year-old girl gives birth in Australia, her 30-year-old baby daddy gets arrested and [...]

As fad diets go, Mark Haub’s junk food diet isn’t that unusual.  I mean, the Japanese are bananas for eating bananas, and a man in Idaho has eaten nothing but potatoes for weeks now.  Those are both pretty strange.  Still, the idea that a man would live on junk food and vitamins alone for 10 [...]

A fire started in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield neighborhood had a very unusual genesis.  As it turns out, the fire that engulfed Leonard Spagnolo’s home was started out of spite.  There wasn’t any arson involved.  Spagnolo was burning his ex-girlfriend’s photographs when the fire got out of control and spread throughout the room.  The firey send-off for [...]

It’s tough to find a good doctor these days.  When you’re a village of about 2200 people in the German countryside, it’s even harder.  The town of Lette, Germany, has been without a general practitioner since their last doctor retired in September, and the villagers are not having much luck luring a doctor into their [...]

On March 1, 1969, during a drunken performance at Miami’s Key Auditoriums, the lead singer of the Doors was arrested after someone alleged that he had exposed himself on stage by unzipping his pants and pantomiming a sex act.  However, there was no proof that any of this actually happened; Morrison was acquitted of lascivious [...]

There are a lot of dumb ways to get captured by the police.  You can accidentally photobomb the person you’re robbing.  You can accidentally call the cops and report your own crime.  However, a new standard of dumb has been met, this time by Robert Rupp.  Rupp, age 18, was busted by the police after [...]

Lots of people try lots of things to get out of jury duty.  Having been on a jury, I can understand why.  However, when John Backderf wants to get out of a jury, all he has to do is tell people about his high school friend.  When asked by the judge in a Cleveland, Ohio, [...]

Goodwill stores tend to get a lot of strange donations, but there’s not much stranger than the work of surrealists like Salvador Dali.  In Grand Junction, Colorado, the local Goodwill store has run into a bit of good look as an anonymous person donated what might be a rare Salvador Dali lithograph.  The print, called [...]