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From the outside, Emma Cahill looks like your average school girl.  She just turned 16 and attends St Mary’s Convent School in Worcester, England.  She is active in sports and has many friends, but there’s one thing different about Emma.  At 6′5, she is the tallest teenage girl in the UK.
Fortunately for Emma, her unusual […]

The New York Marathon ran this weekend.  Surprisingly, the winner was an American; in fact, Eritrea-born Meb Keflezighi is the first American citizen to win the marathon since 1982 (the year after I was born).  However, with an estimated 42,000 runners in the marathon this year, not all of them are hardcore professionals.  There are […]

It’s the world’s largest treehouse, and it is made of nothing but reclaimed, recycled, and reused materials.  God told Horace Burgess, of Crossville, Tennessee, to build a treehouse and promised that he’d never run out of materials.  Ten stories, 100 feet of height, and $12,500 in nails later, he still hasn’t ended up short of […]

In a real-life version of Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus,  two colossal beasts squared off in the Pacific Ocean near Queensland, Australia.  However, unlike the movie, this wasn’t a Mega Shark versus a Giant Octopus.  This was a Mega Shark versus a slightly smaller shark.  Like the movie, this fight to the finish was caught […]

It’s a deliciously creepy treat!  Made from your choice of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, or a “human bone” blend of white and milk chocolate, these incredible-looking chocolate skulls are full-sized and made from an actual mold of a human skull.  You can order them from the Chocolate Skulls website.  While they’re pretty expensive […]

It’s quite possibly the greasiest random food item to ever sport an image of beloved Christmas character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.  Sue Church, a woman in North Carolina, discovered her pork-chop Rudolph while cooking (or while eating, at least) and rushed over to her local television station to show off her weird, delicious discover.  I […]

It started out as a normal birthmark on the back of a 6-year-old girl.  Li Xiaoyuan, like most of us, had a little mole.  Unlike most of us, Li’s mole started growing.  Well, the mole didn’t, but the hair inside the mole did, and now she’s become the “cat girl” of Fengkai, China.  Poor little […]

Can you spot the leaf-tailed gecko in the picture above?  How about if he didn’t have his mouth open?  It’s not so easy then, is it?  The Daily Mail has this and many other impressive examples of natural camouflage on display, and they’re all just as good or better as the one above.  It’s amazing […]

Every night, this man is in someone’s dreams.  If you’ve seen this face, you’re not along.  Since 2006, more than 2000 people around the world have had dreams in which they claim to have seen his mysterious face.  Read about his unusual history, see other portraits, and explore the theories behind the most common dream […]

It’s not the most unusual list of pumpkin carvings I’ve ever seen.  Aside from a few surprises, it’s your standard assortment of horror movie characters, sci-fi monsters, robots, and that kind of thing.  However, it’s the details that went into these 130 creative Halloween pumpkins passed on via Neatorama that gets me going.  These pumpkins […]

In what has to be one of the most unusual publicity-gathering ploys I’ve ever seen, Playboy Magazine has recently announced that they’re going to have their first animated covergirl.  And she’s not Lara Croft, to my amazement.  Nope, instead Playboy is going after the animation fan with their selection of Marge Simpson for the cover.  […]

Of the many personalities involved in World War II, you would be hard pressed to find a guy more quotable than former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill.  He was, by any stretch of the imagination, a real man’s man.  Not only was he Prime Minister twice, he also served in the military, was a POW, […]

One of the problems with unusual pets is that they can be fairly expensive.  For example, one of the hottest new pet trends is a £700 animal that stands only 14 inches tall and weighs, at most, 65 pounds.  However, it’s intimately familiar to any fan of Babe, Charlotte’s Web, or Green Acres.  They’re called […]

I have to admit that I have a serious fascination with Chernobyl.  As the world’s most famous nuclear disaster, it’s a great study on what might happen to our cities and homes after an exchange of atomic weapons.  As a Cold War baby, I have a pretty fierce fascination with all things nuclear war.  Photographer […]

One of the most holy relics of the Roman Catholic Church is the Shroud of Turin.  One of the most famous objects in the world, this 14-foot 4-inch by 3-foot 7-inch cloth is supposedly the burial shroud of Jesus.  Unfortunately, says organic chemist Luigi Garlaschelli from the University of Pavia in Italy, it’s also a […]