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While many people celebrate professional baseball’s greatest home runs, or its best players, we choose to honor the wackiest, most ridiculous, or downright embarrassing things to happen during a game. Some of these, many would like to forget, but we won’t let them. 10. Plague of Midges The Cleveland Indians baseball stadium, and much of [...]

Recently, three women who had been kidnapped separately over a decade ago were found alive and well, and the brothers who had kidnapped them all were jailed. It was a shocking but welcome turn of events, as the loved ones of those who are kidnapped too seldom receive this kind of news. It’s more common than [...]

There have been many TV channels throughout the years, some good and some bad. The good ones stay and cater to the audience. The bad ones either ran so cheaply, or had such a strange premise, they failed hard. These are of the latter: 10. The Puppy Channel In 1997, after seeing how TV was [...]

Every company in the world wants to increase their name recognition; after all, people cannot buy products from you if they do not know you exist. However, sometimes companies’ marketing stunts are so absurd, so questionable that it leads us to think there may actually be such a thing as bad publicity. Below are ten publicity [...]

Albinism is when a given creature has a partial or complete a melanin deficiency, which leads to the creature looking like God turned the hue and saturation, all the way down. Here are ten of the rarest or most bizarre albino animals. Because why not? 10. Albino Manta Ray Manta rays are like the living [...]

Unless you are fascinated by mummies, the beauty of their well-preserved bodies may be lost on you. But surely you can appreciate the shapely leg of a woman from the Bronze Age, the supple skin of a wife from the Western Han Dynasty, and the enigmatic smile on the face of King Tutankhamun’s grandmother. The [...]

Throughout history, mental disorders have been regarded with fear, bias, and ignorance.  Though medicine has drastically improved for the mentally ill in the last century, mainstream society still has a relatively uninformed and biased view against individuals with mental disorders.  This is particularly harmful because every year up to ¼ of Americans fit the criteria [...]

Christmastime is here.  We all have our own holiday traditions – in my family we watch a Christmas movie on Christmas Eve and stuff our faces.  Your family might do something different.  Shoot, you might even be from another country, where there are what seem (to us) like some pretty wacky traditions.  Some you might [...]

Do you believe in reincarnation? If you’re like most people, either you reject the idea outright or don’t know enough about it to make an informed decision. What is not generally known to the average westerner, however, is that reincarnation has a good deal of hard evidence to support it, and that this evidence is [...]

Freak shows were much more popular fifty years ago than they are today. In fact, they are now illegal in some states. Freak shows were common at state fairs, carnivals, and circus sideshows. Curtains would be tightly drawn around the various “three-headed lady” or “alligator boy” tents. Curious customers wondered what was inside, and perhaps [...]