Weird Christmas Facts

The Weird Things site has an article listing various weird facts about Christmas, including: Kris Kringel, a man in his 40s, lives in North Pole, Alaska, and delivers pizzas for a living. Read more at the link above, or visit the Weird Things homepage for more weird and random information, including Penguin Gets Wet in [...]

World’s Smallest Library Fits Into a Phone Booth…Literally

Phone booth libraries are the next big…okay, the next little, tiny thing.  After the bookmobile program shut down in a small English town, the residents set up a community-run, 24/7, book-swapping library in a defunct phone booth. Read more and see photos at inhabitat.com.

Roving Animated Interactive Map of Blogged Emotions (What?)

Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, [...]

Who Put the Dead Bird in My Mailbox?

So this is weird.

Frogs Give Guacamole that Minty Green Tint

Have you ever wondered if frogs are an ingredient in guacamole?  No, probably not, because you’re not an idiot.  Now if you’re making frogamole, that’s a totally different thing. Anyway, Dan the Librarian is pretty up-in-arms about the whole (nonexistent) frog/guacamole debate, and he wants you to know that there are definitely, without question, no frogs [...]

Weirdness in Wales

Something weird for you today:  Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com is the longest registered domain name.  It’s also the actual name of a town in Wales (sans the dot com, of course).  Not to be confused with the Welsh train station, Gorsafawddachaidraigodanheddogleddollonpenrhynareurdraethceredigion.

World’s Tallest Man Saves Dolphins with Long Arms

I was searching around for weird marriage stories (to go along with my previous features of man marries dog, man marries goat, and 102-year-old man gets married) when I found one about the world’s tallest man (7’9″) marrying a woman who is more than 2 feet shorter than him.  But that’s not the most interesting part of [...]