Category: Weird

Beatrice Turner wasn’t known by the public as an artist during her life. In fact, she wasn’t known by many people period, since she rarely

There were innumerable “Miss Civil Defense” contests in the 1950s, that era of duck and cover. Even Hollywood got into the act, as you can

The groundbreaking new study found that children from a particular age group can greatly benefit from having a phone. Here’s why.

June 1932: The winners of an arc-welding essay contest, sponsored by the Lincoln Electric Company of Cleveland, received their prize checks written on steel plates.

What does this machine do? Does it charge a Tesla? Solder a connection? The answer is here. And after the jump.

The title of Phillip Fry’s 1975 book, Pay no income taxes without going to jail, was pretty much a direct challenge to the IRS, to

Why spend years practicing your bowing technique, when the the automated conveyor belt-style bow can do all the work for you? Full patent here.

To create his work Fettecke, or ‘Fat Corner,’ artist Joseph Beuys stuffed butter in the corner of a room and along its baseboards. He made

Sounds like a good name for a superhero, or supervillain. Manchester Evening News – May 5, 1972

During its brief, weird existence (1973-1974), the Freelandia Air Travel Club attempted to offer both low-cost fares and swanky onboard luxuries such as waterbeds, live

A structure has seemed to appear at Area 51 on Google Maps, attracting wild conspiracy theories online among the alien-obsessed.

A teacher in Florida was fired after she called a student by their preferred name without having the permission of parents