Category: Weird

Its “Discover” feed can be all too revealing.

If only I had done these exercises as a kid, I might have been a child model. We’ve previously encountered 1940s fitness expert Harold Reilly

Tim regularly exposed himself to poison so deadly it would kill a horse (Picture: AP) A scientist injected himself with poisonous venom over 850 times

Lafayette Journal and Courier – June 23, 1951 Lafayette Journal and Courier – June 12, 1876 image source: Weird Indiana

Deborah Prum has had two near-death experiences in her lifetime and revealed that what she saw and felt during them made her ‘annoyed’ about returning

Man, this drug and the Army weren’t fooling around!

Patent granted to Amilio Antinori in 1939: My invention relates to improvements in a display device wherein a preferably slightly inclined and rotatably mounted wheel

Audiophile oddball Peter Belt was known for claiming that it’s possible to improve the sound quality of audio equipment in a variety of cheap, strange

He seems generally forgotten today, but when he was alive, Gerard Hoffnung worked in somewhat the same vein as Spike Jones, Victor Borge and Peter

Joseph Citro (left) has, as so many others do, long struggled to explain why people like Paula Jean Welden (right) have vanished in this one

Peruse the whole tome here.

Oct 1937: Dr. Matias Duque of Cuba had himself injected with live cancer cells in order to prove his hypothesis that cancer was contagious. He