Category: Weird

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

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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

The title of “Miss Ideal Working Girl” isn’t particularly odd, but the list of prizes she won is a bit strange: “a free holiday trip

“Even if it’s in airplane mode, there’s a chance that your movements can be tracked,” one privacy expert said.

Mark Carney will soon take over from Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Prime Minister (Picture: Reuters) Mark Carney could be about to make history as Canada

For weeks now, I have been sorting through 40 years of paper ephemera, both personal and business related. I never know what I’ll find in

1971: The makers of Tareyton cigarettes tried branching out into water filters. Their marketing team must have figured that both had activated charcoal filters, so