Category: Weird

Danielle endured a five-month hospital stay including intense rehabilitation before she was able to walk again (Picture: NCA NHS Trust/MEN Media) A woman was left

This photo was recently circulating online and caught the attention of Snopes which verified that it’s a real image. (Though I’m not sure why people

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Created by designer Paul Cocksedge. It stands about 3 feet high and weighs almost 250 lbs. You can buy one for £700 (about $900). The

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Apple’s Crash Detection and Emergency SOS can call 911 for you in an accident. Here’s how it works.

Said to be the new trend among young people. It involves gluing yarn to your face and then painting over it with makeup. To get the yarn off, you have to soak your face in adhesive remover. Of course, when the media says it’s a trend, that means the reporter found two or three people who have done it. More info: people.com

Lucia Gorman, now 24, found herself an internet sensation in 2018 when her schoolmate approached her at an Edinburgh club, and someone got a photo of her face.

My Japan, one of the most unusual documentary films ever made, dares to question America’s invincibility. But I wonder whether in fact it’s the unheralded first film of the atomic age. Is it too far out to imagine that its real purpose was to desensitize Americans to the horrors of the A-bomb? By citing American weaknesses and vulnerabilities and seeming to praise Japanese patriotism, strength and resolve, it challenges Americans to support a strategy of total war. Its stealthy assertion: that the Japanese military machine will not be broken without an unprecedented effort. It supports this assertion by presenting highly charged and emotional images with an bogus “insider” narration that is at once deceptive and inflammatory.

It certainly is, for most. Last year Guinagh got $500 for his four-year work in translating Virgil’s ‘Aeneid,’ while his wife won $1,000 in a 25-word slogan contest. Pittston Gazette – Sep 18, 1954 If you’re interested, you can find Guinagh’s translation on archive.org.

Don’t fall for this common scheme.

As the weather gets cooler and damper, moss can quickly take hold of your lawn – but now Richard Jackson has a natural solution that kills off moss in 7 days

What he said he swallowed on a bet: 13 safety razors complete with blades, 21 nails, a fountain pen, a pencil, 56 toothbrushes, 20 chop sticks, a piece of wire netting, and part of the ribs of an umbrella. I doubt he ate these things on a bet. I’m guessing he suffered from acuphagia (the compulsion to eat sharp metal objects). Edwardsville Intelligencer – July 31, 1956