Some of the Funniest Things Happen in the Most Unlikely and Unexpected Places

Chilean robo-socialism control chamber invented by a Brit with a gigantic beard. Royal Mail rubber band. Russian floating nuclear power station. A cross between a spoon and a fork. Not to be confused with a knork. Meteorology by frightened annelid. How to measure your emotional response to androids. A Chinese robot, according to the Japanese, that will save its country from corporate capitalism with its crotch cannon. A congealed lump of fat and non-biodegradable buildup in sewer systems. A metre-long, tonne specimen was discovered under London in September Microsoft's attempt to bring you the interwebzzz inside the portable public loo.

Committee to End Pay Toilets in America. A s organization whose campaign was to end pay toilets in the United States of America. List of people who died on the toilet. Possibly the largest example of fossilised human feces ever found, discovered under the future site of a Lloyds Bank in England. Not all injuries and deaths linked to toilets are urban legends. A fake penis used to beat drug tests complete with dried urine, heater, syringe. Comes in white, tan, Latino, brown, and black.

International holiday declared by the United Nations. An unusual traditional garment of western New Guinea , also known as the "penis gourd". Meat dress of Lady Gaga. A marketing mishap, many well-meaning young women, and vanity came together to form this demographic. A T-shirt with wolves howling at the moon that gained popularity after one person wrote a parodic review for it on Amazon. Two Japan Airlines aircraft were roughly meters away from causing the deadliest aviation accident in history. British Rail flying saucer.

China National Highway traffic jam. The world's longest-lasting traffic jam, in which some drivers were stuck for up to 5 days, moving only 1km 0. The day that Sweden changed its traffic directionality. A concept car with 3 wheels. It was 20 feet 6. Get Out and Push Railroad. A confusion over units leads to a Boeing plane running out of fuel mid-flight and becoming a glider. Not your local Bible-thumping preacher but the bolt on the top of a helicopter that connects it to the rotor blades.

Loose wheel nut indicator. An Iranian refugee who lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport from until A car buried in a time capsule in and unearthed in , only to discover that it had suffered 50 years of water damage underground and wouldn't start. Why passengers must be discouraged from flushing or using toilets while the train is at a station. A Soviet attempt at a turbofan -powered crop duster. It is the slowest jet aircraft to enter production as well as the only jet biplane or jet crop duster to exist.

A three-wheeled car formerly manufactured in England that could be driven with a motorcycle license. The delivery of mail by rocket or missile, attempted by various organisations in many different countries, with varying levels of success. A color especially formulated for use on school buses in the United States.

The concept and art of using intermodal containers to build stuff. An association formed to oppose the custom of addressing railway sleeping car porters as "George" regardless of their actual name. All railroads lead to Rome. With "no smoking" signs, although tobacco was unknown to ancient Romans Westray to Papa Westray flight. The world's shortest passenger flight, lasting as little as 53 seconds. Just don't expect an in-flight meal. Niue's top-level domain, which is regulated by Sweden and almost exclusively used by European countries.

A well-known computer Easter egg found in the Netscape and Mozilla series of browsers. He's so smart, he has his own cellular automaton. A pair of mathematicians who built a supercomputer out of spare parts. Refers to programming languages designed as a test of the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, or as jokes, and not with the intention of being adopted for real-world programming. If you thought the blue screen of death was bad, this computer error would hamper your quest to reach Nirvana.

Protocol for controlling and monitoring coffee pots. Attempting to use a teapot while brewing coffee will yield you the "HTTP I'm a teapot" error message.

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IP over Avian Carriers. An Internet protocol for sending data packets using homing pigeons. A computer peripheral designed to emit smells for websites and emails, later named one of the "Worst Tech Products" by PC Magazine. How an image of a nude Playboy model became the industry-standard digital image compression test subject.

Want to panic a Unix user? Display an error that their printer is on fire. Vintage Macintosh computers-turned- fishtanks. A water-based analogue computer used to model the United Kingdom economy, bringing a new meaning to the term liquidity. A academic paper which argues that computer programming should be understood as a branch of mathematics, and that the formal provability of a program is a major criterion for correctness.

Spam filtering based on text strings can cause problems. A biblical-themed operating system designed by a single schizophrenic programmer over the course of 10 years.

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Trojan room coffee pot. The fascinating target of the world's first webcam: A 3D model which has become a standard reference object and something of an in-joke in the computer graphics community. A joke considered to be both "the world's funniest" and "the world's worst". Also a documentary of the same name. A unique experiment in "broadwebcasting", Bigipedia is the website on your radio. In association with Chianto—"Officially recognised by the EU as a wine-type product or by-product". A fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in , and, except for his "service" in World War II, has been continuously enrolled at the school ever since.

List of defunct amusement parks. A Hong Kong resident gets into an uncomfortably tense argument with a fellow passenger—all caught on video. A perennial parody of Conan the Barbarian that has appeared in film, television, comics, and fan fiction. Cultural depictions of Napoleon.

It's not just Hello Kitty and Pikachu. A recent development in American popular culture in which the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of dark humor and horror elements. Wherein a group of people quickly meet up, engage in a random action such as a pillow fight , then disappear just as quickly. Do your bit to save the rainforest —have an orgy! One of the latest trends to be popularized by hyphy culture. Bad weather isn't the only reason to avoid the summit of Mount Washington. The approving use of Nazi-era style, imagery, and paraphernalia in clothing and popular culture.

New York got blown up by the Tsar Bomba! Well, at least you can do that in this. An activity in which assorted tricks are used to manipulate a pen in aesthetically pleasing ways. A French entertainer famous in Victorian times for being able to break wind at will. One tough guy who, to escape from death, cut off his own arm with a dull knife after a boulder fell on it.

Popular jokes in India , based on stereotypes of Sikhs. List of school pranks. The fictitious mining of treacle molasses in a raw form similar to coal. The World Famous Bushman. You kids get off my lawn! A modern art piece created by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. His sister, who mistook it for trash, threw it out. Chamber of Art and Curiosities. A larger-than-life, ton sculpture of a brontosaurus in the desert of Southern California west of Palm Springs.

Dinny's companion is "Mr. Rex," a ton sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square. An 18 foot, 13, pound concrete sculpture of a troll clutching a VW beetle located in Fremont. A giant straw Yuletide goat that is the target of frequent arson attacks and vandalism.

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Oxford man has had a foot 7. The entrance to Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster, an image which first appears in Anglo-Saxon art. An artist who attempted to draw the "Picture of Everything", a massive painting containing drawings of thousands of people and items, both real and imaginary. NY Hip hop graffiti knitters. A Picasso painting that purportedly would have sold for a record price had its owner, Steve Wynn , not accidentally poked a hole in it, and which eventually did sell for a different record price.

Largest photographs in the world. List of fictional colors. Museum of Bad Art. Paintings by Adolf Hitler. The Nazi dictator and perpetrator of one of the worst genocides was also a painter. Used for plain tobacco packaging. Portland International Airport carpet. A Mexican sculptor who made a name for himself in ice and snow sculpture after winning gold at the Winter Olympics. There's also a "Holy Mackerel", Batman. Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism. A statue in Liverpool that's half-lamb, half-banana. An odd painting of a grinning face, that used to be on the Palace Amusements building in Asbury Park, New Jersey before it was demolished.

Central Asian history has never been cuter. Osama bin Laden makes an appearance as a turban-wearing stray cat. Archie Meets the Punisher. The first applicant to be rejected from the Legion of Super-Heroes , his superpower was the ability to temporarily detach either arm and use it as a club with the other.

A comic book character from none other than Vertigo Comics. Name of a Japanese manga comic whose subject matter is as surreal as its title. In animation , humour takes precedence over the ordinary laws of physics. A group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons pulled from syndication due to their racist depictions of black people. A fictional family in the style of a Scottish clan , from which a great number of Walt Disney Company 's comic book characters held their origin.. Donald Duck won an Oscar as a Hitler-saluting Nazi. A curious abundance of gorillas in comic book plots during the Silver Age of Comics.

Homosexuality in the Batman franchise. For half a century, Batman and Dick Grayson have been rumored to have a relationship. An open-source webcomic character. Nothing says s in the USA more than a spinoff of Schoolhouse Rock with superheroes who teach the metric system. A Marvel Comics superhero with no special powers except immortality , who has been killed in ways including crushing, burning, self-impalement on giant novelty scissors, bear trap, cannon, chainsaw, piranhas, ferrets, spear, and python, and alcohol poisoning three times.

Prone to fits of rage upon returning to life. Human- cephalopod sexual relations, popular in hentai. An animated series about everyone in the world's magical uncle and grandpa. Published in as a Victorian children's book and described as "a round game for merry parties", the object of the game was to quickly recite alphabetical tongue-twisting mock-Latin gibberish. A group of science fiction authors get together and deliberately write an absolutely horrible novel to fool and embarrass a " vanity publisher ".

The Book of Heroic Failures. A book which glorifies failure. The book was a success and thus declared a "failure as a failure". La Bougie du Sapeur. A French newspaper published every February 29th. An essay written by Benjamin Franklin about flatulence. Writer of a 15,page manuscript along with several thousand watercolor paintings and other drawings illustrating the story, who rarely left his small room.

His word was worth millions a few years after his death. Early American editions of The Hobbit. English As She Is Spoke. A 19th-century Portuguese — English conversational guide and phrase book that is regarded as a classic of unintentional humour since it was apparently the product of translating a Portuguese—French phrase book by non-English-speaking Portuguese with the help of a French—English phrase book.

An infamously bad heroic fantasy novella , written in by Jim Theis and circulated anonymously in science fiction fandom since then. Supposedly the shortest story possible in the English language, though Ernest Hemingway had nothing to do with it. At the start of the 16th century, British schoolmasters were insulting one another.

In Latin, of course. A non-existent novel that was the subject of a hoax intended to criticize the manner in which best-seller lists are determined. A poem written by a Chinese poet in Classical Chinese. It can be read and understood by all who understand the language, even though it consists entirely of the word "shi" repeated 92 times in different tones. List of works with the subtitle "Virtue Rewarded". A racist stock character who helps out white protagonists.

A theory which states that Christopher Marlowe 's unnatural death was a hoax and that he continued to write and publish under the pseudonym " William Shakespeare ". A homoerotic homophonic translation of Homer: A day, O Achilles. The Meaning of Hitler. My Immortal fan fiction. Rowling 's wizarding world. Someone who may have been the author of the piece almost got a major publishing deal for her memoirs. Naked Came the Stranger. Journalists prove a point when their intentionally awful sex novel becomes a bestseller. Later the basis of a porn film starring Darby Lloyd Rains.

Order of the Occult Hand. A very serious essay by Harry Frankfurt sketching a philosophical theory of, well, bullshit. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Understanding the political context of the mid-to-late s in the United States will give you a different understanding of the gold, silver and emerald symbolism, among other things. It doesn't cover music, but does list the names of alleged homosexuals, calling for their deaths. The McGonagall of prose. Lewis competed as to who could read her longest without laughing. A great conspiracy that concealed the identity of the true author of "Shakespeare's" works, implying that all contemporary references to Shakespeare's authorship were fraudulent or mistaken.

Anti-Stratfordians can take heart that there really are works attributed to Shakespeare that weren't written by him! Angus McDiarmad, a native Scots-Gaelic speaker, writes a book on a Scottish Highland area with the help of an English dictionary to great comic effect and is termed "the world's worst author".

Le Train de Nulle Part. A number of prominent musicians have died at this age, though statisticians attribute the "club" to apophenia - seeing patterns in random data. See also the related white lighter myth. A three-piece movement composed by John Cage in which the musicians are instructed to not play a single note. The practice of taking lyrics of foreign songs, "mishearing" them into English, and producing a Flash video to go along with it. As Slow As Possible. A piece of music by John Cage to be performed until What happens to Wikipedia article titles when two different bands with the same exact name both release self-titled albums.

The Boy Bands Have Won. As of August , it holds the record for the longest album title. The term was invented to make fun of music journalists and bloggers who hype "the next big thing". Ironically, they then wrote about chillwave as "the next big thing". The ancestor of Vaporwave. An entire record by Green Day whose master tracks were stolen. The very complicated story of the Beach Boys ' " teenage symphony to God ", an album of psychedelic children's songs about spiritual rebirth , American imperialism , cartoons, and exercising.

The superstition that any composer of symphonies, from Beethoven onwards, will die soon after writing their own Ninth Symphony. Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of the Soul. Dark Side of the Rainbow. The Belgian entry of the Eurovision Song Contest whose lyrics spoke precisely of the event in which they took part.

That time John Fogerty was sued for sounding like himself. The organizers spent so much money promoting the event that they ran out of money to spend on the actual event. They were later faced with eight lawsuits. That time a receptionist convinced The New York Times that "wack slacks" was slang for ripped jeans and "lamestain" meant an uncool person.

A pianist who had many doctored recordings falsely attributed to her long after she stopped performing in public. A string quartet by Karlheinz Stockhausen that must be played in four circling helicopters , the sound remixed, chopper sounds and all, for an audience on the ground. Mercurial hippie outcast of the Hollywood music biz that never received financial compensation for his songs and records. Thought to be dead after the s, but then resurfaced with a blog in aiming to set the record straight about his life story. Jeg har set en rigtig negermand. A Danish 1 single from , extolling the virtues of racial equality while calling a "negro man" "black as a bucket of tar".

An American soprano famous for her singing ability or lack thereof. Leck mich im Arsch. Never officially released, and yet fans and critics can argue that it's the best "album" by the Dave Matthews Band. List of musical works in unusual time signatures. What's the most absurd time signature you can imagine? List of silent musical compositions. Not to be confused with " The Sound of Silence ", these songs don't have really much to hear.

List of songs topping polls for worst songs. What happens when you replace the lyrics in a music video with lyrics that describe what's actually happening in the music video? A album by Lou Reed that consists of 64 minutes of audio feedback , widely believed to have either been an elaborate joke, or an attempt by Reed to escape from a record label contract.

A blind composer, theoretician, poet, and inventor of musical instruments who dressed like a viking and lived as a street musician in New York between the s to s. A one-man band who has self-released over albums through his home-based mailing service since Later noted as a pioneer of lo-fi music and indie rock. The Most Unwanted Song. Featuring operatic rapping, a children's choir urging listeners to go to Wal-Mart , bagpipes, cowboy music, and political slogans shouted through a bullhorn.

A system written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , in which the musical piece is decided randomly by playing dice. This album by Jean-Michel Jarre had only a single copy produced, which was then auctioned off like a painting. The master tapes were subsequently destroyed, making the copy unique.

You can get killed for singing Frank Sinatra 's signature tune in the Philippines. The Beach Boys' collaboration with Charles Manson. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah. The whimsical universe surrounding the P Funk all stars. Was Paul McCartney replaced by a lookalike in the s? Take an unfinished studio album, hold a press conference at Kmart , and put on a show in countries around the world, complete with a spinning mirrorball lemon, a giant martini olive, a large golden arch, and the largest video screen ever toured.

That would be U2 's —98 tour in a nutshell. As part of a crackdown on drug cartels in Rio de Janeiro , this uniquely Brazilian form of gangsta rap cannot legally be performed or broadcast on the radio. A mystery wrapped in an enigma related to Pink Floyd , which has remained unsolved since it appeared on Usenet in A song mentioned in a top songs list of a notable magazine, that was long-believed by some to be non-existent because collectors were unable to find a recording or further information on it until 33 years after it was written.

None of this band's members really wanted to form a band, nor did they really have any musical talent, but hey, a fortune teller predicted success, so off they went William Shatner's musical career. His rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds regularly wins radio station competitions to find the "worst music of all time".

To Anacreon in Heaven. An 18th-century drinking song whose melody was later adopted for " The Star-Spangled Banner ". Unbelievably, the band's name was purely coincidental. An instrument in Newfoundland , an insult everywhere else. Abrasive single by Cornish electronic musician Richard D. James, otherwise known as Aphex Twin.

At a full 1. A rock band made up of elderly musicians. As of [update] , the oldest member had lived to An Alan Smithee Film: A movie about a director who makes a bad movie, but can't remove his name from the credits because his real name is Alan Smithee. In reality, the movie about the movie was so bad that director Arthur Hiller was credited as Alan Smithee to disguise himself from the production. A film scheduled to be released on New Year's Eve that is planned to be 30 days long.

A trailer released in lasted 7 hours 20 minutes, and another one due in is expected to last three days. It is then planned for the film to be destroyed after its sole showing. A mysterious object usually of extraterrestrial origin in a film that is there simply to cause a sense of wonder. The answer to the question: What could be worse than a Sharknado? A completed feature-length film with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd that has never been released and may never be released. The best way to keep the paparazzi away from your movie: A mockumentary released in that asserts that Canada is subverting the United States by taking over its media.

A mockumentary that claimed that the World Cup was never actually held. Despite being revealed as a hoax at the end, people still believed it. The Cure for Insomnia. The Day the Clown Cried. Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer 's favorite time of the year. A film by Andy Warhol consisting entirely of eight hours of still footage of the Empire State Building.

Proof that the Soviets got there, thirty years before Armstrong and Aldrin didn't. Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. A Hong Kong actor repeatedly cast in Stephen Chow films as a nose-picking, bearded transvestite. List of films featuring giant monsters. List of films that most frequently use the word "fuck". The world's longest movie ever made, it follows the entire five week process of making and selling a pedometer in reverse chronological order.

A movie that runs for 48 hours. Despite its title, it isn't the world's longest movie , but the jury's still out on whether it's the most meaningless The Hands of Fate. A low-budget film created by a fertilizer salesman from Texas, which is largely considered to be the worst film of all time. The second longest film ever shot: The directors have a point. The film that was released to drive-ins when it was only halfway completed. In order to get around this, the ending consists of narration explaining what happened to the main characters and the titular monster.

As if that wasn't bad enough, it spawned a sequel. There are certain rules one follows when making an Oscar film. Including mental illness , the Holocaust and Meryl Streep in your film also helps. A Godzilla -esque film, supposedly an allegory for unchecked capitalism, created by Kim Jong-il and a director whom he kidnapped. The first ever moving picture , which lasted for an epic two seconds. Why prefers his martini shaken. Dirk Benedict and snakes.

Long before the day of Samuel L. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Large marshmallow mascot seen in the film Ghostbusters. Possibly the most frequently quoted and misquoted line from a movie ever. Surf Nazis Must Die. A film consisting entirely 70 minutes of Taylor Mead 's buttocks. A stock sound effect first recorded in and used in dozens of films including seven Star Wars films, two Lord of the Rings films and Kill Bill. A 30 million dollar film sponsored by FIFA about how great they are.

Came out right after the FIFA corruption case came to light. One of the lowest grossing sports movies of all time. Al Murray's Compete for the Meat. A British game show where the top prize is a frozen chicken and the second prize is some sausages. An April Fools joke by an ITV science show leads many to believe that scientists were being kidnapped to prepare for the colonization of Mars.

Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos. Friday night death slot. A man who came to the BBC for a job interview is instead interviewed on its news channel about the Apple Corps v. Heil Honey I'm Home! I Wanna Marry "Harry". An American reality show to find Prince Harry a wife. Meghan Markle was not a contestant. Metaphor for the point at which one can speak of a TV show as having had its best days behind it. K Foundation Burn a Million Quid. Why did the K Foundation burn a million pounds in cash? Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident.

TV signals in Chicago are twice overpowered on 22 November by broadcasts featuring a person possibly a male disguised as the s virtual TV character Max Headroom.

The source of the broadcasts and the people involved remain unknown. Ten years previously, the sound during a broadcast by the UK's Southern Television is replaced by a voice claiming to be an extraterrestrial named "Vrillon". Mull of Kintyre test. When can a human penis be shown on British television? A system designed to enhance films with odors. Used once for the film Scent of Mystery and never again. Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome. A tragic condition suffered by some young characters on soap operas.

A Palestinian children's show produced by Hamas and co-hosted by various costumed characters , including one resembling Mickey Mouse. Most of said costumed characters are killed by Jews in some violent manner. A genre of television episodes with controversial life lessons interweaved into the storyline, popularized by Blossom. A Channel 4 project for all those who think there aren't enough jerks on TV. How a child with autism, and Detective Munch , are responsible for more than TV series. Britons regularly cause massive power surges by simultaneously making tea during program breaks.

The star of a film about him setting the world's high score Atari video game burial. Are your video games not selling? Why not do what Atari did—bury them in a New Mexican landfill? Over the Road Racing. A racing video game that is considered one of the worst of all time due to its opponents that don't move , the ability to drive through buildings and accelerate infinitely in reverse , and a notorious "YOU'RE WINNER!

A special key or key combination used in computer games to quickly hide the game from superiors or coworkers. Ever had a dog bored at home and jealous of your game playing? Try this video game console for dogs that rewards pet treats for winning puzzles! Communist Mutants from Space. An unintentional virtual epidemic in World of Warcraft , which became an important medical case study.

A challenge playthrough of Spelunky in which you carry an eggplant and toss it into the final boss 's face. The Great Giana Sisters. A video game where the dead Deng Xiaoping is a weapon of mass destruction. A video game released in where the player gets to assassinate President John F. Can you keep the disembodied head of rapper Kanye West out of his "zone"? Who knew that putting an old man playing a banjo in a video game that had nothing to do with him would make for an effective marketing campaign?

A compendium of computer games all created to allow the owner to scam his or her friends. List of video games notable for negative reception. All your base are belong to us. A phrase that originated in the video game Zero Wing and sparked an Internet phenomenon in and Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash. A Facebook group dedicated to memes about American politician Bernie Sanders.

Female users of social networking websites agree to determine whether their scandalous clothing can cause earthquakes. Cute cat theory of digital activism. Here kids, watch these YouTube videos with Elsa and Spider-man , I'm sure nothing inappropriate will be on them Every time you masturbate God kills a kitten. Every long, protracted online discussion always ends with comparisons of others to Hitler. A web page featuring dancing hamsters set to music. The music itself a sample was sampled in a song , and made No. An Internet meme in Russian internet culture.

Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia. Talk about a major violation of WP: Or how a fat kid dancing to the O-Zone song " Dragostea din tei " in front of his computer became very popular. A small Internet phenomenon where certain types of software including various Microsoft and Linux operating systems are depicted as young anime women.

A comic genre with balls and other bits for different countries doing what real countries do. A fake Usenet user whose computer-generated postings were created using Markov chain techniques. The name of a purported time traveller from the year Very erotic very violent. Mexico City Alebrije Parade. Parade and contest of giant alebrijes "colorful monsters". A concerto of toy pianos. Banana production in Iceland. A frozen fish scaled, gutted and deboned, then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme. A common food dye manufactured from insects.

A Chinese dish which involves preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg for several weeks to several months before eating. A common but sometimes lethal game played with marshmallows. Bread made by English women in the seventeenth century that involved kneading and pressing against the woman's buttocks. A Polish soldier noted for his unusually large appetite.

While imprisoned in England, he remained ravenous despite being put on ten times the rations of other inmates, eating the prison cat, at least twenty rats and, on a regular basis, the prison candles. Dishes consisting of animals stuffed into each other. Turducken and whole stuffed camel are prominent examples. For all you vegetarian cannibals out there, the tofu product designed to look and taste like human flesh. There have been more than limited-edition seasonal and regional flavors of Kit Kats produced in Japan since Ketchup as a vegetable. Lychee and Dog Meat Festival.

Known as Monsieur Mangetout or "Mr Eat-all". A slapstick stunt, or a kind of political protest. And there's even a list of victims. Products produced from The Simpsons. A patented peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The most delicious foodstuff amongst all alien species of Babylon 5. A Cornish fish pie that looks back at you. Fermented soybean curd is apparently a delicacy for some people. One external link describes its scent as "a used tampon baking in the desert.

A slightly built Japanese competitive eater.

He has consumed 63 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and holds a host of eating records for other foods. A French showman and soldier noted for his unusual eating habits. Among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed an eel whole without chewing. An Australian method for drinking tea through Tim Tam biscuits. United States military chocolate. Vegetarianism of Adolf Hitler. Hitler believed that a vegetarian diet could both alleviate his personal health problems and spiritually renew the Aryan race.

Who Ate All the Pies? A chant sung by football fans in England and Scotland , aimed at supposedly overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters. Not coffee made from civets , but rather from ordinary coffee beans the civet has, well, excreted. A marketing battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi. A German beer named after the Austrian village of Fucking. Why drink tap water, when you can pay to have a cool, refreshing glass of Coca-Cola or freshly chilled bottled tap water? A famous speech successfully both attacking and defending booze. The ISO standard cup of tea.

The world's first open-source beverage. Soda and candy eruption. A Pittsburgh take-out restaurant, exclusively serving ethnic foods from countries in which the United States is in conflict. A Hitler-themed Indian restaurant, formerly known as "Hitlers' Cross" [ sic ]. Where McDonald's employees learn their stuff. A McDonald's knock-off in Iraq. A Los Angeles restaurant that suddenly and unexpectedly closed in , giving rise to an urban legend about the fate of its proprietors. A restaurant chain whose sole proprietor is the Government of North Korea.

Georgia Tech American football game. The most lopsided game in American football history featuring the godfather of American football himself, John Heisman. DeVry men's basketball game. The only time in the history of association football in which an official championship ended up being championed ex aequo by more than one team, in this case there were three.

Joseph women's basketball game. How a dying teenager's wish grew into one of the year's biggest stories in American sports. Australia 31—0 American Samoa. Australian Football International Cup. Baseball metaphors for sex. Yale University 's contribution to the world of team sports. Not Baseball in the United Kingdom , but an intermediate species between cricket and baseball played in the hinterlands of Wales and Western England.

The noble art of competitive snorkelling through cold, noxious bog water. A ruleless drunken rugby-like sport played every Easter Monday since the s in Hallaton , Leicestershire. Be careful where you run with that ball, Mark. A sport that alternates rounds of speed chess and boxing. A WCW pay per view event in wasn't so unusual. A professional wrestling match in North Korea , however, is a once in a lifetime event. Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake.

An annual event held each May at Cooper's Hill near Gloucester. What could go wrong with encouraging people to bring unwanted disco albums to a baseball doubleheader and blowing up the records between games? A sporting competition where padded dwarfs are thrown by competitors. A sport played annually on St. The last goal was scored in A sport whereby participants take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing.

A little-known way to score points in American football left over from rugby. It was last used successfully in the pro game in A Frisian sport where the objective is to jump over a trench. The last-minute comeback in this American football game wasn't seen by television viewers, as the network cut off the game to show the children's film Heidi. International Rutabaga Curling Championship.

Rutabaga curling originated in the frosty December climes of Ithaca, New York. Isner—Mahut match at the Wimbledon Championships. A record-breaking hour, 5-minute tennis match at the Wimbledon Championships. New Testament athletic metaphors. One-armed versus one-legged cricket. According to Charles Dickens: The Play American football. A racing league intending to use rocket-powered aircraft to race a closed-circuit air racetrack.

Smiggin Holes Winter Olympic bid. A Major League Baseball game that tried to attract fans with a beer promotion got progressively worse, until an all-out riot broke out at Cleveland Stadium. Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup. An ice hockey trophy with a long history of abuse, superstition, and tests of buoyancy. Created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Underarm bowling incident of An infamous end to an international cricket match that was arguably not cricket at all.

One need not carry one's own wife to take part, although you may want to run away as fast as possible afterwards. A Cambridge University tradition adopted by rugby league and rugby union, the Wooden Spoon is awarded to the last-placed team in a competition.

Something like rugby , played on horseback, with a dead goat. One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the egg of another participant with one's own egg intending to break the other's, without breaking one's own. Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat. Sydney's other Olympic mascot. A stunt in which a live ferret is put down one's trousers. Did Katz write a poor article on an actual sport, or did he make it up? A popular sport in 17th and 18th century Europe that involved tossing foxes and other live animals as high as possible into the air. Hang a live goose from a rope, gallop under it on a horse and pull its head off.

What could be simpler? A uniquely British response to foot and mouth disease. Legend of the Octopus. A sport which once attracted crowds of thousands to watch free divers wrestle North Pacific Giant Octopus from the waters of the Puget Sound. Watership up, Watership Down. A Christmas tradition in minor league ice hockey. Finch -singing in Belgium.

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Curse of the Colonel.

20 seriously weird places around the world

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A swimmer from Equatorial Guinea who, in the Sydney Olympics , took twice as long as anyone else in the m freestyle. The lake keeps its deep pink colour year-round, which some scientists say is down to high salinity combined with the presence of a salt-loving algae species known as Dunaliella salina and pink bacteria known as halobacteria. These beautiful travertine terraces in northern Iran are an incredible natural phenomenon that developed over thousands of years.

Travertine is a type of limestone formed from the calcium deposit in flowing water, and in this case it's two hot springs with different mineral properties. The unusual reddish colour of the terraces is down to the high content of iron oxide in one of the springs. Found in the northwest of Hunan Province in China, these staggering limestone pinnacles are covered in lush greenery and often shrouded in mist.

A cable car goes as far as Huangshi village and from here there are plenty of trails to take in the breathtaking views of Tianzi 'son of heaven' ; unsurprisingly the inspiration for the floating mountains in the blockbuster movie Avatar. Visible only from the air or from a metal viewing tower beside the highway, some of the unexplained shapes are up to m in length and each one is executed in a single continuous line. Although the US Coastguard disputes any such area exists, conspiracy theories thrive on stories about unusual magnetic readings and ships, planes and people who have disappeared here without a trace.

Separated from mainland Africa more than six million years ago, this remote island looks like the set of a sci-fi film. The hills only earn their 'chocolate' nickname in the dry season when the foliage goes from lush green to brown. Very cool and very weird, this beach is covered in a type of seaweed called Sueda, which turns bright red in autumn. Thirty kilometres southwest of Panjin, these tidal wetlands are an important nature reserve for migrating birds. Only a small section of the beach is open to the public, but it can be explored via a wooden walkway that stretches out to sea.

Shrouded in myth, megalithic stone jars are scattered across Xieng Khouang Province in groups from one to one hundred. A working theory is that the huge cylindrical jars were used in ancient funeral ceremonies, though local legend has it that the jars were used to brew rice wine for giants. Soft sandstone has, for many years, been eroded by wind and water to form strange pinnacles or hoodoos that some think resemble goblins.

A stretch of the northern shore on remote Yttygran Island, 82km off the coast of Alaska , has become a macabre tourist destination. Massive whale jawbones, ribs and vertebrae stand horizontal in the ground forming an eerie alleyway. Over time, the waves broke everything down into colourful pebbles and the beach became a major tourist attraction — now ironically under threat because visitors are taking home the glass.

This otherworldly geyser is on private land on the edge of Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Created accidentally in after an energy company drilled down into geothermal waters, today a scalding fountain erupts up to five feet high and the resulting mineral build up means the cone is growing by several inches each year.

The brilliant hues of red and green are down to thermophilic algae. Originally the cats were encouraged as the island produced silk and mice are a natural predator of silkworms. Local fishermen regarded them as good luck and the island even has a cat shrine, along with newly built cat shaped cabins for tourists to stay in. It goes without saying that there are no dogs allowed.