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How Catalonians Build Human Towers for Castell Competitions
As I've often said, people will turn any activity into a competition. For hundreds of years, the people of Catalonia have built human towers by climbing onto each other's shoulders in a stunt called castell , which originally meant "castle" and now translates to "human tower."…
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Happy Godzilla Day!
November 3 is Godzilla Day (marking the anniversary of the original 1954 film’s release) And starting today, at Hibiya Station, the train departure chime has been permanently changed to this: https://t.co/VzIEE9roJk — Spoon & Tamago (@Johnny_suputama) November 3, 2026 Today is…
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Woman Makes Food That Came to Her in a Dream
X user Devon Hardware's Wife writes that she had a dream in which there was a food called "King's Hand." This consisted of a hand made of M&M cookie batter and filled with Greek salad. The dream pursued her until she yielded to its demands. After a week of effort, the dream…
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The Green Man of Pittsburgh and the Nature of Legends
It is said that if you drive along Route 351 near Koppel, Pennsylvania, (a suburb of Pittsburgh) at night, you might see a glowing green man who haunts the highway. If you take a deep breath and step into the dark "Green Man Tunnel," you'll surely see him. At least that's the…
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Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cheesecake
We are now well into the Christmas season. It is time to put Mariah Carey on a continuous loop and break out the decorations from storage. And, most importantly, to gorge ourselves on sugary foods. Chef Lora has, in the past 24 hours, posted on X 10 recipes for Christmas foods,…
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Sir Patrick Stewart Delivered His Own Eulogy Years Ago
Fans are reeling from the death of Sir Patrick Stewart last Wednesday at age 86. Stewart was a classically-trained stage actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company who made a successful leap to science fiction by portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation…
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Survivorship Bias Costume
Survivorship bias is a type of sampling error in which a person incorrectly attributes a quality to members of a set that have been presented as complete. Among the most famous occurrences of overcoming survivorship bias was the work of Abraham Wald , who during World War II…
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Wedding Gift Presented with Packing Slip
our friend wins best wedding gift with just the format of gifting alone omg https://t.co/6fYqhXtH1D — Sam Trust (@sammix_jpeg) November 2, 2026 Sam Trust, an avid collector and player of collectable card games, recently wed. She and husband Tim received as a gift two hundred…
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Costume of the Butt Music of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights
The Garden of Earthly Delights is a masterpiece-level painting spread across five panels and composed by Hieornymus Bosch between 1490 and 1510. It is a deeply symbolic work from the well of Christian narrative that has fascinated art historians for centuries. Among its more…
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Advances in Saving the Cavendish Banana
When bananas began to be imported to Europe and North America, they were mostly the Gros Michel banana, but that cultivar was ruined by Panama disease in the 1950s, and ever since then, we've been eating the Cavendish cultivar, which tastes different . Yes, there are other types…
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Ten Incredible But Real Medical Cases
Weird History has compiled a list of very strange medical cases from the Middle Ages to modern times. They don't have anything in common with each other besides being medical and being weird. It starts with the cases of Phineas Gage and Gloria Ramirez, which longtime Neatorama…
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A Perfume Bottle, a Garter, and a Revolver
This lovely custom-made box contains a curious collection of personal items nestled in green and purple velvet. It dates to the 19th century and was sold at an estate sale for $39,999. Embedded in the lid is a dagger with a mother-of-pearl handle. In the pull out section below,…
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What Do Dogs Think of Halloween Decorations?
Dogs know that something human-shaped is probably a human. They also recognize something shaped like a dog. And they know when something is not quite right. Well, Halloween is the time when a lot of things are not quite right, so man's best friends have quite a variety of…
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Proper Methods of Killing Pop Culture Halloween Monsters
Embed from Getty Images We all know that you kill a vampire by driving a stake through its heart, but to vanquish a zombie, you need to aim for its brain. What makes the difference? Both are examples of revenants, or the dead rising again, and neither are good to have around the…
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Gary Took the Wrong Cookies to Work -Big Mistake
Gary went to his job at the warehouse, taking some cookies from the house. Michelle called to berate him because those were not his cookies and he shouldn't have done that. Too late; he had already shared them with his boss Dave. I don't want to give too much away, but things go…
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A Comprehensive Look Into What People Were Doing in 1926
What was the real world like 100 years ago? You can read about the Roaring '20s in history books, but those only contain the biggest events driven by famous people. Robert-John Evans of Kuriositas spent a long time finding images from 1926 and digging up the stories behind them,…
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Little Free Horror Library
Occult author Michelle Belanger is all about about the darkness within and without, so it is fitting that she made a little free library with a horror theme. The coffin-shaped box is painted black for the season is for, specifically, only books in the horror genre. This sharing…
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What Happens When You Stop Brushing Your Teeth: A Horror Story
You can tell this TED-Ed lesson is a horror story because it features toothy green monsters and is narrated by a skeleton. But as an adult, you should already know that nothing good can come of going a long time without brushing your teeth. Your mother told you that if you…
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The Resurrection Experiments of Dr. Robert Cornish
Embed from Getty Images In the 1930s, gifted scientist Robert E. Cornish became obsessed with reversing the process of dying. He focused on restarting the natural rhythmic processes of the body, such as breathing and heartbeat. For this he developed several strategies, some of…
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The Legend of the Witch Known as Black Annis May Have Roots in Reality
Black Annis is an English witch who supposedly ate children, which is always a good story to keep your kids from wandering in the woods at night. A written account from 300 years ago said she lived in a cave, was raised by wolves, had sharp claws, and wore a skirt made from…