August 2011
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Teenage tragedy song →
The “teenage tragedy song”, also known as death rock or a “splatter platter,” is a style of ballad popular between the late 1950s and early 1960s, that lamented the early deaths of teenagers, either sung from the viewpoint of the dead person’s sweetheart, or sometimes from the viewpoint of the dead (or dying) person.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill →
Chipotle has been sued for failure to be Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant, as a customer who uses a wheelchair was unable to see the food preparation, denying him the “Chipotle Experience”. The case against the company was upheld in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Chipotle’s appeal, leaving the 9th’s Circuit...
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T.I. - Rescue of suicidal man →
T.I. has been praised for helping a twenty-four year old suicidal man in Atlanta named Joshua Starks, convincing the man not to go through with jumping from a 22-story building. On October 13, 2010, T.I. reportedly heard about the situation on the radio and drove to the scene at Atlanta’s 400 Colony Square Building. He drove to the site, and asked the police if he could help Starks. T.I....
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Freshman fifteen →
Colleges and universities have recently been cracking down on this common problem and are trying to educate people on how to prevent it.
A study done on 60 students at Cornell University showed that 20% of the weight gained by the test subjects was due to the fact students were eating at all-you-can-eat dining halls.
July 2011
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Word salad →
Word salad is a mixture of random words that, while arranged in phrases that appear to give them meaning, actually carry no significance. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but the meaning is hopelessly confused. A famous example is Noam Chomsky’s phrase, “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”
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List of people considered father or mother of a... →
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List of the oldest currently registered Internet... →
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Nazi talking dogs →
During the 1930s and 1940s German animal behaviorists were encouraged to explore whether dogs could be taught to speak or communicate in other ways in order to be useful in the Nazi war effort.
Experiments were carried out to find evidence of telepathy between dog and man.
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Incest in the Bible →
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List of ethnic slurs by ethnicity →
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Western stereotype of the male ballet dancer →
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Curse of Turan →
The Curse of Turan is a belief that Hungarians have been under the influence of a malicious spell for many centuries. The “curse” manifests itself as inner strife, pessimism, misfortune and several historic catastrophes.
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Unsinkable Sam →
Unsinkable Sam (also known as Oscar) was the nickname of a German ship’s cat who saw service in both the Kriegsmarine and Royal Navy during the Second World War, serving on board three vessels and surviving the sinking of all three.
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Strawberry Quik meth →
Strawberry Quik meth is a drug scare from 2007. Drug dealers were allegedly using coloring and flavoring to disguise methamphetamines as Strawberry Quik, thus making them more appealing to children. The story was widely reported in the media, but no cases of children using flavored meth have been verified.
Fox News reported that drug dealers were using pop rocks to disguise the taste of meth and...
June 2011
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Glasgow Ice Cream Wars →
The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were conflicts in the East End of Glasgow in Scotland in the 1980s between rival ice cream van operators, over lucrative territory and suggested use of ice cream vans as a cover for selling drugs.
The conflicts, in which vendors raided one another’s vans and fired shotguns into one another’s windscreens, were more violent than might typically be expected...
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List of games with concealed rules →
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“The Catholic Church’s restriction on eating meat during Lent does not...”
– Taboo food and drink - Guinea pig and related rodents
May 2011
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The Prophet Hen of Leeds →
The Prophet Hen of Leeds was a doomsday hoax involving the Second Coming of Christ in England in 1806.
A hen began laying eggs on which the phrase “Christ is coming” was found to be written. Eventually it was discovered to be a hoax. The hoaxster had written on the eggs in a corrosive ink to etch the eggs, and reinserted the eggs back into the hen.
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Unfulfilled religious predictions →
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Gry Puzzle →
The Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than “angry” and “hungry,” that ends with the letters “-gry.”
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Great Stork Derby →
The Great Stork Derby was a contest during the period from 1926 to 1936, where women in Toronto, Canada, competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for an unusual bequest in a will.
Toronto lawyer, financier and practical joker Charles Vance Millar bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in a ten year period after...
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Reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden →
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April 2011
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Neuticles →
Neuticles are prosthetic testicular implants for neutered dogs and other domestic animals.
As of September 2007, more than 240,000 pairs of the patented product had been sold, in all 50 U.S. states and 49 countries.
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CSX 8888 incident →
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, involved an unmanned runaway train led by CSX Transportation locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40-2, that was pulling a freight train consisting of 47 cars, some of them loaded with Molten Phenol, a highly explosive and largely toxic chemical.
The train ran uncontrolled for two hours at speeds up to 51 miles per hour (82 km/h) through...
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Pimp tax →
Pimp Tax is an informal but widespread term for a piece of United States Congress tax legislation introduced to the Senate Finance Committee on June 28, 2006 by Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa.
According to Grassley, the bill is intended to curb sex trafficking and sex slavery in the United States by means of strict enforcement of tax laws, for example by requiring a W-2 form be filed...
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions →
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List of Lists of Lists →
(submitted by Fruit Of The Loin)
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List of Possibly Living People →
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List of Internet phenomena →
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Last meal requests by notable prisoners →
Clarence Ray Allen requested buffalo steak, Kentucky Fried Chicken, sugar-free pecan pie and sugar-free black walnut ice cream.
Donald Snyder gained over 150 pounds in an unsuccessful bid to be unable to fit in the electric chair. He requested pork chops and eggs “and plenty of ‘em!”.
James Edward Smith requested a lump of dirt, which was denied. He settled for a small cup...