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When Bunnies Attack

Gather round the campfire kids. It’s urban legend time. Except this story is a departure from the usual half man half monster myth – it’s about a violent lunatic known as Bunny Man. During an ill-fated transfer of psychiatric patients from one asylum to another, the vehicle crashed and one [...]

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Shotgun Wedding

We’ve all seen cheesy wedding photos—the couple always doing something improbably romantic or nauseatingly charming. How often do you two really walk down a beach in slow motion? Or prance around in a meadow? Korean newlyweds Julian Sunmi Park and Benjamin Jinsuk Lee decided to get creative with their wedding [...]

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Korean Fan Death – The Other Other Silent Killer

Apparently in Korea, electric fans have four settings: low, medium, high, and Murder. In South Korea there is a superstition that if you leave a fan on overnight while you sleep it could kill you. Colors Magazine reports that “from 2003-2005, twenty deaths were reported due to suffocation caused by [...]

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The (Secret) City of London

Look closely enough at a map of London, England and you’ll notice a 1 sq. mile hole near the middle of it. This is the City of London, a separate lesser-known city that has its own mayor, laws, police, taxes and symbols. You may be saying to yourself “Neat-o, how [...]

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Pre-Fab Pop-Star – Hatsune Miku

When it comes to singing, those who can – do. And those who can’t? They use complicated Japanese voice synthesizing software to create smash pop hits. Hatsune Miku is a 15 year-old singer with striking green hair and a hypnotic voice. Her songs have topped Japan’s musical charts and some [...]

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Go with your Gut

What do you get the pathologist who has everything? Looking for a way to add some merriment to that autopsy you have to perform? Look no further. Illustrator Wendy Bryan is the mastermind behind I Heart Guts, a company that makes plush internal organs. So forget about lame stuffed animals, [...]

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Imagine Hello Kitty on Acid

“PONPONPON” is so catchy and hypnotic that it’s surpassed 30 million views on youtube. The song is performed by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, a fashion blogger turned model turned recording artist from the Harajuku district of Tokyo. Harajuku is known for a signature style that blends gothic and neon fashions. As [...]

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Danger: Wet Floor

The only thing better than watching an epic waterfall? Eating exotic food while sitting directly beneath an epic waterfall. The Labassin Waterfall Restaurant is located at the Villa Escudero Resort in the Philippines. And this restaurant is far more successful than that ill-fated volcano restaurant…those poor bus-boys never saw it [...]

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The Apocalypse Got You Down?

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel….underprepared. Lately it seems like the apocalypse is lurking around every corner—hurricanes, mysterious illnesses, drought, famine, Katy Perry won’t stop releasing new music; it’s a dangerous state of affairs. So if we’re all facing impending doom, should we [...]

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Jesus Sold Separately

Finally, biblical stories the way they were intended to be told— entirely with Legos! At 4,500 illustrations of over 400 stories, The Brick Testament is the largest illustrated version of the Bible ever. And everything except the background sky is built of Lego sets dating back to the 1960s. The [...]

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Make Way for Ducklings

Why did the 5,000 ducks cross the road? No, it’s not a joke, it actually happened. A local farmer takes his 5,000 ducks for regular walks along a main road in the Chinese city of Taizhou. Safety apparently isn’t an issue (they must use the buddy system). The ducks find [...]

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One Minute Vacation

Blink and you’ll miss it. Calligraphy by foot and colorful casinos. This rapid-fire tour of Asia was compiled by Kevin Kelly, the founding editor of Wired magazine. Kelly is a writer/photographer/conservationist and all-around renaissance man, who filmed a one-second (average human attention span) long clip each day during a two-month [...]