Weird News

Corn Dogs, Funnel Cakes, Elephant Ears, Curley Fries. Those are the standby's. When it comes to deep fried foods, fair consessionaires are second to none. What fair food would you like to see deep fried?

Read More|Comment

In the most stunning piece of planetary news since Pluto’s sad demotion, astronomers have found a star-orbiting land mass that is so dense its carbon is crystalline — which means it’s basically a planet made out of diamonds.

Read More|Comment

When it comes to food at the state fair, there’s one abiding rule that all vendors must adhere to: If you fry it, they will come. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Iowa State Fair’s life size butter cow, Larry Fyfe is offering up a fitting fair treat treat — deep fried butter on a stick.

Read More|Comment

Grizzly Bears and Sharks get all the deadly publicity but according to Mens' Health Magazine the top five most lethal creatures, by number of U.S. death from 2002 to 2006 include the lowly bumble bee and man's best friend. Who knew that one half of the birds and the bees could prove so fatal!  Here's the List!

Read More|Comment

If the size of this crocodile is any indication, these tourists are going to need a bigger boat. An 18-foot, 2-ton monster crocodile was photographed leaping from the water near a tour boat in Australia

Read More|Comment

A Colorado woman is being accused of killing a pet in a most unusual manner.

Danielle Blankenship was allegedly smoking heroin and exhaling the fumes from the dangerous drug right into the face of Muffin, her boyfriend's roommate's cat.

Read More|Comment

And now for your daily dose of irony: ‘To Catch a Predator’ host Chris Hansen was allegedly caught cheating on his wife last week in Florida, the Daily Mail is reporting (via the National Enquirer).

According to the report, the 51-year-old host was recorded having a romantic dinner at the Ritz-Carlton in Manalapan Friday night with 30-year-old journalist Kristyn Caddell. The recording was all part of an undercover sting set up by the Enquirer.

Read More|Comment

The “Egalia” preschool in Stockholm, Sweden is taking that nation’s goal of breaking down gender roles in early education to the extreme.

Not only are boys encouraged to play with toy kitchens, and girls with building blocks, but the pronouns “him” and “her’ (or “han” and “hon” in Swedish) are banned from usage.  Instead, everyone is refereed to with the invented pronoun of “hen.”

Read More|Comment

Having popcorn is a treat and a movie house favorite but having a popcorn brain?  Well, that’s possibly a horror picture come to life. 

A University of Washington  Information School researcher says that spending too much time online is giving us what he calls "popcorn brain".

Read More|Comment

For the low, low price of $100,000, you don’t have to worry about replacing a dull razor blades for 10 whole years!

The Zafirro Iridium razor features solid white sapphire blades, which are hypoallergenic and almost completely resistant to oxidation and corrosion.  But it’s actually  the razor’s handle, made from the rare metal iridium, that makes the Zafirro so absurdly expensive.

Read More|Comment