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For unusual contributions that are of greater levity, see. A star ( ) indicates a. A plus ( ) indicates a. Good golly, Miss Molly – jus' love your! Laid bare in many places around the world.

May have given their name to. Buildings prized for their uselessness. A hill that gives the illusion of objects rolling up it. Not as unique as you might have thought. These islands have not been mistaken for submarines. Place names that contain and say what they are. All the ingredients of pizza, grown in one convenient location!

Various houses built solely out of spite for their neighbors. A tiny house completely surrounded by a hole in the ground from a massive construction project. Americas [ ]. 's labor of love.

A fictional town in. ' could have been this Washington city's motto? Is this thoroughfare in an avenue or is it a road?

A natural topographic feature in Canada, which, when viewed from above, looks remarkably like a human wearing a headdress and earbuds. Two non-existent towns that appeared on 's official highway map as a reference to the and their rivals,.

This city's twin towns include such prodigies as and. The branch of the that was so contaminated with blood from the that it gained this appetizing moniker. A town that's been on fire since 1962.

In addition to having the longest traffic light in the country, the road is also notorious for reported occurrences of paranormal activity. A that stood abandoned for over twice as long as it was in business, until it was finally demolished in 2012.

It was featured in the 1980 film and became a popular target for. The shortest and steepest railroad in the world is (supposedly) located in a town of around 60,000 people. A town's unique 'welcome' sign.

All the places that are no longer found in, such as Illinois County, and a few that never were (including ). A really big stamp in. Consists entirely of a deeply rutted unmanned strip of soil/gravel and a windsock. And See also. An that isn't really a freeway at all. The highway in Arizona is the only U.S.

Highway marked in metric units as the result of a push in. An area of land in northern, that was an independent country from 1832 to 1835. The third largest was formerly an island – on paper. Named – probably – for a that fell off the edge of the canyon. Was the aptly named test site for the world's first (and so far only) The highest natural point in.

For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. To scale, not because of its 812-foot (247 m) height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby.

What happened on the drawing board stayed on the drawing board. The only state highway in the country that bans motor vehicles. A grave that found itself in the middle of a movie theater parking lot.

Directions are more complicated in Michigan. The smallest park in the world – 452 in 2 (0.292 m 2) – is in. A public phone booth that stood for several years in the middle of a desert, miles away from any roads or other structures. There are at least seven of them. Hardly near the border with, rather more in the middle. Also home of the.

Arizona Governor will hereafter be addressed as ' Pharaoh George I'. Misunderstood more often by airline staff than the people they ferry.

A three-person micronation in, USA which takes the meaning of the phrase ' to new extremes. A village in Nebraska with a population of one. A house in, built out of beer cans, abalone shells, car parts, and other garbage previously tossed out by local residents, is now a historic landmark.

When defining international boundaries, sometimes a straight line isn't the best solution. During the 1850s, the city was raised on jacks, building by building. A city that was ceded by the United States to Mexico in 1977 due to an earlier diversion of the Rio Grande. A currently populated, unincorporated mining town in the United States that seceded from the Union in 1850, forming the ' Great Republic of Rough and Ready'. Secession was rescinded less than three months later when its citizens noticed that they could not celebrate US independence. Known as the world's narrowest commercial building. A municipality consisting solely of a fraternity's recreation center, established (in part) to get around.

An artificial island, now destroyed, built from thousands of empty floating plastic bottles. Now replaced by an apartment building, its site remains City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument no.

A town that got its name from a game show. An island in the East River with a surprisingly in-depth history for only being 2000 square feet in area. It's harder than you think to construct the state of with a ruler and compass. The result of a investment scheme, it's a four-story brick building constructed in 1920 in downtown,, that has only one room on each of its four floors. A house believed to be haunted by the ghosts of individuals killed. Africa [ ] One of the few places on Earth not claimed by any country. An American claimed it in 2014 as the Kingdom of North Sudan so he could make his daughter a princess.

A non-existent trans-African mountain range that appeared on Western maps of the 19th century. Another nonexistent African mountain range, this time serving as the source of the Nile. A fictional island in the Gulf of Guinea, at 0°N 0°E. The shortest-lived state in history; it was independent for only seven hours (07:00 to 14:00 on ). Antarctica [ ] An Argentine national who is the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica. Always prepared for glaciers and penguins.

With en-suite highway. The bunkers on this golf course feature machine-guns and landmines. India inside Bangladesh inside India inside Bangladesh.

Formerly the only third-order enclave in the world. A skyscraper in Japan that has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors. In the depth of Eastern there's a place with street names in, even though 95% of its population is not Jewish. A former Chinese enclave in Hong Kong, known for its extremely high population density, food courts which served dog meat, and claustrophobic dwellings. An erotic-themed sculpture park on island in South Korea.

There's nothing more peaceful than blasting from a. Once, it would have been the world's tallest hotel – except it lacked windows, fittings, or fixtures for over twenty years. The closed funicular that connects a underground train station inside the with a museum.

That Jesus escaped his crucifixion and raised a family in Japan? The largest abandoned amusement park in Asia. Proof that China is the world champion when it comes to copying things, even when that thing is a town in Austria. The tallest building ever designed, standing 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) tall and housing 500 000 to 1 000 000 people on 800 floors. It is, however, 'never meant to be built'.

A lesser known island in the Indian Ocean, subject of the April 1, 1977 Guardian newspaper edition. Watch your step around. A short suburban road in,, reputedly the world's steepest street.

A nearly 600m (2000 ft) tall stone stack in the middle of the ocean. Did test a nuke in the middle of rural Australia? An eccentric tourist attraction in New Zealand. A mining town where most of the residents live underground.

The mountain of. A forested area in New Zealand that is also a legal person (see below). Its Māori name means 'The Burnt Penis'. A river in New Zealand that is legally a person. The proved especially overpowering in the summer of 1858. He became The last Emperor of China at the age of two, and died as an ordinary citizen ending a 2,133 year rule of China's emperors.

A female monarch existed in before? Every Naked Girl Loves A Naked Dick.

An actual 19th-century event in the history of, where the stench of human stool emanating from the was so overpowering, that it interfered with the work of the and is claimed to have ground the city to a halt. Kickstarted the.

When the people of protested against their rulers by building satirical and pornographic. A storage tank burst and flooded the streets of with a 25 foot (7.6 meter) high wave of molasses. The Korean defence of An unidentified man who achieved widespread recognition after standing in front, and blocking the procession of a column of tanks, the morning after the bloody suppression of the. In 1518 around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion. An Asian elephant given to by the Abbasid caliph. A deceased Pope was exhumed and put on trial!

He became pope at twenty, and later sold the papacy. He was pope three times. The worlds first drinking game. Care to play? All you need is a bronze 'lamp stand' with a tiny statuette on top and some wine. When was the last time throwing someone out of a window started a war?

An elite fighting force consisting of a hand-picked groups of 150 pairs of male lovers. A strange anomaly; tens of thousands of people who have the same, innacurate memory. A quite unusual song from the Second World War. Don't panic – it's. She followed her parents in the business of selling people. A fictional Christmas-Hanukkah hybrid, popularized by the television show Not as fictional as you might think. December 23: Holiday celebrated by the family on the television show, since appropriated by many.

(a-harrr!) every. Thought the day before would be in the previous year? Twice every year, the setting sun aligns with Manhattan's street grid. The is celebrated on October 23rd starting at exactly 6:02 am.

A theory by that the Early Middle Ages (614–911) never occurred. Therefore, it is now 1720 rather than 2017. The day – March 14 – on which the constant is celebrated. The day – June 28 – on which the constant is celebrated. Any date when the day and month are both the of the last two digits of the year (the next being 5th May 2025).

Be with you., or otherwise. A word created as an alternative name for all the holidays at the end of a calendar year. It came to prominence after (the English city) used it in 1998. The computing problem that will arise due to the representation used in many computers.

The collective name for all potential that will emerge as the need to express years with five digits arises. Was there a year between and? Weird names [ ] This politician does not dispraise his parents'.

Christened Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone; not to be confused with his son. Formerly Scott Fistler, this white, right-wing, pro-business politician changed his name to match the in an attempt to get more votes. The first head of, whose name as he promoted the use of as. Algorithm named after its inventors. An unfortunately named Peruvian football team whose strips are remarkably popular in Britain. An officials' association in pre-war, of a shipping company for transporting passengers and cargo on the. His surname probably didn't mean what you think it might mean.

A footballer with a socially problematic last name. An unforgettable newspaper headline once declared 'Fucks Off to '. A -born basketball player with a similar problem. A politician. A former New York Times reporter whose middle name is the number eight. Or Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache to his friends. Bode didn't discover Bode's Law, Pascal didn't discover Pascal's Triangle.such as and () Neville Neville.

An Irish politician who changes his name to emphasize political affiliations. An American who did the same. An NBA player who wants to promote World Peace.

A committee in that determines whether a name is suitable for integration into the. Apparently voted yes about themselves. The father of English footballers and. The idea that people gravitate toward careers that fit their names, e.g. Urologists named Splat and Weedon. A warning to us all about taking too far.

Perhaps the first use of the word. A general during the. The son of, leader of the. Despite not being Japanese or a, he has control over the global diamond industry.

Longest name ever given. It's Professor Pauli! Including,, purple, blue. A 17-year-old, known as the Radioactive Boy Scout, who irradiated his back yard attempting to build a from spare parts. Not actual periodic elements. Many end in '-ite'. Some of the elements may indeed be minerals.

They happen to live inside the computers of scientists trying to simulate molecules. A phenomenon involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency noise of a humming character and unknown origin, not audible to all people, reported in various geographical locations.

Fortnights and nibbles, super feet and Sagans. An alternative theory of: once the smoke is released they no longer work. Proof that physicists have a dramatic flair. Something in the lab not working?

Technical difficulties?. An infinite number of parallel universes means that any one person will always live forever. What happens when you blow in a hole in a tube? Hot air comes out one end and cold air comes out the other. No consensus reached on why it happens yet. A used to measure the Harvard Bridge.

Earth sciences [ ]. 'No, definitely isn't flat, but it's the!' A fossil plant that was mistakenly identified as a dinosaur. Does a mystery sound from the bottom of the sea indicate that may awake.? A playful theory devised to explain why the continents are tapered toward the south. A theory that the Earth is growing. A society, originally British, that holds the belief that the Earth is flat, not spherical.

Yes, snow is not unknown in the 'Sunshine State'. Must've been the wind. Salty creek becomes sweet for one tide cycle. When it's literally raining cats and dogs. Did blood rain from the sky?

The crew of snapped Earth with Antarctica on top. NASA followed Ptolemy and rotated it 'back'. An ill-fated attempt to reach the. An unlucky who was hit by on seven separate occasions. He survived them all, but came to his own tragic end. A recently discovered mineral that forms from bird.

Government's alternative measure of disaster impact. Chemistry and material science [ ]. At last – the look of BO. A commonly used chemical that can be deadly to all forms of plant and animal life, contributing to,,, and countless other maladies. That's what they want you to think. Invented in a wooden shed, uses temperatures over 1,000 °C (1,830 °F). Some a consequence of their constituents or origins, others simply the work of whimsical chemists.

A day in celebration of, 6.02×10 23. Inventor of two of the world's most severe pollutants – and a machine that killed him. A series of organic molecules having a structure that looks human. Ahh, that new car smell. A bullet-resistant frozen-water compound.

A fictional substance which can create immense nuclear explosions in very small quantities. A fictional chemical which dissolves before it comes into contact with water. Do you smell something fishy?

It may be you! A term used to describe any material with properties that are unlikely or impossible for any real material to possess. Space and astronomy [ ]. The average colour of the Universe: a slightly beige white. A proposal for colonizing space using embryos raised by robots. Want to buy a housing plot on the?

A small statuette which is the only sculpture on the. Hot DOGs, anyone? The planets that could have been. You think had it rough? At least it got its fifteen minutes of astronomical fame.

Perfect for building your own cut-price moon base. Star-sized computer.

The birth of a future galaxy, and the death of our own. Scientific consensus says it isn't, but are there people who think so? Fake photos, slow-motion cameras and secret studios. All directed. Only two people have ever seen its exhibits in person. Did the Luftwaffe, in fact, explore the final frontier and make contact with alien races?

Whether the secret Nazi base is on the Moon or in Antarctica, the truth is apparently out there. And when you've exhausted, here's something new to try! Plans to launch giant billboards into space. What happens when you fall into a black hole. 'Wasn't there when I took the pic – honest!'

The first fallen in recorded history to have verifiably injured a human. How Martians know when they are. How do you write in space? Medicine and health [ ].

People who are blind but convinced they can see. Exactly how psychedelic are those dried banana peels? When you're sure a friend or loved one is an impostor.

Millions of perfectly sane people are having freakish hallucinations – and just not admitting it. Suffered by people, very much alive, who believe they're dead.

Unknown forces cause large groups of people to dance hysterically until dropping from exhaustion in multiple incidents in Europe from the 13th to 17th centuries. For those allergic to. Ever woken up after an hour or two of sleep thinking you've just heard a massive explosion? A rare medical condition whereby sufferers speak their native language with a foreign accent. The belief that different people are actually one person in disguise. A real that has been used as a defence in court. Like Tourette's syndrome, but more Gallic.

A behavioral disorder with some very odd symptoms, including 'hypersexuality' and a desire to examine objects with the mouth. Named after two doctors who gave psychotropic drugs to lobotomized monkeys. A Japanese expression referring to an urge to defecate that is suddenly felt after entering bookstores.

When a late-night radio host claims to have been brainwashed by the CIA, you may want to think twice. Particularly common among Japanese tourists. Not to be confused with.

Sane mental patients. A psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art or natural beauty.

What happens when contagious laughter becomes an actual epidemic. To become so fixated on an object you are trying to avoid that you collide with it. A memory-related phenomenon familiar to us all. Those afflicted feel they are being watched all the time by a television audience, like Jim Carrey in the 1998 movie.

The consumption of urine. Can only wear mittens, not gloves A mite with a very unusual life cycle.

An annotated list of the various animals used in space programs. Not kidding: death by beavers, bunnies, squirrels, cats and other things you should not have as pets. Are you a snail and can't extract your penis? Amputate and change your gender. 'Armed with sharp teeth, it is known to attack with such speeds that its prey is sometimes sliced in half.' As if being a three-foot (0.91 m) worm were not impressive enough.

Lodged in and extracted from human penises. The extinction of highly endangered parasites at the hands of conservationists. A worm that looks like. A Christmas tree. A great ecological problem indeed complete with fifteen references in Russian.

A deceptive beetle larva that entices its own predators by feigning prey-like movements in order to eat its predator. An as-yet unexplained phenomenon observed in April 2005 in and. Suggested as a possible weapons delivery system. No, the fish are not trippin'; they will cause hallucinations if ingested. It is not known if hallucinations will occur if one fish consumes another.

Everything from salmon to seagulls to dragonflies. Your pet may be smarter than you. A species of that lives in underground railways. Hermaphroditic snails play.

Droppings of a nightingale variety used in facials. Some claim that it helps with acne. Project Medicine states that the references are not MEDRS. (MEDical Reliable Source) A NASA frog experiment, sending two bullfrogs into space to test their sense of balance. A species of that has some males that mimic females and others that mimic juveniles, allowing them to mate without the alpha males realising what is going on behind their backs. Telepathic communication is not possible in snails no matter how far apart they may be.

Nothing else has been ruled out. A literal figurative variety of cockfighting between some species of. Did you know that exists among animals? Made extinct by feral cats, possibly the offspring of one pregnant female.

Talk about wild protesters! Having an extra body part, be it as simple as an or as extreme as a! The mother's back is where the eggs are embedded and where they develop. A feature of anatomy named after a comic strip. A parasitic crustacean that, when female (they are hermaphroditic), attaches to and then destroys a fish's tongue, hooks itself to the remaining stub and becomes the fish's new tongue. A form of mating in invertebrates in which the male stabs the female in the abdomen with his penis, and injects his sperm through the wound. There's a better way to get hold of earthworms.

Cats [ ] A cat famed for traveling on a bus around, England. The late co-leader of one of Britain's more unusual political parties.otherwise known as the cat who lives at the of the. Redefining the term 'cat burglar'. One of the of. A cat who was featured in the for his purported ability to predict the impending death of terminally ill patients. A cat that was appointed Mayor of, Alaska.

The official station master of in Japan. Cattle [ ] A plastic-coated magnet fed to cows to prevent gut damage by ingested bits of metal, aka.

This actually takes up to 14 people to make it happen. A condition in bovines caused by ingesting stray bits of metal. A Jersey cow who made a lot of butter and got a sizable neighborhood named for her. A runaway cow with a €10,000 bounty.

Chickens [ ]. Tiny spectacles for chicks, to stop them from seeing red., There is a huge difference. Valuable for the mitigation of damage from. The chicken carcass must be thawed first, though.

Have you ever wanted to hypnotize a chicken? If not, why not? Which came first? A person who has been specially trained to determine the sex of chicken hatchlings. A British project to lay nuclear mines in West Germany during the Cold War Have some empathy when eating crunchy chicken nuggets.

A colony of that have been living underneath a highway off-ramp since 1970. A rooster that lived for 18 months with its head cut off. But baked, grilled, or fried? Heads and feet included. Squirrels [ ]. Georgian white Russian domesticated Fox The result of being too friendly with llamas.

's officially appointed and destroyer. A pig bred to look like the, to circumvent prohibition of the flag. It is said to enhance sexual potency in men and was banned by the Chinese government from the. A short-lived attraction during the 1880s. Soviet Russia subsidizes the breeding of silver foxes. The next time a whale washes on shore in one Oregon county, the authorities will leave the dynamite at home. A breed of goat whose muscles freeze for about 10 seconds when it is startled.

Blobs of organic matter found washed up on beaches, which are frequently as mysterious as they are disgusting. Implanted electrodes let researchers 'steer the animal over an obstacle course, making it twist, turn and even jump on demand'. Is a taken by the critically-endangered eligible for copyright? The Wikipedia article in question focuses on the copyright claim and is the subject of a lawsuit by the owner of the camera on which the images were taken.

A bridge from which dogs keep leaping to their death. Pornographic movies created to achieve sexual arousal for, which have been proven to be unaffected by the popular drug. Some of them have figured out how to commute using the subway system. Instead of a pathetic excuse for an article, an article about a pathetic excuse. The behavior of extremely excited ferrets who are enjoying themselves too much. The ecological consequences associated with a dead whale sinking to the seafloor.

Individual animals [ ]. Colonel-in-Chief Sir.

Dubbed the 'world's loneliest whale', it vocalizes at a frequency used by no known whale species. Possibly the oldest creature of modern times, this 255 year-old tortoise was the former pet of of the. Called Benson.

A chimpanzee who used human toilet facilities,, and (allegedly) attempted suicide. Two stray dogs that roamed the streets of San Francisco, California in the early 1860s and were exempted from local ordinances. A sparrow that ruined a Domino exhibition, was killed and became a legal case. An unfortunate case of a horse riding a man, as opposed to a man riding a horse.

A lobster weighing 20 pounds (9.1 kg), estimated to be 140 years old. The various incarnations of 's athletic. 'In personal appearance he seemed like a cross between an alligator and a horned frog.' An octopus missing two arms due to an unfortunate birth defect.

Which talked. A Baboon who took over for his paraplegic owner as an employee of the Cape government railway. Reportedly never erred. [ ] A grotesque-looking made from the corpse of a. He made the reverse of the 5p of. What have you done? Possibly the world's loneliest pig.

Even more lonely during the swine flu outbreak. A Taiwanese elephant made famous for his participation in the. Makes the phrase 'hung like an elephant' take on a whole new meaning.

A black dog whose portrayal in (1955) somehow had to be edited out, overdubbed, or renamed. Nigger's grave remains, though. A who is of the. A, subject of long-running studies into, named punningly for linguist.

An elusive elephant who terrorized the jungle of Assam. He was eventually shot, but there are those who question the official story of his death.. Hippo and tortoise that befriended each other after the. A now-deceased psychic octopus who could predict the winner of football games, notably during the. Used as in the In 2006, a Northern Bottlenose swam into and on to the front pages of the British newspapers. A goat that was married to a Sudanese man in 2006.

A 13th-century French dog unofficially as a saint until the 1930s. In 1998, two escaped from an in and made news, both in the and worldwide. (Their story was turned into a TV movie in 2003.) The world's most successful and widely shown animal artist. A tortoise that was present during the bombardment of during the in 1854 and survived until 2004. A who survived the sinking of one warship, to become the mascot on one of the ships that had sunk his first home. Tragically he was then auctioned off and eaten.

An elephant that was electrocuted, as the event was filmed by the. A that is a in the 's 1st Battalion of the infantry. A soldier of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the who also happened to be a. He enjoyed beer and cigarettes. Names in biology [ ]. Cower, you leeches, in the presence of the! Or 'Digesting Duck', an built to simulate a duck eating, digesting, and excreting.

A hundred-year-old that has been burning nonstop for 41 years. An that hides from its owner. Unlike an, a clock that indicates the current time with numerals formed by the sunlight striking it. A device made with a and a turntable that reportedly induces. (And you thought the makers of made it up. There's still no news about invisible.) Alleged spiritual voices heard in and radio interference.

Film actress co-invents communication system later used in, and other forms of wireless technologies. The concept has eluded and baffled the greatest minds for thousands of years – and will continue to elude anyone who tries to build one. Spheres with three parallel grooves dated to be three billion years old. Evidence of ancient intelligent life? An unusual natural phenomenon? Perilous parachutes, lethal lighthouses and murderous motorcycles!

Why it's always a bad idea to put the guy next door out of business if he has a ten-ton armor-plated bulldozer in his garage. A flaming object that fell from the heavens onto a back-yard picnic table in, Canada in 1979. The mystery of its true nature drew worldwide attention and speculation. Turns out it was a.

A bug zapper with a difference. A man's small piece of metal turns out to be worth more than expected. Using household objects to reserve parking spaces. Pigeons were used by the Germans for aerial surveillance in World War I, and apparently also in World War II. Not to forget the CIA's own pigeon camera.

Robo-socialism control chamber invented by a with a gigantic beard. One billion are used every year and often seen littering the streets of UK cities. Self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants.

A cross between a spoon and a fork. Not to be confused with a. By frightened. A device whose sole function is to expose technological ignorance. How to measure your emotional response to. In most cases, toys for adults. A type of lamp used by miners that is unrelated to wheat.

Ever been driven mad by packaging that just won't open? A Chinese robot, according to the Japanese, that will save its country from corporate capitalism with its crotch cannon. Hygiene and sanitation [ ]. Have some special features. Racist toothpaste from Taiwan.

A congealed lump of fat and non-biodegradable buildup in sewer systems. A 250-metre-long, 140 tonne specimen was discovered under London in September 2017. The most intimate Royal office. Ever wondered why it was so?

A talking made for advertising purposes. Microsoft's attempt to bring you the interwebzzz inside the.

A 1970s organization whose campaign was to end in. The most advanced toilets in the world with computers, nozzles and flashing lights. You could say they died on the throne Possibly the largest example of fossilised human feces ever found, discovered under the future site of a in England.

Metallic soap that removes odours from the hands. Not all injuries and deaths linked to are urban legends.

On the pros and cons of letting toilet paper hang over or under the roll. A fake used to beat drug tests (complete with dried urine, heater, syringe). Comes in white, tan, Latino, brown, and black International declared by the.

Clothing and accessories [ ] An unusual traditional garment of western, also known as the 'penis gourd'. A dress made of flank steak.

Currently preserved as jerky in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A marketing mishap, many well-meaning young women, and vanity came together to form this demographic. The practice of throwing footwear, whether for humorous or political purposes.

Think your loved one will be pleased if you knit them a sweater? A with howling at the moon that gained popularity after one person wrote a for it on. Headgear which allegedly prevents a person from having their minds read or controlled. Transport [ ].

– at your service and in your hands. Their products have been used and endorsed by all the best cartoon characters. History has never been cuter. ( makes an appearance as a turban-wearing stray cat.) The team-up you thought would never happen. A comic book character from none other than. Name of a Japanese (comic) whose subject matter is as surreal as its title. In, takes precedence over the ordinary.

A group of and cartoons pulled from due to their racist depictions of. A fictional family in the style of a, from which a great number of 's held their origin. Comic book characters have a tendency to rarely, if ever, stay dead. A stock sound effect.

A curious abundance of gorillas in comic book plots during the. For half a century, and have been rumored to have a relationship. An character. Nothing says 1970s in the USA more than a spinoff of with superheroes who teach the. In this time and age even a washing machine can be the girl of your dreams. A superhero with no special powers except, 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- sexual relations, popular in. An animated series. About everyone in the world's magical uncle and grandpa.

Think about that. Literature [ ].

T-rexes getting frisky, possibly with the help of A handbook produced to help American soldiers understand the French. Published in 1825 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. The practice of binding books in human skin. A group of science fiction authors get together and deliberately write an absolutely horrible novel to fool and embarrass a '. A book which glorifies failure.

Started off The. The book was a success and thus declared a 'failure as a failure'. Who can forget such classics as Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers, How to Avoid Huge Ships or Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts?

A French newspaper published every. A contest to find 'the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels'. Have you ever been Taken by a T-Rex or Ravished by a Triceratops? Like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, but 'Lyttler' The urge to have famous last words, taken to its logical, carefully rewritten extreme. An essay written by about. Writer of a 15,000-page manuscript along with several thousand watercolor paintings and other drawings illustrating the story, who went to Mass several times daily.

Now collectors' items because of their printing differences. A 19th-century – 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.

'Mua-ha-haha-ha-haaa' and the like. An infamously bad, written in 1970 by Jim Theis and circulated anonymously in since then. A 1558 diatribe by against and.

' Supposedly the shortest story possible in the English language, though had nothing to do with it. A 50,110-word long book famous for not using the letter 'e'.

At the start of the 16th century, British schoolmasters were insulting one another. In Latin, of course. A sensational discovery in 1983, which turned out to be an elaborate hoax. A non-existent novel that was the subject of a hoax intended to criticize the manner in which best-seller lists are determined. Dirty limericks.

They don't bite.necks. ' ' 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. For some reason the 'Virtue Punished' books never sell. 'You are ____ and I claim my five pounds'. A racist who helps out white protagonists. A theory which states that 's unnatural death was a hoax and that he continued to write and publish under the pseudonym '.

A writer widely held to be the worst poet in the English language. A homoerotic of Homer: 'Men in Aida, they appeal, eh?

A day, O Achilles.' Journalists prove a point when their intentionally awful sex novel becomes a bestseller. Later the basis of a porn film starring Darby Lloyd Rains. 'It was as if an occult hand had edited this Wikipedia article.'

A very serious essay by sketching a philosophical theory of, well,. 'The greatest poet that has ever existed', according to. But he didn't.

Writer of “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India” and thousands of other works. By means of a computer program. Understanding the political context of the mid-to-late 1890s in the United States will give you a different understanding of the gold, silver and emerald symbolism, among other things. The Uganda version of is kinda different from the US version. It doesn't cover music, but does list the names of alleged homosexuals, calling for their deaths. The McGonagall of prose.

And competed as to who could read her longest without laughing. Crimes against literature? 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'.

A French novel, 233 pages long, written without verbs. Purveyor of the? America banning ' by from radio airplay after 9/11 is an odd choice. Though ' by brings to mind more questions. A number of prominent musicians have died at this age, though statisticians attribute the 'club' to - seeing patterns in random data. See also the related. A three-piece movement composed by 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 video to go along with it. A piece of music by to be performed until 2640. What happens to Wikipedia article titles when two different bands with the same exact name both release self-titled albums. Actually, this album's full title is 'The Boy Bands Have Won' followed by a further 151 words. As of August 2009, it holds the record for the longest album title. A spiritualist who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.

A keyboard instrument in which the keys cause cats to miaow. Because nothing says gangsta like being funded by a corrupt communist government.

A Spanish comedian's most popular character who, thanks to and an online voting system, managed to make it to the finals with his parody song '. A genre coined on a sarcastic blog post. The joke was on music journalists who tend to confabulate 'the next big thing'. Ironically, music journos then wrote about chillwave as 'the next big thing'.

An entire record by whose master tracks were stolen. ' legendary album was to be a 'teenage symphony to '—psychedelic children's songs involving, cartoons,,, and eating right. The tapes were purportedly destroyed after bandleader thought they were. The superstition that any composer of symphonies, from Beethoven onwards, will die soon after writing their own Ninth Symphony. Due to a legal dispute, this album was released with a blank CD-R.

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' ' 's plead for to get back to writing songs about girls and surfing. It's got a hook in you. A musical instrument controlled by brainwaves. The gun-guitar. There are many who still believe.

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An American famous for her singing ability or lack thereof. A, whose title translates as ',. Never officially released, and yet fans and critics can argue that it's the best 'album' by the. What's the most absurd time signature you can imagine? How about 3 2/ 2/4? Not to be confused with ', these songs don't have really much to hear. We built this city on not being very good.

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The whimsical universe surrounding the all stars. ' ' Was replaced by a lookalike in the 1960s? The band's recurring props and references.

Take an unfinished studio album, hold a press conference at, 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 's 1997–98 tour in a nutshell.

A mystery wrapped in an enigma related to, which has remained unsolved since it appeared on in 1994. ' ' 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.

The problems that arise from a music press driven by whatever's trendy. 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. His rendition of regularly wins radio station competitions to find the 'worst music of all time'. Silence is golden, especially when you're trying to fund a world tour. A man who claimed to have written ' under the, despite the fact that Zaret was an actual person who did write the song. An orchestra of elephants playing specially designed instruments. ' An 18th-century drinking song whose melody was later adopted for '.

An unusual instrument, with an even more unusual (). An instrument in, an insult everywhere else. ' ' This article is one louder. ' Abrasive single by electronic musician Richard D. James, otherwise known as.

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As if that wasn't bad enough, it spawned. One follows when making an Oscar film. Including, and in your film also helps.

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A man who won over $100,000 in because he was able to notice a pattern in the flashing lights on the 'Big Board.' TV signals in are twice overpowered on 22 November 1987 by broadcasts featuring a person (possibly a male) disguised as the 1980s virtual TV character. Powtoon Full Version Free Download on this page. The source of the broadcasts and the people involved remain unknown.

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Who knew that putting an old man playing a 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.

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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. King of fruits. King of smells? Dishes consisting of animals stuffed into each other. And are prominent examples. There are eyes in the cheese, but no cheese in the eyes.

A delicacy in the United Kingdom. Exactly as it sounds – and a regional delicacy in. Can it possibly be? For all you vegetarian cannibals out there, the product designed to look and taste like human flesh. The consumption of a newborn's placenta is common among mammals; humans do it too.

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Fictional trademarks gone real. A recipe or a dangerous area to fly through? Yes, Skunk a la Michelin sounds tasty to some people.

Small octopuses eaten alive with sesame oil. The most delicious foodstuff amongst all alien species of. A 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 Swedish dish consisting of rotten herring, said to have the worst smell in the world.

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.

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What weighs 105 pounds (48 kg) and eats more hot dogs in 12 minutes than most people do all summer? Originally designed to taste 'little better than a boiled potato'. Not much has changed.

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The standard cup of. The world's first beverage. A type of Vietnamese wine that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle.

Here's looking at you, kid. Restaurants [ ] A 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' [ ]. Enjoy a delicious meal—suspended 150 feet (46 m) in the air. Eloquent, fine dining in a high-security prison. Where employees learn their stuff. Noted for its 8,000-calorie 'Quadruple Bypass Burger'.

The world's first underwater restaurant. A Japanese restaurant where guests are served by employed monkeys. A knock-off in. Is that worm meat in your Big Mac? A restaurant chain whose furniture and decor is based on – yes – toilets.

A restaurant that suddenly and unexpectedly closed in 1961, giving rise to an about the fate of its proprietors. The restaurant's contents – even as far as the – remained untouched for decades. A restaurant chain whose sole proprietor is the. The 'Estonian Carry'.. A race in which 14 drivers retired before the start of the race. The most lopsided game in the history of college football. All the grace and charm of figure skating.but with roller skates.

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