Weird World: 12 Bonkers Yet Easily Missed Recent Stories (From All Over)

Sometimes the world can seem awfully boring, mundane and predictable. That’s until you do even a touch of digging and looking at what’s really going on. We love to dive into the strange and the unexpected. For example, there was the time we wrote about news stories that were actually completely wrong. Or the time we covered absolutely wild things that turned out to be true.

The thing is, these odd and fascinating facts are all around us. We couldn’t believe the job that a Swedish politician picked up after a failed re-election bid. You know what though? We sure do admire it.

While we too love our cheese, we were delighted to learn about how an unbridled love of stilton cheese led to the downfall of a particular criminal.

Apparently, some millionaires are so mad at Jeff Bezos for not paying his taxes that they mobbed his house. Here’s the full story, plus 11 others:

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WEIRD WORLD A Canadian soldier fed other soldiers weed cupcakes in a live fire exercise. The gunners who were fed the cupcakes had no idea what they were eating, and apparently suddenly developed paranoia, confusion, and fatigue. CRACKED.COM — Source: CTV

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WEIRD WORLD A Swedish politician decided to totally switch fields and become a garbage woman. Renova Cateborgst Ann-Sofie Hermansson, formerly the mayor of Gothenburg, Sweden's largest city, started the job as a way to pay the rent after losing her re-election bid. CRACKED.COM — Source: Squeekly

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WEIRD WORLD Somehow, an alligator with terrible arthritis escaped from a Wisconsin ZOO. (illustration) The unathletic and overweight alligator got out and was later returned -- but the zoo owner absolutely had no idea how he pulled it off. He can barely open his jaws. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hill

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WEIRD WORLD A drug dealer in Liverpool was nabbed because of his love of Stilton cheese. M&S EST 1884 MATURE BLUE STILTON Crafted by LONG CLAWSON in LECESSERSHIRE A delicately rich and creamy Stilton In a chat, he posted a photo of his hand holding Stilton cheese but his fingerprints were clearly visible, which allowed police to identify him. CRACKED.COM — Source: BBC

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WEIRD WORLD A polar bear cub in a Berlin ZOO turned out to be a product of incest. His parents are siblings, so they never should have had any offspring. The only reason they did was because of human error at the Russian breeding program they came from. CRACKED.COM — Source: Deutsche Welle

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WEIRD WORLD In Spain, a guy somehow climbed into a dinosaur statue and then died there. Police think the 39-year-old was trying to get his mobile phone, SO he entered the statue's leg, got stuck inside, and then just couldn't get out. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Guardian

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WEIRD WORLD A British guy with a machete avoided jail time because the machete was sentimental. He could've gone to jail after the machete was found in his car, but he said it was his grandfather's war memento, and the judge in the case was convinced. CRACKED.COM — Source: Bournemouth Echo

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WEIRD WORLD In Florida, a high school employee edited yearbook photos to make them modest. 80 photos were edited to make them in line with the school's dress code, which includes things like fully covering a student's shoulder and chest areas. CRACKED.COM — Source: ClickOrlando

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WEIRD WORLD Millionaires gathered at Jeff Bezos' house to protest his not paying enough taxes. Repa ports They call themselves Patriotic Millionaires, and they showed up at Bezos' Manhattan apartment on Tax Day, demanding that he pay his fair share of taxes. CRACKED.COM — Source: The Independent

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WEIRD WORLD An Indian couple tried to have a non-pandemic wedding by holding it in the air They hired a plane so they could have a wedding with over 160 guests - in response, the authorities suspended the crew and ordered an investigation. CRACKED.COM — Source: Al Jazeera

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WEIRD WORLD Swiss heirs are trying to extract a th-century feudal tax from an Italian town. The residents of San Felice Circeo were informed that they have to pay thousands of euros to the heirs of a Swiss aristocrat who was entitled to receive a levy from the town. CRACKED.COM — Source: SMH

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WEIRD WORLD In a Georgia county, officials had to ask people to stop calling 911 about cicadas. The Union county Fire/Rescue and Emergency Management Agency said it's been getting plenty of calls about alarms .-which are probably just cicada songs.g CRACKED.COM — Source: The Hill

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