Weird World: 12 Inexplicably Ridiculous Things That Somehow Happened
![Weird World: 12 Inexplicably Ridiculous Things That Somehow Happened](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/3/785523_320x180.jpg)
It’s fair to say we don’t love the explicable. We prefer the surprising, the odd, the unexplained. The inexplicable if you will (or, even if you won’t). Why? Well we just love surprised. We’ve covered it before too. Whether it be the time we wrote about incredibly surprising side effects that took people off guard or absolutely inexplicable skills displayed in action movies or even really surprising and unexpected things that kept happening to dead bodies.
Frankly, the only thing we did see coming about these factoids we uncovered is that we just knew they would knock our socks off. In what world wouldn’t they? For example, we know you’ll never guess the wild trend sweeping recreational drug dealing or the way the staff at a Burger King in Nebraska all stuck it to the man(ager).
In Seoul, Gangnam Style is now considered too fast for group exercise classes. Here’s the full story, plus 11 others:
![WEIRD WORLD The French are rushing to get vaccinated now that it's required for going to cafes. NO COFVEE ESPRESSO fatte the After it was recently announced that a health pass would be mandatory for visits to cafes, bars, and malls, a record 926,000 people booked a vaccine shot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/5/785535.jpg)
Source: NPR
![WEIRD WORLD Dealers are now selling ethically sourced cocaine to discerning British consumers. 12735 and (0) +44 of the 01 in9 People at upscale dinner parties increasingly want woke coke, which they're happy to pay more for - but, of course, what they're getting is fake. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/4/785534.jpg)
Source: NZHerald
![WEIRD WORLD At one Burger King in Nebraska, the sign announced that all the employees quit. 24 BURGER KING Restaurant HRS LISA LIS! BURGER KING (illustration) We had just got really tired of upper management, said general manager Rachael Flores, so she and at least another six employees all left. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/3/785533.jpg)
Source: Yahoo
![WEIRD WORLD Elon Musk's court testimony has been interrupted by a lawyer throwing up. That made the entire trial, which concerns Tesla's merger with SolarCity, pause for two hours while the area was cleaned of vomit. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/2/785532.jpg)
Source: The Independent
![WEIRD WORLD In Moscow, you can wear your vaccination certificate QR code as a tattoo. You need the code on your phone to get into a bar, restaurant, or cafe - but now, a company is offering to give you a temporary tattoo of it instead. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/0/785530.jpg)
Source: The Moscow Times
![WEIRD WORLD It's now technically illegal to play Gangnam Style in gyms in Seoul, South Korea. E E Y In group exercises, anyway - it's to make sure people don't breathe too heavily. Any music with a bpm over 120 (like Gangnam Style, with its bpm of 132) isn't allowed. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/3/1/785531.jpg)
Source: Yonhap News Agency
![WEIRD WORLD A Michigan man found a total of 158 bowling balls stashed away under his house. OLD9C2946 He saw one poking out from under his back stairs, so he took it out and kept digging. A bunch of bowling balls was holding up the stairs, it turned out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/9/785529.jpg)
Source: CBC
![WEIRD WORLD Finally, New York State made it legal to get a haircut or a shave on Sundays. Until very recently, having someone shave you or give you a haircut was a misdemeanor punishable by $5 to $25, and/or some jail time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/8/785528.jpg)
Source: NBC
![WEIRD WORLD In New Jersey, a guy entered a couple's house and thoroughly cleaned every part. (illustration) He was supposed to clean someone else's place, but showed up at the wrong house, found a key under the mat, and started cleaning. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/7/785527.jpg)
Source: WECT
![WEIRD WORLD A London library hired a guy in a rainbow monkey costume with a fake butt and dong. (illustration) He did a performance designed to help get children interested in reading - but people got pretty shocked and outraged, predictably. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/6/785526.jpg)
Source: Indy100
![WEIRD WORLD The Tokyo Bay, where olympic swimmers will compete, is amazingly polluted. Apparently, the Bay still has a strong smell, even though 000 cubic meters of sand have been dumped into it and anti-bacterial screens were placed. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/5/785525.jpg)
Source: Axios
![WEIRD WORLD A 19th-century hydroelectric plant started mining Bitcoin with its spare power. 1 The Mechanicville, NY plant, built in 1897, can make more money doing that than selling the extra power to the National Grid. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/2/4/785524.jpg)
Source: Tom's Hardware