Weird World: 12 Oddball Things That Somehow Happened
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The world can be a weird, mad, and fascinating place. We establish rules, laws, expectations, and all manner of things in order to have a sense of control, order, and understanding of how everything works and is supposed to work. We have them in order to be a society, dammit! Then something strikes oddly and flops onto logic's lap as a chaotic mess that stains the casual khaki pants of reason.
Corporate employees of fast food chains are being asked to heat up the fryer and take orders themselves. The tourist board of Vienna's best social media platform is OnlyFans. Christchurch, New Zealand no longer has a wizard on its government payroll. Chaos reigns.
Those things sound way too odd to be true, but rest assured they did happen. Compare to some other nonsense, those events look downright normal by comparison. Read up for more details on these odd occurrences and other weird facts from around the otherwise orderly world.
![WEIRD WORLD A South Carolina elementary school teacher brought weed edibles as prizes. They were just used as regular student prizes in his classroom's candy box, and at least two of his students got prizes from that box. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/6/796606.jpg)
Source: ABC
![WEIRD WORLD A British woman charged with drunk driving was let off for a surprising reason. She claimed she'd had a drink right after the accident in which she was charged, not before - and, apparently, it turned out she wasn't lying. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/5/796605.jpg)
Source: Manchester Evening News
![WEIRD WORLD A guy leaked real-life tank specs on the official forum for the game Warthunder. Apparently, he was in the French army, and he posted classified tank documents to settle an argument about the accuracy of the tank's -game version. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/4/796604.jpg)
Source: MassivelyOP
![WEIRD WORLD After a woman got an STD in a GEICO-insured car, she actually sued GEICO. In 2017, she had unprotected sex with a man in his (improbably appropriate) Hyundai Genesis, and she thinks his insurance should cover her STD. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/9/796609.jpg)
Source: Insurance Journal
![WEIRD WORLD A Wisconsin brewery is lending legal muscle to parents who are suing schools. The lawsuits are over lifting mask requirements and the like the Minocqua Brewing Company, which sells progressive beer, just wants to help out. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/8/796608.jpg)
Source: NPR
![WEIRD WORLD A city in New Zealand, sadly, no longer has an official wizard on its payroll. BEFFEET Hill Seriously, they had an official one for 23 years his job was to promote Christchurch with acts of wizardry and other wizard-like services. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/2/796602.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![WEIRD WORLD The tourism board of Vienna opened an OnlyFans account for - museums. All social networks censored the artistic nudity in its museums' images, so the OnlyFans thing was a gimmick to draw attention to that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/7/796607.jpg)
Source: The Guardian
![WEIRD WORLD Australian authorities locked up two women for five months over ginger tea. Apparently, the tea tested positive in a preliminary test for illegal drugs - but that turned out to be wrong as the test was, indeed, preliminary. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/3/796603.jpg)
Source: 9news.com.au
![WEIRD WORLD A guy who started fixing a bike soon realized it was his own, stolen bike. He identified it by the stickers and the attached helmet, then he said That's mine, and chased the guy who'd brought the bike to him. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/0/796600.jpg)
Source: GlasgowLive
![WEIRD WORLD Kim-Jong Un warned about the grim situation in his own North Korea. Apparently, it was part of a party anniversary speech in which he told the authorities to get people better food and improve their living conditions. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/1/796601.jpg)
Source: CP24
![WEIRD WORLD A fast food chain is asking its corporate employees to work in restaurants. There's a huge labor shortage in the industry, SO corporate employees of Raising Cane's are quickly switching to fry cook and cashier jobs. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/8/796598.jpg)
Source: Local12.com
![WEIRD WORLD The Governor of Colorado boasted that the state has zero shark attacks. Not that its record of shark attacks is unique, of course- it's tied with pretty much the entire U.S. interior for that impressive number. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/9/796599.jpg)
Source: Denver Post