Weird World: 12 Unbelievable Events That, Somehow, Are Real

By:: Andrea Meno

February 07, 2022

Weird World: 12 Unbelievable Events That, Somehow, Are Real

Life truly has no shortage of surprises.

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WEIRD WORLD Iran has allowed some women to watch a football match, apparently. This is big news for Iran - the women were allowed to watch the Iraq vs. Iran match in the 2022 Qatar World Cup at the Azadi stadium in Tehran. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, pillow fighting and drone racing might one day be Olympic sports. They've been suggested as a replacement for riding, the fifth sport in the modern pentathlon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Just before Groundhog Day, a weather-predicting groundhog suddenly died. A Facebook post from the local government in NJ said, We Wranglers are sad to report that Milltown Mel recently crossed over the rainbow bridge. Considering the average lifespan of a Groundhog is about 3 years, that is not such a shock, but Mel left us at aED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The West Virginia governor held up a dog's butt and told Bette Midler to kiss it. The butt in question belonged to his own British bulldog, and he held up the poor thing at the end of his televised State of the State address. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Japan, a local government blamed an anime meme for a fall in rice demand. Lumia Tingel By:apalad kun The local government in Niigata released a video saying, We wondered if there was anything in Japanese culture that explains the decline in rice. And our answer is 'The girl who's late running with toast in her mouth.' CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Florida, they're trying to pass a Don't Say Gay bill. The bill would severely restrict discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in classrooms - and it got nicknamed Don't Say Gay by LGBTQ activists. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Bensalem, PA, a fight broke out over a steak shortage, of all things. According to a former employee of the resaurant where it happened, it all might have started when a customer got mad because the buffet had run out of steak. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Spain, authorities raided a marijuana plantation but found something else. B EIHL9 It wasn't a marijuana plantation at all, actually - it was a big crypto mining farm, with 21 Bitcoin ASIC miners plus crypto mining hardware worth 13,000 Euros. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Iceland, a Big Mac meal got preserved as an important historical artifact. The last McDonalds in Iceland closed in 2009, and the 12-year-old Big Mac in question is now a historical curiosity - the last of its kind. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The president of FIFA is claiming that football could save Africans from drowning. His words were: We need to find ways to include the whole world to give hope to Africans so that they don't need to cross the Mediterranean in order to find maybe a better life but, more probably, death in the CRACKED.COM sea. — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Turkish President Erdogan fired his statistics agency chief suddenly. and WO Which might not be big news, but the apparent cause is pretty ridiculous - some stats had just come out showing that inflation was at record levels. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD China is claiming that the US is going to try and sabotage the Beijing Olympics. 18277 581 GB 982 243 How is it going to pull this off? According to the claims, it'll pay athletes to perform badly and to criticize China. CRACKED.COM — Source

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