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31 Bizarre News Stories That Went Under The Radar

By:: Timon DJ Spajic; Cracked Writers

December 01, 2021

31 Bizarre News Stories That Went Under The Radar

Have you ever wanted to see a TikTok opera based on Tiger King? No? Well, too bad because that's totally a thing. More on that and 30 other bizarre pieces of news that went unnoticed:

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WEIRD WORLD An Australian community got dance lessons as a form of crisis help. The community was affected by Australia's deadly brushfires and asked for water storage ... but all they were given instead was dance lessons. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Turns out, the wall of the toilet in Joel Osteen's megachurch was full of cash. Like, literally full of cash - a plumber who opened up the walls found $$$$ inside, stuffed in envelopes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Catholic Church had to apologize for telling kids Santa isn't real. The bishop of a diocese in Sicily told kids that Santa didn't actually exist - which, even if it might be consistent with Church doctrine, required an apology. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The street in front of the Saudi embassy in Washington DC will get a trollish name. It'll be named Jamal Khashoggi Way - after the Saudi journalist who was detained in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, then tortured and murdered. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Twitch, owned by Amazon, banned an Amazon Prime Video channel over a breast. twitch Japanese Commentary English Commentary - ---- A presenter's breast was accidentally revealed during a live airing, and Twitch brought out the banhammer right away. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Police in Virginia are searching for a hungry and nefarious Hamburglar. The criminal in question made five orders (for seven Big Macs each) using a stolen credit card, and the cops are now after him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Iran prohibited a scene with a doll eating a cucumber on a children's show. Apparently, it was considered too sexy - for similar reasons, they said a man accepted a flower on-screen in a way that was inappropriate and erotic. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A bakery in Pittsburgh made a delicious 7-foot monster named Frosty the Doughman. It's exactly what you might think - a 7-foot snowman, but made out of bread, not snow. Apparently, frosty weighs 200 or so pounds. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A female Nigerian soldier got arrested for accepting a marriage proposal. Apparently, this was an instance of indulging in romance while in uniform, which breached the Nigerian military's code of conduct, according to an army spokesman. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Tokyo police have announced that they've lost 2 floppy disks with sensitive data. The data are on 38 public housing applicants - but there's no word why Tokyo police is using an early '90s technology to transfer data. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Great Britain's Minister for Levelling Up got stuck in an elevator. PO Ex oli lycy xch Michael Gove was on his way to do a radio interview, but the elevator that was supposed to get him there performed a spectacular feat of irony by getting stuck. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Google Maps was used to bust a former mafia boss in Spain. The Google Maps Street View camera snapped a pic of the fugitive Sicilian mafia boss at his new restaurant in Spain, and that helped the police finally nab him. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Canadian restaurant was accepting dog photos instead of vaccine proof. It turns out that staff, who should have been accepting either proof of vaccination or a negative test, were accepting dog photos -- so the restaurant got shut down. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In London, a guy put up billboard ads begging for rescue from arranged marriage. That was pretty much his last-ditch attempt at finding a wife - the ads read Save me from arranged marriage. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD At the Beijing Winter Olympics, you can get condoms, but hugs are a no-no. Well, technically, they're allowed, but they're definitely discouraged, even though all Olympic-related units will provide appropriate quantities of condoms for free at the appropriate time to people who've checked in to stay inside the loop.RACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A woman travelled 500 miles to take the easiest driving test in the country. The punchline is, though, that she failed. This was a Londoner who went to the Isle of Mull, near Scotland, to take a test that was said to be the easiest - and, sadly, it was all for naught. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The world's largest potato, an utter monstrosity, was dug up in New Zealand. The potato holding the Guinness World Record weighs 5 kg, but this one weighs 7.9 kg (or 17.4 pounds), so it'll probably take the #1 spot. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Dozens of fish crates appeared instead of luggage at Heathrow Airport. and Passengers waiting for their luggage at the conveyor belt were pretty surprised when nothing but frozen fish started rolling past them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Manchester, they literally had to tell people not throw rental bikes in a canal. Apparently, that's what happened the last time the city provided bikes for rent, so the mayor is having to ask people not to do it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom praised Peppa Pig in a speech. In the same speech to industry leaders, he kind of made comparisons between himself and Moses, and mimicked the noise of a car. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD We found out that plumbers call the day after Thanksgiving Brown Friday. And it's because, on that day, lavish Thanksgiving meals lead to a massive surge in business for them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Somebody collected 1,230 different soccer balls, setting a world record. That's according to Guinness, who certified that the Mexican collector broke their previous record. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in jail tried to steal $3 million worth of equipment... while still in jail. But he got busted in that fraud sheme, and wa ssentenced (again). CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy in Italy tried to get vaccinated in a fake arm that he'd brought along. Unfortunately for antivaxxers everywhere, this innovation in vaccine evasion didn't work and the guy was busted. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy driving a stolen car parked it at a space reserved for police cars in Tulsa. 712 6030-D2 Unsurprisingly for everyone involved, except the driver, he (along with a passenger) got arrested very quickly. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD An Australian real estate agency asked tenants to buy Xmas gifts for landlords. Somehow, they did this despite an earlier rise in rents - and the agency offered to facilitate these gifts (such as an AUD $99 hamper full of food). CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A guy stole $23,500 from his girlfriend by pulling up her eyelid when she was asleep. Не did that to activate facial recognition on her phone, and it definitely worked - but he eventually got sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Denmark is going to rent 300 prison cells a year from the country of Kosovo. SEARCH ROOM Denmark has been dealing with prison overcrowding, and apparently this is the solution. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD You can now watch a TikTopera based on Tiger King, if you want to. It's an actual opera that consists of 60-second TikToks, and the English National Opera provided the music. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Two guys broke a Guinness World Record by walking up some stairs. Specifically, one of them was balanced on the other's head, and they made it up 100 stairs that way. CRACKED.COM — Source

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