30 Super Weird Facts About The World

It’s time for the news! Not the useful news about current events or anything though. That’s well taken care of by, you know, actual news places. No, it’s time for the weird news, the strange events that make up the fluff for those organizations (if they’re even reported at all). It’s these little, itsy bitsy events that make us remember that the world isn’t all bad – it’s also really bizarre. Stuff like Bezos threatening DiCaprio or the Excel world championship (yes, that is apparently a thing). And here’s one: you know consumerism has gone too far when famous companies are growing food on soil taken from football stadiums just so they could brand limited edition products. More on these and quite a few other strange stories that made us shake our heads in disbelief before going “Hey, it’s a weird world, and we like telling people about exactly how weird it is.”

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, a woman somehow breastfed a cat onboard an actual plane. That's according to a viral shot of a Delta pilot messaging system, which also says the woman was asked to stop but refused. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Students at Cambridge University are unhappy that there's no pastry chef. It's so bad, they're now complaining that they have to settle for the horror of store-bought cakes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One guy built a model railway for eight years and hid it from his girfriend. Finally, after working on it for near a decade, he unveiled the model (of 1.5 miles of a real-life railway track). CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The MyPillow CEO sued the Daily Mail over saying that he dated Jane Krakowski. Не alleged that, somehow, this was defamatory - but it turns out the judge didn't think it was too harmful to your image to be dating a Hollywood actress. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Excel world championship has taken place (sponsored by Microsoft, of course). It involves truly fierce spreadsheet warriors duking it out, and it's going to be broadcast on ESPN3 and YouTube. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A college professor gave his students a treasure hunt using his syllabus. - The hunt was for an actual cash prize stashed away on campus, and students just had to read the syllabus. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD North Korea banned laughing for 11 days, as a way to mark Dear Leader's death. Specifically, they marked the tenth anniversary of Kim Jong-Il's death - and laughing was entirely off-limits during that time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, a woman managed to swallow an Airpod instead of a painkiller. It happened when she was getting into bed with an Airpod in one hand an ibuprofen in another (and she claims she recorded her own stomach). CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, China now has some major beef with, uh = ... Lithuania. China has threatened to dump Lithuania into the garbage bin of history and is considering economic sanctions against it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In China, McDonald's is trying out putting exercise bikes in its stores. F15 B Apparently, these are going to be stationary bike seats that, presumably, will help combat people's guilt for eating fast food-they said that's the aim, anyway. CRACKED.GOM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One teen sued his coaches for forcing him to eat pizza. 0 C Не also sued the school district - and the problem was that, apparently, eating pizza violated his religious convictions, so the coaches' actions infringed on his religious freedom. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD To get more people to get vaccinated, they used sheep and goats. Well, they arranged sheep and goats - 700 of them, into the shape of a syringe, in Germany. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A YouTuber is getting accused of crashing a plane for more views. The video, titled simply I Crashed My Plane, got YouTuber Trevor Jacob 400,000 views - and also an investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration, and accusations of it being staged. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Turns out, partying can get you stuck in a foreign country with no way home. C9-C23 C9-C2 Sen Cole That's what happened to a bunch of people who were filmed partying maskless on their flight to Cancun - their return flight got pulled, and other airlines didn't want to fly them out of Mexico. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Lay's is now making chips from potatoes grown in NFL stadium dirt. The new, limited-edition Golden Grounds chips are literally grown in soil that was taken from NFL stadiums and fields. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, teenagers might solve the US' supply chain issues. A-4990 In a bid to get more drivers out there driving trucks, the federal government is rolling out a plan to get 18-to-20-year-olds behind the wheels of big rigs. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The POTUS called a reporter a stupid son of a bitch at one point. Не got an inflation question from a Fox reporter and said those words when he thought the mic was off. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Uganda, women got banned from sitting on front seats in trucks. BELL TOYOTA TOYOLOCI DAS 100% The reasoning is pretty extraordinary - apparently, the purpose of the regulation is to cut down on the risk of accidents, since their short skirts might distract drivers. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Florida, a cop told a woman her Halloween costume was basically illegal. POLIZEI The costume looks like a building project she's against, and the cop apparently said that, if she wore it, that'd be protesting and she'd need a permit. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A truck driver is winning against New Jersey's state Senate president. State Senate President Sweeney In the race for a Senate seat, that is-he's ahead of the Senate president by 2,000 votes, despite having spent a total of $153 on his campaign. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Jeff Bezos got all in Leo DiCaprio's face (because Leo talked to Lauren Sanchez). Sanchez is Bezos' girlfriend, and Leo talking to her made Bezos so mad that he threatened to push Leo off a cliff. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Oklahoma, a woman got thrown out of church for bringing cilantro. People thought it was marijuana so they kicked her out, despite her protests that it was just for her soup. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Wal-Mart pulled a toy that literally swore and sang about doing cocaine. Walmart Supercentre The toy spoke in Polish, which kind of helped hide what it was talking about. Anyway, you can (regrettably?) no longer buy it on Wal-Mart's website. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One guy in Germany literally drove (yes, in his car) to his driving test. - Cops showed up, and he told them he just wanted to make sure he didn't arrive late. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One guy somehow got a piece of WWII ammunition stuck up his butt. The bomb squad got called, and he ultimately went to the hospital to get the artillery shell removed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A newly built road got damaged during, uh... its own inauguration ceremony. At the ceremony in Uttar Pradesh, India, an official smashed a coconut on the freshly-built road - and cracked it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One judge defended his act of burying $100,000 in cash to hide it from creditors. It may seem strange, but I'm from Alabama, is how Nashville Judge Kelvin Jones defended himself in his divorce case. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The Pope is saying it's really not that bad to have sex outside of marriage. There are worse things you could do than bone with somebody you're not married with, Pope Francis thinks. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A TikTok trend made it sound like there'd be school shootings ... but поре. Tik Tok It was called National Shoot Up Your School Day - seriously - and school officials were afraid there'd be actual shootings. There weren't. CRACKED.COM — Source

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