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Welcome to Ripley’s Weird True Facts!, the place online where you can get your Daily Dose of Weird. Following Ripley’s 90 year old tradition of bringing people the odd, bizarre and unusual from around the world, Weird True Facts! features daily stories that are unbelievably weird but undeniably true!
Useless Machine
Interested in a machine that does nothing but turn itself off? Thanks to the wonders of the internet and Instructables member Saskview, it’s The Most Useless Machine Ever! He even teaches you how to build it, if you’re so inclined.
Mountains of Crystal
Before it crashed into the Moon in 2009, Chandrayaan-1, India’s first lunar probe, discovered mountainous outcroppings of crystal formed billions of years ago. Back then, the moon was a molten, hot mess of a world. Instead of solid rock, it was covered in a sea of lava that likely existed ...
Slightly Less Than Unbreakable
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 · 2 Comments
There’s a saying that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof“. Those are words to live by, particularly when it comes to advertising. BBC technology reporter Dan Simmons got a good example of that at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. He spent some time talking with the CEO of Sonim about ...
Rom Houben… Round 2
Awhile back, I wrote about Rom Houben, the Belgian car crash victim. Particularly, I mentioned that there was a lot that was unclear about how the story was presented and some of the facts were probably muddled. As it turns out, I was dead on. Newsweek just did a follow ...
What We’ve Seen
The Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History put together a quick flythrough video of the entirety of the known universe. It’s got everything from the earth and the planets to galaxies and the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is dull glowing remnant of the big bang. Things ...
Down The Drain
Scientists out of Charles Darwin University in (where else?) Darwin, Australia thought they’d get clever when studying some tree frogs by inserting radio transmitters into their bodies. They’d track the frogs, see where they go and what they do. Some measurements would get done and everything would be awesome, scientifically ...
A Wine Glass that is Never Empty
Ok, I gotta admit, I love this one! This is called the Glass Tank (love that name too!) Created by Kyouei Design in Japan, this glass is designed to keep your wine glass full, but not overflowing. When you take a drink, more wine will fill the glass but never ...
Duck Love
Ducks are a special birds. Not many birds have penises, but ducks certainly do. It’s not just any penis, either. Ducks have explosively erecting, corkscrew-shaped penises. They look more or less like this, depending on the species of duck. As it turns out, male ducks can get a bit violent. ...
Octopus with 96 Tentacles
Tuesday, December 22, 2009 · 4 Comments
This looks straight out of a science fiction movie…an Octopus that has 96 tentacles…I guess it isn’t exactly an “Octo”-pus anymore huh? This exhibit was once living at the Shima Marineland Aquarium in Japan. See More pics here.
World’s Tallest Teenage Girl
Monday, December 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
This is Marvadene Anderson, a high school sophomore from New Jersey. At nearly 6 foot 11 (and still growing) she is considered the world’s tallest teenage girl. Source
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