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95,200 Pieces Of Chewed Gum Make Up The World’s Largest And Grossest Gumball

4:30PM January 26, 2012 | Casey Chan

That gigantic yellow stained ball of goopness? It’s made from 95,200 piece of chewed Nicorette gum. It’s the love creation of Barry Chappell, who started rolling his chewed gum into a ball back in 2006. Six years later, it’s now 62 inches in circumference and weighs 175 pounds of rubber, saliva and nastiness. People are crazy. More »


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Who Wants To Eat Darth Vader’s Head Anyway?

2:00AM June 26, 2011 | Kwame Opam

With the summer heat upon us, you’re gonna have to stay cool somehow. Try importing these eerily-realistic ice cream popsicles from Stoyn in Russia. You might object, but we’ve already been eating creepy popsicle heads for decades. More »


Science

People Swallow The Darndest Things: Cigarette Butts, Burnt Matches And More

1:20PM April 28, 2011 | Casey Chan

A museum exhibit at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia is pretty strange even by wacko museum standards. It documents the things that people have swallowed—the number is in the thousands by the way—as collected by Chevalier Jackson, a pioneering laryngologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More »


Online

You Should Break Up With Your Boyfriend If He Hacks Into Your Email And Uses Your Sexual History Against You

10:00AM April 10, 2011 | Casey Chan

Over at Slate, Dear Prudence got a question from a reader involving her creepy and insecure boyfriend. Why creepy? Because the girl recently discovered that her boyfriend had hacked into her Email account and sifted through 5-years worth of messages. Even worse, the prick filtered searches to find emails with “date” and “sex” in the body and is now using the girl’s sexual history against her in arguments. More »


Science

The Latest Strange Discoveries And Most Maniacal Research

1:00PM February 23, 2011 | Annalee Newitz

Science makes the world better – and weirder. Here are some of the latest odd discoveries that will set your brain on fire with curiosity. Or just, you know, with fire. More »


Mobile

Andre Agassi Showed A Naked Picture Of Steffi Graf On His Mobile To Boost An Auction

5:20PM January 8, 2011 | Casey Chan

In an effort to spice up an auction for an autographed dish, tennis legend Andre Agassi offered to show the winner a naked picture of his wife, Steffi Graf, right on his mobile phone. The dish sold for over $US4,000. More »


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The Weirdest Things That Get Dropped On New Years Eve

1:00PM January 1, 2011 | Casey Chan

If you thought dropping Snooki was weird, you haven’t seen the rest of America. Some cities drop really weird things on New Years Eve. How weird? How about bologna, sausage, a drag queen, a bag of chips and a possum? More »


Cameras

Here’s Video Of The Guy Who Surgically Implanted A Camera In The Back Of His Head

9:00AM December 5, 2010 | Casey Chan

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The Pool Noodle Girlfriend

12:00PM November 6, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

The Pool Noodle Girlfriend, courtesy of the weirdos at Vice, is a masturbatory contraption comprised of a pool noodle, a few condoms, and a plunger. I hope your Friday night doesn’t resemble this in any way. More »


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Naked Redneck Throws Himself In A Hay Baler

8:20AM August 27, 2010 | Joel Johnson

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I’ve been reading about hay-balers for the last 10 minutes to get some idea of whether this video is real or not. And it’s probably not. But it’s still nude redneck adventure of the first order. More »