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Places and infrastructure

Aphrodite's artistic nudity shows itself not far from Mount Olympus.

Good golly, Miss Molly – jus' love your folly!

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Breast-shaped hill	Laid bare in many places around the world. May have given their name to Manchester.
Folly	Buildings prized for their uselessness.
Gravity hill	A hill that gives the illusion of objects rolling up it.
List of Eiffel Tower replicas	Not as unique as you might have thought.
List of tautological place names	Place names that contain truisms and say what they are.
Pizza farm	All the ingredients of pizza, grown in one convenient location!
Spite house	Various houses built solely out of spite for their neighbors.

North America

'I don't care, you can name it Hell for all I care...'

When California hadn't quite joined the United States.

Mill Ends Park,
the smallest park in the world.

A postman's labor of love.

11 foot 8 Bridge	Try driving a truck under this bridge in North Carolina. Actually, please don't.
33 Thomas Street	A windowless skyscraper in New York
A Mountain	Also known as Sentinel Peak, this hill in Tucson, Arizona literally has a big letter 'A' on it.
Agloe, New York	A fictional town in New York.
Aroma of Tacoma	'What an incredible smell you've discovered' could have been this Washington city's motto.
Badlands Guardian	A natural topographic feature in Canada, which, when viewed from above, looks remarkably like a human wearing a Native American headdress and earbuds.
Beatosu and Goblu	Two non-existent Ohio towns that appeared on Michigan's official highway map as a reference to the University of Michigan and their rivals, Ohio State University.
Bubbly Creek	The branch of the Chicago River that was so contaminated with blood from the Stock Yards that it gained this appetizing moniker.
Centralia, Pennsylvania	A town that's been on fire since 1962.
Clinton Road (New Jersey)	In addition to having the longest traffic light in the country, the road is also notorious for reported occurrences of paranormal activity.
Colma, California	A town where the dead outnumber the living by 1000 to 1.
Dixie Square Mall	A shopping mall that stood abandoned for over twice as long as it was in business until it was finally demolished in 2012. It was featured in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers and became a popular target for urban explorers.
Fenelon Place Elevator	The shortest and steepest railroad in the world, (supposedly) located in a town of around 60,000 people.
Florence Y'all Water Tower	A NorthernKentucky town's unique 'welcome' sign.
Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia	All the places that are no longer found in Virginia, such as Illinois County, and a few that never were (including Walton's Mountain).
Greater Green River Intergalactic Spaceport	Consists entirely of a deeply rutted unmanned strip of soil/gravel and a windsock.
Gum Wall	A brick wall in Seattle burdened by chewing gum. Cleaned in 2015, only to be turned into a memorial for Paris.
House on the Rock	A complex of architecturally distinct rooms, streets, gardens, and shops designed by Alex Jordan Jr.
Interstate 180 (Wyoming)	An Interstate Highway that isn't really a freeway at all.
Interstate 19	The only U.S. highway marked in metric units, a relic of a historical push for metrication.
Republic of Indian Stream	An area of land in northern New Hampshire that was an independent country from 1832 to 1835.
Island of California	The third-largest U.S. state was formerly an island – at least on paper.
Jackass Flats	The aptly named test site for the world's first and only nuclear-powered rocket engines.
Jerimoth Hill	The highest natural point in Rhode Island. For years, one of the toughest highpoints in the U.S. to scale, not because of its 812-foot (247 m) height, but because of an angry old man who lived nearby.
Landsat Island	A lonesome island with a frankly humorous tale.
List of Las Vegas casinos that never opened	What happened on the drawing board stayed on the drawing board.
M-185 (Michigan highway)	The only state highway in the country that bans motor vehicles. If you thought Texas State Highway 165 was an exceptional state highway, well...
Mary Ellis grave	A grave that found itself in the middle of a movie theater parking lot.
Michigan left	Directions are more complicated in Michigan.
Mill Ends Park	The smallest park in the world – 452 in² (0.292 m²) – in Portland, Oregon.
Mojave phone booth	A public phone booth that stood for several decades in the middle of a desert, miles away from any roads or other structures.
Pyramid mausoleums in North America	Arizona Governor George Hunt will hereafter be addressed as 'Pharaoh George I'.
Republic of Molossia	A 34-person micronation in Nevada which takes the meaning of the phrase 'a man's home is his castle' to new extremes.
Monowi	A village in Nebraska with a population of one. Hi, Elsie!
Nitt Witt Ridge	A house in California, built out of beer cans, abalone shells, car parts, and other garbage previously tossed out by local residents, is now a historic landmark.
Plymouth, Montserrat	A national capital with zero population.
Point Roberts, Washington	When defining international boundaries, sometimes a straight line isn't the best solution.
Prada Marfa, Texas	For your luxury shopping bug, a Prada store in the desert.
Raising of Chicago	During the 1850s, the city was raised on jacks, building by building.
Rio Rico, Texas	A city that was ceded by the United States to Mexico in 1977 due to an earlier diversion of the Rio Grande.
Rough and Ready, California	A currently populated, unincorporated mining town in the United States that seceded from the Union in 1850, forming the 'Great Republic of Rough and Ready'. Secession was rescinded less than three months later when its citizens noticed that they could not celebrate U.S. independence.
Sam Kee Building	Known as the world's narrowest commercial building.
S.N.P.J., Pennsylvania	A municipality consisting solely of a Slovenian fraternity's recreation center, established (in part) to get around liquor laws.
Spiral Island	An artificial island, now destroyed, built from thousands of empty floating plastic bottles.
Tower of Wooden Pallets	Now replaced by an apartment building, its site remains City of Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument no.184.
Truth or Consequences, New Mexico	A town that got its name from a game show.
U Thant Island	An island in the East River with a surprisingly in-depth history for only being 2000 square feet in area.
Wedge	It's harder than you think to construct the state of Delaware with a ruler and compass.
Whittier, Alaska	A city in Alaska where (almost) all of its residents live in one building: Begich Towers.
World's littlest skyscraper	The result of a fraudulent investment scheme, it's a four-story brick building constructed in 1920 in downtown Wichita Falls, Texas, that has only one room on each of its four floors.
Winchester Mystery House	A house believed to be haunted by the ghosts of individuals killed by Winchester rifles.
Zone of Death	The part of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, where any crime can technically be committed without punishment – but don't tempt fate!

South America

Devil's Island	A notorious penal colony off the coast of French Guiana.
Fordlândia	The man himself was not without his abject failures in Brazil.
Hacienda Nápoles	The luxurious estate of the deceased drug lord Pablo Escobar that may lead to an invasive hippopotamus population in Colombia.
Nazca Lines	A line museum, exhibited outdoors in southern Peru.
Onafhankelijkheidsplein	My favourite square!

Africa

Bir Tawil	One of the few places on Earth not claimed by any country. An American trekked there and claimed it in 2014 as the Kingdom of North Sudan so he could make his daughter a princess.
Congo Pedicle	Leopold, you've already done enough to the Congo!
Mountains of Kong	A non-existent trans-African mountain range that appeared on Western maps of the 19th century.
Mountains of the Moon	Another non-existent African mountain range, this time serving as the source of the Nile.
Null Island	A fictional island in the Gulf of Guinea, at 0°N 0°E. The site is currently occupied by a weather buoy.
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera	A rock on the Moroccan coast connected to the mainland by an 80-metre-wide tombolo. Which is part of Spain.
Republic of Benin (1967)	One of the shortest-lived states in history, it was independent for only seven hours (07:00 to 14:00 on 19 September 1967).

Antarctica

A little church in Grytviken in the Antarctic.

Breakwind Ridge	I'd wait another five minutes if I were you.
Emilio Palma	An Argentine national who is the first person known to be born on the continent of Antarctica.
Scouting in the Antarctic	Always be prepared for glaciers and penguins.

Asia

A skyscraper with en suite highway.

Camp Bonifas	The bunkers on this golf course feature machine-guns and landmines.
Dahala Khagrabari	India inside Bangladesh inside India inside Bangladesh. Formerly the only third-order enclave in the world.
Gate Tower Building	A skyscraper in Japan that has a highway passing through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors.
Hallstatt (China)	An ongoing replica construction of a town in Austria.
Jewish Autonomous Oblast	In the depth of Eastern Siberia there's a place with street names in Yiddish, even though 95% of its population is not Jewish.
Kowloon Walled City	An enclave in the city of Hong Kong, known for its extremely high population density, food courts which served dog meat, and claustrophobic dwellings.
Love Land	An erotic-themed sculpture park on Jeju island in South Korea.
Peace Village (North Korea)	A village in North Korea characterized by mainstream media as a North Korean propagandaPotemkin village.
Peanut Hole	A delightfully named patch of ocean in the Sea of Okhotsk which is totally surrounded by Russia's EEZ but not inside it. Often the subject of foreign overfishing.
Ryugyong Hotel	Once, it would have been the world's tallest hotel – except it lacked windows, fittings or fixtures for over twenty years.
San Serriffe	A lesser-known island in the Indian Ocean, subject of the April1, 1977 Guardian.
Seikan Tunnel Tappi Shakō Line	The closed funicular that connects an underground train station inside the Seikan Tunnel with a museum.
Shingō, Aomori	Did you know that Jesus escaped his crucifixion and raised a family in Japan?
Tsu Station	By kana, the tersest railway station in Japan, serving the capital of an equally terse prefecture. By stroke count, the tersest in the world. By letters, only second-tersest.
Wonderland Amusement Park (Beijing)	The largest abandoned amusement park in Asia.
X-Seed 4000	The tallest building ever designed, standing 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) tall and housing 500,000 to 1,000,000people on 800floors. It is, however, 'never meant to be built'.

Europe

Make sure you're covered.

Careful where you put that lighthouse, Eugene...

Welcome to the Principality of Sealand.

A chandelier, decorating the Sedlec Ossuary, made from human bones.

Anti urination devices in Norwich	Hostile architecture of the 19th century.
Argleton	A non-existent town in Lancashire, England, that appeared on Google Maps.
Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau	Two municipalities, one of Belgium and one of the Netherlands, that surround each other twice and many times over. Some houses and shops are in both countries.
Barcelona Supercomputing Center	A supercomputer in a medieval chapel.
Beans and Bacon mine	With such little ventilation, visitors may want to avoid any source of ignition. Nearby mines are not to be outdone and have the following names: Mule Spinner, Frogs Hole, Cackle Mackle and Wanton Legs.
Bell End	A village in Worcestershire, England. If you're not British, you may need to look up bell-end in Wiktionary.
Bielefeld Conspiracy	The Bielefeld-Verschwörung tries to hide the horrible truth about a city in Westphalia, Germany, that doesn't exist... well, maybe.
Brennender Berg	A German coal mine on fire since 1688.
Büsingen am Hochrhein	A German town that is fully contained within Switzerland.
Butt Hole Road	A tiny residential street in the UK that was so infamous for its name that it became a tourist attraction.
Carpatho-Ukraine	The third shortest-lived state in history (see Benin Republic in Nigeria); it was independent for only 24 hours.
Colletto Fava	A 1,500-metre (4,900 ft) hill with a 61-metre (200 ft) stuffed pink bunny on top.
Ebenezer Place, Wick	The world's shortest street.
Fallen Monument Park	A Russian park best known for its toppled statues.
Ferdinand Cheval	A postman, who, for thirty-three years, collected stones while making his rounds and used them to build a surrealPalais Idéal ('Ideal Palace') of astonishing proportions and intricate detail.
Forest swastika	A gigantic swastika made of larch trees that went unnoticed for nearly sixty years.
Fucking	An unfortunately named Austrian village that is the victim of many sign robberies.
Gropecunt Lane	A street name found in English towns and cities during the Middle Ages.
Icelandic Phallological Museum	A museum in Iceland solely devoted to the collection of penis specimens and penis-related art.
JASON reactor	The only nuclear reactor in a 17th-century building.
Leaning Tower of Suurhusen	Beating the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa by 1.22 degrees.
List of missing landmarks in Spain	Over 60 interesting buildings, including larger castles, royal palaces, leaning towers, city gates which were completely or partially demolished and no longer exist, with their respective articles and images.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyll	Or Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, if you want to get technical.
Lord Hereford's Knob	A mountain in south-east Wales. His Lordship must have been well-endowed.
Magic Roundabout	Only in the United Kingdom would you find a large roundabout with five mini-roundabouts. (Not to be confused with the 'Magic Roundabout's in Colchester, Hemel Hempstead or High Wycombe – or, for that matter, this 'Magic Roundabout'.)
Märket	A lighthouse built on this island led to a redefinition of the border between Sweden and Finland.
Monte Kaolino	A ski resort without snow.
Newhaven Marine railway station	A railway station that is technically open, despite (a) no passenger trains serving the station since 2006, (b) an inability to buy tickets to the station and (c) the station itself being demolished in 2017.
Neutral Moresnet	A tiny European region – approximately 1.4 square miles (3.6 km²) – that existed for a century as neutral territory between Germany and Belgium.
No Place	A small village in County Durham, that is very much indeed a place.
Other World Kingdom	A micronation and BDSM resort whose ultimate goal is 'absolute matriarchy' – for all men to be enslaved by women.
Principality of Sealand	A micronation located 6 miles (9.7 km) off the coast of Suffolk, England, whose population rarely exceeds ten.
Reality Checkpoint	A lamppost with its own name.
Röstigraben	The 'Coarsely Grated Potato Ditch' in Switzerland, dividing Swiss-German and Swiss-French cuisine.
Sedlec Ossuary	A Christian chapel decorated by the bones of approximately 40,000people.
Schwerbelastungskörper	A piece of Nazi architecture in Berlin, built with the sole purpose of being heavy.
Sexi (Phoenician colony)	An ancient ruins, also known as Sex or Ex, with several Roman-era suburbs, including Pænis, Socordia and Villa Fatuus Maximus.
Shitterton	A hamlet in England with a formerly collectible sign.
Smallest House in Great Britain	Only 5.49 square metres (59.1 sq ft) in size, in North Wales.
Spreuerhofstraße	The world's narrowest street.
Three Cocks	A village in Wales. You may be relieved to learn that it was named after a tavern of the same name.
UFO-Memorial Ängelholm	A memorial to a reputed UFO landing in Sweden.
Weißwurstäquator	The 'White Sausage Equator' in Germany.
Y, Somme	With respect to letters, it doesn't get much shorter than this – but the Ypsiloniens have a longer word to mouth…

Oceania

Baldwin Street, Dunedin.

Watch your step around Coober Pedy.

Baldwin Street, Dunedin	A short suburban road in Dunedin, New Zealand, reputedly the world's second steepest street.
Ball's Pyramid	A nearly 600-metre-tall (2,000 ft) stone stack in the middle of the ocean.
Banjawarn Station	Did a Japanese apocalypse cult test a nuke in the middle of rural Australia?
Cardrona Bra Fence	An eccentric tourist attraction in New Zealand.
Coober Pedy, South Australia	A mining town where most of the residents live underground.
Concrete bus shelters in Canberra	These brutalist cylindrical bus shelters are an icon of Australia's capital city
SH78	A road in Timaru, New Zealand that is designated a highway despite being less than a kilometre long.
Taumatawhakatangi	The whole name is a whole lot worse.
Te Urewera	A forested area in New Zealand that is also a legal person (see below). Its Māori name means 'The Burnt Penis'.
Whangamomona	A self-declared republic in New Zealand, whose past presidents include a goat and a poodle.
Whanganui River	A river in New Zealand that is legally a person.

History

The infrastructural shortcomings of Faraday's times proved especially overpowering in the summer of 1858.

Puyi	He became the last Emperor of China at the age of two and died as an ordinary citizen, ending 2,133 years of dynastic rule in China. In his twilight years, he also did community theater.
Daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei	A female monarch existed in Chinese history before Wu Zetian?
Taiping Rebellion	One of the most lethal wars in history centers around a Chinese man claiming to be the brother of Jesus Christ.
Hikayat Iskandar Zulkarnain	Alexander the Great goes to Sumatra and created the kingdom there?
Mutiny on the Bounty	The true story starting with a stern captain and a lustful crew on a Royal Navy ship and ending with the British-Polynesian Seventh-day Adventist culture of the Pitcairn Islands. Plenty of drama in-between.
The Great Stink	An actual 19th-century event in the history of London, where the stench of human stool emanating from the River Thames was so overpowering, that it interfered with the work of the House of Commons and is claimed to have ground the city to a halt. Kickstarted the London sewerage system.
The Miracle of 1511	When the people of Brussels protested against their rulers by building satirical and pornographic snowmen.
Great Molasses Flood	A storage tank burst and flooded the streets of Boston with a 25-foot (7.6 m) high wave of molasses.
London Beer Flood	Nine people drowned by a flood of over 300,000 gallons of beer.
Pepsi Fruit Juice Flood	A PepsiCo warehouse collapse flooded the streets of Russia with an assortment of juices.
Yang Kyoungjong	The Korean defence of Normandy.
Tank Man	An unidentified man who achieved widespread recognition after standing in front, and blocking the procession of a column of tanks, the morning after the bloody suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Dancing Plague of 1518	In 1518 around 400 people took to dancing for days without rest, and, over the period of about one month, some of those affected died of heart attack, stroke, or exhaustion.
Abul-Abbas	An Asian elephant given to Charlemagne by the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid.
Cadaver Synod	A deceased Pope was exhumed and put on trial!
Pope Benedict IX	He became pope at twenty, and later sold the papacy. He was pope three times.
Kottabos	The worlds first drinking game. Care to play? All you need is a bronze 'lamp stand' with a tiny statuette on top and some wine.
Defenestrations of Prague	When was the last time throwing someone out of a window started a war?
Sacred Band of Thebes	An elite fighting force consisting of a hand-picked groups of 150 pairs of male lovers.
Timothy Dexter	Genius or loony?
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion	This one isn't exactly funny, but it is a hoax and an extraordinarily toxic one at that.
Anglo-Zanzibar War	A war that literally lasted 38 minutes.
Jack Churchill	Longbows and broadswords weren't used in World War 2. Or were they?
Emu War	When the Australian government was very, very naughty.

Mathematics and numbers

'BEGhIL0S', 'hELL0', 'B00BLESS', etc. – there are many words that can be spelled on a calculator.

The day Sweden turned to the right side.

See the spiral within?

−0	Zero has a negative flavor in the worlds of computing, experimental science and statistical mechanics.
0.999...	An infinitely long way to write 1.
2 + 2 = 5	...or perhaps it equals 1984...
616 (number)	The realnumber of the beast?
Belphegor's prime	1 followed by 13 zeros followed by 666 followed by 13 zeros followed by 1.
Bertrand's postulate	Despite now being a theorem, still conventionally called a postulate.
Calculator spelling	Remember these from school?
The Complexity of Songs	A treatise on the computational complexity of songs by venerable computer scientist Donald Knuth.
Erdős–Bacon number	A combination of the degrees of separation from actor Kevin Bacon and mathematician Paul Erdős.
Extravagant number	Don't take it shopping. Not very friendly with the frugal number either.
Graham's number	A number so large that the observable universe is not big enough to write it in full in decimal notation.
Happy number	Not just a cheery song on the radio.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia	For beastly people bored of triskaidekaphobia.
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel	A fully occupied hotel cannot accommodate any more guests. Or can it? Or, once it can, can it not?
Illegal prime	Does the US government forbid knowledge of the existence of certain prime numbers?
Illumination Problem	A room with a bit of a shadow.
Indiana Pi Bill	A notorious attempt to legislate the value of pi as 3.2.
Infinite monkey theorem	An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will (almost surely) produce all possible written texts.
Interesting number paradox	Either all natural numbers are interesting or else none of them are.
Legendre's constant	After 91 years and much effort, this legendary constant was found to be ... 1. Just 1.
Look-and-say sequence	Also known as the Cuckoo's Egg.
Mathematical fallacy	Trying to prove that 2 = 1 or that 1 < 0.
Mathematical joke	Complex numbers are all fun and games until someone loses an i. That's when things get real.
Monty Hall problem	The counter-intuitive way to prevail when playing Let's Make a Deal.
Narcissistic number	The pluperfect digital invariant says 'Count me in'!
Nothing up my sleeve number	A number which is 'above suspicion'.
Numbers station	[Six bars of The Lincolnshire Poacher play]'¡Atención! ¡Atención! One, four, seventeen, twenty-four...'
Minkowski's question mark function	A function with an unusual notation and possessing unusual fractal properties.
Ramanujan summation	Numberphile made a real Parker Square of it, on ${displaystyle 1+2+3+cdots =-{frac {1}{12}}}$ .
Sexy prime	Prime numbers that differ from each other by sex. Er... six.
Spaghetti sort	An algorithm for sorting rods of spaghetti.
Taxicab number	Never tell a Numberphile that a number is uninteresting.
Tetraphobia	Sometimes found in conjunction with triskaidekaphobia (see below) in East Asian cultures. More prevalent in Japan, where 49 is associated with 'suffering until death'.
Triskaidekaphobia	No, it's not related to the Code of Hammurabi. No, it's not always considered unlucky. Yes, space exploration has been touched by it.
Ulam spiral	A bored mathematician discovers an unusual numerical pattern while doodling.
Undecimber	In Java, the thirteenth month of the year.
Vampire number	Integers with real bite; some even have multiple pairs of fangs.
Will Rogers phenomenon	When moving an element from one set to another set raises – counter-intuitively – the average values of both sets. Also known as the Will Rogers paradox.
Zenzizenzizenzic	You know how x³ is called 'x cubed'? Well, x⁸ is called...
Zeroth	An ordinal number popular in computing and related cultures.

Dates and timekeeping

A soon-to-be bye-bye pi pie.

Don't panic – it's Towel Day.

11:11 (numerology)	The time where all 4 digits are 1's
Ruth Belville	She followed her parents in the business of selling people Greenwich Mean Time.
Chrismukkah	A fictional Christmas-Hanukkah hybrid, popularized by the television show The O.C.
February 30	Not as fictional as you might think.
Festivus	December 23: Holiday celebrated by the Costanza family on the television show Seinfeld, since appropriated by many.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day	Shiver my timbers (a-harrr!) every September 19.
January 0	Thought the day before New Year's Day would be in the previous year? Think again...
Manhattanhenge	Twice every year, the setting sun aligns with Manhattan's street grid.
Mole Day	The Avogadro constant is celebrated on October 23rd starting at exactly 6:02 am.
Phantom time hypothesis	A theory by Heribert Illig that the Early Middle Ages (614–911) never occurred. Therefore, it is now 1722 rather than 2019.
Pi Day	The day – March 14 – on which the constant π is celebrated.
Tau Day	The day – June 28 – on which the constant 𝞃 is celebrated.
Square Root Day	Any date when the day and month are both the square root of the last two digits of the year (the next being 5th May 2025).
Star Wars Day	May the 4th be with you.
Towel Day	Don't forget to bring a towel, terrible or otherwise.
Winterval	A word created as an alternative name for all the holidays at the end of a calendar year. It came to prominence after Birmingham City Council (the English city) used it in 1998.
Year 2000 problem	A possible computing problem in the 1990's that may occur when the 21st century and 3rd millennium has arisen.
Year 2038 problem	The computing problem that will arise due to the Unix time representation used in many computers.
Year 10,000 problem	The collective name for all potential software bugs that will emerge as the need to express years with five digits arises.
Year zero	Was there a year between 1 BC and AD 1?
Five-minute hypothesis	Have we only been around for 5 minutes?

Language

Which of these typefaces do you think Hitler preferred?

The Phaistos Disc.

Toynbee tiles found in downtown Washington, D.C.

The Voynich manuscript is written in an undeciphered script.

American Nudist Research Library	America's first nudist library. Located in Florida (of course).
Antiqua–Fraktur dispute	A dispute over which typeface was more 'German'. At first, the Nazis were for Fraktur...
Apples and oranges	According to scholars, comparing the two may be easier than previously thought.
Arcaicam Esperantom	How do you make things look 'old' in a constructed language? By inventing a new one!
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo	A meaningful, grammatical construction that has inspired linguists to talk about bullying amongst Upstate New York's bison population.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously	A sentence contrived by Noam Chomsky to demonstrate that a sentence can be grammatical yet nonsensical.
Controversies about the word 'niggardly'	How a simple word can cause so much controversy.
Cryptophasia	The secret language of identical twins, also called idioglossia.
Dipstick	The name of this measuring device can also mean idiot.
Disambiguation (disambiguation)	For when you're really not sure what you mean.^{[disambiguation needed]}
Dord	A nonexistent English word, supposedly meaning 'density', which was listed in the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary from 1935 to 1939.
The Dozens	A usually good-natured African American ritual in which two competitors, usually male, exchange trash-talk until one has no comeback.
Duck test	A humorous abductive reasoning test based on the activities of a duck.
Engrish	Attempts by East Asian people – especially the Japanese – to construct English words and phrases.
Etaoin shrdlu	Cryptic echoes from the days of hot metal typesetting.
Faggin-Nazzi alphabet	What? That's its real name. What did you think it was about?
Faux Cyrillic	Give text some of that Яussiaи flavour.
Fictitious entry	The content may be fictitious, but the entry is a fact.
Fnord	Deliberately misleading, irrelevant or false information meant to suggest conspiracy. A popular word among Discordians.
Ghoti	As good an argument as any for English spelling reform.
How now brown cow	A way to greet those well-versed in rhetoric.
Hyphen War	A dash between communism and independence.
Inherently funny word	Some influential comedians have long regarded certain words in the English language as humorous because of their sound or resemblance to other words. Poodle, wankel, ni...
Intentionally blank page	The self-refuting meta-reference that is 'This page intentionally left blank'.
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher	Repetition gone wrong.
Latin profanity	Latin for the profane.
List of English words containing Q not followed by U	A Scrabbler's dream article.
Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den	A 92-character poem written in Classical Chinese, in which every syllable has the sound 'shi' (in different tones) when read in modern Mandarin Chinese.
List of common false etymologies of English words	Believe it or not, 'crap' did not originate from Thomas Crapper.
List of ethnic slurs	Ever wondered why they got so angry at you?
List of English words without rhymes	Does anything rhyme with orange? Or silver?
Longest word in English	Floccinaucinihilipilification, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and other contenders.
Mamihlapinatapai	The Guinness World Record holder for the 'most succinct word'.^[1]
Martian language	Chinese language + Internet = new language.
Maternal insult	What is this article about? Your mom!
Metal umlaut	Gïvë thë lögö för ÿöür hëävÿ mëtäl bänd ä töügh Gërmänïc fëël.
Phaistos Disc	Ancient spirals of undeciphered hieroglyphs.
Placeholder name	You know, thingamajigs, doohickeys, whatchamacallits...
Pompatus	All Steve Miller's fault.
RAS syndrome	...which is itself an example of RAS.
Russenorsk	A Slavic-Scandinavian hybrid that lasted only 150 years.
Robert Shields	You think you are hooked on recording every detail of your life...?
Shibboleth	A type of slang used to identify an individual with a very specific region, usually with accompanied value judgments. Also, a funny word.
Shit happens	A statement of philosophical existentialism boiled down to two words.
Thinking about the immortality of the crab	A colorful Spanish idiom for daydreaming; try using this one if your teacher notices you becoming inattentive in class.
Toynbee tiles	Tiles found embedded in asphalt, usually sporting cryptic messages.
Unknown unknown	Things that we don't know we don't know.
Voynich manuscript	An undeciphered illustrated book written six hundred or so years ago by an anonymous author using an unidentified alphabet.

^Matthews, Peter; McWhirter, Norris, eds. (1994). The Guinness Book of Records. Bantam Books. p. 392. ISBN978-0-553-56561-4.

Unusual names

See Nominative determinism for the idea that people gravitate toward careers that fit their names, e.g. urologists named Splat and Weedon.

Abcde	328 people were named this in the United States between 1990 and 2014.
Adolf Lu Hitler Marak	This Indian politician does not dispraise his parents' questionable name choice.
Amandagamani Abhaya of Anuradhapura	A king of Anuradhapura whose name has way too many As for me to be comfortable with.
Praise-God Barebone	Christened Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone; not to be confused with his son Nicholas If-Jesus-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barbon.
Cesar Chavez	Formerly Scott Fistler, this right-wing, pro-business politician changed his name to match the Hispanic left‑wing labor activist in an attempt to get more votes.
Mansfield Smith-Cumming	The first head of MI6, whose name became appropriate as he promoted the use of semen as invisible ink.
Cox–Zucker machine	An algorithm named after its inventors.
Deportivo Wanka	An unfortunately named Peruvian football team whose strips are remarkably popular in Britain.
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft	An officials' association in pre-war Vienna, Austria, of a shipping company for transporting passengers and cargo on the Danube.
John le Fucker	His surname probably didn't mean what you think it might mean.
Argélico Fucks	A Brazilian footballer with a socially problematic last name. An unforgettable newspaper headline once declared 'Fucks Off to Benfica'.
Gregor Fučka	A Slovenian-born Italian basketball player with a similar problem.
Ima Hogg	American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts, and one of the most respected women in Texas during the 20th century.
Tiny Kox	A Dutch politician.
Téa	This name is surprisingly French and not English.
Jennifer 8. Lee	A former New York Times reporter whose middle name is the number eight.
Leone Sextus Tollemache	Or Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache to his friends.
List of examples of Stigler's law	Bode didn't discover Bode's Law, and Pascal didn't discover Pascal's Triangle.
List of people with reduplicated names	...such as Boutros Boutros-Ghali and (see below) Neville Neville.
Mister Mxyzptlk	Sometimes called Mxy, a fictional impish character who appears in DC Comics' Superman comic books.
Seán Dublin Bay Rockall Loftus	An Irish politician who changes his name to emphasize political affiliations.
Pro-Life (politician)	An American who did the same.
Preserved Fish	A historical New York City shipping merchant.
Metta World Peace	An NBA player who wants to promote World Peace and has a reputation for on-court brawls.
Mannanafnanefnd	A committee in Iceland that determines whether a name is suitable for integration into the Icelandic language. Apparently voted yes about themselves.
Neville Neville	The father of English footballers Phil Neville and Gary Neville.
Richard Plantagenet Campbell Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos	A warning to us all about taking double-barrelled surnames too far...
Roger Fuckebythenavele	Perhaps the first use of the word fuck.
States Rights Gist	A Confederate general during the American Civil War.
Thursday October Christian I	The son of Fletcher Christian, leader of the mutiny on the Bounty.
Tokyo Sexwale	Despite not being Japanese or a sperm whale, he has control over the global diamond industry.
Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.	Longest name ever given.

Science

The sound of ancient pottery.

Not dead, just resting.

Archaeoacoustics	Can ancient pottery be used to play back recorded voices from the distant past?
Ota Benga	The tragic story of a Pygmy man from the Belgian Congo who was briefly exhibited in the Bronx Zoo.
Buttered toast phenomenon	But only if you're eating at a table.
Buttered cat paradox	If a cat always lands on its feet and toast always lands buttered-side-down, what if...?
Vladimir Demikhov	Eminent Soviet biologist and father of the canine head transplant.
Natasha Demkina	Russian girl who claims to have X-ray vision.
Drake's Plate of Brass	A forgery-related practical joke that went horribly awry.
Elvis taxon	A taxon (species, genus, family, etc.) that is extinct but is later imitated by others.
Further research is needed	Some journals have banned this infuriating and redundant cliché. Some researchers are researching its effects, but FRIN...
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory	You may have had a chemistry set when you were a child. I bet it didn't come with radioactive substances in the box.
Lazarus taxon	Leaping Lazarus! Somewhat like Monty Python's Dead Parrot, it's not really dead, it's just resting.
List of Ig Nobel Prize winners	Nobel Prize meets Weird Science. Result: Award-winning papers like 'Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts' and 'Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans'.
'Pataphysics	A parody of science that purports to study what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics.
Pathological science	A pejorative term for scientific ideas that will simply not 'go away', long after they are given up on as wrong by the majority of scientists in the field.
Project Steve	A wildly successful list of scientists in which all signatories (1) support evolution, (2) oppose intelligent design, and (3) are named Steve or a variation of that name (Steven, Stephan, Stephanie, etc.).
Raven paradox	First, you'll grant that all ravens are black, yes...?
Sokal affair	Physicist Alan Sokal demonstrates that at least some postmodernists can't see an emperor with no clothes.
'Women are wonderful' effect	A phenomenon found in psychological and sociological research which suggests that people associate more positive attributes with the general social category of women compared to men.

Physics

This blue-looking noise is actually pink.

'Shit! It's Professor Pauli! Quick, pack that stuff away!'

Colors of noise	Including white, pink, purple, blue...
David Hahn	A 17-year-old, known as the Radioactive Boy Scout, who irradiated his back yard attempting to build a nuclearbreeder reactor from spare parts.
Demon core	A two-time radioactive killer.
Fictional elements, isotopes and atomic particles	Not actual periodic elements. Many end in '-ite'. Some of the elements may indeed be minerals.
Flying ice cube	They happen to live inside the computers of scientists trying to simulate molecules.
The Hum	A phenomenon involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency noise of a humming character and unknown origin, not audible to all people, reported in various geographical locations.
Kundt's tube	A serious piece of scientific apparatus whose name has induced sniggering among English-speaking schoolchildren for over 150 years.
List of unusual units of measurement	Fortnights and nibbles, super feet and Sagans.
Magic smoke	An alternative theory of integrated circuits: once the smoke is released they no longer work.
Oh-My-God particle	Proof that physicists have a dramatic flair.
Pauli effect	Something in the lab not working? Technical difficulties? Blamethis guy.
Quantum suicide and immortality	An infinite number of parallel universes means that any one person will always live forever.
Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube	What happens when you blow in a hole in a tube? Hot air comes out one end and cold air comes out the other. No consensus reached on why it happens yet.
Smoot	A strange unit of distance used to measure the Harvard Bridge.
Sound of fingernails scraping chalkboard	Urrrgggh!

Earth sciences

'It's flat and that's all there is to it.'

'No, this definitely isn't flat, but it's the other way!'

Aachenosaurus	A fossil plant that was mistakenly identified as a dinosaur.
Bloop	Does a mystery sound from the bottom of the sea indicate that Cthulhu may awake...?
Continental drip	A playful theory devised to explain why the continents are tapered toward the south.
Expanding Earth	A theory that the Earth is growing.
Flat Earth Society	A society, originally British, that holds the belief that the Earth is flat, not spherical.
Snow in Florida	Yes, snow is not unknown in the 'Sunshine State'.
List of unexplained sounds	Must've been the wind.
Mumbai 'sweet' seawater incident	Salty creek becomes sweet for one tide cycle.
Rain of animals	When it's literally raining cats and dogs.
Red rain in Kerala	Did blood rain from the sky?
South-up map orientation	The crew of Apollo 17 snapped Earth with Antarctica on top. NASA followed Ptolemy and rotated it 'back'.
S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897	An ill-fated attempt to reach the North Pole.
Roy Sullivan	An unlucky park ranger who was hit by lightning on seven separate occasions. He survived them all, but came to his own tragic end.
Tinnunculite	A recently discovered mineral that forms from bird feces.
Waffle House Index	The U.S. government's alternative measure of disaster impact.

Chemistry and material science

Warning: It's LETHAL.

At last – the look of BO. Sounds fishy?

Dihydrogen monoxide	A commonly used chemical that can be deadly to all forms of plant and animal life, contributing to global warming, erosion, acid rain, torture and countless other maladies. Or... that's what they want you to think.
List of chemical compounds with unusual names	Some a consequence of their constituents or origins, others simply the work of whimsical chemists.
Mole Day	A day in celebration of Avogadro's number, 6.02×10²³.
Thomas Midgley, Jr.	Inventor of two of the world's most severe pollutants – and a machine that killed him.
Nanoputian	A series of organic molecules having a structure that looks human.
New car smell	Ahh, that new car smell.
Pykrete	A bullet-resistant frozen-water compound.
Red mercury	A fictional substance which can create immense nuclear explosions in very small quantities.
Thiotimoline	A fictional chemical which dissolves before it comes into contact with water.
Trimethylaminuria	Do you smell something fishy? It may be you!
Unobtainium	A term used to describe any material with properties that are unlikely or impossible for any real material to possess.

Space and astronomy

All watched over by machines of loving grace.

'Of course, it never reached the Moon...'

Cosmic latte	The average colour of the Universe: a slightly beige white.
Cydonia (Mars)	You've heard of the man on the Moon, now get ready for the 'Face on Mars', well, sort of...
Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster	Driving in space becomes reality.
Embryo space colonization	A proposal for colonizing space using embryos raised by robots.
Extraterrestrial real estate	Want to buy a housing plot on the Moon?
Fallen Astronaut	A small statuette which is the only sculpture on the Moon.
Hot, dust-obscured galaxies	Hot DOGs, anyone?
List of hypothetical Solar System objects	The planets that could have been. You think Pluto had it rough? At least it got its fifteen minutes of astronomical fame.
Lunarcrete	Perfect for building your own cut-price Moon base.
Matrioshka brain	Star-sized computer.
Milkdromeda	The birth of a future galaxy, and the death of our own.
The Moon is made of green cheese	Scientific consensus says it isn't, but are there people, or Moon mice, who think so?
Moon landing conspiracy theories	Fake photos, slow-motion cameras and secret studios. All directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Moon Museum	Only two people have ever seen its exhibits in person.
Nazi UFOs	Did the Luftwaffe, in fact, explore the final frontier and make contact with alien races? Whether the secret Nazi base is on the Moon or in Antarctica, the truth is apparently out there.
Sex in space	And when you've exhausted the list, here's something new to try!
Space advertising	Plans to launch giant billboards into space.
Spaghettification	What happens when you fall into a black hole.
Solway Firth Spaceman	'Wasn't there when I took the pic – honest!'
Sylacauga (meteorite)	The first fallen meteorite in recorded history to have verifiably injured a human.
Timekeeping on Mars	How Martians know when they are.
Voyager Golden Record	A compilation of sounds and images of humanity on a phonograph record made of gold-plated copper. It was sent to space in 1977 and is currently the farthest man-made object from Earth.
Writing in space	How do you write in space?

Medicine and health

Suckling on a tasty goat.

Well, stone me...

Quick – grab a tissue!

Got one of those headaches that just won't go away?

The pharmacy called, your maggot prescription is ready for pick-up

Put them where the sun doesn't shine.

Accessory breast	Some people have more than two.
Alien hand syndrome	An unusual neurological disorder, also known as 'Dr. Strangelove syndrome', whereby one of the sufferer's hands seems to take on a life of its own.
Black hairy tongue	Really?
Bristol stool scale	Taking a close look at a toilet bowl for the sake of science. The scale was inspired by eye charts.
ChIA-PET	Chromatin Interaction Analysis by Paired-End Tag sequencing, that is.
Dimples of Venus	For fans of those dimples you don't find on a face.
Dr. Young's Ideal Rectal Dilators	Forcibly withdrawn after officials clamped down on them.
Eigengrau	The color seen by the eye in perfect darkness.
Fart lighting	The act of igniting gases produced by human flatulence.
Five-second rule	The notion that food dropped on the floor is safe to eat only as long as it's picked up within five seconds.
Gynecomastia	Also known as 'man boobs' or 'moobs'.
Hair-grooming syncope	Who knew that brushing your hair could be deadly?
Human–animal breastfeeding	If you have breast milk to spare, a puppy, piglet or monkey would like to hear from you.
Hypertrichosis	Also known as 'Human WerewolfSyndrome'.
Hypoalgesic effect of swearing	As Redd Foxx once observed, 'if you've never said 'shit', come back with me after the show and I'll slam my car door on your hand'. And you will feel better.
Jenkem	Huffing the gas from fermented human feces for a hallucinating effect.
Licorice poisoning	Candy that needs a warning label by the Surgeon General.
Maggot therapy	Those hungry, wriggling little larvae will clean up festering wounds because they are hungry.
Male lactation	Given the right conditions, just about any male can do it. Fancy a try, boys?
Maple syrup urine disease	For once, a sweet smell you don't want your infants exuding.
Medical students' disease	A condition frequently reported in medical students who perceive themselves to be experiencing the symptoms of the diseases they are studying.
Mellified Man	A legendary medicinal substance from Arabia.
Möbius syndrome	A disease, most envied by poker players, that makes facial expressions impossible.
Mucophagy	The consumption of mucus.
Nacirema	An obscure New World tribe with some interesting practices.
Navel lint	A study proves that most belly button fluff is blue and that women are less likely to have it.
Nasal sebum	Yes, that stuff on the surface of your nose.
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis	A tooth in the eye (is worth two in the foot?).
Paleofeces	Our ancestors' poop. Worth a close look, apparently.
Photic sneeze reflex	People who sneeze when suddenly exposed to bright light.
Rapunzel syndrome	Chewing on your hair is one thing, but actually eating it can have some untoward results.
Retained surgical instruments	Instruments, that is, which surgeons say patients 'keep' after operations.
Schmidt sting pain index	An entomologist is stung by just about everything known to sting and, en route, describes the pain involved in terms of a four-point comparative scale.
Supernumerary nipple	A condition in which one has an additional nipple. Apparently 1 in 18 people have this condition.
Thumb twiddling	Maybe this is unusual to you.
Trepanation	A form of surgery where a hole is drilled or scraped into the skull. It was thought that such a procedure could cure problems like epilepsy or allow a person to enter into a higher state of consciousness.
Uncombable hair syndrome	Not just a bad hair day.

Human sexuality and reproduction

Autofellatio	Acts of oral self-stimulation.
Bathroom sex	Ever wanted to defecate and have sex at the same time? Well now you can!
Bread dildo	A supposed Ancient Greek sex toy, made of bread.
Cello scrotum	Don't worry, boys, it's a hoax.
Coregasm	An orgasm caused by exercising of the core abdominal muscles.
Donkey punch	Allegedly a sex move involving punching one's partner in the back of the head during intercourse.
Female hysteria	A once-common diagnosis of a range of symptoms in women, cured through masturbation to orgasm.
Gerbilling	An urban legend about a sexual practice purportedly observed by some male celebrities.
Hamster zona-free ovum test	A test – sometimes called a 'hamster test' – involving human semen, hamster eggs and a petri dish.
Human penis size	Scientific data on average size, racial variations, surgical enlargement and urban legends.
Koro	A condition where one (mistakenly) believes that his or her genitals are slowly disappearing.
Lithopedion	The rare condition of an unborn fetus calcifying.
Male pregnancy	For now, it's just a seahorse thing, but...
National Masturbation Day	There is a day dedicated to protect the right to masturbate!
Parasitic twin	A medical condition where one of two conjoined twins lacks essential organs and must rely on the other for survival, often leeching its blood. An especially rare variant of this, fetus in fetu, involves one partially formed fetus developing within the body of the other.
Penis panic	A colloquial term referring to a type of mass hysteria or panic where males grow fearful of removal or shrinking of the penis.
Persistent genital arousal disorder	Not as funny as it may sound.
Puppy pregnancy syndrome	A condition found in remote regions of India in which people believe they have conceived a puppy shortly after being bitten by a dog.
Self-inflicted caesarean section	In 2004 Inés Ramírez Pérez performed a successful Caesarean section on herself using a kitchen knife and hard liquor.
Sleep sex	A form of parasomnia (similar to sleepwalking) that causes people to engage in sexual acts while they are asleep.

Individual patients and staff

Jeanne Calment	A Frenchwoman with the longest verified human lifespan in recorded history. She was 122 at the time of her death.
Abigail and Brittany Hensel	Conjoined twins with separate heads but joined bodies.
Stubbins Ffirth	An American trainee doctor who went to unusual lengths in his quest to prove that yellow fever is not contagious.
Phineas Gage	A 19th-century construction worker who survived a three-foot-long (0.91 m) tamping iron going through his skull. His resultant behavioral changes have made him an important figure in the development of neuroscience.
Hans Langseth	A guy who had the longest beard recorded in history.
Robert Liston	A 19th-century Scottish surgeon who, among other things, performed what has been described as 'The only operation in history with a 300 percent mortality'.
Lina Medina	A Peruvian girl who gave birth to a son when she was five years old, becoming the youngest human mother on record.
Chandre Oram	A man in India with a 13-inch (33 cm) tail.
Adam Rainer	The only person known to be both a dwarf and a giant.
Alexis St. Martin	A 19th-century French-Canadian fur trader who survived a gunshot wound and was left with a hole in his stomach, which allowed revolutionary experiments on digestion to be conducted.
Tarrare	Tarrare (c. 1772 – 1798), sometimes spelled Tarare, was a French showman and soldier, noted for his unusual eating habits.
Mary Toft	An English woman who hoaxed doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.
Barry Marshall	A doctor who, against the consensus of mainstream medicine, drank a vial of bacterial culture to prove that stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria rather than stress, spicy foods, and too much acid as was believed at the time. He won the Nobel prize for it, too.

Nervous system and behaviour

Can you get high on this?

This skull's owner didn't even get a headache – but he was a changed man.

Anton-Babinski syndrome	People who are blind but convinced they can see.
Bananadine	Exactly how psychedelic are those dried banana peels?
Capgras delusion	When you're sure a friend or loved one is an impostor.
Charles Bonnet syndrome	Millions of perfectly sane people are having freakish hallucinations – and just not admitting it.
Cotard delusion	Suffered by people, very much alive, who believe they're dead.
Dancing mania	Unknown forces cause large groups of people to dance hysterically until dropping from exhaustion in multiple incidents in Europe from the 13th to 17th centuries.
Electromagnetic hypersensitivity	For those allergic to Wi-Fi.
Encopresis	Voluntary or involuntary defecation in persons who are toilet trained (older than 4 years of age.)
Exploding head syndrome	Ever woken up after an hour or two of sleep thinking you've just heard a massive explosion?
False memory	A strange anomaly; tens of thousands of people who have the same, inaccurate memory.
Foreign accent syndrome	A rare medical condition whereby sufferers speak their native language with a foreign accent.
Fregoli delusion	The belief that different people are actually one person in disguise.
Geophagia	Eat dirt, pal.
Homicidal sleepwalking	A real parasomnia that has been successfully used as a defence in court.
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine	Like Tourette's syndrome, but more Gallic.
Klüver–Bucy syndrome	A behavioral disorder with some very odd symptoms, including 'hypersexuality' and a desire to examine objects with the mouth. Named after two doctors who gave psychotropic drugs to lobotomized monkeys.
Mariko Aoki phenomenon	A Japanese expression referring to an urge to defecate that is suddenly felt after entering bookstores.
MK-ULTRA	When a late-night radio host claims to have been brainwashed by the CIA, you may want to think twice.
Paris Syndrome	Particularly common among Japanese tourists. Not to be confused with Jerusalem Syndrome or Stockholm Syndrome.
Rosenhan experiment	An experiment involving certifiably sane mental patients.
Stendhal syndrome	A psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, fainting, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art or natural beauty.
Tanganyika laughter epidemic	What happens when contagious laughter becomes an actual epidemic.
Target fixation	To become so fixated on an object you are trying to avoid that you collide with it.
Tip of the tongue	A memory-related phenomenon familiar to us all.
The Truman Show delusion	Those afflicted feel they are being watched all the time by a television audience, like Jim Carrey in the 1998 movie The Truman Show.
Urophagia	The consumption of urine.

Animals

A major in Antelopology

To boldly go where no monkey has gone before. Well, where a few monkeys have gone before.

Santa's little underwater worms.

The 'roachmeister.

The Far Side of a stegosaurus.

Can only wear mittens, not gloves

Adactylidium	A mite with a very unusual life cycle.
Animals in space	An annotated list of the various animals used in space programs.
Animal attacks	Not kidding: death by beavers, bunnies, squirrels, cats and other things you should not have as pets.
Apophallation	Are you a snail and can't extract your penis? Amputate and change your gender.
Bobbit worm	'Armed with sharp teeth, it is known to attack with such speeds that its prey is sometimes sliced in half.' As if being a three-foot (0.91 m) worm were not impressive enough.
Candiru	Barbed fish allegedly attracted to, lodged in, and extracted from human penises.
Conservation-induced extinction	The extinction of highly endangered parasites at the hands of conservationists.
Christmas tree worm	A worm that looks like... a Christmas tree.
Depopulation of cockroaches in the ex-USSR countries	A great ecological problem indeed complete with fifteen references in Russian.
Epomis	A deceptive beetle larva that entices its own predators by feigning prey-like movements in order to eat its predator.
Exploding toads	An as-yet unexplained phenomenon observed in April 2005 in Germany and Denmark. Suggested as a possible weapons delivery system.
Hallucinogenic fish	No, the fish are not trippin'; they will cause hallucinations if ingested. It is not known if hallucinations will occur if one fish consumes another.
List of animals displaying homosexual behavior	Everything from salmon to seagulls to dragonflies.
London Underground mosquito	A species of mosquito that lives in underground railways.
Love dart	Hermaphroditic snails play Cupid.
Nightingale excrement as facial	Droppings of a nightingale variety used in facials. Some claim that it helps with acne. Project Medicine states that the references are not MEDRS. (MEDical Reliable Source)
Orbiting Frog Otolith	A NASA frog experiment, sending two bullfrogs into space to test their sense of balance.
Paracerceis sculpta	A species of isopod that has some males that mimic females and others that mimic juveniles, allowing them to mate without the alpha males realising what is going on behind their backs.
Pasilalinic-sympathetic compass	Telepathic communication is not possible in snails no matter how far apart they may be. Nothing else has been ruled out.
Penis fencing	A ~~literal~~ figurative variety of cockfighting between some species of flatworm.
Prostitution among animals	Did you know that prostitution exists among animals?
Stephens Island wren	Made extinct by feral cats, possibly the offspring of one pregnant female.
Supernumerary body part	Having an extra body part, be it as simple as an eleventh finger or as extreme as a second head!
Suriname toad	The mother's back is where the eggs are embedded and where they develop.
Thagomizer	A feature of Stegosaurus anatomy named after a Far Side comic strip.
Tongue-eating louse	A parasitic crustacean that, when female (they are hermaphroditic), attaches to and then destroys a fish's tongue, hooks itself to the remaining stub and becomes the fish's new tongue.
Traumatic insemination	A form of mating in invertebrates in which the male stabs the female in the abdomen with his penis, and injects his sperm through the wound.
Worm charming	No spade? No worries! There's a better way to get hold of earthworms.

Cats

Bonsai Kitten	The practice of growing small jar-shaped kittens caused controversy years after it was revealed to be a hoax.
Casper	A cat famed for traveling on a bus around Plymouth, England.
Dusty the Klepto Kitty	Redefining the term 'cat burglar'.
Grumpy Cat	Unfortunately, this cat can't turn that frown upside down.
Odd-eyed cat	One of the national treasures of Turkey.
Oscar the Cat	A hospice cat who was featured in the New England Journal of Medicine for his purported ability to predict the impending death of terminally ill patients.

Cattle

Cow tipping	This actually takes up to 14 people to make it happen.
Hardware disease	A condition in bovines caused by ingesting stray bits of metal.
Lily Flagg	A Jersey cow that produced record amounts of butter and got a sizable neighborhood named for her.

Chickens

Can youtell the girls and boys apart?

Cannibalism in poultry	See: tastes like chicken.
Chicken eyeglasses	Tiny spectacles for chicks, to stop them from seeing red.
Chicken Dance, Chicken (dance)	There is a huge difference.
Chicken gun	Valuable for the mitigation of damage from bird strikes. The chicken carcass must be thawed first, though.
Chicken hypnotism	Have you ever wanted to hypnotize a chicken? If not, why not?
Chicken or the egg	Which came first?
Chicken sexer	A person whose job is to determine the sex of chicken hatchlings.
Chicken Powered Nuclear Bomb	A British project to lay nuclear mines in West Germany during the Cold War
Empathy in chickens	Have some empathy when eating crunchy chicken nuggets.
Mike the Headless Chicken	A rooster that lived for 18 months with its head cut off.
Tastes like chicken	But baked, grilled, or fried?

Squirrels

A very scary squirrel

Squirrel induced power outages in Pennsylvania	Merged into Electrical disruptions caused by squirrels.
Squirrel attacks	Merged into Animal attack. Did you know that insurance companies have a medical code for this? Co-pays vary by insurance plan.
Squirrel fishing	A sport of skill and patience.

Mammals

Dried deer penis.

This goat has fainted.
It has ceased to stand.

Flash photograph of an odd-eyed cat.

Georgian white Russian domesticated Fox

Ambergris	Do you really want to know what your fancy perfume was made from?
Berserk llama syndrome	The result of being too friendly with llamas.
Danish Protest Pig	A pig bred to look like the flag of Denmark, to circumvent prohibition of the flag.
Deer penis	It is said to enhance sexual potency in men and was banned by the Chinese government from the 2008 Olympics.
Diving horse	A short-lived attraction during the 1880s.
Domesticated silver fox	Soviet Russia subsidizes the breeding of silver foxes.
Exploding whale	The next time a whale washes on shore in one Oregon county, the authorities will leave the dynamite at home.
Fainting goat	A breed of goat whose muscles freeze for about 10 seconds when it is startled.
Globster	Blobs of organic matter found washed up on beaches, which are frequently as mysterious as they are disgusting.
Guided rat	Implanted electrodes let researchers 'steer the animal over an obstacle course, making it twist, turn and even jump on demand'.
Overtoun Bridge	A bridge from which dogs keep leaping to their death.
Panda pornography	Pornographic movies created to achieve sexual arousal for Giant pandas, which have been proven to be unaffected by the popular drug Viagra.
Street dogs in Moscow	Some of them have figured out how to commute using the subway system.
The dog ate my homework	Instead of a pathetic excuse for an article, an article about a pathetic excuse.
Weasel war dance	The behavior of extremely excited ferrets who are enjoying themselves too much.
Whale fall	The ecological consequences associated with a dead whale sinking to the seafloor.

Individual animals

Jenny Haniver.

52-hertz whale	Dubbed the 'world's loneliest whale', it vocalizes at a frequency used by no known whale species.
Adwaita	Possibly the oldest creature of modern times, this 255 year-old tortoise was the former pet of Robert Clive of the British East India Company.
Benson	A fish. A big fish. Called Benson.
Bubbles	A chimpanzee who used human toilet facilities, moonwalked, and (allegedly) attempted suicide.
Enumclaw horse sex case	An unfortunate case of a horse riding a man, as opposed to a man riding a horse.
Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey	Five mice who circled the Moon 75 times on Apollo 17. Among the last eight Earthlings to travel to the Moon, upon returning to Earth the four remaining living mice were soon murdered and dissected in the name of science ('That's one small squeak...')
George	A lobster weighing 20 pounds (9.1 kg), estimated to be 140 years old.
Grape-kun	A Humboldt penguin who gained worldwide fame after apparently falling in love with a cutout of an anime character.
Harambe	A gorilla killed to prevent it killing a child it was saving, became a meme.
Henry the Hexapus	An octopus missing two arms due to an unfortunate birth defect.
Hoover the talking seal	Hoover. A seal. Which talked.
Jack	A Baboon who took over for his paraplegic owner as an employee of the Cape government railway.
Jenny Haniver	A grotesque-looking sea monster made from the corpse of a ray.
Jeremy	A left-coiled snail who became famous after a campaign to find another left-coiled snail so he could mate.
Jonathan	Oldest known living terrestrial animal in the world (if it wasn't Adwaita). He made the reverse of the 5p of Saint Helena. What have you done?
Khanzir	Possibly the world's loneliest pig. Even more lonely during the swine flu outbreak.
Lin Wang	A Taiwanese elephant made famous for his participation in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Mary	Makes the phrase 'hung like an elephant' take on a whole new meaning.
Nim Chimpsky	A chimpanzee, subject of long-running studies into animal language acquisition, named punningly for linguist Noam Chomsky.
Osama bin Laden (elephant)	An elusive elephant who terrorized the jungle of Assam. He was eventually shot, but there are those who question the official story of his death. Much like his famous namesake.
Owen and Mzee	Hippo and tortoise that befriended each other after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
Paul	A now-deceased psychic octopus who could predict the winner of football games, notably during the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Ravens of the Tower of London	Ravens used as soldiers in the Tower of London
River Thames whale	In 2006, a Northern Bottlenose swam into London and on to the front pages of the British newspapers.
Tillamook Cheddar	The world's most successful and widely shown animal artist.
Timothy	A tortoise that was present during the bombardment of Sevastopol during the Crimean War in 1854 and survived until 2004.
Topsy (elephant)	An elephant that was electrocuted, as the event was filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Company.
Wojtek	A soldier of the 22nd Artillery Supply Company of the Polish II Corps who also happened to be a Syrian Brown Bear. He enjoyed beer and cigarettes.

Names in biology

Bill Gates' flower fly.

Neopalpa donaldtrumpi: They say it's really small.

Anophthalmus hitleri	Rare blind beetle named after Adolf Hitler, poached by collectors of Hitler memorabilia.
Aptostichus stephencolberti	A trapdoor spider named after Stephen Colbert. Naturally, because he asked for it.
Bill Gates' flower fly	A flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, named after Bill Gates.
GoldenPalace.com Monkey	A new species of monkey that was officially named after the GoldenPalace.com internet casino.
Harryplax	A genus of crab named in part after the titular character of the Harry Potter franchise. The sole species of this genus is named after the coldly hostile, yet emotion-concealing character from the same franchise.
Mothers against decapentaplegic	Actually, it's a protein.
Neopalpa donaldtrumpi	A moth remarkable for its orange head and small genitalia.
Pikachurin	An extracellular matrix-like retinal protein named after Pikachu.
Scrotum humanum	Nothing to do with trouser snakes, but lizards of an entirely different scale.
Setaceous Hebrew Character	A European moth with wing markings bearing a chance resemblance to a letter in the Hebrew alphabet.
You may snicker now, but if you had any of these, I guarantee you wouldn't be laughing much.
Sonic hedgehog (protein)	A protein in the vertebrate hedgehog family that was officially named after Sega's video game character Sonic the Hedgehog.
Spongiforma squarepantsii	A type of mushroom named after SpongeBob SquarePants.
Strigiphilus garylarsoni	A biting louse named for cartoonist Gary Larson of Far Side fame.
Synalpheus pinkfloydi	A species of snapping shrimp named after the famous English rock band.
Thaumatodryinus tuukkaraski	A wasp named after NHL goaltender Tuukka Rask as both are acrobatic, and have a killer glove hand.
Zombie taxon	Paleontology of the undead.
Zyzyxia lundellii and Zyzzyzus warreni	The last plant name and animal name in the dictionary, respectively.

See also

List of U.S. state dinosaurs(does not include any of the List of U.S. state fossils)

Plants

The Queens Giant – the oldest living thing in the New York metropolitan area.

Arbre du Ténéré	A solitary acacia that was once the most isolated tree on Earth before being run over by a drunken Libyan truck driver.
Bialbero di Casorzo	A cherry tree that grows upon a mulberry tree in Italy.
Chandelier Tree	A 300-foot-tall (91 m) redwood with a giant hole cut through the middle for cars to drive through.
Hitler oaks	Gifts from the Führer. Some are still alive.
Moon trees	Trees planted from seeds that were taken into space by Apollo 14.
Nepenthes lowii	A plant that lures animals to release their droppings into a pitcher.
Mimosa pudica	A plant that rapidly closes or folds its leaves after they are touched.
Old Man of the Lake	A 30-foot tree stump that has been floating around Oregon's Crater Lake since at least 1896.
Pando	An 80,000 year old quaking aspen colony that is believed to be one of the oldest and heaviest organisms on the planet.
Plant arithmetic	Plants can do math!
Penis Plant	A cactus the Germans call Frauenglück, or 'Women's Joy'.
Queens Giant	A tulip tree located in northeastern Queens, New York City, that is confirmed to be the oldest living thing in the New York metropolitan area, as well as the tallest tree in the NY metro area. As of 2005, it is up to 450 years old and 134 feet (41 m) tall. It was alive before the birth of Shakespeare.
Tree of Knowledge (Australia)	Killed by ignorance.

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Technology, inventions and products

It's hypnagogic hallucination heaven.

Long-lost remnant of a cricket game? Made by ancient intelligent life? A mysterious natural phenomenon?

World War I pigeon photography.

Cower, you leeches, in the presence of the Tempest Prognosticator!

Antikythera mechanism	An analog computer built in Ancient Greece.
Brabham BT46	What do you get if your cross an F1 car and a vacuum cleaner?
*Canard Digérateur*	Or 'Digesting Duck', an automaton built to simulate a duck eating, digesting, and excreting.
Centennial Light	A hundred-year-old light bulb that has been burning nonstop for 41 years.
Clocky	An alarm clock that hides from its owner.
Digital sundial	Unlike an analog sundial, a clock that indicates the current time with numerals formed by the sunlight striking it.
Dreamachine	A device made with a light bulb and a record turntable that reportedly induces lucid dreaming. (And you thought the makers of Die Another Day made it up. There's still no news about invisible Aston Martin V12 Vanquishes.)
Electronic voice phenomenon	Alleged spiritual voices heard in white noise and radio interference.
Hedy Lamarr	Film actress co-invents communication system later used in cell phones, Wi-Fi and other forms of wireless technologies.
History of perpetual motion machines	The concept has eluded and baffled the greatest minds for thousands of years – and will continue to elude anyone who tries to build one.
Klerksdorp sphere	Spheres with three parallel grooves dated to be three billion years old... Evidence of ancient intelligent life? An unusual natural phenomenon? Who knows...
List of inventors killed by their own inventions	Perilous parachutes, lethal lighthouses and murderous motorcycles!
Marvin Heemeyer	Why it's always a bad idea to put the guy next door out of business if he has a ten-ton armor-plated bulldozer in his garage.
Mosquito laser	A bug zapper with a difference.
One red paperclip	A man's small piece of metal turns out to be worth more than expected.
Parking chair	Using household objects to reserve parking spaces.
Pigeon photography	Pigeons were used by the Germans for aerial surveillance in World WarI, and apparently also in World WarII. Not to forget the CIA's own pigeon camera.
Project Cybersyn	Chilean robo-socialism control chamber invented by a Brit with a gigantic beard.
Royal Mail rubber band	One billion are used every year and often seen littering the streets of UK cities.
Russian floating nuclear power station	Self-contained, low-capacity, floating nuclear power plants.
Spork	A cross between a spoon and a fork. Not to be confused with a knork.
Tempest Prognosticator	Meteorology by frightened annelid.
Turboencabulator	A device whose sole function is to expose technological ignorance.
Uncanny valley	How to measure your emotional response to androids.
Useless machine	In most cases, toys for adults.
Wheat lamp	A type of lamp used by miners that is unrelated to wheat.
Wrap rage	Ever been driven mad by packaging that just won't open?
Xianxingzhe	A Chinese robot, according to the Japanese, that will save its country from corporate capitalism with its crotch cannon.

Hygiene and sanitation

Toilets in Japan have some special features.

'Darkie' toothpaste	Racist toothpaste from Taiwan.
Fatberg	A congealed lump of fat and non-biodegradable buildup in sewer systems. A 250-metre-long, 140 tonne specimen was discovered under London in September 2017.
Female urination device	Used by women when needing or wanting to pee standing up.
Groom of the Stool	The most intimate Royal office.
Hotel toilet-paper folding	Ever wondered why it was so?
Interactive Urinal Communicator	A talking urinal made for advertising purposes.
iLoo	Microsoft's attempt to bring you the interwebzzz inside the portable public loo.
Committee to End Pay Toilets in America	A 1970s organization whose campaign was to end pay toilets in the United States of America.
Japanese toilets	The most advanced toilets in the world with computers, nozzles and flashing lights.
List of people who died on the toilet	You could say they died on the throne
Lloyds Bank turd	Possibly the largest example of fossilised human feces ever found, discovered under the future site of a Lloyds Bank in England.
Stainless steel soap	Metallic soap that removes odours from the hands.
Toilet-related injury	Not all injuries and deaths linked to toilets are urban legends.
Toilet paper orientation	On the pros and cons of letting toilet paper hang over or under the roll.
Whizzinator	A fake penis used to beat drug tests (complete with dried urine, heater, syringe). Comes in white, tan, Latino, brown, and black
World Toilet Day	International holiday declared by the United Nations.

Clothing and accessories

The dress	The biggest question of 2015: Is it white and gold or black and blue?
Koteka	An unusual traditional garment of western New Guinea, also known as the 'penis gourd'.
Meat dress of Lady Gaga	A dress made of flank steak. Currently preserved as jerky in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Muffin top	A marketing mishap, many well-meaning young women, and vanity came together to form this demographic.
Shoe tossing	The practice of throwing footwear, whether for humorous or political purposes.
Sweater curse	Think your loved one will be pleased if you knit them a sweater? Think again.
Three Wolf Moon	A T-shirt with wolves howling at the moon that gained popularity after one person wrote a parodic review for it on Amazon.com.
Tin foil hat	Headgear which allegedly prevents a person from having their minds read or controlled.

Transport

East German Ampelmännchen.

Not so snail-mail after all, eh?

'Sinking? We're not sinking!'

Don't reach for that sick bag 'til you're back on the floor.

The train now approaching Suggestus II will leave at tertia hora.

2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident	Two Japan Airlines aircraft were roughly 135 meters away from causing the deadliest aviation accident in history.
Aeroflot Flight 593	A plane that crashed because the pilot let his kids fly it.
Ampelmännchen	The East German 'traffic-light little-man' (Ampelmännchen).
Amtrak paint schemes	Various colors of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak).
Boaty McBoatface	What happens when you allow the British public to name a ship in an online poll?
British Rail flying saucer	Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the 10:13 to Venus.
China National Highway 110 traffic jam	The world's longest-lasting traffic jam, in which some drivers were stuck for up to 5 days, moving only 1km (0.6 miles) per day.
Cycloped	The entrant into the Rainhill Trial that placed Horse Power against Steam Power.
Dagen H	September 3, 1967: The day that Sweden changed its traffic directionality.
Dymaxion car	A 1933 concept car with 3 wheels. It was 20 feet (6.1 m) long, carried up to 11 passengers, could go at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour (190 km/h), and had a steering wheel that turned the car in the opposite direction.
Experiment	A boat with eight horse-powers. Literally.
Get Out and Push Railroad	Just what it sounds like.
Gimli Glider	A confusion over units leads to a Boeing 767 plane running out of fuel mid-flight and becoming a glider.
Human mail	Why buy an expensive ticket when you can go by mail?
Iron Dobbin	A mechanical horse made in 1933 for the Italian Fascist Youth Movement.
Jesus nut	Not your local Bible-thumping preacher but the bolt on the top of a helicopter that connects it to the rotor blades.
Loose wheel nut indicator	Yes, those little yellow tags you see on truck wheels really do have a purpose.
Mile High Club	Soaring members.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri	An Iranian refugee who lived in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 until 2006.
Miss Belvedere	A car buried in a time capsule in 1957 and unearthed in 2007, only to discover that it had suffered 50 years of water damage underground and wouldn't start.
Passenger train toilets	Why passengers must be discouraged from flushing or using toilets while the train is at a station.
Peel P50	The world's smallest production car.
PZL M-15 Belphegor	A Soviet attempt at a turbofan-powered crop duster. It is the slowest jet aircraft to enter production as well as the only jet biplane or jet crop duster to exist.
Reliant Regal	A three-wheeled car formerly manufactured in England that could be driven with a motorcycle license.
Rocket mail	The delivery of mail by rocket or missile, attempted by various organisations in many different countries, with varying levels of success.
RP FLIP	A manned ship designed to be capsized at a 90° angle for weeks on end.
School bus yellow	A color especially formulated for use on school buses in the United States.
Screw-propelled vehicle	Get there by screwing.
Shipping container architecture	The concept and art of using intermodal containers to build stuff.
Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters 'George'	An association formed to oppose the custom of addressing railway sleeping car porters as 'George' regardless of their actual name.
South Pointing Chariot	An ancient Chinese mechanical compass which took a millennium to reproduce.
Train surfing	As respectable and practical as drying one's hair in most parts of the world.
Unused highway	Lost highways, unloved and unused.
USGlobal Airways	An active airline founded in 1989 that has never operated a single commercial flight.
Vomit Comet	Lack of gravity is not good for the stomach.
Wallsend Metro station	All railroads lead to Rome. With 'no smoking' signs, although tobacco was unknown to ancient Romans...
Westray to Papa Westray flight	The world's shortest passenger flight, lasting as little as 53 seconds. Just don't expect an in-flight meal.

Computing

Could a unicycle balance itself?

.nu	Niue's top-level domain, which is regulated by Sweden and almost exclusively used by European countries.
Blinkenlights	DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN!
The Book of Mozilla	A well-known computer Easter egg found in the Netscape and Mozilla series of browsers.
Brainfuck	Not what you think it is – unless, maybe, you’re a computer geek...
Brian's Brain	He's so smart, he has his own cellular automaton.
Bush hid the facts	Revelations of a vast right-wing conspiracy, or just a glitch?
Chudnovsky brothers	A pair of mathematicians who built a supercomputer out of spare parts.
Esoteric programming language	Refers to programming languages designed as a test of the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, or as jokes, and not with the intention of being adopted for real-world programming.
Evil bit	Indicates if a packet has been sent with malicious intent, so that it can be ignored.
Guru Meditation error	If you thought the blue screen of death was bad, this computer error would hamper your quest to reach Nirvana.
Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol	Protocol for controlling and monitoring coffee pots. Attempting to use a teapot while brewing coffee will yield you the 'HTTP 418: I'm a teapot' error message.
I Am Rich	You must be if you could afford this US$999.99 iPhone application that did, well, not very much of anything.
IP over Avian Carriers	An Internet protocol for sending data packets using homing pigeons.
iSmell	A computer peripheral designed to emit smells for websites and emails, later named one of the 'Worst Tech Products' by PC Magazine.
Leet	T3h 1@ngu/&e 0f H@xx0rz.
Lenna	How an image of a nude Playboy model became the industry-standard digital imagecompression test subject.
lp0 on fire	Want to panic a Unix user? Display an error that their printer is on fire.
MacQuarium	Vintage Macintosh computers-turned-fishtanks.
MONIAC Computer	A water-based analogue computer used to model the United Kingdom economy, bringing a new meaning to the term liquidity.
On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science	A 1990 academic paper which argues that computer programming should be understood as a branch of mathematics, and that the formal provability of a program is a major criterion for correctness.
Reality distortion field	Surely an obscure quantum-physics phenomenon? Nope!
Rubber-hose cryptanalysis	Cryptography by other means.
Scunthorpe problem	Spam filtering based on text strings can cause problems. Just ask the residents of S****horpe.
Self-balancing unicycle	The ongoing academic effort to teach robots to ride unicycles.
Shellshock	Worse than a heartbleed.
Tay (bot)	An artificial intelligence who studied racism and sexism.
A biblical-themed operating system designed by a single schizophrenic programmer over the course of 10 years.
Trojan room coffee pot	The fascinating target of the world's first webcam: a coffee machine at the computer science department of Cambridge University.
Utah teapot	A 3D model which has become a standard reference object (and something of an in-joke) in the computer graphics community.
Pentium F00F Bug	An Intel Pentium bug with an unusual name

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Popular culture, entertainment and the arts

Ha ha ha... ha... gulp.

Gurned.

C'est Le Pétomane – who 'performed' for royalty.

How far would you go to save yourself?

The Aristocrats	A joke considered to be both 'the world's funniest' and 'the world's worst'. Also a 2005 documentary of the same name.
Bigipedia	A unique experiment in 'broadwebcasting', Bigipedia is the website on your radio. In association with Chianto—'Officially recognised by the EU as a wine-type product or by-product'.
'Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!' controversy	T-shirt slogan aimed towards young women, rocks aimed towards young men.
George P. Burdell	A fictitious student officially enrolled at Georgia Tech in 1927, and, except for his 'service' in World War II, has been continuously enrolled at the school ever since.
List of defunct amusement parks	I thought Marine World was open! Darn it...
Hundeprutterutchebane	Translates to Dog Fart Switchback. It is a flatulence-themed roller coaster.
The Bus Uncle	A Hong Kong resident gets into an uncomfortably tense argument with a fellow passenger—all caught on video.
Conan the Librarian	A perennial parody of Conan the Barbarian that has appeared in film, television, comics, and fan fiction.
Croydon facelift	A hairstyle peculiar to parts of England.
Cultural depictions of Napoleon	Fictional characters believing they are Napoleon are often used to suggest mental ill health.
Cuteness in Japanese culture	It's not just Hello Kitty and Pikachu.
Evil clown	A recent development in American popular culture in which the playful trope of the clown is rendered as disturbing through the use of dark humor and horror elements.
Evil Overlord List	How to avoid the movie clichés.
Flash mob	Wherein a group of people quickly meet up, engage in a random action such as a pillow fight, then disappear just as quickly.
Fuck for Forest	Do your bit to save the rainforest—have an orgy!
Garden hermit	In case you are in need of some backyard friends.
Ghost-riding	One of the latest trends to be popularized by hyphy culture.
Great Stork Derby	What could possibly be in the will of a notorious practical joker?
Gurn	A Western term for creating odd appearances of the face.
Human rainbow	A huge gathering of colours.
Issei Sagawa	Writer, commentator, minor celebrity, murderer, and cannibal.
Kayfabe	In professional wrestling, the portrayal of events within the industry as real.
Killer toys	When children's toys attack!
Love padlocks	Padlock your love to a fence, and throw away the key.
Masturbate-a-thon	It's okay – it's for charity!
Meta-joke	A joke that refers to itself as the joke.
Metafiction	Fiction about fiction.
Mooning the Cog	Bad weather isn't the only reason to avoid the summit of Mount Washington.
Nazi chic	The approving use of Nazi-era style, imagery, and paraphernalia in clothing and popular culture.
No soap radio	A prank joke intended to fool one of its listeners into believing that it is a joke.
NUKEMAP	New York got blown up by the Tsar Bomba! Well, at least you can do that in this.
Obay	A fictional mind-control drug that's at the center of a viral marketing campaign.
Pen spinning	An activity in which assorted tricks are used to manipulate a pen in aesthetically pleasing ways.
Le Pétomane	A French entertainer famous in Victorian times for being able to break wind at will. Practitioners of this... art are called flatulists.
Aron Ralston	One tough guy who, to escape from death, cut off his own arm with a dull knife after a boulder fell on it.
Real-life superhero	All you need is a cape and a dream.
Sardarji jokes	Popular jokes in India, based on stereotypes of Sikhs.
List of school pranks	Have you tried them all out?
Treacle mining	The fictitious mining of treacle (molasses) in a raw form similar to coal.
Larry Walters	Successfully piloted a lawn chair to 16,000 feet (4,900 m) over Los Angeles.
The World Famous Bushman	A street entertainer in San Francisco who makes a living by pretending to be a bush.
VHEMT	A group of people trying to get everyone to stop reproducing.
You kids get off my lawn!	I'm gonna call your parents, you kids!

Art

The Headington Shark.

La Princesse.

New York is not the only Big Apple.

Artist's Shit	A quite literal and humorous meta-art.
A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi With Her Handbag	A very famous photo taken in Sweden.
America (toilet)	A fully-functioning solid gold toilet, on display (and available for use) in one of New York's finest art museums.
Australia's big things	Giant folk art as tourist traps.
Banksy	A graffiti artist who smuggles his works into world-class museums.
Bog Standard Gallery	It's a museum... inside a portable toilet.
Boll Weevil Monument	The only known monument built to honor an agricultural pest.
Bottle Rack	A modern art piece created by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. His sister, who mistook it for trash, threw it out.
Chamber of Art and Curiosities	A cabinet of curiousities created by Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria in the 16th century.
Cool S	A symbol of uncertain origins often used in graffiti.
Earring Magic Ken	How Barbie's boyfriend, in an attempt to look cooler, became a gay icon.
Dinny the Dinosaur	A larger-than-life, 150 ton sculpture of a brontosaurus in the desert of Southern California west of Palm Springs. Dinny's companion is 'Mr. Rex,' a 150 ton sculpture of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Fire photography	The act of taking photographs of firefighting operations.
Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square	The horse is missing.
Fremont Troll	An 18 foot, 13,000 pound concrete sculpture of a troll clutching a VW beetle located in Fremont.
Garden gnome liberationists	Vive la révolution des gnomes!
Gävle goat	A giant straw Yuletide goat that is the target of frequent arson attacks and vandalism.
Hahn/Cock	A giant blue cock in Trafalgar Square.
The Headington Shark	Oxford man has had a 25-foot (7.6 m) long sculpture of a shark embedded headfirst into the roof of his unassuming house since 1986.
Hellmouth	The entrance to Hell envisaged as the gaping mouth of a huge monster, an image which first appears in Anglo-Saxon art.
Howard Hallis	An artist who attempted to draw the 'Picture of Everything', a massive painting containing drawings of thousands of people and items, both real and imaginary.
Katrina refrigerator	Loot this! Free meal inside!
Knitta Please	NYHip hop graffiti knitters.
La Princesse	A 15-metre (50 ft) mechanical spider which stomped about Liverpool in 2008.
Le Rêve	A Picasso painting that purportedly would have sold for a record price had its owner, Steve Wynn, not accidentally poked a hole in it, and which eventually did sell for a different record price.
Largest photographs in the world	Includes information on print and digital photos that are reputedly the world's largest.
List of fictional colors	Surprisingly exhaustive.
Mexican Perforation	A French artistic movement that expresses itself in underground places.
Museum of Bad Art	A Museum 'dedicated to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of really awful artwork'.
Paintings by Adolf Hitler	The Nazi dictator and perpetrator of one of the worst genocides was also a painter.
Pantone 448 C	'Drab dark brown', the least attractive colour, according to research. Used for plain tobacco packaging.
Phallic architecture	Does the Washington Monument, Ypsilanti Water Tower or Peoples Daily building remind you of something?
Portland International Airport carpet	A carpet design so famous that it gained a cult following.
Pink Lady	In 1966, a woman secretly painted a 60-foot (18 m) tall portrait of a nude woman over a tunnel and sued when the county tried to take it down.
Abel Ramírez Águilar	A Mexican sculptor who made a name for himself in ice and snow sculpture after winning gold at the 1992 Winter Olympics.
Roundabout dog	Seen any dog on the loose while out driving lately? Chances are it's a roundabout dog.
Sacred Cod	There's also a 'Holy Mackerel', Batman.
Scandinavian Institute of Comparative Vandalism	Mine is better than yours.
Superlambanana	A statue in Liverpool that's half-lamb, half-banana.
Tillie	An odd painting of a grinning face, that used to be on the Palace Amusements building in Asbury Park, New Jersey before it was demolished.
Vermont Whale Tails	Granite whales diving into a sea of grass near the Ben & Jerry's ice cream headquarters.

Comics and animation

Jenny Everywhere – at your service and in your hands.

Acme Corporation	Their products have been used and endorsed by all the best cartoon characters.
Afghanis-tan	Central Asian history has never been cuter. (Osama bin Laden makes an appearance as a turban-wearing stray cat.)
Archie Meets the Punisher	The team-up you thought would never happen....
Arm-Fall-Off-Boy	The first applicant to be rejected from the Legion of Super-Heroes, his superpower was the ability to temporarily detach either arm and use it as a club with the other
Arseface	A comic book character from none other than Vertigo Comics.
Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo	Name of a Japanese manga (comic) whose subject matter is as surreal as its title.
Cartoon physics	In animation, humour takes precedence over the ordinary laws of physics.
Censored Eleven	A group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons pulled from syndication due to their racist depictions of black people.
Clan McDuck	A fictional family in the style of a Scottish clan, from which a great number of Walt Disney Company's comic bookcharacters held their origin..
Comic book death	Comic book characters have a tendency to rarely, if ever, stay dead.
Der Fuehrer's Face	Donald Duck won an Oscar as a Hitler-saluting Nazi.
Gorillas in comics	A curious abundance of gorillas in comic book plots during the Silver Age of Comics.
Homosexuality in the Batman franchise	For half a century, Batman and Dick Grayson have been rumored to have a relationship.
Jenny Everywhere	An open-sourcewebcomic character.
The Metric Marvels	Nothing says 1970s in the USA more than a spinoff of Schoolhouse Rock with superheroes who teach the metric system.
Moe anthropomorphism	In this time and age even a washing machine can be the girl of your dreams.
Mr. Immortal	A Marvel Comics superhero with no special powers except immortality, who has been killed in ways including crushing, burning, self-impalement on giant novelty scissors, bear trap, cannon, chainsaw, piranhas, ferrets, spear, and python, and alcohol poisoning (three times). Prone to fits of rage upon returning to life.
NFL SuperPro	What some Marvel Comics writers will do for free game tickets ...
Tentacle erotica	Human-cephalopod sexual relations, popular in hentai.
Uncle Grandpa	An animated series about everyone in the world's magical uncle and grandpa. Think about that.

Steve James Documentary Stevie Update Java 8

Literature

'Shíshì shīshì Shī Shì, shì shī, shì shí shí shī... help!!

Reading this list is its own reward.

T-rexes getting frisky, possibly with the help of dinosaur erotica

1885 medallion of the bogus Society of Science, Letters and Art

112 Gripes About the French	A handbook produced to help American soldiers understand the French.
Aldiborontiphoskyphorniostikos	Published in 1825 as a Victorian children's book and described as 'a round game for merry parties', the object of the game was to quickly recite alphabetical tongue-twisting mock-Latin gibberish.
Anthropodermic bibliopegy	The practice of binding books in human skin.
Atlanta Nights	A group of science fiction authors get together and deliberately write an absolutely horrible novel to fool and embarrass a 'vanity publisher'.
The Book of Heroic Failures	A book which glorifies failure. Started off The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain. The book was a success and thus declared a 'failure as a failure'.
Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year	Who can forget such classics as Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers, How to Avoid Huge Ships or Natural Bust Enlargement with Total Power: How to Increase the Other 90% of Your Mind to Increase the Size of Your Breasts?
La Bougie du Sapeur	A French newspaper published every February 29th.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest	A contest to find 'the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels'.
Dinosaur erotica	Have you ever been Taken by a T-Rex or Ravished by a Triceratops?
Lyttle Lytton Contest	Like the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, but 'Lyttler'
Death poem	The urge to have famous last words, taken to its logical, carefully rewritten extreme.
Fart Proudly	An essay written by Benjamin Franklin about flatulence.
Henry Darger	Writer of a 15,000-page manuscript along with several thousand watercolor paintings and other drawings illustrating the story, who rarely left his small room. His word was worth millions a few years after his death.
Early American editions of The Hobbit	Now collectors' items because of their printing differences.
English As She Is Spoke	A 19th-century Portuguese–English conversational guide and phrase book that is regarded as a classic of unintentional humour since it was apparently the product of translating a Portuguese–French phrase book by non-English-speaking Portuguese with the help of a French–English phrase book.
Evil laugh	'Mua-ha-haha-ha-haaa' and the like.
The Eye of Argon	An infamously bad heroic fantasynovella, written in 1970 by Jim Theis and circulated anonymously in science fiction fandom since then.
The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women	A 1558 diatribe by John Knox against Mary, Queen of Scots and Mary Tudor.
'For sale: baby shoes, never worn'	Supposedly the shortest story possible in the English language, though Ernest Hemingway had nothing to do with it.
Gadsby	A 50,110-word long book famous for not using the letter 'e'.
Grammarians' War	At the start of the 16th century, British schoolmasters were insulting one another. In Latin, of course.
Hitler Diaries	A sensational discovery in 1983, which turned out to be an elaborate hoax.
I, Libertine	A non-existent novel that was the subject of a hoax intended to criticize the manner in which best-seller lists are determined.
Lecherous Limericks	Dirty limericks... by Isaac Asimov.
Lesbian vampire	They don't bite...necks.
'Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den'	A poem written by a Chinese poet in Classical Chinese. It can be read and understood by all who understand the language, even though it consists entirely of the word 'shi' repeated 92 times in different tones.
List of works with the subtitle 'Virtue Rewarded'	For some reason the 'Virtue Punished' books never sell....
Lobby Lud	'You are ____ and I claim my five pounds'.
Magical negro	A racist stock character who helps out white protagonists.
Marlovian theory	A theory which states that Christopher Marlowe's unnatural death was a hoax and that he continued to write and publish under the pseudonym 'William Shakespeare'.
William McGonagall	A writer widely held to be the worst poet in the English language.
Men in Aida	A homoerotic homophonic translation of Homer: 'Men in Aida, they appeal, eh? A day, O Achilles.'
The Meaning of Hitler	Sir Max Hastings called it 'among the best' studies of Hitler
My Immortal (fan fiction)	A legendarily terrible piece of Harry Potter fan fiction that awkwardly inserted vampires, time travel, and emo/'goff' subcultures into J.K. Rowling's wizarding world. Someone who may have been the author of the piece almost got a major publishing deal for her memoirs.
Naked Came the Stranger	Journalists prove a point when their intentionally awful sex novel becomes a bestseller. Later the basis of a porn film starring Darby Lloyd Rains.
Order of the Occult Hand	'It was as if an occult hand had edited this Wikipedia article.'
On Bullshit	A very serious essay by Harry Frankfurt sketching a philosophical theory of, well, bullshit.
Ossian	'The greatest poet that has ever existed', according to Jefferson. But he didn't.
Philip M. Parker	Writer of “The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India” and thousands of other works... by means of a computer program.
Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	Understanding the political context of the mid-to-late 1890s in the United States will give you a different understanding of the gold, silver and emerald symbolism, among other things.
Rolling Stone (Uganda)	The Uganda version of Rolling Stone is kinda different from the US version. It doesn't cover music, but does list the names of alleged homosexuals, calling for their deaths.
Amanda McKittrick Ros	The McGonagall of prose. J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis competed as to who could read her longest without laughing.
Saddam Hussein's novels	Crimes against literature?
Shakespearean authorship	A great conspiracy that concealed the identity of the true author of 'Shakespeare's' works, implying that all contemporary references to Shakespeare's authorship were fraudulent or mistaken.
Shakespeare Apocrypha	Anti-Stratfordians can take heart that there really are works attributed to Shakespeare that weren't written by him!
Society of Science, Letters and Art	19th century bogus literary society which duped learned (and would-be learned) people into purchasing the right to the society's academic dress and letters after their name.
Striking and Picturesque Delineations of the Grand, Beautiful, Wonderful, and Interesting Scenery Around Loch-Earn	Angus McDiarmad, a native Scots-Gaelic speaker, writes a book on a Scottish Highland area with the help of an English dictionary to great comic effect and is termed 'the world's worst author'.
There once was a man from Nantucket...	A gratifying theme for limericks; some of them obscene.
Le Train de Nulle Part	A French novel, 233 pages long, written without verbs.

Music

Have some time on your hands?

Let your brain control the music.

Make music, not war.

Example of an instrument recently added to the inventory.

Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music – joke, grudge or conceptual art? All three, probably.

Purveyor of the worst music of all time?

2001 Clear Channel memorandum	America banning Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters from radio airplay after 9/11 is an odd choice. Though What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong brings to mind more questions.
27 Club	A number of prominent musicians have died at this age, though statisticians attribute the 'club' to apophenia - seeing patterns in random data. See also the related white lighter myth.
Elvis impersonator	People pretend to be Elvis Presley and only him.
4′33″	A three-piece movement composed by John Cage in which the musicians are instructed to not play a single note.
AKB48 Group	Girl group or franchise ? Same with her 'official' rival group and 'spin-off' group as well !
All Lights Fucked on the Hairy Amp Drooling	It is extremely likely that you'll never hear this album in its entirety (unless your u/casketjack of course).
Animutation	The practice of taking lyrics of foreign songs, 'mishearing' them into English, and producing a Flash video to go along with it.
As Slow As Possible	A piece of music by John Cage to be performed until 2640.
Bleach (American band Bleach album) Bleach (Japanese band Bleach album)	What happens to Wikipedia article titles when two different bands with the same exact name both release self-titled albums.
The Boy Bands Have Won	Actually, this album's full title is 'The Boy Bands Have Won' followed by a further 151 words. As of August 2009, it holds the record for the longest album title.
Rosemary Brown	A spiritualist who claimed that dead composers dictated new musical works to her.
Camouflage (Chris Sievey song)	A vinyl single from 1983 that contained a computer programme for the song's own music video for the ZX81. Created by a man who later found fame wearing a papier-mâché head.
Cat organ	A keyboard instrument in which the keys cause cats to miaow.
CD Rev	Because nothing says gangsta like being funded by a corrupt communist government.
Chillwave	The term was invented to make fun of music journalists and bloggers who hype 'the next big thing'. Ironically, they then wrote about chillwave as 'the next big thing'.
Cigarettes and Valentines	An entire record by Green Day whose master tracks were stolen.
Collapse of Smile	The very complicated story of the Beach Boys' 'teenage symphony to God', an album of psychedelic children's songs about spiritual rebirth, American imperialism, cartoons, and exercising.
Curse of the ninth	The superstition that any composer of symphonies, from Beethoven onwards, will die soon after writing their own Ninth Symphony.
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse Present: Dark Night of the Soul	Due to a legal dispute, this album was released with a blank CD-R.
Dark Side of the Rainbow	What happens when you mix Pink Floyd and The Wizard of Oz?
Das erste Wiener Gemüseorchester	An Austrian orchestra whose musical instruments are made solely from vegetables.
Earworm	It's got a hook in you.
Electroencephalophone	A musical instrument controlled by brainwaves.
Escopetarra	The Colombian gun-guitar.
Elvis sightings	There are many who still believe.
Elvis' Greatest Shit	Not the one he was trying to pass the night he allegedly died.
Euro-Vision	The Belgian entry of the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 whose lyrics spoke precisely of the event in which they took part.
Fogerty v. Fantasy, Inc.	That time John Fogerty was sued for sounding like himself.
Fyre Festival	The organizers spent so much money promoting the event that they ran out of money to spend on the actual event. They were later faced with eight lawsuits.
Große Fuge	A composition written by Ludwig van Beethoven which was universally put down at the time as being 'incomprehensible', now accepted as one of his greatest works.
Grunge speak	That time a receptionist convinced The New York Times that 'wack slacks' was slang for ripped jeans and 'lamestain' meant an uncool person.
Hatebeak	The thing that should not beak.
Joyce Hatto	A pianist who had many doctored recordings falsely attributed to her long after she stopped performing in public.
Helikopter-Streichquartett	A string quartet by Karlheinz Stockhausen that must be played in four circling helicopters, the sound remixed, chopper sounds and all, for an audience on the ground.
Hitler Has Only Got One Ball	Was der Führer only half a man?
Industrial musical	A musical production performed for the employees of a business, intended to create a feeling of being part of a team, and/or to educate and motivate the management and salespeople to improve sales and profit.
Bobby Jameson	Mercurial hippie outcast of the Hollywood music biz that never received financial compensation for his songs and records. Thought to be dead after the 1960s, but then resurfaced with a blog in 2007 aiming to set the record straight about his life story.
Jandek	A prolific and pseudonymous singer/songwriter active since 1978 who only grants the occasional interview and has never provided any biographical information.
Jeg har set en rigtig negermand	A Danish #1 single from 1970, extolling the virtues of racial equality while calling a 'negro man' 'black as a bucket of tar'.
Florence Foster Jenkins	An American soprano famous for her singing ability or lack thereof.
Leck mich im Arsch	A canon, whose title translates as 'Lick Me in the Arse', by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The Lillywhite Sessions	Never officially released, and yet fans and critics can argue that it's the best 'album' by the Dave Matthews Band.
List of musical works in unusual time signatures	What's the most absurd time signature you can imagine? 59/48? ⅔/2? How about 3²/₂/4?
List of silent musical compositions	Not to be confused with 'The Sound of Silence', these songs don't have really much to hear.
List of songs topping polls for worst songs	We built this city on not being very good.
Literal music video	What happens when you replace the lyrics in a music video with lyrics that describe what's actually happening in the music video? Hilarity ensues.
Loudness war	Why recorded music is getting 'louder' over time.
Manualism	The little-known art of playing music by squeezing air through the hands.
Marilyn Manson–Columbine High School massacre controversy	News media falsely accused Marilyn Manson and his band of the name same for influencing two mass shooters who actually hated his music.
Metal Machine Music	A 1975 album by Lou Reed that consists of 64 minutes of audio feedback, widely believed to have either been an elaborate joke, or an attempt by Reed to escape from a record label contract.
Microgenre	Because every band has to have a special name for the music they play.
The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief	A three-sided LP.
Moondog	A blind composer, theoretician, poet, and inventor of musical instruments who dressed like a viking and lived as a street musician in New York between the 1940s to 1970s.
R. Stevie Moore	A one-man band who has self-released over 400 albums through his home-based mailing service since 1982. Later noted as a pioneer of lo-fi music and indie rock.
More cowbell	I got a fever, and the only prescription... is more cowbell!
The Most Unwanted Song	Featuring operatic rapping, a children's choir urging listeners to go to Wal-Mart, bagpipes, cowboy music, and political slogans shouted through a bullhorn.
Mozart and scatology	Mozart was fond of toilet humour, his letters to friends and family often contained scatological passages. He even wrote music dedicated to scatology, which was shared among a closed group of most likely inebriated friends, the most infamous of which is Leck mich im Arsch (literally 'Lick me in the arse').
MP4	Rock music and politics do mix.
Musical saw	The least favourite instrument of Ronnie Wood, The Hollies and The Screaming Trees.
Musikalisches Würfelspiel	A system written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which the musical piece is decided randomly by playing dice.
Musique pour Supermarché	This album by Jean-Michel Jarre had only a single copy produced, which was then auctioned off like a painting. The master tapes were subsequently destroyed, making the copy unique.
My Way killings	You can get killed for singing Frank Sinatra's signature tune in the Philippines.
'Never Learn Not to Love'	The Beach Boys' collaboration with Charles Manson.
Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah	If you can see someone's underwear, here's the tune to tell them by.
Okilly Dokilly	A band that performs metalcore songs about the character Ned Flanders from The Simpsons, while dressed as the character as well.
P Funk mythology	The whimsical universe surrounding the P Funk all stars.
'Paul is dead'	Was Paul McCartney replaced by a lookalike in the 1960s?
Pink Floyd pigs	The band's recurring props and references.
PopMart Tour	Take an unfinished studio album, hold a press conference at Kmart, and put on a show in countries around the world, complete with a spinning mirrorball lemon, a giant martini olive, a large golden arch, and the largest video screen ever toured. That would be U2's 1997–98 tour in a nutshell.
Proibidão	As part of a crackdown on drug cartels in Rio de Janeiro, this uniquely Brazilian form of gangsta rap cannot legally be performed or broadcast on the radio.
Publius Enigma	A mystery wrapped in an enigma related to Pink Floyd, which has remained unsolved since it appeared on Usenet in 1994.
Operation Nifty Package	How do you get a dictator out of an embassy? With Music, of course!
Rage Over a Lost Penny	An audience favorite from Beethoven's oeuvre. It's gleefully angry, but the maestro left it unfinished.
Ready 'N Steady	A song mentioned in a top songs list of a notable magazine, that was long-believed by some to be non-existent because collectors were unable to find a recording or further information on it until 33 years after it was written.
Rockism and poptimism	The problems that arise from a music press driven by whatever's trendy.
The Shaggs	None of this band's members really wanted to form a band, nor did they really have any musical talent, but hey, a fortune teller predicted success, so off they went...
William Shatner's musical career	His rendition of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds regularly wins radio station competitions to find the 'worst music of all time'.
Sleepify	Silence is golden, especially when you're trying to fund a world tour.
Thai Elephant Orchestra	An orchestra of elephants playing specially designed instruments.
To Anacreon in Heaven	An 18th-century drinking song whose melody was later adopted for 'The Star-Spangled Banner'.
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy	To this day I still wonder to this article.
Tout-à-Coup Jazz	An African jazz band from the 1970s whose membership included two future Burkinabé dictators, Thomas Sankara and Blaise Compaoré, with the latter overthrowing the other in a 1987 coup. Unbelievably, the band's name was purely coincidental.
Tromboon	An unusual instrument, with an even more unusual sound.
Ugly stick	An instrument in Newfoundland, an insult everywhere else.
'Up to eleven'	This article is one louder.
Ventolin	Abrasive single by Cornish electronic musician Richard D. James, otherwise known as Aphex Twin.
You Suffer	At a full 1.316 seconds in length, the shortest song with a physical single release of all time.
The Zimmers	A rock band made up of elderly musicians. As of 2017, the oldest member had lived to 101.
Zombeatles	Paul is undead.

Film

Now starring in a horror film not near you.

'[yawn]... Yup, it's still there.'

100 Years	A movie that your grandchildren and great-grandchildren might be able to enjoy!
An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn	A movie about a director who makes a bad movie, but can't remove his name from the credits because his real name is Alan Smithee. In reality, the movie about the movie was so bad that director Arthur Hiller was credited as Alan Smithee to disguise himself from the production.
Ambiancé	A film scheduled to be released on New Year's Eve 2020 that is planned to be 30 days long. A trailer released in 2016 lasted 7 hours 20 minutes, and another one due in 2018 is expected to last three days. It is then planned for the film to be destroyed after its sole showing.
Big Dumb Object	A mysterious object (usually of extraterrestrial origin) in a film that is there simply to cause a sense of wonder.
Birdemic	The answer to the question: What could be worse than a Sharknado?
Nothing Lasts Forever	A completed feature-length film with Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd that has never been released and may never be released.
Blue Harvest	The best way to keep the paparazzi away from your movie: give the movie a fake title, like this one used by George Lucas for Return of the Jedi.
The Canadian Conspiracy	A mockumentary released in 1985 that asserts that Canada is subverting the United States by taking over its media.
Conspiracy 58	A mockumentary that claimed that the 1958 World Cup was never actually held. Despite being revealed as a hoax at the end, people still believed it.
The Cure for Insomnia	A movie that runs for 85 hours. Not the longest movie ever screened though (see below).
The Day the Clown Cried	A notorious unreleased film about the Holocaust – hey, it's a comedy!
Dump months	Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's favorite time of the year.
Empire	A film by Andy Warhol consisting entirely of eight hours of still footage of the Empire State Building.
First on the Moon	Proof that the Soviets got there, thirty years before Armstrong and Aldrin didn't.
The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!	The most important WWE/Hanna-Barbera collaborative.
I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney	'I knew I wanted to be a director, and I did a couple of short films, and this is the only one that haunts me.' —Ben Affleck, Academy Award winner
Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter	What happens when you mix Jesus, lesbians and vampires in a film?
Kin-yan Lee	A Hong Kong actor repeatedly cast in Stephen Chow films as a nose-picking, bearded transvestite.
List of films featuring giant monsters	Oh no, there goes Tokyo, go go Godzilla!
List of films that most frequently use the word 'fuck'	Self explanatory.
Logistics (film)	The world's longest movie ever made, it follows the entire five week process of making and selling a pedometer in reverse chronological order.
The Longest Most Meaningless Movie in the World	A movie that runs for 48 hours. Despite its title, it isn't the world's longest movie, but the jury's still out on whether it's the most meaningless....
Manic Pixie Dream Girl	A type of stock character that is extremely eccentric and girlish.
Manos: The Hands of Fate	A low-budget film created by a fertilizer salesman from Texas, which is largely considered to be the worst film of all time.
Mockbuster	Not the movie you want, but the bargain-bin equivalent.
Modern Times Forever (Stora Enso Building, Helsinki)	The second longest film ever shot: ten whole days of one decaying building Life After People-style and first screened in front of itself. The directors have a point.
Monster a Go-Go	The film that was released to drive-ins when it was only halfway completed. In order to get around this, the ending consists of narration explaining what happened to the main characters and the titular monster.
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D	As if that wasn't bad enough, it spawned a sequel.
Oscar bait	There are certain rules one follows when making an Oscar film. Including mental illness, the Holocaust and Meryl Streep in your film also helps.
Paint Drying	Created to test the patience of the British Board of Film Classification.
Pulgasari	A Godzilla-esque film, supposedly an allegory for unchecked capitalism, created by Kim Jong-il and a director whom he kidnapped.
Roundhay Garden Scene	The first ever moving picture, which lasted for an epic two seconds.
Shaken, not stirred	Why 007 prefers his martini shaken.
Space Nazis	'Take me to your Führer!'
Spaghetti trees	Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.
SSSSSSS	Dirk Benedict and snakes. Long before the day of Samuel L. Jackson.
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man	Large marshmallow mascot seen in the film Ghostbusters.
Stinking badges	Something nobody needs. Possibly the most frequently quoted and misquoted line from a movie ever.
Surf Nazis Must Die	A film for anyone who thought the Space Nazi trope was insensitive.
Taylor Mead's Ass	A film consisting entirely 70 minutes of Taylor Mead's buttocks.
Twin films	When two studios make the same idea at the same time.
United Passions	A 30 million dollar film sponsored by FIFA about how great they are. Came out right after the 2015 FIFA corruption case came to light. One of the lowest grossing sports movies of all time.
Wilhelm scream	A stock sound effect first recorded in 1951 and used in dozens of films (including seven Star Wars films, two Lord of the Rings films and Kill Bill).
Zyzzyx Road	Budget: $1.2 million. Box office: 30 bucks.

Television

The end of you(r sitcom) looms.

The spooky intrusion of someone disguised as Max Headroom on Chicago TV.

The Mull of Kintyre. Almost indecent, apparently.

Al Murray's Compete for the Meat	A British game show where the top prize is a frozen chicken and the second prize is some sausages.
Alternative 3	An April Fools joke by an ITV science show leads many to believe that scientists were being kidnapped to prepare for the colonization of Mars.
Anti-Barney Humor	An article for all Barney & Friends haters.
Australia's Naughtiest Home Videos	Forget Turn-On – this never even made it to the end of its only episode.
'Dennō Senshi Porygon'	An episode of the 'harmless' Pokémon cartoon that caused seizures in almost 700 children.
Flemish Secession hoax	Our regular programming is now interrupted to declare independence from Belgium.
Friday night death slot	Where TV shows go to die.
Guy Goma	A man who came to the BBC for a job interview is instead interviewed on its news channel about the Apple Corps v. Apple Computer lawsuit.
Greg Packer	A man on the street, no matter which street you're talking about.
Heil Honey I'm Home!	Hitler has his own sitcom.
I Wanna Marry 'Harry'	An American reality show to find Prince Harry a wife. Meghan Markle was not a contestant.
Judaism in Rugrats	A Maccababy's gotta do what a Maccababy's gotta do.
Jumping the shark	Metaphor for the point at which one can speak of a TV show as having had its best days behind it.
K Foundation Burn a Million Quid	Why did the K Foundation burn a million pounds in cash?
Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident	TV signals in Chicago are twice overpowered on 22 November 1987 by broadcasts featuring a person (possibly a male) disguised as the 1980s virtual TV character Max Headroom. The source of the broadcasts and the people involved remain unknown. Ten years previously, the sound during a broadcast by the UK's Southern Television is replaced by a voice claiming to be an extraterrestrial named 'Vrillon'.
Michael Larson	A man who won over US$100,000 in an American quiz show because he was able to notice a pattern in the flashing lights on the 'Big Board.'
Monkey Tennis	Hypothetically, the worst television programme it is possible to make.
Mull of Kintyre test	When can a human penis be shown on British television?
Odagiri effect	Turns out that women find sexy men on TV shows quite appealing.
Smell-O-Vision	A system designed to enhance films with odors. Used once for the 1960 film Scent of Mystery and never again.
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome	A tragic condition suffered by some young characters on soap operas.
Tomorrow's Pioneers	A Palestinian children's show produced by Hamas and co-hosted by various costumed characters, including one resembling Mickey Mouse. Most of said costumed characters are killed by Jews in some violent manner.
Turn-On	An ABC comedy series that was cancelled even before the first episode had finished.
Very special episode	A genre of television episodes with controversial life lessons interweaved into the storyline, popularized by Blossom.
Wank Week	A Channel 4 project for all those who think there aren't enough jerks on TV.
Tommy Westphall	How a child with autism, and Detective Munch, are responsible for more than 200 TV series.
TV pickup	Britons regularly cause massive power surges by simultaneously making tea during program breaks.
Steve Wiebe	The star of a film about him setting the world's high score... for Donkey Kong.
Who's your Daddy?	To win $100,000, adoptees have to pick their biological father out of twenty five men.

Video games

ET and Pac-Man's final resting-place?

Atari video game burial	Are your video games not selling? Why not do what Atari did—bury them in a New Mexican landfill?
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing	A racing video game that is considered one of the worst of all time due to its opponents that don't move, the ability to drive through buildings and accelerate infinitely in reverse, and a notorious 'YOU'RE WINNER !' [sic] message after each race.
Boss key	A special key or key combination used in computer games to quickly hide the game from superiors or coworkers.
CleverPet Inc	Ever had a dog bored at home and jealous of your game playing? Try this video game console for dogs that rewards pet treats for winning puzzles!
Communist Mutants from Space	A Cold WarSpace Invaders clone in which you do battle with the Mother Creature, driven mad by radioactive vodka.
Corrupted Blood incident	An unintentional virtual epidemic in World of Warcraft, which became an important medical case study.
Don't Buy This	A rare example of truth in advertising.
Eggplant run	A challenge playthrough of Spelunky in which you carry an eggplant and toss it into the final boss's face
The Great Giana Sisters	A game that was withdrawn from the shelves virtually as soon as it went on them.
Hong Kong 97	A video game where the dead Deng Xiaoping is a weapon of mass destruction.
JFK Reloaded	A video game released in 2004 where the player gets to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.
Kanye Zone	Can you keep the disembodied head of rapper Kanye West out of his 'zone'?
Mighty No. 9	A video game notable for having the longest closing credits of any media, at just under 3 hours and 48 minutes long, in part thanks to the game's sluggish and somewhat mismanaged development and the developers' decision to credit the game's 70,000+ Kickstarter backers.
MissingNo.	A Pokémon species that only appears as the result of a glitch, and has since been the subject of many sociological studies.
Overwatch and pornography	Yes, many people would like to, 'Nerf This!')
Phalanx	Who knew that putting an old man playing a banjo in a video game that had nothing to do with him would make for an effective marketing campaign?
Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors	A compendium of computer games all created to allow the owner to scam his or her friends. Includes 'Desert Bus': a painstakingly realistic 8 hour bus journey from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas through a featureless desert in real time.
Polybius	An arcade game that supposedly causes its players to go insane.
Tetris effect	A psychological effect where Tetris players start arranging blocks in the real world.
List of video games notable for negative reception	And we were so sure NO MAN′S SKY would be a hit!

Internet memes and online culture

Hey! Tovarich ! How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?

You can find this guy on talk pages filled with contentious discussions.

All your base are belong to us	A phrase that originated in the 1989 video gameZero Wing and sparked an Internet phenomenon in 2001 and 2002.
Bernie Sanders' Dank Meme Stash	A Facebook group dedicated to memes about American politician Bernie Sanders.
Boobquake	Female users of social networking websites agree to determine whether their scandalous clothing can cause earthquakes.
Bronies	You thought My Little Pony could never be loved by rugged grown men. Wrong. Very wrong.
Carstuckgirls.com	An erotic(?) website devoted to women trying to free their cars from various obstacles.
Cute cat theory of digital activism	'Web 1.0 was invented to allow physicists to share research papers. Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats.' — Ethan Zuckerman
Elsagate	Here kids, watch these YouTube videos with Elsa and Spider-man, I'm sure nothing inappropriate will be on them...
Every time you masturbate... God kills a kitten	If that's not a good enough reason why you shouldn't, I don't know what is.
Florida Man	Superhero native to the state of Florida best known for his frequent run-ins with law enforcement and intoxicating substances.
Getting to Philosophy	All links lead to Philosophy.
Godwin's law	Every long, protracted online discussion always ends with comparisons of others to Hitler. Really...
The Hampster Dance	A web page featuring dancing hamsters set to music. The music (itself a sample) was sampled in a song, and made No.4 in the United Kingdom in 1999.
How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?	An Internet meme in Russian internet culture. Various heads of state at Internet press conferences were asked this question – here are their answers.
Sam Hyde	An American comedian blamed for numerous terrorist attacks and killings.
Instagram egg	An image of any old egg...is what this egg would be if it didn't take over Instagram and become the most-liked post on the internet.
Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia	Talk about a major violation of WP:CENSORandWP:POINT...
Numa Numa	Or how a fat kid dancing to the O-Zone song 'Dragostea din tei' in front of his computer became very popular.
O RLY?	The sarcastic owl image that is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the 'net.
OS-tan	A small Internet phenomenon where certain types of software (including various Microsoft and Linux operating systems) are depicted as young anime women.
Polandball	A comic genre with balls and other bits for different countries doing what real countries do.
Rickrolling	Careful: that link you're about to click on might take you to a video of Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up'.
Mark V Shaney	A fake Usenet user whose computer-generated postings were created using Markov chain techniques.
Shock site	Don't look! (No, really.)
Shrek fandom	Maybe 'fandom' isn't the correct word?
Ted Cruz–Zodiac meme	A mock conspiracy theory gone wild.
Tide pod challenge	Ever thought a Tide pod looked kind of like candy? Apparently you're not alone.
Time Cube	The personal website of a schizophrenic old man who claimed that time is 'cubic' in nature and that all of modern science is a lie.
John Titor	The name of a purported time traveller from the year 2036. He posted on several time travel-related Internetbulletin boards during 2000/2001.
Tourist guy	The picture of a Hungarian man on 9/11.
Very erotic very violent	How erotic and violent would it be?
Unusual eBay listings	Those strange things people sell on the Internet...
Yaminjeongeum	세종머앟늰익 읚머한 윾산.
Wikipedia	The site you are on right now.

Festivals

One from Schroeder's collection?

Kanamara Matsuri	A phallus festival in Kawasaki, Japan.
Mexico City Alebrije Parade	Parade and contest of giant alebrijes ('colorful monsters').
Testicle Festival	'Would you like to supersize those?'
Toy piano festival	A concerto of toy pianos.

Stage shows

The Elvis Dead

Evil Dead II retold in the style of Elvis Presley. 'I need a really groovy chainsaw arm'.

See also

Food

Nom nom nom burp nom nom nom nom...

No durians. (But no fine if you have some anyway?)

Engastration – here in the form of turducken.

Fried spiders on sale.
(May include excrement.)

Meal time at a Modern Toilet restaurant.

Mmmm, roadkill.

Did William here eat them all?

Alferd Packer	Before Dahmer there was Packer...
Ayds	Ayds was a great way to lose weight, until the mid-1980s...
Banana production in Iceland	Weirder than Björk?
Bird's nest soup	Asian delicacy.
Boneless Fish	A frozen fish scaled, gutted and deboned, then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme.
British Rail sandwich	A culinary match to the quality of the train service.
Bacon Explosion	Not as dangerous as it sounds.
Cannabis foods	Various foods containing cannabis.
Carmine	A common food dye manufactured from insects.
Casu marzu	Italian 'maggot cheese' – cheese designed to be eaten while it is infested with cheese fly larvae.
Century egg	A Chinese dish which involves preserving a duck, chicken or quail egg for several weeks to several months before eating.
Chubby bunny	A common (but sometimes lethal) game played with marshmallows.
Competitive eating	In which the main goal is the quick and vast consumption of food.
Cockle bread	Bread made by English women in the seventeenth century that involved kneading and pressing against the woman's buttocks.
Deep-fried Mars bar	A Scottish delicacy.
Deep-fried Twinkies	America's answer to the above.
Charles Domery	A Polish soldier noted for his unusually large appetite. While imprisoned in England, he remained ravenous despite being put on ten times the rations of other inmates, eating the prison cat, at least twenty rats and, on a regular basis, the prison candles.
Durian	King of fruits. King of smells?
Engastration	Dishes consisting of animals stuffed into each other. Turducken and whole stuffed camel are prominent examples.
Eyes (cheese)	There are eyes in the cheese, but no cheese in the eyes.
Flies graveyard	A delicacy in the United Kingdom.
Fried spider	Exactly as it sounds – and a regional delicacy in Cambodia.
Hitler bacon	Can it possibly be kosher?
Hufu	For all you vegetarian cannibals out there, the tofu product designed to look and taste like human flesh.
Human placentophagy	The consumption of a newborn's placenta is common among mammals; humans do it too.
Kit Kats in Japan	There have been more than 300 limited-edition seasonal and regional flavors of Kit Kats produced in Japan since 2000.
Ketchup as a vegetable	Makes junk food seem healthier.
Kosher locust	Can Jews eat grasshoppers?
Luther burger	Described as the 'cardiologist's worst nightmare'
Lychee and Dog Meat Festival	Vegans are the only group who can oppose this festival without any fear of hypocrisy.
Michel Lotito	Known as Monsieur Mangetout (or 'Mr Eat-all').
Milbenkäse	A type of German cheese containing live mites, which are eaten along with the cheese.
Monkey brain	A Chinese delicacy that has been made famous through films.
Pieing	A slapstick stunt, or a kind of political protest. And there's even a list of victims.
Products produced from The Simpsons	Fictional trademarks gone real.
Rhubarb Triangle	A recipe or a dangerous area to fly through?
Roadkill cuisine	Yes, Skunk a la Michelin sounds tasty to some people.
Sannakji	Small octopuses eaten alive with sesame oil.
Sealed crustless sandwich	A patentedpeanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Stargazy pie	A Cornish fish pie that looks back at you.
Stinky tofu	Fermented soybean curd is apparently a delicacy for some people. One external link describes its scent as 'a used tampon baking in the desert.'
Surströmming	A Swedish dish consisting of rotten herring, said to have the worst smell in the world.
Takeru Kobayashi	A slightly built Japanese competitive eater. He has consumed 63 Nathan's Famous hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes and holds a host of eating records for other foods.
Tarrare	A French showman and soldier noted for his unusual eating habits. Among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards and puppies, and swallowed an eel whole without chewing.
Tim Tam Slam	An Australian method for drinking tea through Tim Tambiscuits.
Tomatina	A gigantic food fight with a ham-topped greased pole as the start.
Sonya Thomas	What weighs 105 pounds (48 kg) and eats more hot dogs in 12 minutes than most people do all summer?
United States military chocolate	Originally designed to taste 'little better than a boiled potato'. Not much has changed.
Unusually shaped vegetable	'While some examples are just oddly shaped, others are heralded for their amusing appearance, often representing a body part such as the buttocks.'
Vegetarianism of Adolf Hitler	Hitler believed that a vegetarian diet could both alleviate his personal health problems and spiritually renew the Aryan race.
Virgin boy egg	Eggs cooked with the help of young boys' urine.
Who Ate All the Pies?	A chant sung by football fans in England and Scotland, aimed at supposedly overweight footballers, officials or opposing supporters.

Beverages

Some coffee, sir? ...... Coming right up out, sir.

Dispatch that unwanted soda in style.

Beer goggles	Does drinking a certain beverage make other people more attractive to you?
Civet coffee	Not coffee made from civets, but rather from ordinary coffee beans the civet has, well, excreted.
Cola wars	A marketing battle between Coca-Cola and Pepsi.
Fucking Hell	A German beer named after the Austrian village of Fucking.
Grapefruit juice effect	Be careful – that delicious food item could be dangerous to prescription-drug users.
H₂NO	Why drink tap water, when you can pay to have a cool, refreshing glass of Coca-Cola or freshly chilled bottled tap water?
If-by-whiskey	A famous speech successfully both attacking and defending booze.
ISO 3103	The ISO standard cup of tea.
OpenCola	The world's first open-source beverage.
Snake wine	A type of Vietnamese wine that includes a whole venomous snake in the bottle.
Soda and candy eruption	Diet Coke + Mentos = geyser.
Vodka eyeballing	Here's looking at you, kid.

Restaurants

Conflict Kitchen	A Pittsburgh take-out restaurant, exclusively serving ethnic foods from countries in which the United States is in conflict.
Cross Cafe	A Hitler-themed Indian restaurant, formerly known as 'Hitlers' Cross' [sic].
Dinner in the Sky	Enjoy a delicious meal—suspended 150 feet (46 m) in the air.
Fortezza Medicea restaurant	Eloquent, fine dining in a high-security prison.
Hamburger University	Where McDonald's employees learn their stuff.
Heart Attack Grill	Noted for its 8,000-calorie 'Quadruple Bypass Burger'.
Ithaa	The world's first underwater restaurant.
Kayabukiya Tavern	A Japanese restaurant where guests are served by employed monkeys.
MaDonal	A McDonald's knock-off in Iraq.
McDonald's urban legends	Is that worm meat in your Big Mac?
Modern Toilet	A restaurant chain whose furniture and decor is based on – yes – toilets.
Original Spanish Kitchen	A Los Angeles restaurant that suddenly and unexpectedly closed in 1961, giving rise to an urban legend about the fate of its proprietors. The restaurant's contents – even as far as the place settings – remained untouched for decades.
Pyongyang	A restaurant chain whose sole proprietor is the Government of North Korea.

Sports

PETA wouldn't like it.

Pillow Fight League.

Jump rabbit, jump rabbit, jump jump jump...

The 'Estonian Carry'. Mmm.

1916 Cumberland vs. Georgia Tech American football game	The most lopsided game in American football history (featuring the godfather of American football himself, John Heisman).
1967 NFL Championship Game	Often called 'The Ice Bowl', a game between the Dallas Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers played in absolutely frigid conditions, at a temperature of -15°F (and that's before the wind chill.)
1978 CONCACAF Champions' Cup	The only time in the history ofassociation football in which an official championship ended up being championed ex aequo by more than one team, in this case there were three.
1992 Troy State vs. DeVry men's basketball game	The highest scoring NCAA basketball game ever.
2005 United States Grand Prix	A race in which 14 drivers retired before the start of the race.
2014 Hiram vs. Mount St. Joseph women's basketball game	How a dying teenager's wish became one of the year's biggest stories in American sports.
Artistic roller skating	All the grace and charm of figure skating...but with roller skates.
AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne	Taking own goals to the extreme.
Australia 31–0 American Samoa	The most lopsided 'fair' match in association football history since World War I.
Australian Football International Cup	The 'World Cup' of Australian rules football...in which Australia does not participate.
Baseball metaphors for sex	Basic Instinct...? No, Baseball Instinct.
Bat and trap	An English bat-and-ball pub game.
Bladderball	Yale University's contribution to the world of team sports.
British baseball	Not Baseball in the United Kingdom, but an intermediate species between cricket and baseball played in the hinterlands of Wales and Western England.
Bog snorkelling	The noble art of competitive snorkelling through cold, noxious bog water.
Bottle-kicking	A ruleless drunken rugby-like sport played every Easter Monday since the 1700s in Hallaton, Leicestershire.
Butt fumble	Be careful where you run with that ball, Mark.
Chess boxing	A sport that alternates rounds of speed chess and boxing.
Collision in Korea	A WCW pay per view event in 1995 wasn't so unusual. A professional wrestling match in North Korea, however, is a once in a lifetime event.
Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake	An annual event held each May at Cooper's Hill near Gloucester.
Disco Demolition Night	What could go wrong with encouraging people to bring unwanted disco albums to a baseball doubleheader and blowing up the records between games?
Dwarf tossing	A sporting competition where padded dwarfs are thrown by competitors.
Dwile flonking	A sport that gives a new meaning to the term 'drinking game'.
Eton wall game	A sport played annually on St. Andrew's Day on a 5-by-110-metre (16 ft × 361 ft) field. The last goal was scored in 1909.
Extreme ironing	A sport whereby participants take an ironing board to a remote location and iron a few items of clothing.
Fair catch kick	A little-known way to score points in American football left over from rugby. It was last used successfully in the pro game in 1976.
Fierljeppen	A Frisian sport where the objective is to jump over a trench.
Football tennis	Wimbledon meets Wembley... in Czechoslovakia.
Heidi Game	The last-minute comeback in this American football game wasn't seen by television viewers, as the network cut off the game to show the children's film Heidi.
Henley-on-Todd Regatta	An Australian boat race that is cancelled when there is water in the river.
International Rutabaga Curling Championship	Rutabaga curling originated in the frosty December climes of Ithaca, New York.
Isner–Mahut match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships	A record-breaking 11-hour, 5-minute tennis match at the 2010 Wimbledon Championships.
Lawn mower racing	Leaves the lawn in a very poor condition.
Lingerie Football League	'Uniforms consist of helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, knee pads, garter belts, bras, and panties.' Renamed the Legends Football League in 2013, with the garters, bras, and panties replaced by slightly more modest performance sportswear.
Mall walking	Usually done with larger groups of senior citizens.
Muggle Quidditch	An international real-life sport, without magic objects.
Mythical national championship	When is a champion not exactly a champion?
New Testament athletic metaphors	Blessed are the healthy in heart...
One-armed versus one-legged cricket	According to Charles Dickens: 'The one-legged men were pretty well with the bat, but they were rather beaten when it came to fielding.'
Pillow Fight League	The first rule of Pillow Fight League is that you do not discuss Pillow Fight League.
Plainfield Teacher's College	Their American football team was un-beaten, un-tied...and non-existent.
The Play (American football)	Before going onto the field for your postgame musical performance, make sure the game is over.
Rocket Racing League	A racing league intending to use rocket-powered aircraft to race a closed-circuit air racetrack.
Smiggin Holes 2010 Winter Olympic bid	During the 2002 Winter Olympics, the two Australian comedians who gave the world Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat (see 'Animals in sports' below) launched a bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics in New South Wales, Australia.
Sports-related curses	A variety of excuses for bad performance.
Stoolball	An ancestor of cricket (a game it resembles), baseball, and rounders.
Ten Cent Beer Night	A Major League Baseball game that tried to attract fans with a beer promotion got progressively worse, until an all-out riot broke out at Cleveland Stadium.
Traditions and anecdotes associated with the Stanley Cup	An ice hockey trophy with a long history of abuse, superstition, and tests of buoyancy.
Ultimate Typing Championship	Created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America.
Underarm bowling incident of 1981	An infamous end to an international cricket match that was arguably not cricket at all.
Wellie wanging	Competitors are required to hurl a Wellington boot as far as possible
Wife-carrying	One need not carry one's own wife to take part, although you may want to run away as fast as possible afterwards.
Wooden spoon	A Cambridge University tradition adopted by rugby league and rugby union, the Wooden Spoon is awarded to the last-placed team in a competition.
Yukigassen	Competitive snowball fighting.

Animals in sports

Buzkashi	Something like rugby, played on horseback, with a dead goat.
Conger cuddling	The 'most fun a person could have with a dead fish'.
Egg tapping	One holds a hard-boiled egg and taps the egg of another participant with one's own egg intending to break the other's, without breaking one's own.
Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat	Sydney'sother Olympic mascot.
Ferret legging	A stunt in which a live ferret is put down one's trousers. According to Snopes: 'Ferret-legging, allegedly a 'sport' ... was reported in an article twenty years ago [in] Outside magazine, was riddled with factual errors ... that apologists attribute to 'poor research on an actual sport.' The Wikipedia article ... has no direct sources except for Katz's article. It has been nominated for deletion twice; both times, the votes were split fifty/fifty and the article was kept. Did Katz write a poor article on an actual sport, or did he make it up?'
Fox tossing	A popular sport in 17th and 18th century Europe that involved tossing foxes and other live animals as high as possible into the air.
Goose pulling	Hang a live goose from a rope, gallop under it on a horse and pull its head off. What could be simpler?
Hamster racing	A uniquely British response to foot and mouth disease.
Kudu dung spitting	Games for conservationists.
Legend of the Octopus	If you're going to an ice hockey game in Detroit, be sure to bring your octopus.
Octopus wrestling	A sport which once attracted crowds of thousands to watch free divers wrestle North Pacific Giant Octopus from the waters of the Puget Sound.
Pig Olympics	An international contest between pigs.
Rabbit show jumping	Watership up, Watership Down. Watership up, Watership Down. Watership...
Robot jockey	Robots designed to ride dromedary camels.
Snail racing	Ready, steady, slow!
Teddy bear toss	A Christmas tradition in minor league ice hockey.
Turkey bowling	So much for 'don't play with your food'.
Vinkenzetting	Finch-singing in Belgium. More competitive than you might think.
Yak racing	A spectator sport held at traditional festivals in Tibet and Mongolia, among other places.

Athletes

Beware the wrath!

Ironically, his team didn't finish as the best 1988 Winter Olympics bobsled team from the Caribbean.

A briefs history of Olympic Flame running.

'Hey, how are we doing this season?'

1956 Olympic Flame hoax	Why the Olympic Flame is pants.
Ali Dia	A guy who tricked his way into English soccer team Southampton F.C. by claiming he had won 12 caps for Senegal, was related to George Weah and had played for Paris St Germain. In 2007, The Times branded him the worst-ever player in top-flight soccer.
Barefoot running	Why is there an entire article devoted to running without shoes?
Paula Barila Bolopa	A swimmer from Equatorial Guinea, who – much like Eric Moussambani below – competed in the Sydney Olympics. Her time in the 50m freestyle is apparently the longest in Olympic history.
Philip Boit	How many other Kenyan skiers can you name?
Curse of Billy Penn	How a skyscraper in Philadelphia kept the city's sports teams from winning championships for over 20 years.
Curse of the Colonel	Colonel Harland Sanders wreaks revenge from beyond the grave on a Japanese baseball team.
Rajai Davis	'Quick, Jason, ride me to Citi Field, I've been called up!'
Dock Ellis	Baseball pitcher who, among other things, threw a no-hitter while under influence of LSD, and once tried to hit every batter in the Cincinnati Reds lineup.
Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards	A British sportsman famous for coming last in the 1988 Winter Olympics ski-jump competition.
Eddie Gaedel	A 65-pound (29 kg) baseball player, 3 ft 7 in (1.09 m) tall. Career on‑base percentage: 1.000.
Dolly Gray impostor	Possibly the least known NFL football player in history.
Prince Hubertus of Hohenlohe-Langenburg	A blue blooded Alpine skier, from the frozen wastes of Mexico City.
Carlos Kaiser	A footballer who managed a decade-long career despite lacking pro-level ability and never playing a regulation game.
Jeffrey Maier	The twelve-year-old who helped the Yankees win the pennant.
Mendoza Line	Baseball's standard for underperformance.
Eric Moussambani	A swimmer from Equatorial Guinea who, in the Sydney Olympics, took twice as long as anyone else in the 100m freestyle.
Fuahea Semi	As though being a luger from Tonga wasn't unusual enough, he tricked the world's media and the International Luge Federation for more than two years into believing that he bore the same name as a German lingerie firm.
Sturla Snær Snorrason	An Icelandic alpine skier who (as of October 2018) has competed in 1 Olympic Games and 2 World Championships, but has yet to finish a single race.
Elizabeth Swaney	A Hungarian-American freestyle skier who competed at the halfpipe event at the 2018 Winter Olympics, despite being incapable of performing basic tricks.
Shizo Kanakuri	An Olympic marathon runner who took a 54-year detour.
Taro Tsujimoto	An imaginary ice hockey player drafted because a manager was reportedly 'fed up with the slow drafting process via the telephone'.

Sport teams and associations

Atlanta Black Crackers	A Negro League baseball team named like many others after a local white baseball team, but in this case the Atlanta Crackers were named after a racial nickname.
East Africa rugby union team	Did this rugby team really select a future dictator to play for them?
Jamaican bobsled team	The real life inspiration for the film Cool Runnings.
London Rippers	A Canadian minor league baseball team that modeled its logo and mascot after Jack the Ripper. Local feminists were not amused, but Rush Limbaugh came to the team's defense.
Mongolia national baseball team	They've only scored 3 runs at the Asian Games. Without ever finishing a game, because of the mercy rule.
Oorang Indians	An all-Native AmericanNational Football League team put together as a marketing gimmick to sell Airedale Terriers and known more for its halftime dog shows than for its football play.
Sark national football team	Also known as The Bad Lions, the only national team that failed to ever score a goal.
Steagles Card-Pitt	Sports teams get relocated all the time (especially in the NFL), but what if they had mergers? Wartime conscription forced the Pittsburgh Steelers to do exactly that.
Tropical nations at the Winter Olympics	More than just Jamaican bobsledders.
Windsor Swastikas	A Canadian ice hockey team with a well-known logo.
Vatican City national football team	The squad makes up more than 2 percent of the national population.

Games and strategy contests

Careful where you place that stone – your innards may not approve.

Sloane Square... Bond Street... Mornington Crescent!

The Game	A mind game in which players try not to think about The Game – which means that, by reading this, you just lost The Game.
Blood-vomiting game	'Go' is serious business.
Ghettopoly	An unauthorized version of Monopoly that played on black and other stereotypes. The NAACP was not amused.
Human chess	Enacted by costumed 'pieces' on a scaled-up chessboard.
Kancho	A Japanese children's game that simulates anal probing.
Mornington Crescent (game)	A deceptively tricky game of navigating the London Underground—don't be caught in Nidd!
Poole versus HAL 9000	'I'm sorry, Frank, I think you missed it...'
Taikyoku shogi	Japanese 'ultimate chess', with over 400 pieces per side.
The Turk	An 18th century chess computer, which turned out to be a hoax.
USA Rock Paper Scissors League	Organised finger sport.
*War on Terror, The Boardgame*	A boardgame satire of the real 'War on Terror' that has proved so popular, it has ended up in national museums, in a TV sitcom, as part of a military training simulation and as a teaching aid in higher education institutions.

Folklore

A trap for something with large paws.

Spring Heeled Jack.

Bird people	The widely recurring motif in legends and fiction of birds who are people, or people who are birds.
Behind the sofa	Where young British children hid from menacing scenes in sci-fi TV, now recalled humorously and nostalgically by British adults.
Bigfoot trap	Believed to be the world's only Bigfoot trap.
Cottingley Fairies	A successful photographic hoax in 1910s England.
Easter Bilby	How do you have an Easter Bunny in a country that has had a bad experience with rabbits? With an Easter Bilby of course!
Flying ointment	A hallucinogenic ointment said to be used by witches in the Early Modern period.
Global Orgasm	Make love, not war... all over the world!
Kaspar Hauser	A German youth who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell, and was once thought to be linked to the princely House of Baden.
Icelandic Elf School	Possibly the only school granting elf-spotting degrees. (Though certificates are also available from John Oliver.)
Josiah S. Carberry	An expert on cracked pots, and one of only three fictional people to have won the Ig Nobel Prize.
Liver-Eating Johnson	A 19th-century mountain man with a penchant for revenge and the consumption of livers.
Machine elf	An entity that people claim they become aware of after having taken tryptamine based psychedelic drugs such as DMT.
Man-eating tree	Hoaxes and unsubstantiated reports in Madagascar and elsewhere.
Monkey-man of New Delhi	Reports in 2001 of a strange monkey-like creature appearing in New Delhi at night and attacking people.
Phantom social workers	Mysterious claims of 'social workers' seeking to abduct infants and children.
Proverbs commonly attributed to be Chinese	...although they're probably not.
Reptilian humanoid	A recurring theme in fiction, especially science fiction, pseudoscientific theories and conspiracy theories.
Rods	Photographic anomalies which some think are undiscovered flying creatures or miniature UFOs.
Russian reversal	In Soviet Russia, Wikipedia edits YOU!
Spring Heeled Jack	A mysterious character said to have existed in England during the Victorian age.
Telling the bees	An alternative explanation for the declining bee population.
Titivillus	The patron demon of scribes, responsible for many errors.
Tsukumogami	According to Japanese folklore, if you keep your straw sandals (or any other household items) around for 100 years, they may become 'alive and aware' and develop eyes and sharp teeth.
Vagina dentata	The tooth, and nothing but the hole tooth.
Vampire pumpkins and watermelons	A folk legend from the Balkanpeninsula of south-eastern Europe based upon the idea that any inanimate object left outside during the night of a full moon will become a vampire.
Vril	A belief that aliens controlled Nazi Germany and helped Hitler and others to escape to the South Pole when the war was lost.
Well to Hell	A 9-mile (14 km) borehole drilled by Soviet scientists uncovers the sounds of millions of damned souls. Hot stuff.
Witch window	A superstitious practice in the State of Vermont to prevent witches from flying through open windows at night.

Mystery animals and animal folklore

Looks a load of Bonnacon to me...

Pieter Dirkx's imagining of the Mongolian death worm.

That's either one fast-growing plant, or...

Bonnacon	A mythical ox which flings burning dung at its enemies from its rear and horn.
Cattle mutilation	The alleged killing and subsequent mutilation of cattle, sheep or horses by unknown perpetrators. Some say they may be aliens.
Chupacabra	A legendary creature in the folklore of parts of the Americas, generally reported in Latin America, that preys on livestock.
Dog spinning	Do Bulgarians really twizzle their domestic canines to foretell prosperity? The British Green Party thinks so, and they're not happy about it.
Drop bear	A fictitious Australianmarsupial supposedly related to the koala.
Entombed animal	Tales of live toads and other creatures encased in stone.
Fearsome critters	North American lumberjack folklore, with Axhandle hounds and jackalopes.
Flying pig	The classic impossibility has been officially proved possible by the Internet Engineering Task Force: 'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.'
Gef the talking mongoose	A poltergeist-like creature which claimed to have been an 80-year-old Indianmongoose, alleged to have haunted a Manx cottage during the 1930s.
Humanzee	A hypothetical(?) human/chimpanzee hybrid.
Hodag	The animal of Rhinelander, Wisconsin and has been confronted by Scooby Doo
Jersey Devil	A mythological creature said to inhabit the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
Liver bird	A legendary cormorant or eagle that is the symbol of a major English city.
Lluvia de Peces	It's raining fish in Honduras.
Mongolian death worm	A large, bright red worm that kills using acid and electrical discharges – allegedly.
Montauk Monster	Actually a decaying raccoon... or is it?
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus	An endangered creature, whose major predator is the sasquatch. Apparently.
Phantom kangaroos	They're not just found in Australia.
Popobawa	A bat-winged monster from Zanzibar said to sodomize people during election campaigns.
Pig-faced women	A lesson never to compare a person's children to pigs when pregnant, lest you be cursed.
Rat king	Not the rodent monarch familiar from The Nutcracker, but a rare (some say nonexistent) phenomenon in which a group of rats grow up with their tails tangled in a knot.
Rhinogradentia	A fictitious mammal order documented by an equally fictitious German naturalist.
Sidehill gouger	Fictional creatures said to inhabit the Rocky Mountains of British Columbia and the southwestern sandhills of Saskatchewan.
Spherical cow	'Consider a spherical cow in a vacuum...'
Vegetable Lamb of Tartary	Money might not grow on trees, but maybe sheep do.

Society, economy and law

Eating chocolate cake in a bag.

Comrade! Your hair is not trimmed in accordance with the socialist lifestyle!

At the heart of an international incident.

Bagism	A social ideology created by the BeatleJohn Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono which involves wearing a bag over one's entire body to promote peace and equality.
Banned in Boston	Boston now has a reputation as a liberal city, but it wasn't always so ...
Beard Liberation Front	A British interest group which campaigns in support of beards and opposes discrimination against those who wear them.
Biotic Baking Brigade	Pie-throwing anarchists.
Burning money	Which can provide for behaviour modification, political notoriety and a warm fireplace. (See also K Foundation Burn a Million Quid in the 'Television and film' section above.)
Frank Chu	All he wants is royalties for being featured in a real life soap opera broadcast in 12 galaxies - or was it 785,249,000,000,000?
Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner	A controversial performance, directed, amongst others, toward an uncomfortable President nearby.
Fedspeak	A deliberately confusing, carefully rehearsed cryptic language, whose delphic dialect is used to effectively prevent the understanding of Fed policy.
Fourth International Posadist	Trotskyism and UFOs. Yes, really.
Guerrilla gardening	'Quick... torch on... plant those carrots!'
Go Topless Day	A day to advocate topfreedom for women
Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle	A television show produced by the communist government of North Korea intended to educate the public on good and bad hairstyles.
Đorđe Martinović	How the insertion of a beer bottle into the rectum of a Serbian farmer caused a major ethnic and political controversy in Serbia in 1985 and contributed to the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Montreal-Philippines cutlery controversy	A 7-year-old boy's eating habits became an international incident.
Emperor Norton	Emperor Norton I, the man who claimed to be 'Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico' in 1859.
Pink Pistols	They're here, they're queer – and they're armed to the teeth.
Pole and Hungarian cousins be	A two-nation proverb often cited, usually while drinking, in both Poland and Hungary.
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks	Amongst other insults and profanity, it supposedly told Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire to fuck his mother.
Sentinelese people	An autonomousstone-age human tribe which completely avoids contact with the outside world.
Socialist Patients' Collective	An organization that charged that diseases were caused by capitalism.

Politics and government

All hail the Conch Republic !

I am a jelly donut?

Who knew legislation could be so sweet?

Not a killer rabbit after all.

A senator uses an old debating trick.

A work by the 'Kowloon emperor'.

Munafri Arifuddin	Ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia, won more than 250,000 votes, and lost.
Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act	An apparently innocuous piece of congressional legislation that became the subject of outrageous but widely believed conspiracy theories in 1956.
Threatening the President of the United States	Illegal words?
Animals as electoral candidates	Why be ruled by some monkey when you can get a real chimp, rhino or pig into office?
Bald–hairy	Russian leadership has alternated between bald and hairy leaders since 1825.
Ruth Ellen Brosseau	An assistant bar manager who was elected to Canada's parliament from Quebec despite having never visited the district, barely speaking the language and spending part of the election campaign in Las Vegas. She proved to be a competent politician and was re-elected in 2015.
Brown Dog affair	Political scandal that resulted in police protection for the statue of a dog
Bushism	Any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors that have occurred in the public speaking of former United States PresidentGeorge W. Bush.
Candy Desk	A desk on the floor of the U.S. Senate has been filled with candy since 1968.
Mel Carnahan	In 2000, he was elected to the United States Senate, despite dying in a plane crash 3 weeks before election day.
Jimmy Carter rabbit incident	Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's scrape with a 'killer' rabbit.
Conch Republic	As a protest against the actions by the United States federal government, Key West in Floridaseceded from and then declared war on the United States, surrendered one minute later and then applied for $1 billion in foreign aid.
Democracy sausage	Part of Australia's tradition of holding a fundraising sausage sizzle at polling places on election day. Probably not connected to the observation about similarities between how laws and sausages are made.
Donald Duck Party	A non-existent political party, at occasions among the top ten parties in Swedish parliamentary elections.
Eddie Eagle	The National Rifle Association's controversial mascot who is supposed to teach kids gun safety. What, you didn't know the NRA had a mascot?
Euromyth	Paranoid and imaginative speculations about the bureaucratic excesses of the European Union.
Flatulence tax	When you keep a lot of cattle, you're contributing significantly to the greenhouse effect... aren't you?
Jennifer Gale	A homeless transgender woman who gained some measure of fame for repeatedly running for public office in Austin, Texas and for singing during city council meetings.
Gatton by-election, 1803	Two candidates, only one ballot cast, in this by-election in one of the UK's most notorious rotten boroughs of the early 19th century.
Jón Gnarr	An Icelandic comedian who started the satirical Best Party, and became the mayor of Reykjavik.
Greek Ecologists	A Green party which uses nudity in its political campaigns.
H'Angus	A monkey football mascot who was elected mayor of Hartlepool, England, with a platform of 'free bananas for all schoolchildren'.
Ich bin ein Berliner	President Kennedy did not call himself a jelly donut in front of a German audience.
Kasongo Ilunga	A man who spent most of 2007 as the Minister for Foreign Trade of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - even though he wasn't a real person.
Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary	If you ever find yourself an alien in the Klavern and someone asks 'AYAK?' remember to answer 'AKIA'. Its all 'CABARK'.
Pedro Lascuráin	President of Mexico for 45 minutes.
Legislative violence	Where politicians actively fight for what they believe in.
List of Kim Jong-il's titles	Because just being the 'Great Leader' wasn't enough.
Lord Bloody Wog Rolo	Australian political personality and founder of the British Ultra Loyalist League Serving Historical Interests Today.
Marxist-Leninist Party of the Netherlands	A fake Maoist political party set up by the BVD in order to spy on the Chinese government. Fooled Zhou Enlai, and may have helped facilitate Richard Nixon's tour of China.
McGillicuddy Serious Party	A satiricalpolitical party in New Zealand.
Merkel-Raute	More than one German leader has been known for a distinctive hand gesture
Jakob Maria Mierscheid	A fictitious politician in the German Bundestag since 1979, originally introduced in the 1920s by Weimar Social Democrats to avoid paying restaurant bills. Discovered the Mierscheid Law.
Antanas Mockus	The surprisingly effective mayor of Bogotá, Colombia known for civically-targeted publicity pranks.
Niuas Nobles' constituency	An electoral constituency consisting of just three voters, who elect one of their number to one of the twenty-six seats in the Legislative Assembly of Tonga.
New shoes on budget day	One of Canada's less grand political traditions.
Richard Nixon mask	One of the United States' most popular masks.
Nuisance candidate	In the Philippines political candidates can be disqualified for bringing the election into disrepute, having a name which confuses voters or not actually intending to run for office.
Official Monster Raving Loony Party	Among other policies, this British political party advocates the banning of semicolons as 'no-one knows how to use them'.
Old Sarum	A notorious rotten borough in Great Britain which, before 1832, was entitled to elect two members of Parliament even though it had only eleven voters and no residents.
Patrol 36	The most famous group of Neo-Nazi Israelis.
List of people who have lived at airports	Wish you were here?
Polish Beer-Lovers' Party	One of the major political powers in Poland in the early 1990s.
Resignation from the British House of Commons	Illegal since 1624.
Rhinoceros Party of Canada (1963–1993)	A former political party in Canada, which often promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public.
Günter Schabowski	A Freudian slip of this East German official started the demolition of the Berlin Wall.
Screaming Lord Sutch	British musician, founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. Holds the record for losing all 40 elections in which he stood.
Shanghai Fugu Agreement	A completely fictitious international treaty accepted by the German state of Hesse in 1985.
Statue of Lenin (Seattle)	How a statue of Lenin made its way from Czechoslovakia to Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.
Ilona Staller	A Hungarian porn star elected to the Italian Parliament.
Texas Legation	Don't worry, you're not the only one that doesn't pay their rent!
Tsang Tsou Choi	From the 1970s to his death, he claimed to be the 'Kowloon emperor'.
John C. Turmel	With a record of no wins and 86 losses in campaigns since 1979, he's probably the world's least-successful would-be politician.
Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan	A fictitious scientific study by J.G. Ballard supposedly circulated at the 1980 Republican Convention which, among other things, compared the face of Ronald Reagan to a penile erection.
Nicolás Zúñiga y Miranda	Mexican eccentric who participated in the presidential elections no less than ten times. He always lost but claimed to be the victor, and considered himself to be the country's president for several decades.
Deez Nuts	A satirical candidate who ran for president during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and polled 10% at his best. In the polls, he had defeated other notable candidates such as Harambe, Beast Mode, Darrell Castle (this one is real), and nearly Jill Stein.

Business and economics

Orion in the sky, EURion on your money.

...we're going to need a bigger wallet.

BackpackersXpress	It's hard to see what went wrong with this proposal to fly Boeing 747s full of singing, dancing and drinking backpackers between Australia and the UK.
Big Mac Index	Big Mac economics.
Billboard Utilising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions	Or 'BUGA-UP' for short. An Australian group of subversive artists who live up to their self-description by defacing tobacco and alcohol billboard advertisements to promote healthy living.
Boss key	A special button on an application used to quickly mask an employee's counterproductivity.
Dead cat bounce	In finance, a small, brief recovery in the price of a declining stock, because 'even a dead cat will bounce if it falls from a great height.'
EURion constellations	Not-so-secret recognition patterns you can find on banknotes.
Ghetto tourism	And if you look to your left you will see an impoverished minority neighborhood.
Men's Underwear Index	An economic indicator popularised by Alan Greenspan.
Merchant marine of Switzerland	A landlocked country with a significant commercial fleet.
Rai stones	Stone money, some of which is 3 meters (10 ft) in diameter, and weighs 4 metric tons (8,800 lb).
Swastika Laundry	A laundry service whose electric vans cheerfully displayed the notorious symbol around Dublin until the 1960s.
Tanganyika groundnut scheme	A scheme, stymied by a lack of water, to grow peanuts where none had been grown before.
Ting Hai effect	A sudden drop in the stock market that follows whenever Hong Kong actor Adam Cheng stars in a new TV show.
Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!	An ad campaign that figured the best way to sell cigarettes is to show all the consumers with black eyes.
Veblen good	Goods whose demand increases as price increases, violating the law of demand.

Law, law enforcement and crime

An acoustic kitty. Well, almost.

Not my first thought when you said 'armored personnel carrier'.

A fruit or a vegetable?
A vegetable or a fruit?
A vegetable.

2007 Boston bomb scare	A guerilla marketing campaign for an animated TV series that quickly became a homeland security issue.
Sada Abe	Sensational journalism—from the Land of the Rising Sun.
Acoustic Kitty	A failed CIA experiment at using a cat for covert surveillance.
Animal trial	Historically, the law in some areas of Europe subjected animals to criminal liability for their conduct.
Baby Jesus theft	When a child is gone...
Batman v. Commissioner	Batman said his teenage son was his partner. The Commissioner wasn't having any of it.
Beard tax	Used to be imposed in England and Russia.
Bowling Green massacre	A nonexistent massacre mentioned by the Trump administration, subject to parody.
Cicada 3301	Criminals or puzzle enthusiasts?
Michael Cicconetti	A judge renowned for his strange alternative punishments.
Dead Man's Statute	Prevent a witness from testifying about communications with a dead person.
Free Bench	An unusual English legal custom permitting a widow to inherit her deceased husband's land. In one version, she would have to ride into court backwards on a black ram while reciting a nonsense verse.
FTC v. Balls of Kryptonite	In some ways the U.S. government is more powerful than Superman.
Glasgow Ice Cream Wars	In 1984, violent conflicts between ice-cream vendors left six people dead.
Guano Islands Act	This strange piece of legislation enables citizens of the U.S. to take possession of islands containing guano deposits.
Hermesmann v. Seyer	A Kansas Supreme Court case that decided that a 12-year-old boy who was molested by his 16-year-old babysitter had to pay for her child support.
Jarvis v Swans Tours Ltd	A legal complaint about the lack of gemütlichkeit during a Swiss Christmas holiday.
A moron in a hurry	A real legal doctrine used in passing-off law.
Not proven	A controversial Scots law verdict for those neither guilty nor innocent.
Lawsuits against the Devil	Who would you think had the best lawyers?
Lawsuits against God	A notoriously apathetic defendant, he/she/it has never turned up for one of his/her/its hearings.
Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc.	Would you expect to be able to swap 7 million points (worth $700,000) for a Harrier jump jet (worth $22 million)? This man did and took Pepsi to court when they failed to supply him one. Unsurprisingly – to everyone except him – he lost the case.
Lesbian rule	Not the replacement for the Patriarchy, but an archaic term meaning legal flexibility (and originally a building tool from Lesbos).
The Matrix defense	A claim that the defendant committed a crime under the belief of being inside a simulated reality. The defense has been successful more than once.
Memoirs v. Massachusetts	A U.S. Supreme Court case concerning whether the 1749 book Fanny Hill was entitled to First Amendment protection. One of the dissenting opinions contained an extensive discussion of the supposedly pornographic content.
McMartin preschool trial	The most expensive trial in U.S. history, a sexual abuse trial in which hundreds of children made bizarre allegations of flying and killing giraffes, orgies at car washes, flying in hot-air balloons, and being flushed down toilets into secret underground rooms where they were abused. They also claimed Chuck Norris was a Satanic Cult leader.
Miles v. City Council of Augusta, Georgia	Can a city require a business license for a talking cat, and does the cat have free-speech rights?
Mormon sex in chains case	The religious rape case that became a movie and involved the cloning of a dog.
Nix v. Hedden	The U.S. Supreme Court decides that the tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
Old Deluder Satan Law	How 17th-century Massachusetts sought to rid itself of the Prince of Darkness.
Perry Mason moment	'Mr. Menendez, did you know Big 5 stopped selling handguns in 1986?'
Phantom of Heilbronn	A DNA-traced serial killer, also known as the 'Woman without a face', who turned out to be nonexistent.
Prohibition of death	There are really some places where death is illegal. (Although it is unknown what happens to anyone who breaks this law.)
Shaggy defense	Caught committing a crime, but don't know what to do? Say it wasn't you.
Small penis rule	A technique used by authors to avoid libel lawsuits.
Stambovsky v. Ackley	Also known as the 'Ghostbusters case', the court ruled that a house in Nyack, New York was legally haunted by ghosts.
Taxation of illegal income in the United States	Don't worry: you can deduct your illegal activity expenses.
Keron Thomas	In 1993, aged sixteen, he posed as a motorman on the New York City Subway and managed to operate a scheduled passenger train for over three hours.
Twinkie defense	When you don't want to go to jail.
Toy Biz v. United States	Are the X-Men humans under U.S. law?
Trial of the Pyx	Whence the British Pound lands in court every year.
Angie Sanclemente Valencia	A former lingerie model alleged to have run one of the largest drug cartels in the world.
Whipping Tom	On seeing an unaccompanied woman, he would grab her, lift her dress, and slap her buttocks repeatedly before fleeing. He would sometimes accompany his attacks by shouting 'Spanko!'.
United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff	Who has jurisdiction over Satan?
United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins	The fins won a case that turned on whether buying something from someone counts as 'aiding or assisting' them.

Punishments

'Had a little too much to drink, have we, sir?'

Drunkard's cloak	Attire for the village drunk.
Hanged, drawn and quartered	Dark Ages punishment for high treason.
Rough music	A form of vigilantism, more loud than violent.
Scold's bridle	A muzzle for the nagging wife.
Whipping boy	A boy who received corporal punishment for misdemeanors of a prince; as well as some of his privileges.

See also

Religion and spirituality

The rear of a bona fide Catalan decoration.

A John Frumcargo cult ceremonial flag raising.

Can be a hare-y matter in Wicca.

Sometimes Jerusalem can be too much.

A representation of Kolob (reference numeral 1).

I'm sure she knows more than she's letting on.

'Thou shalt commit adultery.' So says the Bible.

Stephen Fielding

An artist's impression of one of Xenu's space planes.

The All-Joking, All-Drunken Synod of Fools and Jesters	Started by Peter the Great, and consisted mostly of drinking and partying.
As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.	An oldie but a goodie from the Bible.
Asher yatzar	A Jewish blessing, read to praise the ability to excrete urine or faeces.
Axinomancy	Foretelling the future by looking at an axe or hatchet.
Banquet of Chestnuts	Enough to make even the most committed and diehard Roman Catholic agree that the church was in a pretty poor state at the time of the Reformation.
Ben Hana	A homeless man in Wellington, New Zealand who worshiped the Māorisun-godRa (not to be confused with the ancient Egyptian sun-god Ra).
Bible errata	A typesetter's complaint finds justification in Psalm 119.
Braco (faith healer)	Meet the Gazer and be healed with a single glance.
Cadaver Synod	In 897, Pope Stephen VI had the body of his predecessor Pope Formosus exhumed, dressed in papal vestments and then seated on a throne while he read charges against it and conducted a trial.
Caganer	A traditional Catalan statue, similar to a garden gnome, that depicts a person defecating. Often included in Catalan nativity scenes or other Christmas decorations.
Cargo cult	Tribal rites and rituals developed in the belief they will attract the goods, wealth and materials – the 'cargo' – of a more technologically advanced and affluent culture.
Christmas in Nazi Germany	The Nazi Party reinvented Christmas by removing a certain baby boy raised in the Jewish faith.
Criticism of Mother Teresa	Seriously? Yep, seriously. Her detractors include Christopher Hitchens, Tariq Ali and devout Hindus.
Disconnection	The result of a poor signal with Scientology.
Harold Davidson	A 1930s Church of England clergyman, known as 'The Prostitutes' Padre', who was defrocked and later died after being mauled by a toothless lion.
Descent from Adam and Eve	Some living people actually claim to have traced their genealogy all the way back to Adam and Eve.
Flirty Fishing	Sharing the Gospel through prostitution.
Fluffy bunny	A controversial epithet in Wicca.
Flying Spaghetti Monster	The basis of a satirical religion created to make fun of Intelligent Design.
Gambling on papal elections	How much you wanna bet he's going to be Catholic?
Gang Bing	After his act of self-castration, he became the patron saint of eunuchs.
The Great Disappointment	Hundreds of people were convinced the world would end on a very specific date. Turns out they were wrong. Ahem.
Hell house	A type of Christian horror house to make children more pious.
Holy Prepuce	One of several relics purported to be associated with Jesus. Also known as The Holy Foreskin. (See also Circumcision of Jesus.)
Homosexuality and voodoo	Surely a troll, you say? No! A perfectly legitimate article!
Incident (Scientology)	Bubble Gum Incident, Obscene Dog Incident, Bodies in pawn, blah, blah...
Invisible Pink Unicorn	Best buds with the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Immovable Ladder	A ladder in Jerusalem that can't be moved unless the Catholic and Orthodox churches come together. (Though it has been moved twice.)
Islamic toilet etiquette	The large number of rules to be followed by Muslims when relieving themselves.
Islamic views on anal sex	There are fatwas for everything. Even Grand AyatollahSistani weighed in on the issue.
Jedi census phenomenon	A phenomenon in which 390,000 British citizens listed their religion as 'Jedi Knight' on a 2001 census form, which would've made it the fourth-largest religion in England and Wales.
Jerusalem Syndrome	For some people, a visit there is just too much.
Jesus H. Christ	Does it stand for Henry?
Jewish pope Andreas	A Jewish pope..?
Johnson cult	Was US President Lyndon B. Johnson worshiped as a god in Papua New Guinea?
Kachchhera	Sikh underwear.
Kolob	Which star does God live on?
List of UFO religions	Our Father, which art in spaceship...
List of people claimed to be Jesus	Christ has risen...again...and again.
Love Jihad	Where Muslim boys try to romance non-Muslim girls for conversion to Islam.
Matshishkapeu	The 'fart man' of Innu mythology. Don't cross him or he'll make you constipated.
The Miracle of the Sun	70,000 people in Portugal gather to witness a miracle and are treated to an inexplicable solar event.
Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible	The Bible refers to lost books – even pagan ones – much more than you'd think.
Open source religion	And we're not talking about the Church of Emacs either.
Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption	A legally recognized religion created by comedian John Oliver for the sole purpose of exempting his show from taxes by way of the Religious Tax Exemption
Pope Joan	Medieval documents cite the existence of a female pope – proof of a Vatican cover up or a blasphemous slur?
Pope Michael	Elected Pope in 1990 by a group of Conclavist or post-Sedevacantist Catholics to fill the vacancy they consider to have been caused by the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.
Prince Philip Movement	A religious movement on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu which holds that Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a divine being.
Pseudoskepticism	The philosophical or scientific argument that tries to appear skeptical, but really is trying to prove a position, as in 'I don’t see enough evidence that we landed on the moon'.
Pornocracy	The period of the papacy in the early 10th century, beginning with Pope Sergius III from 904 and ending with the death of Pope John XII in 963. During this period, the popes were under the influence of corrupt women (though not necessarily prostitutes), especially Theodora and her daughter, Marozia. This period is also called the 'Rule of the Harlots'.
Religion in Antarctica	There's no continent on Earth without organized belief.
Reincarnation Application	Must be filed by all living Buddha within the People's Republic of China before they are allowed to reincarnate.
Religious pareidolia	A tendency to see religious imagery in the textures of corn chips, cinnamon rolls, toast, clouds, etc.
Rumspringa	Amish Gone Wild.
St. Priapus Church	A religion based on the worship of the phallus.
Space opera in Scientology scripture	L. Ron Hubbard's history of the universe, including alien Invader Forces, 'little orange-colored bombs that would talk' and brainwashing episodes in 'a railway carriage quite like a British railway coach with compartments'.
Taghairm	A couple of uncomfortable methods of fortune telling.
Tiberius Iulius Abdes Pantera	Was Jesus' father buried in Germany?
Turtles all the way down	A myth about the nature of the universe, or perhaps a myth about a myth about the nature of the universe.
Unfulfilled Christian religious predictions	Doomsdays that didn't.
United Nation of Islam	Royall, Allah in Person claims to have spent the 1980s in a spaceship with angels who informed him that he was God and instructed him on how to govern the world. Public records say he was a truck driver.
Universe people	Specific cult in Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The Urantia Book	Over two thousand pages of anonymous, religious, subconscious ramblings on religion and 'God' (whatever that means in the billion planets out there).
Wicked Bible	A 1631 reprint of the King James Bible, which contained an infamous printing mistake.
Xenu	An ancient interstellar dictator who unleashed a genocide which created Christianity and psychiatry and whose story is 'calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it'.
Zipporah at the inn	God apparently tries (and fails) to kill Moses.

See also

Phobias

Ablutophobia	Fear of showering or any other form of bathing
Chemophobia	Fear of chemicals and chemistry
Cherophobia	Fear of happiness. Who knew not liking happiness is possible?
Chromophobia	Fear of colors
Chronophobia	Fear of time
Coprophobia	Fear of feces or even defecation, and liking [constipation]
Cyberphobia	Fear of computers and internet
Decidophobia	Fear of making decisions
Dentophobia	Fear of dentists
Emetophobia	Fear of puking
Globophobia	Fear of balloons or balloons popping
Mageirocophobia	Fear of cooking
Numerophobia	Fear of numbers
Osmophobia	Fear of odors and smells
Phallophobia	Fear of the erect penis
Philophobia	Fear of love
Phobophobia	Fear of having a phobia. How ironic.
Thalassophobia	Fear of the sea or sea travel
Telephobia	Fear of making or answering telephone calls

Military

An entire war in one diagram (and less than one hour).

For Gallantry – if you're an animal...

...such as Sergeant Stubby here, World War I's most decorated war dog.

Should the United States ever want to go to war against the British Empire...

3rd Dental Battalion	Even Marines have to keep their teeth clean.
Adrian Carton de Wiart	Fought in two World Wars, shot repeatedly, survived a plane crash, escaped a POW camp, married a countess, and amputated his own fingers when his doctor refused. Also looked like a pirate.
Boot Monument	In celebration of Benedict Arnold's foot.
Jack Churchill	A British soldier who fought through World War II armed with a bow and arrows and a claymore.
Deborah's Hole Camp	An Iron Age hillfort situated atop the cliff above Deborah's Hole cave.
D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm	Crossword puzzles: A major danger to national security.
Devil Eyes	A psychological warfare program designed by the CIA to distribute Osama bin Ladenaction figures throughout South Asia. The faces, when heated, were designed to peel off and reveal a demonic face underneath. They were made by Hasbro, the same company behind the G. I. Joe toys.
Dickin Medal	Only awarded to animals.
Dreadnought hoax	A practical joke at the expense of the Royal Navy, inspiring the influential Bloomsbury Group.
Line-crossing ceremony	An initiation rite performed when a ship crosses the equator.
List of wartime crossdressers	Because war demands proper fashion.
Miss Russian Army	A beauty contest minus the swimsuit competition but plus the automatic weapons drills.
Montauk Project	Real military science experiment or urban legend? Maybe the civilians who were in full view of the military base will be able to tell you.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front	A rebel, some might say terrorist, group in the Southern Philippines who may or may not be aware that their initials are also an acronym for mom I'd like to...
Navies of landlocked countries	Mongolia once had once of the world's largest navies. Today they have one vessel with a crew of seven sailors, one of them able to swim.
Nebraska Admiral	The landlockedU.S. state of Nebraska and its 'Great Navy'.
NORAD Tracks Santa	A tradition with the American and Canadian military to track Santa Claus for children.
Hiroo Onoda	A Japanese soldier who hid out in the Philippines during World War II, refusing to surrender until 1974.
Philadelphia Experiment	An alleged experiment in 1943 involving electromagnetic technology to render vessels invisible.
Portuguese Fireplace	A fireplace in the middle of the New Forest.
Sergeant Stubby	The only dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat.
Siachen Glacier	The world's highest battlefield, with very predictable terrain.
Simo Häyhä	Showed some extraordinary finnish sisu in the Winter War against the Soviet.
Stanislav Petrov	Potentially averted a nuclear war.
The terrorists have won	Or have they?
Truelove Eyre	A man who supposedly saved William the Conqueror's life during the Battle of Hastings.
Vasiliy Arkhipov	Another guy who potentially averted nuclear war.
Wojtek	Arguably the most extraordinary soldier of all time.

Wars, operations and battles

Anglo-Zanzibar War	The world's shortest war. The Sultan of Zanzibar capitulated after forty-five minutes.
Battle for Castle Itter	American and German soldiers team up against the Nazis in a battle for a medieval castle.
Bahia Incident	Did you know that the American Civil War also took place in Brazil?.
Battle of Domažlice	A Hussite army routs the twice as numerous crusading Holy Roman army with the power of singing.
Battle of Karánsebes	How the Austrians fought against themselves over liquor and resulted in 1,200 own casualties.
Battle of Kiska	In 1943, 7,800 American and Canadian troops invade the island of Kiska which had been occupied by Japan since 1942. Allied forces suffer 122 dead, 300 injured and lose one destroyer due to mines, difficult terrain and friendly fire before realising that the Japanese had secretly abandoned the island two weeks prior.
Battle of Tanga	A World War I battle where 8,000 British troops were defeated by a German-led force of 1,100 Askaris – aided by swarms of angry bees.
Emu War	A military operation undertaken in Western Australia against hordes of emus, or, how large flightless bird triumphs over modernized army.
Football war	A six-day war fought between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 that was triggered by a game of football (soccer).
If Day	A simulated Nazi invasion of the Canadian city of Winnipeg, complete with book-burning, arrests of politicians, and newspaper censorship.
Gombe Chimpanzee War	A four-year war, fought between two groups of chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Operation 'Mincemeat'	A misinformation plan to hide the invasion of Sicily using the corpse of a homeless man.
Operation 'Pig Bristle'	A daring air force operation to transport 25 tonnes of pig bristles from Chongqing in China to Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War. The bristles were shipped to Australia to be made into paint brushes.
Operation 'Tamarisk'	Claimed to be the most successful intelligence operation in the Cold War; emptying supplies of Soviet Union toilet paper, forcing them to use documents, and retrieving these documents after use.
Pastry War	Looting a pastry shop? This means war!
Pig War (1859)	A war between the United States and the British Empire that almost erupted over one dead pig.
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War	A 'war' that lasted 335 years without a single shot being fired, between the Netherlands and the tiny Isles of Scilly.
Toledo War	A war between the State of Ohio and the Michigan Territory that resulted in one injury and over a century of bitterness.
Toyota War	A war between last phase of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, Named after the Toyota trucks that were used in the battle.
War of the Bucket	Started when Modenese soldiers stole a bucket from a city well in Bologna.
War of Jenkins' Ear	A nine-year war, started when Captain Robert Jenkins complained that the Spanish Coastguard had cut off his ear.
War of the Stray Dog	Greek soldier chases his pooch across the Bulgaria border. Warfare nearly ensues.
War of the Insane	Hmong revolt against taxing by the Frenchcolonial administration in Indochina lasting from 1918 to 1921.
War Plan Red	U.S. war plans from the 1930s to invade Canada in the unlikely event of war with the United Kingdom. Also see the counterpart war plan Defence Scheme No. 1 (the Canadian war plan to invade the United States).

Weapons and military equipment

The Antonov A-40 flying tank.

The Bazooka Vespa – the ultimate in Mod warfare.

No pilot required?

Anti-tank dog	Failed Soviet weapon of the Second World War.
Antonov A-40	The 'flying tank', an experimental Soviet tank with wings and tailboom, meant to glide into the battlefield, ready for combat. Trials were unsuccessful.
Bat bomb	A World War II plan to bomb Japan with bats carrying tiny incendiary bombs.
Baynes Bat	An experimental British glider, designed to convert tanks into gliders which could fly into battle.
Bazooka Vespa	Placing France at the cutting edge of weapons system design.
Bicycle infantry	Soldiers have occasionally been trained to use the bicycle for military purposes.
Chicken-powered nuclear bomb	In a cunningly misnamed project, domestic chickens were set to wage nuclear warfare.
Cornfield Bomber	An F-106 jet fighter made a perfect gear-up landing in a farmer's field – after the pilot had ejected at 15,000 feet (4,600 m).
Dazzle camouflage	A colorful way to hide in plain sight.
Double-barreled cannon	A failed civil war era attempt to create a weapon of mass destruction. Now a monument in Athens, GA.
Explosive rat	A World War II weapon designed to cause boiler explosions. Never used, yet still a success.
Gay bomb	A speculative non-lethal chemical weapon that could be dropped on enemy troops to cause 'homosexual behaviour'. Not to be confused with the fag bomb.
Grand Panjandrum	Britain's World War II Catherine wheel of death.
Human torpedo	Secret naval weapons of World War II.
Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards	A set of playing cards created by U.S. Army soldiers featuring the most-wanted Iraqis, with Saddam Hussein as the Ace of spades.
Project Habakkuk	A British plan to construct an aircraft carrier out of ice (pykrete).
Project Pigeon	Bombs guided by pigeon pecks.
Puckle gun	A gun with square bullets to be used against non-Christian enemies.
Sticky bomb	The most unpopular weapon the British soldier has ever been asked to use.
Tachanka	Twentieth century chariot used in combat.
Tsar Tank	An Imperial Russian tank designed as a tricycle with nine-metre wheels.
U.S. Navy Marine Mammal Program	A U.S. Navy program which studies the military use of Bottlenose Dolphins and California Sea Lions.
Who me?	A top secretstench weapon designed to be unobtrusively sprayed on German officers by French Resistance members.
Zanbatō	An enormous Japanese sword that does not exist.

See also

Death

Execution by elephant.

All aboard the Necropolis line – at least, those that can.

Don't panic – you're in a safety coffin.

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Vultures enjoying a sky burial.

One moment he was here, the next...

Coffin birth	When a pregnant woman dies, the decomposition of her body can result in a gas build-up that causes the fetus inside her to be expelled.
Collyer brothers	When packratting was taken to a tragic extreme.
Death by coconut	You can die if a coconut falls on your coconut.
Death by GPS	Turn-by-turn directions to the afterlife.
Death during consensual sex	Arguably, the best way to go.
Death from laughter	Don't laugh – it's happened.
Death erection	It is possible to die happy, even if you've lived a less-than-stellar life.
Death by misadventure	Death probably due after one saying 'Hold my beer, and watch this!'
Defenestration	The time-honoured tradition of throwing people out of windows.
Dyatlov Pass Incident	A group of Russian hikers attempt to escape an unknown horror on 'Death Mountain.'
Euthanasia Coaster	A roller coaster intended to kill its passengers.
Execution by elephant	An unusual form of capital punishment used throughout history. (See also History of elephants in Europe.)
Fan death	A persistent urban legend in South Korea, where the media – and even medical professionals – regularly report on people dying because they left a fan running in a closed room.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead	An early catch phrase used on Saturday Night Live, based upon the dictator's lengthy death.
Ghost bike	Bicycle rider in memoriam.
The Hands of Che Guevara	Documentary about the search for the severed hands of the Latin American guerrilla fighter, Ernesto Che Guevara, who was captured and executed by Bolivian Special Forces in October 1967.
Hell bank note	Apparently, the Chinese afterlife is subject to hyperinflation.
Jack the Stripper	The other unidentified serial killer named Jack.
Joyce Vincent	A woman who sat dead in her home with the TV and heater running for three years until her corpse was found.
Kick the bucket	A heated argument lies behind the origin of this idiom.
Lal Bihari	An Indian, who, among other things, ran for elected office despite the notable handicap of being officially dead.
List of expressions related to death	'Go home in a box', 'go bung', 'hop the stick', ...
List of people who died on the toilet	You could say they died on the throne
List of entertainers who died during a performance	'And for my last act...I shall die and not come back to life'
List of postal killings	'Don't let Walter Hobbs deceive you, this life is not all shiny bins and fun', ...
London Necropolis railway station	Single tickets only, unless you're a mourner or other visitor.
Lord Uxbridge's leg	The grisly afterlife of a leg lost during the Battle of Waterloo, formerly owned by Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey.
Maschalismos	The act of mutilating the dead to prevent them from rising again.
Michael Malloy	A man who could not get killed by drinks.
Micromort	A quantitative death risk equivalent to one in a million.
Oliver Cromwell's head	This English political leader's head has an interesting journey after its owner is posthumously executed, more so than the one he cut off himself.
Poe Toaster	Not a kitchen appliance, but a mysterious figure who paid an annual tribute to American author Edgar Allan Poe.
Post-mortem photography	Back in the early days of photography it was common to take pictures of recently deceased loved ones, propped up to look as if they were alive.
Republican marriage	A form of execution in which a naked man and woman are tied together and drowned. (What did you think it was?)
Rookwood Cemetery railway line, Sydney	A former railway line that served a cemetery near Sydney.
Richard Chase	The only way to stop the Nazi-controlled UFOs from poisoning your macaroni and cheese is to inject yourself with animal blood and eat human brains.
Safety coffin	Coffins manufactured just in case their tenant is not actually dead before being buried.
Salish Sea human foot discoveries	Dismembered feet keep washing up.
Sky burial	It's not really a form of burial. Also known as jhator which means 'giving alms to the birds.'
Sogen Kato	Regarded as the oldest man in Tokyo, he turns out to have died at age 79.
Sokushinbutsu	A practice of self-mummification among Buddhist monks.
Space burial	Around 150 people have had their remains interred in space. Or would that be ex-terred?
Spontaneous human combustion	The sudden burning of a person's body without any apparent source of ignition.
Suicide booth	A common feature in the world of tomorrow.
Taman Shud Case	A dead man is found on an Australian beach with no identification and a bizarre fragment of a book in his pocket. To this day, his identity and cause of death are still unknown.
Toilet-related injury	As if constipation wasn't enough.
Uttar Pradesh Association of Dead People	A group of Indians suffering more from theft than cardiac failure.
Valentich disappearance	An Australian pilot disappeared in the ocean, having seen a strange object above his aircraft. No trace of either his body or the aircraft have been found.
Video-Enhanced Grave Marker	Graves with video screens and speakers on them.
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement	'May we live long and die out!'
Xin Zhui	A remarkably preserved Chinese mummy from 163 B.C. with all features and soft tissue still intact.

See also

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Questions

'Get thee onto that pin!'

Wikipedia is not afraid to tackle the tough questions:

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?	A proverbial question of theology.
If a tree falls in a forest	Philosophy meets the logging industry.
*Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ?*	Lady Marmalade wasn't the only one asking this.
Where's the beef?	In 1984, people thought this was really funny for some reason.
Why did the chicken cross the road?	People have asked this for over 150 years.

Lists

List of common misconceptions	A gold mine of strangeness.
List of lists of lists	The no. 1 meta-list.

Unusual featured pictures

Wikipedia:Featured Pictures contains some unusual images.

Train wreck at Montparnasse
The Agassiz statue, Stanford University, California. April 1906
Grenville Diptych
Medieval trepanation
Isometric projection flaw
Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge
Defecating seagull
Aerial turning house
Tank treads on an airplane
Maintenance of Mount Rushmore
One million colors
Keep your hands to yourself!
Like a fly on...
An elaborate flat Earth map drawn in 1893
Carrots of many colors
Professional regurgitatorHadji Ali at work

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Commons:Unusual media.

Regan, Jim (February 11, 2005). 'Remarkable Wikipedia has 'unusual' corners'. CSMonitor.com. Halifax, Nova Scotia: USA Today. Archived from the original on February 11, 2005. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
Miller, Andrew (January 25, 2011). 'The Least Essential Wikipedia Pages'. Something Awful. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
Frater, Jamie (March 21, 2011). '10 Interesting And Unusual Wikipedia Articles'. Jamie Frater. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
Lih, Andrew (May–June 2006). 'Wikipedia Unusual Articles'. andrewlih.com. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
'Interesting and unusual Wikipedia articles'. The Straight Dope. June 2009. Archived from the original on 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
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