Random Strange Facts

    142 facts tagged with Strange Facts

    Japanese Closet Squatter
    Japanese Closet Squatter
    In 2008, a Japanese man noticed his food going missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his closet for a year.
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    A Korean man called Lee Jin-gyu fell in love with his large, huggable pillow and married it.
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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    Lobsters have blue blood.
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    The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
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    In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell
    Capt. Robert Campbell, a British officer captured during World War I, was granted leave to visit his dying mother on one condition - that he return to captivity. He kept his word and returned, only to try escaping as soon as he returned.
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    In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
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