Bizarre

18 March 2022

Great-gran reaches 103 thanks to walnuts and gin and tonic

A 103-year-old woman says that a daily handful of walnuts with gin and tonic is the key to her long life. Science also suggests that Monks has a diet as walnuts ...

18 March 2022

Beavers return to London for first time in 400 years

Beavers have been brought back to London for the first time in more than 400 years. A male and female beaver have been released into enclosed grounds in Fort Hall Farm ...

17 March 2022

Denmark plans to ban the sale of cigarettes to people born after 2010

Denmark is planning to ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after 2010. Health minister Magnus Heunicke says that the policy change will prevent the next generation from smoking any ...

17 March 2022

Humans began communicating with each other through hand gestures

Humans began communicating with each other through hand gestures, a new study has concluded. Researchers from the University of Western Australia asked volunteers to attempt to describe words using gestures or ...

17 March 2022

Man who eats raw meat says brains are his favourite meal

A man who follows a raw meat diet says that brains are his favourite food. Weam Brieche turned to the extreme diet after plant-based food left him with health issues and ...

17 March 2022

Alien expert claims UFO is actually Atlantis

An alien expert has claimed that a UFO he found on Google Earth could be the lost city of Atlantis. Scott C Waring says he has found a perfectly round circle ...

16 March 2022

Barack Obama records contain thousands of alien files

Records from Barack Obama's tenure as US President contain thousands of pages relating to aliens. The Barack Obama Presidential Library in Chicago has revealed that it stocks "3,440 pages and 26,271 ...
16 March 2022

'World's largest potato' denied in record bid

The 'world's largest potato' has been ruled as a gourd following a DNA test. Colin and Donna Craig-Brown discovered the oversized fruit in their garden at home in New Zealand last ...

16 March 2022

Dead body found in bin turns out to be a sex doll

A 'dead body” dumped in a rubbish bin turned out to be a sex doll. Police were called out to a property in Big Wave Bay, Hong Kong after the 'corpse' ...

16 March 2022

Seagulls remember where they last ate fish and chips

Seagulls can remember where they ate their favourite fish and chips. The birds are capable of memorising where they have pinched food from humans and will return to a particular spot ...

16 March 2022

The Mandela Effect: Here’s why you’re remembering Berenstein Bears and Shazaam wrong

This week we’re examining the strange phenomena that is the Mandela Effect; that feeling where you and potentially thousands of others know you remember something a certain way, but you ...
15 March 2022

People who use emojis at work are less powerful

People who use emojis in work emails are seen as less powerful. Experts at Tel Aviv University in Israel have revealed that people who use emojis and pictures in emails are ...

15 March 2022

Millions of Brits snack while having sex

Millions of Brits have confessed to snacking while having sex. A new study has found that seven per cent of adults in the UK have nibbled food when making love - ...

15 March 2022

NASA is preparing for an asteroid to hit Earth

NASA has spent a month preparing for an asteroid impact. The space agency revealed that it had devoted time to the catastrophic event during the Planetary Interagency Tabletop Exercise - a ...

15 March 2022

Sex chemicals could lure 'murder hornets'

Sex chemicals could be used to stop 'murder hornets' causing chaos across Europe and North America. The smells sent out by a hornet queen can be used to lure in the ...

15 March 2022

Animal officer called out to capture ceramic parrot

An animal control officer in New Jersey was called out to deal with a fake parrot. Officer Jim Ferry was called out by his uncle Tim Lynch after he spotted what ...

15 March 2022

Dancing boosts mental health for men

Dancing is good for men's mental health. Experts in Finland have studied men who enjoy strutting their stuff on the dancefloor and have found that it has a number of positive ...

15 March 2022

Classical music improves the taste of wine

Classical music makes wine taste better. A recent study has found that listening to symphonies from Mozart and Beethoven enhances the perception of taste when enjoying a glass of red or ...

15 March 2022

Fishermen reel in 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth tooth

Fishermen in New England reeled in a woolly mammoth tooth on their dredge for scallops. The crew - known as the New England Fishmongers - reported that they found the 12,000-year-old ...

11 March 2022

102-year-old woman credits drinking Jagerbombs for long life

A woman celebrating her 102nd birthday credits her long life to drinking Jagerbombs. Lily Bullen reached the remarkable age last weekend and says her party lifestyle - where she also downs ...

11 March 2022

NASA probing space sex study

NASA is considering studying sex in space. The space agency made the announcement in response to a team of five Canadian academics who are calling for organisations to embrace 'space sexology'. The ...

11 March 2022

Man caught smuggling 52 reptiles in his clothing at the US border

A man was caught at the US border with 52 lizards and snakes hidden in his clothing. The unnamed man was driving a truck when he was pulled out for additional ...

11 March 2022

New computer tool spots heart disease in 20 seconds

A new computer tool can spot heart disease in 20 seconds. The device uses artificial intelligence to read complex MRI scans and can do so both 40 times faster and more ...

10 March 2022

Ants can sniff out cancer in humans

Ants have the ability to sniff out cancer in humans. Experts from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) have found that the ant species Formica fusca has a well-developed ...