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The Pana-Wave Laboratory is a Japanese religious group. Estimates of membership range from several hundred to 1,200.
They first attracted attention in March 2003, when they attempted (and failed) to capture Tama-chan, an Arctic seal which had become a national celebrity in Japan since showing up in Tama River in Tokyo the previous year. The group believed that the seal had been led astray by electromagnetic waves, and claimed that doomsday would somehow be averted if the seal was returned to Arctic waters.
On March 3, 1876 in a 100 by 50 yard area near Olympia Springs, Bath County, Kentucky, large chunks of red meat fell from the sky for a period of a couple of minutes.
Apparently the meat appeared to be beef, but two locals who tasted it stated that it tasted like mutton or venison.
Based on a 1998 study, media reports stated that a shortage of stones led female Adélie Penguins to trade sex for stones. Penguins use stones for building their nests. The female penguins, even when in a committed relationship, will exchange sexual favors with strange males for the pebbles they need to build their nests.
Prostitution is also observed among chimpanzees, who trade food for sex.
Dry Bridge is a bridge in Zrenjanin, Serbia. It is a unique bridge which does not have any water surface under it.
Some residents claim that Dry Bridge has become an ironic symbol of Zrenjanin, and should not be demolished, on the basis that it is the only bridge in the world that does not span any kind of physical obstacle; this is untrue, however, as Trinity Bridge is another example.
During the 1930s and 1940s German animal behaviorists were encouraged to explore whether dogs could be taught to speak or communicate in other ways in order to be useful in the Nazi war effort.
Experiments were carried out to find evidence of telepathy between dog and man.
The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were conflicts in the East End of Glasgow in Scotland in the 1980s between rival ice cream van operators, over lucrative territory and suggested use of ice cream vans as a cover for selling drugs.
The conflicts, in which vendors raided one another’s vans and fired shotguns into one another’s windscreens, were more violent than might typically be expected between ice-cream salesmen.
The Great Stork Derby was a contest during the period from 1926 to 1936, where women in Toronto, Canada, competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for an unusual bequest in a will.
Toronto lawyer, financier and practical joker Charles Vance Millar bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in a ten year period after his death. The winning mothers were Annie Katherine Smith, Kathleen Ellen Nagle, Lucy Alice Timleck and Isabel Mary Maclean. Each of them received $125,000 for their nine children.
The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to an event that resulted in the deaths of nine ski hikers in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959.
Investigators determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within, departing barefoot in heavy snow. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.
Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure.
- There were no indications of other people nearby apart from the nine travelers on Kholat Syakhl, nor anyone in the surrounding areas.
- The tent had been ripped open from within.
- The victims had died 6 to 8 hours after their last meal.
- Traces from the camp showed that all group members (including those who were found injured) left the camp of their own accord, on foot.
- To dispel the theory of an attack by the indigenous Mansi people, one doctor indicated that the fatal injuries of the three bodies could not have been caused by another human being, “because the force of the blows had been too strong and no soft tissue had been damaged”.
- Forensic radiation tests had shown high doses of radioactive contamination on the clothes of a few victims.
this one is a wikipedia classic. so fucking weird, seriously read the whole page.
