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DeadBrain: Offbeat News
9th March
Last updated 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
Prosecutors in former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's perjury case are putting the spoils of their efforts on eBay.
A Pittsburgh-area woman is suing Bank of America , claiming it wrongfully repossessed her home and saying that a bank contractor trashed the house and took her parrot.
Authorities are hunting for the person who stole a 15-inch walrus tusk from Theodore Roosevelt's home on Long Island.
Cyprus' President Tassos Papadopoulos addresses a news conference at the end of a European Union Heads of State and Government summit in Brussels December 14, 2007 file photo. REUTERS/Ezequiel ScagnettiReuters - Cyprus said Tuesday ransom was the motive of thieves who stole the body of former President Tassos Papadopoulos, found in a shallow grave Monday three months after it disappeared from its tomb.
Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.
Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.
The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren't aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs.
True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
It's one small step for a squirrel, one giant leap for squirrelkind, as these two squirrels appear to have decided to become astronauts.
Is there something strange in your neighbourhood? Well, forget calling Ghostbusters - you could cash in by selling your ghosts online, as one New Zealand woman has found out.
A museum in Philadelphia will once again showcase the head of Old Baldy, the horse Gen. George Meade rode during many of the Civil War's most infamous battles.
Pub customers are going nuts for their local's latest special ? squirrel pie and mash.
A judge watches Mohammed Ali Zinhom do 46 push-ups in 49 seconds on just two fingers.
Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.
Canadian Minister of Defence Peter MacKay gives a piece of seal meat to the Chief of Defence Staff General W.J. Natynczyk (L) during a community event in Iqaluit, Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic August 22, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Andy ClarkReuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
Here's one Wisconsin grandmother who makes time for her grandson.
Which weird picture is the weirdest? You decide, in a public battle to see which weird picture will go on to fight another day...
Shaving your bikini line is certainly and original excuse for a crash, but how do you think a vicar ended up with a potato up his bottom, or a dwarf got his penis stuck in a hoover? Click here to find out.
Scotland's rotten weather has resulted in some of its population having ginger hair, says Edinburgh University genetics student Emily Pritchard.


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