A history of othering, experimentation, and mystery. The twins in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film The Shining were never supposed to be identical. In …
Storyboard
Weird of the Week
Why people get freaked out by identical twins, the mother who was her daughter's uncle, and the "bin chickens" that learned to wash toads.
Weird and cool stories from around the internet
Why people say a stork delivers babies, a 600-year-old English coin that ended up in Newfoundland, and the origin story of Lobsta Mickey.
Why you may have more aunts and uncles than you suspected at the holiday table. How can a paternity test suggest a mother is also her daughter’s …
There are few Australian animals more reviled than the white ibis. It has earned the moniker "bin chicken" for its propensity to scavenge food from anywhere it can - messily raiding garbage and often stealing food right out of people's hands. But the native bird may have figured out how to overhaul …
It's about time you had a chat with your WhatsApp self. The beauty of WhatsApp, along with other popular third-party chat apps, is that it allows you …
Over the summer, an amateur historian in Newfoundland unearthed a 600-year-old gold coin. According to government officials, who announced the find …
BOSTON (AP) — A long-forgotten, and somewhat unsettling, statue of Mickey Mouse with giant lobster claws for hands has found its way back to Boston. The 700-pound statue was last seen in the city nearly two decades ago at Quincy Market where it entertained tourists and shoppers — before slipping out …
Special delivery! Newborn babies are often depicted with a rather incongruous creature: a long-legged, sharp-beaked bird known as a stork. The image …
See More Weirdness
Check out all our past Weird of the Week Storyboards.
All The Culture Desk's weirdest curation in one spot.
Discover Cool Stuff
Follow this Flipboard topic.
