Weird But True
Mar 11, 2010
If anything will restore your faith in true love, this is it: Lee Jin-gyuhas finally made an honest pile of cotton out of his beloved ‘dakimakura’ — a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan — by marrying the pillow in a “special ceremony.”
Mar 5, 2010
As the old saying goes, when life hands you an abundance of breast milk, make cheese and blog about it. Or something like that. Which is precisely what New York chef Daniel Angerer is doing with the pumped milk in his freezer.
Jan 17, 2010
Okay, I’ve never heard of this before: British Airways apparently has a policy banning male passengers from sitting next to children they don’t know — even if the child’s parents are on the same flight.
Jan 6, 2010
A set of identical twins were born in different decades last week after being born on opposite sides of midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Nov 29, 2009
Yes! More than 15 pounds. And he was — get this — three weeks premature. If the baby had waited until he was full-term to make his debut, he would have been big enough to WALK OUT of his mother’s vagina on his own. True story.
Nov 20, 2009
Jesus-in-rye-toast sightings are sooooo last year. Now it’s all about the Michael Jackson popping up in the darnedest places.
Nov 12, 2009
Now here’s some touching news that will make you want to have a dozen kids: Parents of a twentysomething man in China — a man who still lives with his parents, mind you — have to pay their son 100 yuan ($15) every time they want to speak to him… or else he won’t respond.
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Nov 4, 2009
Lynsee, a 23-year-old teacher in Minneapolis, is expecting her first child on November 19 and, because Tweeting is soooo early 2009, she is broadcasting the entire birth — from the very first contraction to the final push — live on the Internet.
