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30 Facts That Prove The World Is A Weird Place

Be careful of moose in your basement

30 Facts That Prove The World Is A Weird Place

November 14, 2023

There’s weird stuff happening all the time, everywhere. Can you imagine hearing weird noises in your basement, and when you finally muster the courage to go check it out, you find a moose down there? Well, that's exactly what happened to some people in Colorado. Perhaps even more earth-shattering, Pittsburgh fans ran out of their all-time favorite condiment at their hometown stadium. Then you have the Canadian guy who called the cops… on the cops. Can’t forget about the violent Nerf war that erupted in Boston, or the finger guns that got a guy arrested in Florida.

Read on for more inscrutable news…

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WEIRD WORLD At Heinz Field, they ran out of ketchup in the middle of a game. HEINZ EST 1869 ESTV TOMATE, AÇÚCAR, VINAGRE, SAL, CEBOLA, AROMA NATURAL E SÓ. VARIETICS The Pittsburgh Steelers played the Tennessee Titans, and eventually beat them - but in the meantime, the stadium ran out of ketchup, and people kept making jokes about it on Twitter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Once Cops Hear About Police Brutality, It’s So Over

WEIRD WORLD In Canada, a guy called 911 because the cops seized his car, apparently. After he got stranded in Princeton (Canada, not NJ), he called 911 to report the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for seizing his ride. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD An ex-gay group founder came out and said he hooked up with guys. His organization's rallies claimed that the grace and power of Jesus Christ can free LGBT people, while he actually hooked up with dudes. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Boston, nerf guns led to some serious violence in a bus station. NER 8 Halidoisson 20 A bunch of teenage boys pointed the guns at bus passengers, and eventually shot an elderly man - and a fight broke out, and they were arrested. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD France basically just gave car companies the middle finger. From now on, French car ads have to tell people that, instead of buying a car, they could just walk or bike to where they want to go. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A moose got trapped in a basement in Colorado, somehow. Apparently, it was grazing nearby, and managed to fall into a basement. Не wouldn't climb up the stairs (unsurprisingly), and wildlife officers had to get pretty resourceful in getting him out. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Russia, they arrested an artist for a big poop snow sculpture. Specifically, he'd made a sculpture out of snow in the shape of a giant turd not too far from a burial site in St. Petersburg, and the police nabbed him for that. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD China changed the ending of Fight Club ... and, uh, the system wins. In the recently released edited version, the final scene doesn't have any exploding buildings - just a black screen with the text The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all criminals, successfully preventing the bomb from exploding. GKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One woman bought a house that turned out to be a charred former double garage. Tiffany Elton bought a bungalow in Canada that, well, turned out not to be a bungalow at all, but a garage that got a makeover to look like a home. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In the UK, a hairdresser created a Boris Johnson mural out of surplus hair. She gathered a bunch of the hair she's cut off, and used it to construct a 5ft x 3ft mural of the Prime Minister on the floor of her salon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In Florida (of course), someone tried to rob a restaurant with finger guns. WAFFLE HOUSE The Sheriff's Office arrested the suspect and confirmed, thankfully, that nobody was harmed in the incident at a local Waffle House. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD In a supervillain-like stunt, a large globe was stolen from a Filipino mall. And it really was like something from a Bond movie - the unidentified thief stole it using a helicopter. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Big Bird, Ernie, and Elmo officially are not invited to this year's CPAC. The organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference made that call because of Big Bird's nebulous connection to big government. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The problem with wind power is that it's becoming just too cheap. That's what a leading wind turbine maker says, and this is probably one case where schadenfreude is perfectly okay. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A hotel kicked out a woman and her granndaughter for her three-star review. Just to make everything worse, they got kicked out in the middle of the night. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wow! What a scoop!

WEIRD WORLD Apparently, there' a big blizzard that's about to hit the state of ... uh, Hawaii? It's so awful to be around that states are even offering bounties to people who destroy those trees. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD People had to spend the night at an IKEA in Denmark because of heavy snow. 10 Entrance IKEA 4 Since they couldn't get home, 25 staff and 6 customers had to sleep on some of the IKEA beds lying around the shop floor. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A Singaporean banned from driving pretended to be his brother, but that backfired. Not because he wasn't convincing, but because his brother was wanted by the police - so he got arrested. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Ukraine is officially shitposting memes on Twitter (against Russia). Russia is basically on the verge of war with Ukraine - and, in response, Ukraine is trolling them with memes on social media. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Usain Bolt said he can thank Mario Kart for all his extraordinary success. - 20% Mario Kart and Mortal Kombat, to be specific - he says his love of gaming really helped him in becoming an Olympic Champion. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One guy in New York state put a giant seven-foot dong on his front lawn. But it only stayed, uh, up for a few days in total - state police soon showed up and arrested him. Months later, though, the charges got dropped. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD The filming of a heist movie in Winnipeg was delayed by a real-life heist. andre Canon XF300 Before shooting could start, all the crew's equipment was taken. The irony is not lost on us, said the director. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD A school in Tasmania tried to resolve a sexual abuse allegations with a ZOO pass. After a mother went to her daughter's school and stated that an older boy sexually abused her daughter, the school offered her a free one-year zoo pass. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Panic! At the Animal Shelter

WEIRD WORLD After a parakeet breeding plan went wrong, parakeets crowded an animal shelter. A guy left some parakeets at the shelter in Michigan - he said he'd drop off a few, but there were 497 parakeets. Apparently, his son wanted to breed just a few of them, but had no idea how quickly birds would breed. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Because of a bug, the Tesla Model 3 farts very loudly at times. Apparently, the weird bug makes the car fart every time its doors were opened. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD Apparently, cats are a serious cause of fire in South Korea. Turns out, according to South Korean officials, cats have started over 100 fires in the last 3 years. The officials say cats did this by turning on electric stoves by jumping on them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD One Tesla owner started using his car as a crypto mining machine. EN And he says his Tesla makes him $800 in cryptocurrency every month. CRACKED.COM — Source

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WEIRD WORLD What we thought was a four-legged snake turned out to be a lizard. In 2015, researchers studied a fossil and concluded it was some kind of odd snake with four legs - but,but, in 2012, other researchers looked at the fossil and concluded that, nah, it was actually just a lizard. CRACKED.COM — Source

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FirstEnergy

WEIRD WORLD A company can't figure out how it spent 460 million dollars. A 390 6556960 - DOLLA THE RESERVE VISTE TEEK UNITED STATES OF AMERICA D adidas IK1758282A Mode 05471231 4 DERAL RESERVE NOTE NOTE B EU 50 SHL FirstEnergy was supposed to spend that money on modernizing its electric grid, CRACKED.COM happened. but there's zero evidence that that actually — Source

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