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Calvino Inman cries actual blood three times a day, maybe even more, when  he’s really upset, like when he cries blood and he looks in the mirror and what he sees just fucking scares the shit out of him. Yeah, that upset. It’s a vicious cycle. Call in for blood donations.

[bloody fucking emo]
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Don’t hate those people who are perky and efficient after only a few hours of sleep. They can’t help it. New research suggests that a genetic mutation may explain why some people sleep less.
Researchers don’t know exactly why some people do fine with as little as 4 hours of sleep a night, while others need [...]

This is Brooke Greenberg: baby-sized, thinks like a toddler, 16 years old.

“Why doesn’t she age?” Howard Greenberg, 52, asked of his daughter. “Is she the fountain of youth?” Such questions are why scientists are fascinated by Brooke. Among the many documented instances of children who fail to grow or develop in some way, Brooke’s [...]

Exactly 210 people with tattoos so insane you’re forced to think their brains must’ve been fried on meths, or something that fries brains and makes people get shit tats.

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Narumi Nakata, winner of the world whistling championship’s teen category, reached her skill level by using whistling instead of words in daily household conversation.
In other news, there’s a freaking world whistling championship, for realsies.
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The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by David Rosenhan in 1972. It was published in the journal Science under the title “On being sane in insane places.”
Rosenhan’s study consisted of two parts. The first involved the use of healthy associates or “pseudopatients,” who briefly simulated auditory hallucinations [...]

Vassilis’ story starts back in the early 90s, when he went on an insane crime spree of delicious armed robbery, blackmail, extortion, and kidnapping.  Basically, his modus operandi was to kidnap a super-rich bastard, hold him for a ridiculous ransom, and then sell him back to his stupid family in exchange for giant piles of [...]

If you’re the sort of person who wonders, “Hmmm, how does a two-headed teenage girl spend her birthday?” And “Do I even have to think of them in the plural?” Here’s a video of actual conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel to give you some enlightenment.

This is Olivier Houalet. He’s been living in Namibia since he was 18 and has spent so much time with the big cats that he is now known as the “cheetah whisperer”. He’s seen here “teaching” a cheetah how to hunt — guess who’s the prey!
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Mike Nelson loves bacon so much he’s eating nothing but it for a month.
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“Bacon” shall hereafter refer to the cured and smoked fatty cuts of pork, either back, side or belly. In other words “American bacon”. No “Canadian bacon”, which is really just lunchmeat. No pork chops. No turkey bacon. No “tofacon” or [...]

Mary Tofts (c.1701 – January 1763), also called Mary Toft, was a maidservant from Godalming, England, who in 1726 became the subject of considerable controversy when she hoaxed doctors into believing that she had given birth to at least sixteen rabbits.
Tofts was twenty-five years old and married at the time to Joshua Tofts, a journeyman [...]

And we’re not even talking about one of your missing testicles.

Wait till 3.04 and see if you don’t shit in your pants.

This is 41-year-old Wen Xide,and his idea of “chillaxing” is sitting back, thinking happy thoughts, and eating live snakes — with beer!
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In 1953, he underwent an experimental brain operation in Hartford to correct a seizure disorder, only to emerge from it fundamentally and irreparably changed. He developed a syndrome neurologists call profound amnesia. He had lost the ability to form new memories.
For the next 55 years, each time he met a friend, each time he ate [...]

Hey whoa. We thought we’re seeing again that kid with a penis on his back, till we realized kid’s actually facing us, and that’s not a penis! It’s a heart! And it’s actually beating, like, you can actually see it!
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This guy in Bangladesh, who works carrying bricks on his head, isn’t even aware he’s on the interwebz inspiring ZOMFGs!