A community celebrating the strange, beautiful, ingenious, and extraordinary things that make the world fascinating.
104.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 39.3K upvotes, which works out to 377 per 1,000 members.
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Night Sky on Mars as seen from NASA Curiosity Rover.
In 1995, this premature twin was dying until a nurse broke protocol and placed her in the same incubator as her sister. The hug saved her life.
Billionaire J. Paul Getty refused to pay a $17M ransom for his kidnapped grandson. After the kidnappers mailed the teen’s severed ear to Getty, he ag…
In 1986, 20-year-old Christopher Knight disappeared into the Maine forest, surviving alone for 27 years by committing over 1,000 burglaries, all whil…
From 2011–2013, Dr. Christopher Duntsch paralyzed or killed 33 of his 38 patients during routine spinal surgery. In one operating room, a fellow surg…
This man escaped prison 7 times using keys he made from memory after glancing at a guard's belt.
In 1980, Mark DeFriest, an autistic savant, was sentenced to 4 years for taking tools left to him in his father's will. That sentence turned into 34 …
Mao Zedong gets shocked by the height of Henry Kissinger's wife.
Never forget when Steve Irwin broke up a fight between two kookaburras by speaking their language.
In 2014, Navy veteran Chad Oulson was shot and killed in a Florida movie theater after a retired police captain confronted him for texting his babysi…
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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