The Bloke Who Kept Fighting Until Given Leave
A Japanese soldier hid in a Philippine jungle for 29 years refusing to surrender until a superior officer finally turned up with written orders.Read More 
The Bloke Who Got Hit By Lightning Seven Times (And Lived To Moan About It)
Roy Sullivan survived seven separate lightning strikes while working as a park ranger, which makes him the unluckiest lucky man in recorded history.Read More 
The Mandela Effect: How Millions Remember Nonsense Like It's Gospel
Millions insist the past was different and blame parallel universes; the truth is duller, crueller and far funnier.Read More 
Agloe: The Made-Up Town That Outsmarted Cartographers
Mapmakers planted a fake village as a copyright trap; a shopkeeper put up a sign and the forgery turned into fact, which is deliciously petty and brilliant.Read More 
How They Let Dord Into the Dictionary
A tiny clerical blunder turned 'dord' into a bona fide dictionary entry for years, proving lexicographers are gloriously human.Read More 
There's A Sneaky Bone Hiding Behind Your Knee
Some people grow a tiny spare bone called the fabella in the tendon behind the knee and it has the nerve to cause trouble on occasion.Read More 
Why Garden Snails Prick Each Other For Love
They stab one another with tiny calcareous daggers and call it romance, which is either evolutionary genius or the worst date in Gloucestershire history.Read More 
They Polish Their Dead Like Sofa Cushions
In Sulawesi the Toraja periodically exhume relatives, clean and redress the corpses in a ritual called Ma'nene that treats death like a very slow home visit.Read More 
They Almost Floated an Aircraft Carrier Made of Ice and I Love It
In WWII Britain briefly tried to build unsinkable floating airbases from 'pykrete'-a frozen mix of ice and wood pulp-because history enjoys a laugh.Read More 
Never Toast With Water Unless You Want To Be Morbidly Polite
In Japan, clinking a glass of water at a party is the social equivalent of applauding a eulogy.Read More 