The Waterfall That Swallowed Half A River
There's a waterfall in Minnesota where one side vanishes into a boiling pothole and people have been chucking trainers and theories into it for a century.Read More 
Romans Wore Little Wangs For Luck, Proper
They actually hung tiny bronze penises about like talismans to scare off the evil eye - Romans were oddly practical about indecent knickknacks.Read More 
They Bound Books In Human Skin, Proper Mad
Victorians sometimes literally used human skin to bind books and a few are still in libraries - disgusting and oddly useful.Read More 
Vanilla Demands A Hand
Every vanilla pod outside Mexico is the result of someone politely playing bee with a stick and a deadline.Read More 
Japan's Belly-Checking Law, Proper Daft
They made waistlines a national chore and everyone's suddenly queued for a tape measure like it's the barber.Read More 
Proper Werewolf Syndrome? Nah, It's Just Hair
Some folks grow hair everywhere for real - sometimes it's genetic, sometimes a nasty tumour's behind it, and it's utterly daft.Read More 
Singapore Banned Chewing Gum, Proper
They outlawed the sale and import of gum in 1992 after it started wrecking the trains; now only tiny medical gum slips through the cracks.Read More 
When Words Taste Like Dinner
Some people literally taste words and names; their brain turns a name into bacon and you're left baffled.Read More 
That Bulgarian Flying Saucer They Properly Abandoned
They built a communist saucer on a mountain, covered it in mosaics, and then left it to rot like a bureaucratic afterthought.Read More 
Burushaski, The Language That Won't Behave
A proper language that refuses to be shoved into any family tree and laughs while you try.Read More 