Mirror-touch synesthesia: when someone else's hug is your hug
Some people literally feel other folk being touched - like their skin is an echo - and it wrecks their bus journeys.Read More 
When Languages Make You Use a Secret Mother-in-Law Dialect
Some languages literally force you to switch vocab the second your in-law crosses the threshold, and yes it is wild and painfully specific.Read More 
Donkeys Are Not Allowed To Nap In Bathtubs, Dear
Only in Arizona will you find a law that actually tells a beast where not to catch a snooze - and yes, it comes from a real mess, not a punchline.Read More 
They Hung Babies Outside Windows And Called It Fresh Air
Back when folk thought dangling your nipper outside the flat was common sense, so they bolted a wire cage to the sill and called it childcare.Read More 
Handling A Salmon 'In Suspicious Circumstances' Is A Crime
Yes, the UK has a law that makes it an offence to 'handle a salmon in suspicious circumstances' and the phrase is gloriously vague.Read More 
When A Stroke Gives You A Foreign Accent
You wake up after a head injury and your sister swears you sound like you grew up in Warsaw; welcome to foreign accent syndrome, the brain's most rude impersonation.Read More 
When Rock Music Was Sued For Whispering To Your Brain
A legal case from 1990 turned the quaint idea of 'hidden commands in records' into a courtroom farce - and the court politely declined to believe in hypnotic turntables.Read More
This Bloke Called Himself Emperor And Shops Took His Money
He went broke, crowned himself 'Emperor Norton I' in 1859, printed his own banknotes and San Francisco treated him like a celebrity - proper daft, and lovely.
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When Your Sofa Turns Into a Dollhouse: Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
Some people wake up and the world has shrunk or stretched like a bad special effect; it is real, it is weird, and it has a proper medical name.
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