The Dried Hand Thieves Loved
Believe it or not, at one time burglars carried a pickled hanged man's hand like it was a get-out-of-jail-free card.Read More 
I Tried The Ocean's Foie Gras And It Was Weirdly Romantic
Monkfish liver is a real delicacy called ankimo and it tastes like buttery ocean grief in the best way possible.Read More 
In China You Need Permission To Be Reborn
They actually make Tibetan monasteries get state sign-off before announcing a 'return' - paperwork for your next life.Read More 
Some People Are Missing A Wrist Tendon And Live To Tell The Tale
Roughly one in eight people lack the palmaris longus tendon - a tiny, vestigial wrist muscle surgeons nick like a spare tyre.Read More 
Some Languages Make You Say How You Know Stuff
Grammar that is basically an honesty detector: in some tongues you literally must tell everyone if you saw it, heard it, guessed it, or were told it.Read More 
They Told Me It Was A Sugar Pill And I Felt Better
Honesty, it seems, does not destroy the placebo; it dresses it up in sensible trousers and sends it to do the job.Read More 
They Buried Pee And Pins To Stop Curses
In old houses folks filled bottles with urine, hair and bent pins, buried them in hearths and pretended the devil would take a number and wait.Read More 
They Stole A Giant's Bones And Put Them On Display
He begged for a burial at sea and was instead bribed, dissected, and turned into a museum oddity - the ultimate indignity.Read More 
This Slug Stole Plant Powers And I Am Living For It
There is a real-life sea slug that nicks chloroplasts from algae and survives on sunlight for months-nature's ultimate freeloading flex.Read More 
We Take Turns: The Two Nations That Pass One Tiny Island Back And Forth
An uninhabited sliver of river is literally shared custody between France and Spain and swapped like an umbrella in a drizzle.Read More 