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The New Zealand City That Had an Official Wizard on the Payroll
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The New Zealand City That Had an Official Wizard on the Payroll
For more than two decades, Christchurch, New Zealand, had something most cities do not: an official wizard. His name is Ian Brackenbury Channell, bett…
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The Day a Louisiana Lake Turned Into a Giant Drain
In 1980, Lake Peigneur in Louisiana did something lakes are absolutely not supposed to do: it started disappearing. A Texaco drilling crew was working…
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The Laughing Epidemic That Shut Down Schools in 1960s Tanzania
In 1962, a school in what is now Tanzania had a problem administrators definitely did not cover in teacher training: uncontrollable laughter. It repor…
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The Chicken That Lived 18 Months After Losing Most of Its Head
In 1945, a Colorado farmer named Lloyd Olsen was preparing a chicken for dinner when something deeply weird happened: the bird did not die. The chicke…
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The 1876 Kentucky Meat Shower That Still Sounds Made Up
In 1876, a farm in Bath County, Kentucky became the site of one of America’s weirdest weather reports: pieces of raw meat-like material appeared to fa…
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