A $999.99 iphone app that did nothing sold 8 copies. When the developer released a version that actually did something, people gave it bad reviews.
A payphone 12 miles from the nearest paved road became famous because strangers kept calling it. People camped out to answer. It got a memorial plaque. They removed the plaque too.
Britain designed a nuclear landmine that was kept warm by live chickens. It was originally called brown bunny.
An entomologist got stung by dozens of insects and reviewed every sting like a fine wine. By the end he was questioning his own project.
It's a slice of toast between two slices of bread. wikipedia gave it an infobox, a calorie count, and a comparison to modern art.
New Mexico's senate unanimously voted to make psychiatrists testify in a two-foot wizard hat, a fake beard and a wand. The bailiff also had to hit a gong.
Napoleon tried to cheat at chess three times. The guy hiding inside the chess robot flipped the board.
Alt captions: Lost his head in 1945. Still out here headlining festivals.The town took one look at a headless chicken and said: party games.
she convinced the king's surgeon she was giving birth to rabbits. meanwhile her husband had spent the whole month buying rabbits.
A newspaper reported unicorns, tiny zebras and bat people living on the moon. then the telescope conveniently burned down. they never retracted it.
The man who created sherlock holmes got outsmarted by a 9 year old, a 16 year old, and some hatpins.
























