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262Using an ultra-precise laser, researchers printed a microscopic elephant -- trunk to tail, just 10 micrometers long -- inside a living cell.
263George Frandsen holds the Guinness World Record for the largest collection of coprolites -- fossilized feces.
264An eccentric American merchant repeatedly made profits from trades that appeared absurd to his contemporaries.
265The Mechanical Turk appeared to play chess autonomously while concealing a human operator inside its cabinet.
266In the mountains of Morocco, scientists found blowfly larvae that have evolved a complete fake termite head -- with eyes and antennae -- on their rear ends.
267In 2015, a man listed a potato with a message written on it for sale on the internet.
268A company at CES 2026 unveiled a lollipop that plays music through bone conduction when you bite down on it.
269In the early twentieth century, Julius Neubronner fitted homing pigeons with timed miniature cameras.
270Monowi, Nebraska is an incorporated village with one resident, who performs the town's civic jobs and keeps a public library.
The Weird Please editorial desk collects true stories about curious inventions, peculiar history, strange science, and the gloriously unexpected.
