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French civil-registration law allows a prosecutor and family judge to intervene when a child's name is judged contrary to the child's interests.
In 1876, pieces of tissue fell over a farm in Bath County, Kentucky, prompting competing scientific explanations.
An eccentric American merchant repeatedly made profits from trades that appeared absurd to his contemporaries.
In the early twentieth century, Julius Neubronner fitted homing pigeons with timed miniature cameras.
At the World Bog Snorkelling Championships in Llanwrtyd Wells, Wales, competitors wear a mask, snorkel, and flippers through a water-filled peat trench.
Researchers built an underwater theater, trained cuttlefish to tolerate red-and-blue anaglyph glasses, and played computer animations of walking shrimp.
At Lake Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela, night often arrives with its own electrical weather.
Section 32 of the United Kingdom's Salmon Act 1986 really is headed “Handling salmon in suspicious circumstances.” It has become a perfect specimen of absurd-law trivia, usually retold as…
Open a richly decorated European manuscript from the 13th or 14th century and the margins may stage a battle nobody requested: an armored knight jousting with a giant snail.
In 1898, a young English accountant named W.
