tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85284915060761844752024-11-01T00:09:22.565-07:00Freaky Stuff, Freaky Things, Odd, Weird, Bizarre, StrangeNeohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18023297390727428586noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8528491506076184475.post-64473983148896893982009-12-03T18:14:00.000-08:002009-12-03T18:25:12.794-08:00

The Catatumbo Lightning (Relámpago del Catatumbo) is a fascinating natural phenomenon located on the mouth of the Catatumbo river in Venezuela. It is a cloud-to-cloud lightning that forms a voltage arc more than five kilometer high during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours a night, and as many as 280 times an hour. With its cloud-to-cloud discharge intensity and great frequency, it is considered

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These tree climbing goats can be found in Morocco. They only climb these specific trees to eat argan fruit which is like an olive. Farmers often follow these herds of goats to collect nuts which they spit out and make argan oil out of them. Argan oil is used in cooking and cosmetics.

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This weird restaurant called Marton Theme Restaurant is located in Taiwan. It has a toilet theme with colorful toilet seats as dining chairs. The restaurant is named after the Chinese word "Matong" for toilet and is doing really well. Most of their customers think the restaurant's disgusting theme makes the dining experience really fun.

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This strange creature used to be a mascot for an animal shelter in New York, before it was stolen only a few days earlier of being featured in the local newspapers.

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Bagheera Kiplingi, a South American species, eats leaf buds and is thought to be the only non-carnivorous spider out of about 40,000 species. Its diet includes nutritious wild acacia plants and it has no need to spin a web to catch preys.

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Here is a picture of tuna eyeball as food, which is eaten in Japan and China.

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The origin of a foot-binding tradition called lily feet is uncertain. But it is believed that it appeared during the Five Dynasties (907–960).According to legend, a king asked a lady-in-waiting named Ruiniang to bind her feet and dance on a golden lotus flower, so it was called three-cun lily feet. After that, the custom of foot-binding emerged. But this custom ceased after the founding of New

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This little horse named Thumbelina was born to Paul and Kay Goessling, who specialize in breeding miniature horses. But even for the breed, Thumbelina is particularly small: she is thought to be a dwarf-version of the breed. At just 60 lb and 17-inch tall, she is the world’s smallest horse.

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The story of the Giant Camel Spider (Arachnid Solifugae) is told by the United States Servicemen in the Persian Gulf War and afterwards from the Iraq War. It was said that a giant camel spider crawled into the sleeping bag of a soldier, biting the man while he was asleep. Fortunately, the giant desert camel spiders native to Iraq aren't venomous. It uses its claws to catch its prey, which is

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The Orchid Mantis (Hymenopus Coronatu), is a variety of flower mantis usually found in Indonesia and Malaysia. The unique bug camouflages itself in orchid flowers, waiting for other delicious bugs to prey on.

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The Glass Frog or Crystal Frog (Hyalinobatrachium Pellucidum) is called such because you can see through its transparent flesh (including its guts). This frog is endangered, so this finding is heartening for environmentalists.From Wikipedia:Hyalinobatrachium pellucidum, also known as the glass frog or see-through frog is a species of frog in the Centrolenidae family. The frog is named for its

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The Goliath Frog (Conraua Goliath) is the largest species of frog on Earth. It can grow up to 13 inches (33 cm) in length, and weighs up to 8 lb (3 kg). This animal has a relatively small habitat range, mainly in West Africa (near Gabon). The Goliath Frog can live up to 15 years and eats scorpions, insects and smaller frogs.

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Although higher altitude usually means larger animals, the world's smallest known frog species lives high in the Andes Mountains of southern Peru, between 9,925 and 10,466 feet.

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The Dragon Tree (Dracaena Cinnabari) is a strange-looking, umbrella-shaped tree native to the Socotra archipelago. It is also referred to as the Dragon Blood Tree and Socotra Dragon Tree. Its red sap was the dragon's blood of the ancients, sought after as a medicine and a dye. It was first formally described by Isaac Bayley Balfour in 1882.

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Namibia's plant, Welwitschia Mirabilis can truly claim to be one of its kind. It can survive up to five years with no rain and consists of only two leaves and a hard stem with roots. These plants can grow to be almost 2 meters high and 8 meters wide and their estimated lifespan is 400 to 1500 years. The plant is said to be very tasty either raw or baked in hot ashes, and this is how it got its

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Baobab is the common name of a genus (Adansonia) containing eight species of trees, which is native to Madagascar and also known as the Bottle Tree. Not only do they look like bottles, but these trees typically store around 300 liters of water! It is no wonder why they often live for over 500 years!

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There is one exotic and rare plant you wouldn't likely want to grow anywhere near your garden no matter how cool it is. That would be growing the largest flower in the world. This exotic, very rare, though may not be pretty, rust colored flower is called Rafflesia Arnoldii. Rafflesia Arnoldii, is the biggest individually produced flower in the world. It gets to be 3 feet across and weighing a

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Mimosa Pudica (pudica = shy), or the Sensitive Plant, is literally shy: the leaves fold inward and droop when touched or shaken and reopens within minutes. The species is native to South America, Central America and Southeast Asia countries.

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The really small house pictured above is located in Toronto, Canada. It has a living room, a kitchen and a bedroom. The entire house is built on a parcel of land 7.25 feet wide and 113.67 feet long and its interior surface is just under 300 square.

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Tree houses are meant for children, but this "log cabin" has been sold on eBay after being advertised as an ideal home for fist-time buyers.The property – which is 42 ft in length is sold for £7,600 on the online auction website. It even comes with an already attached wheels so the new owners can tow it to wherever they want it to be.But anyone attracted by the idea of living inside a tree should

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The Rock Agama (Agama Mwanzae) which is native to Kenya is almost uncannily like that of the Marvel superhero, and comic book fans have been flocking to exotic pet shops to snap them up. It is unable to throw webs, but can change colour. The brightly coloured males will change brown at night or change if they are frightened. They can also run on their hind legs, and like Spidey, can scale

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Tillamook Cheddar is a Jack Russell Terrier from New York, also known as the world's most regarded canine artist, she has already had seventeen solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe.The artist's primary process is a dynamic color transfer technique. In preparation for each of Tillie's works, her assistants assemble a touch-sensitive recording device by affixing pigment-coated vellum to a sheet

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Oscar was adopted as a kitten from an animal shelter and grew up in the third-floor dementia unit at Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Providence, Rhode Island. The unit treats people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease and other illnesses, most of whom are in the end stage of their illnesses (where death is imminent) and are generally unaware of their surroundings.After about

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On 2006, this bizarre-looking baby was born in India, attracting a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight.The bizarre baby, however, died after half an hour of its birth, Suntali, the mother, informed. It was taken to the hospital after its death. The news about such a baby being brought to the hospital spread like wildfire and there were hundreds gathered at the hospital to

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This 2-month-old baby from Anhui Province, China, was born with a third arm on 2006. Doctors successfully removed the extremely rare and well-developed third arm, but the baby required long-term physical therapy to gain function in his remaining hand, which has no palm and flexes in either direction. "We're hoping to exchange information with doctors who've dealt with similar cases anywhere in

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