The curiously-titled Night of the Radishes, which takes place the day before Christmas Eve, may be a great way to keep yourself entertained later in the year. Oaxaca is home to ancient Zapotec and Mixtec ruins and promises a true local experience away from the well-trodden tourist trail. Locals carve thousands of dolls from radishes to depict anything from Jesus to aliens – and these sculptures are exhibited around the city. During the festival, you can also get your teeth around a traditional buñuelo – essentially a beautiful fried pastry – and make a wish by throwing your bowl into the air afterwards, enjoying processions, fireworks and floats as you unwind before Christmas.
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From absurd laws to oddities, through freaks and geeks, weird festival, habits and many other strange things.... Here is a nice gallery about the strangest news available on the web.
12.31.2012
Songkran Festival – Thailand
Skip the shower post-Mudfest because you’re bound to clean off during Songkran Festival. Over the years, this traditional Thai New Year celebration has transformed from ceremonial sprinklings into the world’s largest water fight. Anyone brave enough to venture intro the streets during this H2O holiday is a fair target for garden hose drenchings and water balloon barrages. Definitely bring a towel.
Read more: Wikipedia.org
Read more: Wikipedia.org
World Pea shooting Championship
The World Pea Shooting Championship has been held annually since 1971 in the village of Witcham near Ely in Cambridgeshire, England. It was conceived as a fund-raising idea for the Village Hall by the headmaster of the village school, John I. Tyson (1925–2002). In 2003 the Parish Council funded the purchase of the John Tyson Shield on which the champion’s name is recorded each year.
The competition tends to be dominated by local entrants, though a small number travel from around the world, notably the USA, and American personnel from the nearby US airbases of RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath have competed. The day is combined with village fete featuring games, stalls etc.
Read more: oddstuffmagazine.com
Roadkill Cook-off
The West Virginia RoadKill Cook-off is one of the region’s most fun and exciting annual events. In years past, the Food Network, the Travel Channel and the Discovery Channel have all covered this wild and wacky festival! If you’ve ever wanted to taste exotic dishes like squirrel gravy over biscuits, teriyaki-marinated bear or deer sausage, this is the place to be!
Last years dishes included Dixie Deer Chili to Route 219 Turtle Soup, it’s a centerline-smorgasbord of culinary creations. Pocahontas County is a favored destination for travelers seeking unsurpassed scenic beauty in a predominately rural and tranquil setting.
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Read more: oddstuffmagazine.com
Gilroy Garlic Festival

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Calaveras county fair and frog jump jubilee
This is definitely the world’s biggest frog jumping contest. The fair was held for the first time in 1893, but the frog competitions started in 1928. The frog trainers have to participate on a number of competitions during the whole year in order to gain an invitation for this event. In three days in May every year thousands of frogs show their skills. The world record was set in 1986 by Rosie the Ribiter with a jump of 21 feet and 5.75 inches.
Read more: www.frogtown.org
Read more: www.frogtown.org
Pushkar camel fair

Read more: www.pushkarcamelfair.com
Man eats 28 raw eggs, dies

Dhaou Fatnassi, a 20-year-old man from the town of Kairouan, swallowed more than two dozen raw eggs on a dare from his friends.
According to Tunesia's Shems FM radio, the friends called an ambulance after realizing something was wrong, but it was too late."
Read more: www.upi.com
The strange story of the Cyclops shark

In fact, the animal was never born: it was removed when he was still a fetus from the mother's belly, legally fished in Mexican waters.
This is an example of carcarino (Carcharhinus obscurus), a shark that can reach 4 meters in length. This species is viviparous, but does not lay eggs that produce live pups.
Read more: it.notizie.yahoo.com
Its bite makes you vegetarian
A tick bite can make allergic to meat. The phenomenon has been recorded on the east coast of the United States and has been analyzed by researchers at the Virginia University.

Were counted more than 400 cases in the United States, all people need to change their way of eating and become vegetarians from day to day, without the possibility of mistakes. The specific mechanism by which this allergy is born yet to be studied. The period of time of six hours makes this type of allergic reaction very atypical: usually shocks are instant, in this case the duration of the six hours also makes the depth scientific very complicated.
Read more: it.notizie.yahoo.com
Killer Burger - Quadruple Bypass Burger


Between the two traditional half sandwich, a monument to the fat and cholesterol has four hamburger meat, eight slices of cheese, bacon like rain (twenty slices), tomato and onions, ketchup. The recipe, in short, is very traditional: it is the quantity of ingredients to make the QBB a kind of Christmas dinner, equal to four times the energy intake of an average human being.
Read more: it.notizie.yahoo.com
Bagelheads – Japan’s Take on the Klingon Forehead

Bagelheads have been around for years, but they recently caused international controversy after the body modification technique was featured on National Geographic’s Taboo program.
Three people underwent the bagelhead procedure in Tokyo, under the supervision of an expert and the watchful eyes of several body modification enthusiasts.
They had large needles inserted into their foreheads through which saline slowly dripped forming a kind of reservoir. When enough saline built up under the skin creating a nice bulge, the body mod master simply pressed his thumb on it to give it that coveted bagel shape. For some reason, every one of the three subjects seemed pretty happy to have a deformed head."
Read more: www.odditycentral.com
Brazilian Burger Chain Introduces Edible Paper Wrappers

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At the start of 2012, Harvard scientist reported they have developed a WikiCells, “novel edible forms” that could be used to wrap, bottle and package food, and take the flavor of whatever they contained. Now, almost a year since their announcement, a Brazilian burger chain has launched an intriguing ad showcasing edible wrappers."
Read more: Video and pics from Odditycentral
Man’s Addiction to Heavy-Metal Earns Him Disability Benefits

The Swedish edition of The Local first reported about Roger Tullgren back in 2007, soon after his addiction to heavy-metal was acknowledged by psychologists and the state employment service agreed to pay part of his salary. Apparently, his interest in heavy-metal started in 1971, when his brother came home with a Black Sabbath album. Since then he’s been hooked to everything that screams heavy-metal, sports long black hair, a collection of tattoos and wears skull and crossbones jewelry."
Read more: www.odditycentral.com
12.30.2012
Wonderful New Year’s Eve night out - London
New Year's Eve in London 2012
"Mon Dec 31, The Arches - The Blitz Party NYE
Rewind to the '40s at this air raid styled shindig, where sandbags, blackout curtains, searchlights and oil lamps with military bunkbeds to sit on will complete your authentic experience, while ration books replace bar tabs and provisions will line the walls. "
"Dec 15-31, Secret London location - The Candlelight Club's NYE Party
A dazzling, clandestine pop-up cocktail bar with a 1920s speakeasy flavour in a secret den lit entirely by candles, from the people that bring you The New Sheridan Club. "

"Mon Dec 31, Paramount - Wiggle NYE Party
See in 2013 with razor-sharp tech-house grooves 385 feet above central London in Paramount, a venue located in the towering landmark that is Centre Point on New Oxford Street."
Read more: timeout.com
"Mon Dec 31, The Arches - The Blitz Party NYE
Rewind to the '40s at this air raid styled shindig, where sandbags, blackout curtains, searchlights and oil lamps with military bunkbeds to sit on will complete your authentic experience, while ration books replace bar tabs and provisions will line the walls. "
"Dec 15-31, Secret London location - The Candlelight Club's NYE Party
A dazzling, clandestine pop-up cocktail bar with a 1920s speakeasy flavour in a secret den lit entirely by candles, from the people that bring you The New Sheridan Club. "

"Mon Dec 31, Paramount - Wiggle NYE Party
See in 2013 with razor-sharp tech-house grooves 385 feet above central London in Paramount, a venue located in the towering landmark that is Centre Point on New Oxford Street."
Read more: timeout.com
World Swamp Soccer Cup

Once a year, this unassuming area becomes home to a very unusual sports event: swamp soccer. It all started 10 years ago with a handful of Finnish teams. Since then, the event has grown into a major spectacle, attracting some 260 men's, women's and mixed teams from various countries.
The soccer fields, marked with yellow plastic bands, actually have more similarities to pig pens than they do to pitches. The game lasts for two periods of 25 minutes each. On this swampy ground, it involves wading, crawling or sculling in dark brown mud. A bright red t-shirt soon turns into a dirty rag after kickoff, and many a face and hair is smeared with dirt."
Read more: www.dw.de
Snowshoe Football World Championship
Read more: Snowshoe Football World Championship
Ant-Nest Sitting Competition
"Let's sit on an ant nest! Well, if you're not quite up for that, just watch and enjoy the contestants suffer while they place their buttocks on an ant hill for as long as possible... "
Read more: goscandinavia.about.com
Read more: goscandinavia.about.com
Mosquito Swatting Championships
"It’s hard to believe that a country as cold as Finland is during the winter could have mosquitoes in the summer but up here in the north they are quite prevalent. They are also quite annoying. I say this sitting here scratching several bites I got last night whilst sleeping.
There is a local ‘sport’ the people around here tell me about which involves standing naked in the forest with a slice of buttered bread and trying to catch as many mosquitoes as you can,but thankfully that is not what’s involved in the world championships. Although I don’t think I’d have been too surprised if it were.
The mosquito swatting championships are very simple. Each contestant gets five minutes to swat as many mosquitoes as they can."
Read more: Weird finnish world championships
Air Guitar World Championship

Read more: www.airguitarworldchampionships.com
Cell Phone Throwing in Finland

When throwing your cell phone in a Finnish contest, you are judged by distance and sometimes technique. Depending on the contest rules, you'll either throw the cell phone backwards over your shoulder and count the distance of the best of three attempts. Alternatively, and even more fun, you can do a freestyle throw for creativity points."
Read more: goscandinavia.about.com
Wife Carrying World Championships

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Ivrea Carnival and Orange Battle
"The first thing you'll see is a maelstrom of red hats. Violetta and the crowd wear long, bright red, Phrygian hats symbolizing freedom. They come from far away. They're called berretti di Frigia or berretti frigi, from the ancient area of Phrygia, in what is now Turkish Anatolia. They used to be worn by the worshippers of the sun. They were then worn, in ancient Rome, by emancipated slaves and finally became one of the symbols of the French Revolution: the red bonnet meant Liberté. When you walk around with a red hat in Ivrea, people say you're wearing the berretto frigio and therefore you must be free to pass unharmed. The red hat means you won't be throwing oranges and therefore no one will throw oranges at you. If you're near the battle areas (even if you're behind the protective nets) you'll still get orange shrapnel, but no direct hits."
Read more: goitaly.about.com
Read more: goitaly.about.com
Thaipusam
"Thaipusam is a Hindu festival (celebrated mostly by Tamils) held in January/February each year to celebrate the birth of Murugan (the son of gods Shiva and Parvati). The participants shave their heads and perform a pilgrimage, at the end of which they shove very sharp skewers through their tongues or cheeks. Some of the practitioners put hooks into their back and pull heavy objects like tractors. The aim is to cause as much pain as possible – the more you endure, the more “blessings” you receive from the gods. The festival is popular in India, but the largest celebrations take place in Singapore and Malaysia, where it is a public holiday."
From: listverse.com
From: listverse.com
Kanamara Matsuri - The Steel Phallus


Fiesta de Santa Marta de Ribarteme

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Goat Tossing Festival

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World Beard and Mustache Championships
In 2009, the American Festivals Project headed to the World Beard and Mustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska. Every other year, the weeklong event draws young and old hirsute competitors from around the world, vying for awards in arenas such as Sideburns/Muttonchops, Full Natural Beard, and DalĂ Mustache. The contest began in Germany two decades ago and has since been held in the U.S. and countries across Europe. The current champions: Americans, with 12 medals and a best in show win in Anchorage.
Read more about the World Beard and Mustache Championships on the American Festivals Project blog.
Okie Noodling Tournament
Once a year, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, is home to the Okie Noodling Tournament, a 24-hour race to bring in the biggest catch using an unusual—and sometimes dangerous—technique. Unlike traditional anglers, noodlers forego the rod and reel and take on massive catfish with their hands, pulling them from holes by their toothless mouths. The American Festivals Project was on the scene to capture the action in 2009.
Read more about the Okie Noodling Tournament from the American Festivals Project blog.
Idiotarod Racers, Manhattan Bridge
Welcome to the Idiotarod, where sabotage is encouraged, elaborate costumes are required, and physical stamina is an afterthought. This five-mile (eight-kilometer) race through New York City in winter is only for the (fool)hardiest. The American Festivals Project captured the madness in 2009.
Here, a competitor from Team Scuba takes a breather and obstructs racers on the Manhattan Bridge.
Read more about the Idiotarod on the American Festivals Project blog
Tunarama: the Tuna Tossing Festival (Australia)

From: oddee.com
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Cheese Rolling Festival (England)
"Running full-tilt down a very steep hill behind a madly spinning 7-pound wheel of cheese can be well-nigh lethal. In fact, police have attempted to ban the event, but participants have refused to observe the ban. Men and their cheese wheels can not be separated easily, evidently. So what happens during a cheese roll? Simple: the cheese is set to rolling, and racers zoom down the hill after the cheese. However, as the cheese can reach speeds of up to 70 mph, it rarely happens that someone catches the cheese. First to the bottom wins the cheese. Glorious. "
Read more: Official Cheese Rolling Page
Read more: Official Cheese Rolling Page
The Monkey Buffet Festival (Thailand)

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Hadakamatsuri: The Naked Festival (Japan)
"A hadakamatsuri --naked festival-- is a type of Japanese festival where participants wear a minimum amount of clothing; usually just a Japanese loincloth (called fundoshi), sometimes with a short happi coat, and very rarely completely naked. Whatever the clothing, it is considered to be above vulgar, or everyday, undergarments, and on the level of holy Japanese shrine attire. Naked festivals are held in dozens of places throughout Japan every year, usually in the summer or winter. Hidden somewhere in the midst of all these men in loincloths is one fully naked man. Touching him is believed to bring good luck and happiness."
Read more: www.oddee.com
Read more: www.oddee.com
The Spanish Baby Jumping Festival of El Colacho

Read more: www.amusingplanet.com
Sapporo Snow Festival
"A world plaza evokes a pristine snow fantasy
The Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's largest winter events, attracts a growing number of visitors from Japan and abroad every year.
Every winter, about two million people come to Sapporo to see the hundreds of beautiful snow statues and ice sculptures which line Odori Park,the grounds at Community Dome Tsudome, and the main street in Susukino.
For seven days in February,these statues and sculptures(both large and small) turn Sapporo into a winter dreamland of crystal-like ice and white snow."
Read more:Sapporo Snow Festival site
12.29.2012
NCBI ROFL: The role of pet dogs in casual conversations of elderly adults.
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Read more: blogs.discovermagazine.com
The automatic cleaning for dogs and cats
You can not get to wash your dog or your cat? For some time it was put on the market a machine that makes the automatic washing of dogs and cats. Of course, it is completely harmless, but we must admit that there is a little 'impression the idea of putting an animal in there ... it will be this that has not yet been so successful?
Read more: notizie.delmondo.info
Big hips 'impair' women's memory, a study finds
A woman's body shape may influence how good her memory is, according to US researchers.
Although carrying excess weight anywhere appears to impair older women's brains, carrying it on the hips may make matters worse, they say.

But depositing fat around the waist increases the risk of cancer, diabetes and heart disease, experts warn.
They said the findings, in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, highlighted the importance of maintaining a healthy weight for both body and mind.
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Read more:www.bbc.co.uk
Moderate drinkers are better than non-drinkers, says French research

They said today a group of French scientists, led by Boris Hansel Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris, in a study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The researchers found that the main benefits from alcohol but does not directly result from indirect effects: less stress, exercise more and enjoy better health.
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The researchers studied over 150,000 French, dividing them into four groups according to alcohol consumption: those who never drank, occasional drinkers (less than 10 grams of alcohol per day), moderate drinkers (10-30 grams per day) and habitual drinkers (more than 30 grams).
Read more: gaianews.it
12.28.2012
Glass Shape Influences Consumption Rate for Alcoholic Beverages

A scientific study conducted by a study group of the Faculty of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK, analyzed the relationship between the shape of the glass and the consumption of alcohol.
The study involved several subjects in which they were made drink beverages, both alcoholic and non, in glasses of different shapes: it was found that the rate of consumption of the drinks is influenced by the shape of the glass, but this influence is greater in the case of alcoholic beverages, compared to the "soft drink."
It was found that when the subjects drank from a glass cylindrical employing around 60% more time to finish the glass, than when the drink was served in a glass "curved".
Read more:www.plosone.org
12.24.2012
Man found dead standing up in his kitchen
A coroner has described a man's death as 'bizarre' after he was found dead standing up in his kitchen.
Andrew Evans was discovered by a friend, who visited him at his home in East Grinstead, West Sussex, on May 10 this year.
Horsham Coroner's Court heard how the 35-year-old had injured his head earlier in the day, but is not believed to have realised how serious the injury was.
The court heard how Mr Evans had consumed a lot of alcohol on the day and was four times over the drink drive limit.
It is believed he died after blacking out as he reached into a cupboard in his kitchen, with his body falling against the kitchen fittings and remaining standing up.
The court heard how a friend of Mr Evans, who was not named, arrived at this home on May 10 to see him "standing in the kitchen" with his right hand reaching into a cupboard.
Read more:www.telegraph.co.uk
Boiling water freezes instantly in Siberia's -41C
A pot of boiling water thrown from a balcony instantly turns into frozen droplets in Siberia's minus 41C weather.
Read more:www.telegraph.co.uk
Read more:www.telegraph.co.uk
A 'dad' is tenth most popular Christmas list request for children
A 'dad' is tenth most popular Christmas list request for children with youngsters happy to forgo the latest iPad, toy or new pet, a survey has found.
A study of 2,000 British parents found most children will put a new baby brother or sister at the top of their Christmas list, closely followed by a request for a real-life reindeer.
A "pet horse" was the third most popular choice, with a "car" making a bizarre entry at number four.
Despite their material requests, the tenth most popular Christmas wish on the list was a "Dad".
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Of the top 50 festive requests, 17 related to pets and animals, with some imaginative children hoping for a donkey, chicken and elephant.
iPhones and iPads also appeared on the list, with some quirky children asking for the moon, a time machine, a pond cover and beetroot. One child asked for Eva Longoria and another wanted Harry Styles from One Direction.
A request for a "mum" reached number 23 on the list.
Read more:www.telegraph.co.uk
31 years living as a baby
Stanley Thornton lives a double life, as (almost) normal adult outside the home but as a newborn in the house. The "typical day" of Stalney is more or less this: the night sleeping in a "giant baby" with a jumpsuit and toys hanging from the ceiling. The next morning her mother wakes him up and give him to eat, often with a bottle. Then you change and as "adult" and leaves the house. When he returns home, however, again wearing his clothes as a child, playing with his lego and its puppets of cloth.
There are those who define the life of Stanley as the result of a psychological pathology, others consider it a form of fetishism. He said that is the best way which is able to get rid of stress.
When she was 13 years old, Stanley suffered abuse, and shock began to wet the bed at night and ended up having to wear diapers. Gradually, his desire to have all the comforts of childhood has increased immoderate.
Read more:notizie.delmondo.info
Turn dead cat in Helicopter
When your pet passes to a better life, there are those who decide to bury him, others who chose to cremate him. Still others decide to do stuff, to be able to get close even after the departure. The Danish artist Bart Jansen instead decided to transform his cat into a radio-controlled helicopter.
Jansen has created '"Orville-cottero" after her cat (named Orville, in fact) was killed hit by a car, using the body of the animal, properly reinforced, as a frame for the radio controlled helicopter, equipped of four rotors (one per paw).
Jansen explains that the idea was to honor the memory of his cat, giving it the ability to reach a goal that no cat had ever achieved before flying with the birds, which Orville loved, as always chasing them ...
Read more:notizie.delmondo.info
Keeps a blog where he explains how to avoid to work: sacked
Emmalee Bauer, 25, of Elkhart, Iowa, now former employee of the hotel chain Sheraton, not content to avoid work, but has seen fit to keep (of course, during working hours) a blog in which he explained how he worked the little as possible.
From the same writing the post, as "write on this blog makes it seem like he's working hard on something important." Reaching a condition in some ways enviable, because (as always, wrote on his blog) "work less and get paid much more than in all my previous work."
One of the leaders of Emmalee found her diary, and she was inevitably fired.
Not only that, the Labour Court has also denied access to unemployment benefits, since the behavior of the girl showed "fun" to avoid the work entrusted to it.
Read more: notizie.delmondo.info
From the same writing the post, as "write on this blog makes it seem like he's working hard on something important." Reaching a condition in some ways enviable, because (as always, wrote on his blog) "work less and get paid much more than in all my previous work."
One of the leaders of Emmalee found her diary, and she was inevitably fired.
Not only that, the Labour Court has also denied access to unemployment benefits, since the behavior of the girl showed "fun" to avoid the work entrusted to it.
Read more: notizie.delmondo.info
Man orders prostitute, daughter arrives

The man, originally from Zimbabwe, had called for an agency that provides girls for sexual encounters, to have a night of sex. After a while, came into her room the girl, a beautiful young twenties. The man almost fainted in shock, because the young prostitute was his daughter. She recognized her father, she ran from the room crying.
The man then said he had spoken with his daughter and his wife, apologizing for his behavior, and making promises his daughter that would change lives.
Read more:Upi.com
4 years living in a mall
The slogan of the Providence Place Mall in Rhode Island said "it would be nice to live in our mall."
Michael Townsend decided to try this experience, and so began to build in an old warehouse in the mall a real house, with a bedroom, kitchen and living room.
The entrance was by a secondary parking lot of the mall and it was hidden, so that Michael could walk undisturbed inside.
His desire to grow and build a second bedroom betrayed him.
He has been discovered by security guards who have reported to the police for illegal occupation of their property.
Michael Townsend justified himself, claiming to be an artist, and that his action was in reality a sort of contemporary art installation.
Read more: TgCom
New "bawding school" launched

The headmistress Ylva-Maria Thompson, Swedish by birth, says that anyone 16 years of age, can enroll in the school that is the only one that can be defined as "the world's first college of applied sexuality."
Students live in a mixed dorm sex block in which they are expected to practice their homework.
Added the school head: "Our core education is not theoretical, but very practical The emphasis is on how to be a better lover sexual positions, caressing techniques, anatomical features and teach people hands on .... '
Read more: New "bawding school" launched
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