Here at Oddee, we’re in the business of bringing you the rarest and most unusual stories. And you can’t get much rarer or more unusual than something that happens once every 50,000 years. And soon it will never happen again. C/2022 E3 (ZTF) is coming. This exceedingly rare comet has entered our solar system and …
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What is a government to do if an object, trend, or phenomenon becomes too dangerous to have around? It’s simple — just ban it. But the thing is, what’s considered “too dangerous” doesn’t always make a whole lot of sense. As you’re surely aware, governments around the world sometimes ban utterly bizarre things based on …
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Anglers looking to catch fish from Rochford Reservoir in England are facing a problem. Soon, there may not be much fish left in the lake. It’s all due to a ravenous seal that’s gobbling down the fish stock of the reservoir. With an abundant source of easy-to-catch food, it seems the animal has no intention …
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What’s better than potato fun facts? Here are all the things you ever needed to know about potatoes. Idaho has a potato museum. The average American eats 138 pounds of potatoes each year. Of that, half is fresh and half is industrially processed (chips, dehydrated potato, canned potato). Idaho is known as the potato state. …
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Most of us have at least briefly fantasized about winning the lottery. With millions of dollars, most of us could afford to quit our jobs, move to an amazing house, and live out the rest of our days in a peaceful, luxurious environment. Unfortunately, this picturesque vision of winning the lottery is rarely an accurate …
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Has something gone wrong in your life? Why, it’s clearly the result of the wicked work of one demon or another! Before humans came up with modern theories of medicine, natural phenomena, and so on, it was common to blame anything and everything bad on demons and evil spirits. That’s especially true if you knew …
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A man’s foot found floating in a hot pool at Yellowstone National Park was found along with hundreds of dollars in cash and some handwritten poems. The cash and poems were found in the missing man’s car. Rangers stumbled upon the foot, still inside the 8.5 size black shoe, in the Abyss Pool Aug. 16, …
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Imagine going to work one day and being told you have to go to dieting classes to lose weight. That’s a reality for some people in Japan. While that kind of law would never pass in the United States, there are equally interesting and curious laws across the world. Most people know about the …
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Did you know that your Christmas tree is edible? Turns out, it is. But, don’t eat it. There are a number of reasons you shouldn’t eat your Christmas tree, if you even thought to do it in the first place. National take down your Christmas tree day was last Friday January 6th. It falls on …
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Dogs have amazing noses. For example, did you know they can even smell out ones and zeros? We’re not making that up. That was the job of URL — a Utah police dog specifically trained to detect people carrying electronic devices housing child sexual abuse materials (CSAM). In other words, URL was at the front …
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