1. Michel Lotito was a French man known for his ability to consume and digest non-edible objects. He ate 18 bicycles, 15 shopping carts, 7 TV sets, and 6 chandeliers. He even consumed an entire Cessna 150 airplane between 1978 and 1980, and he also ate a coffin. He died of natural causes in 2007.
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2. The skull of a Dunkleosteus, a 5-meter-long extinct fish with an armored skull and bladed jaws. It had an estimated bite force of 5,000 newtons, the highest of any fish in history.
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3. Spudnik-1, a potato in orbit aboard the International Space Station!
(u/astro_pettit)
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4. Up close shots of a rare pink empusa mantis
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5. In 1980, a woman won the Boston Marathon in a near-record time of 2 hours and 32 minutes. Days later, officials discovered she hadn’t run most of the race and had used the subway in a previous marathon to qualify.
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6. This is a sunfish in a Japanese aquarium. It became lonely after visitors stopped during renovations and refused to eat and rubbed its body against the tank walls, showing stress, then started eating again within a day after staff placed human face cutouts near its tank.
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7. The space urinals that went around the Moon on Artemis II
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8. New York, 1982
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9. In India, a woman tricked police and civic teams into cleaning an open drain for 3 hours by falsely claiming someone had fallen into it.
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10. A person selling lanterns in Vietnam.