Posted By: Paul - Fri Aug 05, 2022 -
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Category: Entertainment, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Cats
The film's scenario is at times comic or serious, and one of its peculiarities is that there never is any explanation for Ratboy's origin and existence as a human-rat hybrid.
Ratboy had a troubled production[2] and was both a critical and commercial failure
Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 23, 2022 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Movies, 1980s
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 16, 2021 -
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Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Humor, Hygiene, Regionalism, Natural Wonders, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 10, 2021 -
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Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Natural Wonders
In cool maritime climate of Baja California Sur, creeping devil cacti can grow at a rate of up to two feet per year, forming large, sometimes impenetrable colonies of thorny stems, but when transplanted to more arid climates, their growth rate drops to two feet per decade. But even in their endemic environment, these succulents are isolated from pollinators so they rely on self-cloning for survival.
As it grows parallel to the ground, the stem of the creeping devil cactus will start to take roots toward their tip, and once it is solidly fixed into the sandy soil, the old body dies, rotting and eventually turning into nutrients that help the new stem grow. It is this process that also allows the cactus to creep through the desert over time. In a way, the cactus has to die in order to survive.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 03, 2021 -
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Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Nature, Natural Wonders, Regionalism, North America
Edmonton Journal - Feb 15, 1980
Posted By: Alex - Sat Feb 27, 2021 -
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Category: Forteana, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Human Marvels, Science, Eyes and Vision
Alligator Boy
Fiji Mermaid
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 22, 2018 -
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Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Human Marvels, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand
Theodore Judd Serios (1918-2006), a bellhop from Chicago who appeared to possess a genuinely uncanny ability. By holding a Polaroid camera and focusing on the lens very intently, he was able to produce dreamlike pictures of his thoughts on the film; he referred to these images as "thoughtographs..."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 28, 2018 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Photography and Photographers, Unsolved Mysteries, 1960s
Green Bay Press Gazette - July 20, 1965
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 22, 2017 -
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Category: Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, 1960s
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jan 16, 2016 -
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Category: Animals, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Health, Nature
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