Weirdest News Stories of 2011
After a hard day, who doesn’t want to curl up and catch some winks on the sofa? At least that’s what seal pup “Lucky” had in mind when he wandered into a house in Bay of Plenty in early December.
While doing a Pilates exercise this month, a 59-year-old woman’s body “swallowed” one of her breast implants. Find out where it ended up
A gambling website purchased strands of the King of Pop’s hair at auction and planned to convert the hair into a roulette ball, to be sold to any interested casino.
When the hosts of this cable science show were testing projectile speeds, one of their cannonballs flew through a suburban California home’s front door, its master bedroom and into a neighbor’s minivan
On Oct. 25, a Brooklyn-based performance artist gave birth to her son, Ajax, in a New York art gallery as an act of artistic expression. Find out what the “exhibit” was called.
In July, fishermen discovered a one-eyed albino dusky shark fetus inside its mother. See photos that many thought were doctored. Find out what happened to the shark.
A Michigan woman sued the distributor of Ryan Gosling’s action/drama over a trailer that she found misleading. What was her main issue with the film?
South Korean scientists cloned a beagle puppy that glows green under ultraviolet light. The puppy is part of a study that hopes to someday find cures for human diseases.
An unidentified 22-year-old woman reported a third nipple … on the bottom of her foot. The growth comes complete with an areola and hair. The dermatological community’s calling it the first report of SBT on a sole.
Zola, a male gorilla at the Calgary Zoo, was taped busting some break-dance moves in June. Watch him in action. His dance skills make sense — his first zoo home was in the birthplace of breaking.
A 49-year-old woman, who was wrongly declared dead, arose at her own funeral The shock of seeing mourners surrounding her coffin caused her to suffer fatal heart failure
A May study reported that cuttlefish are copycats — using mimicking gestures to take on the shapes of nearby objects and even pictures . Why do they do this?
Jesse Mattos lost his high school class ring in a butcher shop toilet 72 years ago and chalked it up to a loss. In May, a sanitation worker found the monogrammed ring and tracked down its 90-year-old owner.
An Israeli couple named their newborn daughter Like, after a feature on social networking site, Facebook. Here’s what inspired the choice.
After viewing a YouTube clip of an 18-month-old kicking soccer balls into a toy bin, a Dutch soccer team offered the tot a 10-year professional contract
A newspaper vendor in Chile has spent 10 years collecting 82 tattoos of his favorite actress. Why does he do it?
A Mexican teen staged a hunger strike in front of the British embassy in Mexico City in hopes of earning an invitation to the royal wedding . She didn’t get an invitation, but she did win a free trip
In February, surgeons in China removed a rusty 4-inch blade from the skull of a 30-year-old patient who, unknowingly, had it stuck there for four years. Find out how it got there.