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Bizarre Cultural Traditions
Business and Finance
- 1982 Tylenol Murders, changed the way we take medicine
- Activision Bans 10k for “hacking” with no proof. Ricochet is broken and they don’t know how to fix it.
- Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Steals his employee’s hard work while laying them off
- Are Planes OK? From #PeeGate To Passengers Left Behind, A List Of Bizarre Air Travel Incidents
- Burglars tunnel through Apple Store’s neighbor, allegedly steal $500K in iPhones
- Collapse of SVB and the things to come
- Cruise passenger was victim of incompetence
- Diversity Hirers at Boeing Leads to Some Screws Loose
- EV is a scam
- Expert panel discusses impact of financial literacy on mental and physical health | University of Nevada, Reno
- Explainer: What is fracking?
- FBI Gets Involved in Disney’s “Plans” to Move to Dallas, Texas, Federal Charges Filed
- Five arrested after 33,000 victims lose $98M to online investment fraud
- Fruit & Vegetable Powder Global Market Report 2023: Growing Demand for Health & Wellness Products is Fueling Sector
- Hackers are stealing Gmail messages, using an extension you don’t know you have.
- Hackers use Rilide browser extension to bypass 2FA, steal crypto
- How Lockheed Martin’s Acquisition of Boeing Could Impact the Aerospace Industry
- Johnson & Johnson Proposes Paying $8.9 Billion To Settle Talcum Powder Lawsuits
- JP Morgan mistakenly bought 1.3million rocks claiming to be nickel
- KFC, Pizza Hut owner discloses data breach after ransomware attack
- Reviving Commercial Real Estate: The Corporate Push for Workers to Return to the Office
- Samsung forecasts a shocking 96 percent drop in profits for Q1 2023
- Starbucks fired the employee responsible for igniting the Starbucks Workers United union campaign
- SVB and First Republic Bank Collapse Raises Questions about KPMG’s Reliability
- Tesla Employees Shared Sensitive Images Recorded by Their Cars
- The Dangers of Prolonged Exposure to Medical-Grade UV Lights: A Real-World Incident
- The Trash Mountain of Fast Fashion: A Satellite View of Excess in the Atacama Desert
- The Worthless Carbon Offset Certificates: A Dark Side of Greenwashing
- There is No Such Thing as “Clean Cobalt” and companies like Tesla, Apple, and Samsung Profit From Slavery
- Vanguard and BlackRock: The Dominance of Two Giants in the American Market
Featured
- Activision Bans 10k for “hacking” with no proof. Ricochet is broken and they don’t know how to fix it.
- African lands snails found in luggage at Michigan Airpot
- Arlington, Virginia Police were issuing a search warrant
- Banned SNL Cartoon Still is True Today
- Burglars tunnel through Apple Store’s neighbor, allegedly steal $500K in iPhones
- Celina 52 Truck Stop accidentally hires Satan due to typo
- Don’t Trust China, China is Asshole – has been flooding United States with Fentanyl
- Failure of Carron J. Phillips – Looking at Journalism Responsibility
- Finding treasures and romance in dumpster diving, When you love life is Trash
- In 1986 Ohio, 1.5 Million Balloons Were Released During a Festival but Ended Up a Disaster.
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recently launched a campaign aimed at video game players, asking them to follow the rules of war, So I have to stop teabaging people now
- James Comer and Chuck Grassley have just released a statement claiming the FBI has proof of Joe Biden committing bribery
- Jon Stewart had Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge on his show, where he proceeded to pick apart her anti-trans nonsense
- Restrict Act – Congress is baning Tiktok by eroding your freedom
- Reviving Commercial Real Estate: The Corporate Push for Workers to Return to the Office
- Robert Evans is a Journalist and Podcaster whose work speaks for itself!
- Russia attempts to attract Tucker Carlson and Other Conservatives
- Statistics of gun violence in the US vs the world
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported that his family has earned rental income from a Nebraska real estate firm that shuttered in 2006. People, Wonder Where the IRS is at?
- Texas man uses Apple AirTag to track down person who stole his truck, then kills him
- The Big Cycle and America’s Uncertain Future: Inevitable Conflicts and the Rise and Fall of Global Powers
- The Controversy Over Rotten Tomatoes Critic Scores
- The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide a study by David Rozado
- Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday
- Tucker Carlson Was Released by Fox News, and Surely it has Nothing to do with the Current State of the Network
- US Air Force pilot over the North Sea? Serviceman took off from RAF base in 1970 and disappeared 12 minutes later
Politics
- 1983 When a Soviet Fighter Jet Shot Down a Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Killing all 269 Passengers and Crew Members on Board – A Cold War Story
- After FBI Arrests, Chinatown Leaders Deny ‘Secret Police Station’ Allegations
- Appearance of Pirates in San Francisco Bay Leaves Boaters and Marinas on Edge
- AR-15: The lethal weapon at heart of US gun debate
- China helps Russia set up the great firewall, blocking Western websites like youtube
- China’s Indoctrination of Children: Examining Militarization and Hatred
- Congressman John Rose Accused Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of being soft on Pedophiles
- Dear WTFweekly readers Kings Coronation is here, and We don’t care
- Don’t Trust China, China is Asshole – has been flooding United States with Fentanyl
- FBI detains wrong man in mock raid at Boston hotel
- Finland Officially a Part of NATO in Major Blow to Kremlin and Putin
- Florida officials deleted data, stats from dubious COVID analysis: report
- Google Maps recently updated its maps for Mariupol Ukraine, See What Russian Liberation looks like.
- History Dept. Exploring the Impact of Historical Events on Modern Society
- How the AR-15 became ‘America’s national gun’ and loved by the NRA
- Is The IRS Being Used to Intimidate White House Press Corps Journalist?
- James Comer and Chuck Grassley have just released a statement claiming the FBI has proof of Joe Biden committing bribery
- Japan Breaks With U.S. Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap
- Kansas Republicans vote to bar transgender women from women’s bathrooms, prisons and shelters
- Lauren Boebert Failed Basic Government in Highschool and It Shows
- Maryland attorney general releases report on decades of sex abuse by Catholic priests
- Republicans are losing the battle against marijuana
- Russia attempts to attract Tucker Carlson and Other Conservatives
- Russia is Preparing its Children on How to Dig Trenches, Featuring Fun Cartoons!
- Senate Democrats Call for investigation into Justice Clarence Thomas, Current Behavior
- Send Tucker Carlson to Free Evan Gershkovich
- So You Want to Bribe a Politician
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported that his family has earned rental income from a Nebraska real estate firm that shuttered in 2006. People, Wonder Where the IRS is at?
- The Arizona House expels a Republican lawmaker for her role in baseless testimony
- The Questionable Use of Chinese Communist Newspaper by Matt Gaetz during Congressional Hearing
- Transgender Pastor Claims Nashville Gunman Audrey Hale ‘crucified like Jesus’
- Trump says he expects to be arrested Tuesday
- Tucker Carlson Was Released by Fox News, and Surely it has Nothing to do with the Current State of the Network
- Turkish MP invokes Allah; Gets Allah’s Wraith
- Ugandan president calls on Africa to ‘save the world from homosexuality’
- Ukraine’s Military Adapts to New Challenges with Commercial Technology
- United Kingdom’s Kabul Embassy Gurkha Guards Face Removal From U.K.
- What leaked docs show about U.S.-Russia fight for Middle East
- While our government continues infringing on our rights we do nothing. We will continue to do nothing until we have nothing left
- Why Haven’t They Ended This Circus? California Reparations Task Force demands racial discrimination be LEGALIZED
Science and Innovation
- ‘Liquid Trees’ spark internet debate
- 10 of the Most Ridiculous and Weird Tech Gadgets From the Last 25 Years
- ABDUCTION! Aliens Seize EU People
- After decades of lurking, an elusive bacterium finally strikes in California
- All Dutch govt networks to use RPKI to prevent BGP hijacking
- All Hail the King Crab: Fascinating Evolutionary Journey of Decapods Towards Crabs
- An Extremely Rare, Revered Reptile Is on the Brink of Extinction After Last Female Dies
- Areas That People Think AI Will Impact The Most, Visualized
- Black hole is soaring between galaxies, leaving stars in its wake
- California family shows up on bike thief’s door step with help from Apple AirTag: ‘The look on his face’
- Chemical reactions on the early Earth may have formed its ocean
- Chemistry Reactions explained on the dance floor
- Climate change: Catalonia in grip of worst drought in decades
- Diablo IV Its just a game – North: a collective denounces a “Christianophobe” exhibition in a desecrated chapel
- Eco-friendly tires: Bridgestone goes green in new tire test
- Environment Agency Announces 4-day Strike as Staff Turn down pay offer -Agency Strike Could Affect the UK’s Environmental Goals
- Explainer: What is fracking?
- Florida officials deleted data, stats from dubious COVID analysis: report
- Hackers are stealing Gmail messages, using an extension you don’t know you have.
- Hackers can open Nexx garage doors remotely, and there’s no fix
- Hackers use Rilide browser extension to bypass 2FA, steal crypto
- Historical Phenomenon of Europeans Consuming Egyptian Mummies
- How Different Animals React to Zero Gs
- How Modern-day Collaspe of a Society Could be Measured by Calhoun’s Most Famous Utopia, Number 25
- How to Improve Your Memory Weird Scientifically Proven Ways
- Humans Could Have Wings, Tentacles or an Extra Arm ‘in the Next Few Decades’ Thanks to Leaps in Human Augmentation, Experts Predict
- Hype grows over “autonomous” AI agents that loop GPT-4 outputs
- KFC, Pizza Hut owner discloses data breach after ransomware attack
- Microsoft PowerToys adds Windows Registry preview feature
- Million-year-old viruses help fight cancer, say scientists
- Nuclear power plant leaks 400,000 gallons of radioactive water
- Operation Cookie Monster brought down a massive hacker marketplace – See if your info was there
- Peregrine Falcon Takes the Form of a B-2
- Psychedelic Animals: Exploring Mind-Altering Species in Nature
- Scientist Reveals How to Escape Our Simulation
- Scientists Are Getting Worried About a Pothole in Space
- Scientists Found a ‘Leak’ in Photosynthesis That Could Fill Humanity’s Energy Bucket
- Squirrels: The Unintended Masters of Cyber Warfare
- Star Wars-like laser beam blasts drones out of the sky in footage demonstrating Israel’s new defence system
- Texas man uses Apple AirTag to track down person who stole his truck, then kills him
- The ‘ninjas’ fighting climate change denial on Twitter
- The Astonishing Tale of the Boy with Two Heads from 1738
- The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests
- The EPA proposes tighter limits on toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants
- The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon The striking synchronicity with which Great Awokening terminology increased in news media worldwide a study by David Rozado
- The Hidden Consequence of Using Old Email Addresses from AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Others: Why It Could Be Hurting Your Job Prospects
- The last time me made Contact with Aliens?
- The Trash Mountain of Fast Fashion: A Satellite View of Excess in the Atacama Desert
- The Worthless Carbon Offset Certificates: A Dark Side of Greenwashing
- There is No Such Thing as “Clean Cobalt” and companies like Tesla, Apple, and Samsung Profit From Slavery
- Ukraine’s Military Adapts to New Challenges with Commercial Technology
- Video: Breast-checking device builds map of torso to monitor lumps
- Video: Cyborg cockroaches are now a reality, with batteries on their backs… Why would you make them even stronger?
- Video: Hubble telescope captures stunning spiraling star formation
- Video: Palaeontologists identify a previously unknown dinosaur species
- Western Digital struggles to fix massive My Cloud outage, offers workaround
Strange and Unusual Products
Sustainability and Climate Change
Technology
- 10 of the Most Ridiculous and Weird Tech Gadgets From the Last 25 Years
- All Dutch govt networks to use RPKI to prevent BGP hijacking
- Areas That People Think AI Will Impact The Most, Visualized
- California family shows up on bike thief’s door step with help from Apple AirTag: ‘The look on his face’
- Diablo IV Its just a game – North: a collective denounces a “Christianophobe” exhibition in a desecrated chapel
- Hackers are stealing Gmail messages, using an extension you don’t know you have.
- Hackers can open Nexx garage doors remotely, and there’s no fix
- Hackers use Rilide browser extension to bypass 2FA, steal crypto
- KFC, Pizza Hut owner discloses data breach after ransomware attack
- Microsoft PowerToys adds Windows Registry preview feature
- Operation Cookie Monster brought down a massive hacker marketplace – See if your info was there
- Squirrels: The Unintended Masters of Cyber Warfare
- Star Wars-like laser beam blasts drones out of the sky in footage demonstrating Israel’s new defence system
- Texas man uses Apple AirTag to track down person who stole his truck, then kills him
- The Hidden Consequence of Using Old Email Addresses from AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Others: Why It Could Be Hurting Your Job Prospects
- Ukraine’s Military Adapts to New Challenges with Commercial Technology
- Western Digital struggles to fix massive My Cloud outage, offers workaround
Weird and Unusual
- 10 of the Most Ridiculous and Weird Tech Gadgets From the Last 25 Years
- 1982 Tylenol Murders, changed the way we take medicine
- 1983 When a Soviet Fighter Jet Shot Down a Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Killing all 269 Passengers and Crew Members on Board – A Cold War Story
- ABDUCTION! Aliens Seize EU People
- African lands snails found in luggage at Michigan Airpot
- All Hail the King Crab: Fascinating Evolutionary Journey of Decapods Towards Crabs
- American Food Industry the FDA does not have your best interests in mind: 7 controversial ingredients used
- An Extremely Rare, Revered Reptile Is on the Brink of Extinction After Last Female Dies
- Are Planes OK? From #PeeGate To Passengers Left Behind, A List Of Bizarre Air Travel Incidents
- Banned SNL Cartoon Still is True Today
- Bullfrogs (Lithobates Catesbeianus): The Amphibians that Never Sleep WTF
- Burglars tunnel through Apple Store’s neighbor, allegedly steal $500K in iPhones
- Diablo IV Its just a game – North: a collective denounces a “Christianophobe” exhibition in a desecrated chapel
- Eco-friendly tires: Bridgestone goes green in new tire test
- FBI Gets Involved in Disney’s “Plans” to Move to Dallas, Texas, Federal Charges Filed
- Haunted history: Former jail in Dorchester, N.B., provides unique experience for visitors
- History Dept. Exploring the Impact of Historical Events on Modern Society
- How Different Animals React to Zero Gs
- How Modern-day Collaspe of a Society Could be Measured by Calhoun’s Most Famous Utopia, Number 25
- Married father kills himself after talking to AI chatbot for six weeks
- Minnesota man dies from RABIES after waking up in the middle of the night to a rabid BAT biting his hand
- Peregrine Falcon Takes the Form of a B-2
- Psychedelic Animals: Exploring Mind-Altering Species in Nature
- Scientist Reveals How to Escape Our Simulation
- Sony patents a deformable controller that gets hotter and colder while you hold it
- Squirrels: The Unintended Masters of Cyber Warfare
- The Amazing Sleep Habits of Elephant Seals
- The Astonishing Tale of the Boy with Two Heads from 1738
- The Cold War Mystery The U.S. Military Can’t Afford to Forget
- The Dogs of Chernobyl Are Experiencing Rapid Evolution, Study Suggests
- The last time me made Contact with Aliens?
- The Life of an Axolotl: Understanding the Amazing Abilities of this Unique Amphibian
- The Pope once started a war on cats, which ended up killing millions
- This Baby Yoda Lego Set Any Fan Would Enjoy!
- US Air Force pilot over the North Sea? Serviceman took off from RAF base in 1970 and disappeared 12 minutes later
- Vengeance of the Sea: Orca Whale Gladis Seeks Justice in Gibraltar
- Video: Cyborg cockroaches are now a reality, with batteries on their backs… Why would you make them even stronger?
- WTF in History: Cannibalistic Attack in Miami
- WTF in History: Kent State Shooting
- WTF in History: Mount St. Helens Eruption
- WTF in History: The Dancing Plague of 1518
- WTF in History: The Great Molasses Flood
- WTF in History: The Miracle of the Sun
Weird and Unusual History