In honor of your day of feasting, enjoy this great Mental Floss article showing some of the most bizarre restaurants in the world, including a hospital-themed restaurant and one restaurant that operates out of a prison.
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10 Utterly Strange Fetishes
Over on Oddee, I recently wrote about the 10 weirdest fetishes on Earth. Go check them out for a good laugh!
Esther Verschoor is one of many talented artists working in the underrated field of taxidermy art. Her specialty? Creating disturbingly detailed human women from the carcasses of dead birds and rodents. Be sure to check out the rest of the gallery for more extraordinary art pieces.
The Tackiest Cemetery On Earth
Nothing says class like a tombstone showing you with your pimped out car and listing your mafia name. The Yekaterinburg cemetery isn’t limited to just one or two of these trashy graves though, it’s filled with multiple deceased mafiosos:
In the 1990s, Yekaterinburg was known as ‘The crime capital of Russia.’ Many of the leaders of the Russian Mafia lived there and Shirokorechenskoe Cemetery was the final resting place for many of them. Very expensive tombs, black marble, precious stones, laser-engraved images and life-size granite gravestones are common here. The nicknames of the deceased mobsters are engraved along with some of the things they were known for: He was an expert in using knifes.
For more strange and hilarious graveyards, check out the rest of the list here.
If you want to do well in sports, the secret is to practice and train hard, but if you aren’t a big fan of doing things the hard way, there are always performance enhancers. Of course, if you can’t get your hands on some ‘roids, you can always try some of these bizarre performance enhancers, including strychnine, guinea pig sperm and arsenic.
While the TSA has managed to prove its uselessness and incompetence time and time again, here’s one accident they could have actually done something about. So sure, having to throw away water bottles and nail clippers is idiotic, at least bag X Rays ensure no one smuggles a live crocodile onto a plane which will terrify everyone and cause 20 people to die in a crash. Funny enough, I think this is the nicest thing I’ve said about the organization ever.
The picture above isn’t a scar from an attention hungry cutter, but a sort of rash experienced by someone who has allergic reactions to skin pressure. While intimacy must be a nightmare, it’s nice that she can at least make light of the situation. Read more about this condition and other odd allergies in this Mental Floss article.
The Silly Hobbies of 6 Brutal Dictators
Did you know Saddam loved to write crappy romance novels or that Osama loves volleyball? Learn more absurd facts about some of the most terrifying men on earth with this funny Cracked article.
World’s Longest Dog Tongue
Meet Puggy, the dog with the world’s longest tongue, a record 4.5″. I really wish I knew there was a category for this, because my sister’s dog used to have one that hung even longer. Too late now.
Joy Division Divorce Attorneys
The funniest divorce attorney sign ever… of course, non-music lovers won’t really get this one.