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Jessica Leonard, the (former) world’s fattest girl

I’m sure you’ve happened to see a gif with this kid somewhere on the web. What you may not know

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I know, I know, Emadion is already two years old and I’ve never written a post about Halloween. Well, this

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In short The crinoline, the cage of metal hoops that from the mid-19th century widened women’s skirts, was extremely flammable.

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Incubi and succubi are the demons of sleep. They can haunt both men and women, but while succubi take, incubi

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In short The Euthanasia Coaster is a 2010 art project by Lithuanian designer Julijonas Urbonas: a hypothetical roller coaster designed

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There is plenty of strange medical cases in human history: some of them have very well documented evidence, while some

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In short Eye scraping is an ancient Chinese custom still practised by a few barbers, especially in Chengdu: a razor

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In short Since 2013 Marnie-Rae Harvey, an English girl, has been coughing up blood and then crying blood, with bleeding

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In short Skull trepanation may be the oldest known surgical procedure: the first drilled skulls date back 7,000 to 10,000

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In short Ghost marriage, minghun in Chinese, is an ancient Chinese tradition in which one or both spouses are dead.

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In short On 10 September 1945 in Fruita, Colorado, farmer Lloyd Olsen beheaded a young rooster named Mike, who survived

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In short In 1996 the Canadian magician and gambler Brian Zembic, known as the Wiz, agreed to get breast implants

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