World’s Strangest

As Clark Kent, Superman was raised as a Methodist. While growing up in Smallville, Kansas, Clark Kent attended Sunday church services at the local Methodist church with his mother, Martha Kent, every week until he was fourteen years old. These aspects of the character are not speculative, but are canonical – established by in-continuity published DC [...]

So I’m an MC Frontalot fan from way back. In fact, my second-ever blog post for mental_floss mentioned the man, the legend, the nerd — and the awesome documentary about him, Nercore Rising (now available on DVD, and highly recommended). Well, my man Front has done something amazing and powerfully nerdy — he has embarked [...]

A Taiwanese man with a character known as “Little Gray” completed all 986 objectives in World of Warcraft and finished the game: To reach the milestone the Taiwanese power-player killed 390,895 creatures, accumulated 7,255,538,878 points of damage, completed 5,906 quests (that’s 14.62 quests per day, apparently), raided 405 dungeons and hugged 11 players. Here’s the sad part: [...]

Make your own scary character that pops up out of trash can to scare trick-or-treaters! Instructables user Back Roads shows you how to create this prop that uses compressed air. Link -via Lifehacker

There have been numerous jokes over the years as to what Snow White’s sidekicks should have been named, but these were really options! The original fairytale left the dwarves nameless; theater productions over the years either followed that tradition or made up random names such as Quee and Glick. But Disney wanted his dwarves’ names [...]

Hello Kitty may be a little bit of a trend in America, but in Asia, it’s a lifestyle. There have been Hello Kitty weddings and hotels before, but did you know kitty-obsessed mothers can even give birth in Taiwan’s Hello Kitty maternity hospital? The three million dollar venture has been officially sanctioned by the character’s parent [...]

Sofia Atrill’s cat Humphrey is the real life version of the cat comic character Garfield: he eats only lasagna! Just like the character Garfield, Humphrey the cat refuses to eat anything else and consumes three portions of the pasta dish a day. The bizarre obsession started when Humphrey was a kitten and stumbled across a plate of [...]

What would you add to this cartoon character list of medical afflictions? I’d add Donald Duck (anger or social anxiety disorder) … Does anyone know who originally created the image above so we can credit it properly? – via Accordion Guy See also: Presidential Diseases