World’s Strangest

Spc. Matthew Mortensen is a combat medic, charged with providing aid to wounded front line soldiers, but that was no protection against harm. He was shot by a sniper while on patrol in Baghdad on December 10th. “After I was shot, I had my platoon sergeant examine for a wound and he found one on my [...]

Jeremy Bell of Toronto, Canada, bought a LEGO kit that assembles into a realistic facsimile of a handgun. Naturally, it struck him as a good idea to bring it to work: It was the end of the day so Mr. Bell and a few colleagues decided to wind down by playing a few rounds of the [...]

Here’s something you may not know about me: I’m a sucker for limited-edition candy. Most of the time I can pass through checkout lines with ease, not even batting an eyelash at the rows of M&Ms and Kit-Kats. As soon as you stamp “Limited Edition” on the wrapper and give it a quirky flavor, though, [...]