World’s Strangest

If you have anything to do with young people or children, you’ve probably noticed the trends in names changing as the years go by. But can you name the top ten names chosen for baby boys in 2011? In today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental floss, you are asked to do just that …in three minutes! [...]

We’ve all heard our share of songs being used in terribly inappropriate manners, but sometimes the worst violations are those involving political campaign soundtracks. Mental Floss has a collection of some of the most memorable, most of which are really bad. Can you imagine Saddam Hussein campaigning to Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love you?” Now [...]

Last year I shared some of the weirdest ice cream flavors in the world with you guys, but Food & Wine has a great collection of other strange ice cream treats ranging from this ice cream molded like sushi to cicada ice cream to ice cream pizza. While some of them look delicious, but the [...]

Do you need a stock photo to illustrate some point in a presentation? Specifically, that you shouldn’t grope your co-workers? Stock photo companies try to meet all sorts of needs, including this one. Abe Sauer of The Hairpin rounded up some of the oddest pictures of sexual harassment from stock photo archives, and this picture [...]

Sacrilegious or just silly? Mark Oestreicher collected twenty of the strangest Christmas creches, many comprised of animal figurines depicting the birth of Jesus. This family of penguins struck me as particularly weird. Link -Thanks, Mark!