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Dishwasher salmon down to the toaster laid on its side. Six kitchen heresies ranked by how good the food is against how likely you are to void a warranty.

Dishwasher salmon down to the toaster laid on its side. Six kitchen heresies ranked by how good the food is against how likely you are to void a warranty.

Ninety-six spoons, thirty-five thousand Big Macs and five hours standing in a box of ice. Ten Guinness World Records that got ratified anyway.

Eight sports with founding dates, written rulebooks and referees with job titles. One of them has an official called the Stickler. Another bans importing your own worms.

Ten institutions built around one very specific obsession each, from 16,000 locks of human hair in a Turkish cave to a nine-metre tapeworm in Tokyo. All of them open. All of them checked.

Wikipedia keeps an internal list of its own weirdest pages. We checked the sources under eleven of them, and the headless chicken was pulling in $4,500 a month.

Ten food pairings the internet calls cursed, sorted into genuine regional traditions and marketing stunts. Exactly one of them turned out to be indefensible.

Eight annual festivals still running, still governed by written rules, and still very difficult to explain to a customs officer. One of them protects spectators with a hat.

Nine documented crazes with dates, named originators and prize money attached. One of them ends in a lead-lined coffin. The receipts are stranger than the folklore.

Live crabs held at 5C, gold bars repriced every ten minutes, and a used car lowered out of an eight-story glass tower. All real, all documented, most still running.

Ten animals from the deep ocean, each with a discovery date, a verified depth, and one adaptation that reads like a clerical error. All real. None of them should be allowed.

We read the actual statutes. Nine laws that genuinely exist, from suspicious salmon to Swiss guinea pig quotas, plus three famous ones that were never laws at all.

Eight monsters ranked against the actual evidence, plus three that already passed the test. One of them turned out to be a coyote with mange.

Nine inventions a real examiner looked at, considered carefully, and approved. Including a locking face mask, a childbirth centrifuge, and a legally protected method of swinging sideways.

The internet's biggest store, curated down to its fifteen most gloriously unnecessary objects. You're welcome, and we're sorry.

Twenty real listings from the marketplace where physics is negotiable and every title is a poem. We read them all so you don't have to. You will anyway.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does put a camera on your face and call it fashion.

Somewhere between the banana slicer and the Wi-Fi salt dispenser, humanity lost the plot. We investigate.

It knows what you did last midnight. It has photos.

In 2015 sock puppets covered Nirvana. In 2026 the puppets don't exist at all. Progress?

Here are five perfectly valid reasons why getting an Apple Watch will make you the most uncool person in the world.

Sock puppets have taken the music world by storm by re-imagining classic songs.