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An offbeat cellular phone number, 6666666, was auctioned for a reported 10 million Qatari riyals, making it the most expensive phone number ever sold in Qatar. Bids narrowed down to two competitors out of a total of eight vying to possess the unusual seven digit phone number containing only the number...

Abbreviations, acronyms, and memes fall in and out of fashion on the Internet all of the time. Today’s “I can has cheeseburger?” is often tomorrow’s “All your base are belong to us.” Some stand the test of time, including phrases like “not safe for work”...

No joke! Health advocates are furious about a McDonald’s ad appearing on the report cards of Seminole County, Florida elementary schools. The ad promises free Happy Meals to kids with good grades, despite promises by McDonald’s that they would ” ban advertising to children under 12...

Japan is really unique and full of offbeat people and inventions. Do you agree?

“George was always the first guy in each morning and the last to leave at night, so no one found it unusual that he was in the same position all that time and didn’t say anything.”