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BBC News - Polish man finds bullet in head five years after

90 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 21:32:28 by nursenikkib | 20 comments

A Polish man living in Germany spends five years with a bullet in his head after forgetting he was shot because he was drunk.

5 Inventions You Won't Believe Came From War

313 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 14:31:11 by skateboarding | 19 comments

You can't deny that armed conflicts gave us some pretty good things, such as major advances in everything from rockets to microwave ovens. Oh, and this stuff.

The 7 Most Depressing Theories for Dinosaur Extinction

222 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 18:02:41 by ScenicAnemia | 9 comments

While the popular theories like an asteroid hitting the earth get all the glory and seem all kinds of badass, other theories float around that make the dinosaurs seem like a bunch of bus-sized pussies who just couldn’t hack it.

The 24 Most Mysterious Sightings on Google Earth (PICS)

651 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 00:56:49 by kylescousin | 72 comments

The vantage point Google Earth provides has shown us things we weren't expecting to see.

Simply toss a coin... (pic)

1618 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 20:47:44 by GhostKiller001 | 153 comments

Is this okay to wear on an airplane?

332 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 00:37:49 by Spindig | 156 comments

iReporter Lisa Oaks posted an iReport this week that caught our eye -- a photo of a man in the Dallas Fort-Worth Airport wearing short shorts and a halter top. "This is ok for a male revue nightclub, but not for public daytime," said Oaks, whose husband Mark snapped the shot. According to Mark, the passenger was allowed to board his American Airl

About that racial slur on the receipt, Domino's...

398 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 04:28:26 by alanocu | 159 comments

From unveiling a new recipe to promising more honest ads, Domino's has done a great deal to restructure its image in recent months. And then some jackass delivery guy in North Carolina has to go and ruin the fun for everyone by dropping the "N word" on a customer's receipt.

This What it's Like to Be Inside a Tornado [Vids]

388 votes | submitted 2010-08-24 00:02:36 by CaliforniaEagle | 22 comments

More and more unlucky surveillance cameras are capturing incredible video from inside violent tornadoes. These videos will blow you away.

Tiny Cardboard People Appear All Over Singapore [Pics]

197 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 22:05:40 by ritubpant | 4 comments

Singapore-based artist Anton Tang takes unused plastic figurines and repositions them in Lilliputian set-ups full of humor and pathos, thus reimagining what it means to be human.

The 10 Most Bizarre Sex Ed Videos (a lil nsfw)

214 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 18:41:10 by jboitnott | 11 comments

Here are the most bizarre moments in sex ed videos from a time when adults had nothing better to do than carry around diagrams of genitals and invade the personal boundaries of children.

Nothing Cleans Like Barf (pic)

221 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 17:17:52 by ChrisSaybo | 16 comments

20 Innovative Bicycle Parking Techniques

313 votes | submitted 2010-08-22 04:59:00 by robinbal | 19 comments

Bicycles are convenient vehicles. Provided that you have a lock, parking a bike is not a big problem .... well absolutely no problem for some people. Here are 20 patented examples of innovative bicycle parking techniques.

You know your dinner is going to suck... (pic)

1097 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 18:22:14 by bluenile | 88 comments

This is the Creepiest Sweater Ever [pic]

1688 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 17:34:40 by dynamicdigging | 176 comments

Yeah, this looked really safe from the start

280 votes | submitted 2010-08-23 07:25:44 by zonlyone | 40 comments

This weird shanty house went from 'float' to 'crush' pretty quickly.

7 Sexually Suggestive Products That are not Sex Related

352 votes | submitted 2010-08-22 20:27:09 by webalert | 25 comments

Sex sells. It's a cliché, sure, but that doesn't mean it's not true. Here are 7 sexually suggestive products that have nothing to do with sex.

6 Movie Heroes Who Actually Made Things Worse

1161 votes | submitted 2010-08-22 14:32:15 by 0bamaclintobush | 163 comments

Seriously, can you even call these people heroes?

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