by | Jan 15, 2018 | Weirdness
from The San Francisco Chronicle 199-MPH Sierra wind gust sets California record By Amy Graff A gust that blasted the summit of a peak at Alpine Meadows in February was the fastest non-tornado wind recorded in the United States in 2017. The 199-mph gust was also the...
by | Jan 14, 2018 | Weirdness
from TIME Why Is Tennis Scored So Weirdly? By MERRILL FABRY Do you have a question about history? Send us your question at history@time .com and you might find your answer in a future edition of Now You Know. All sports have their own vocabularies, the shorthand lingo...
by | Jan 13, 2018 | Weirdness
from RT Giza Pyramid mystery chamber may hold Pharaoh’s ‘meteorite throne’ © Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters A huge void discovered inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt late last year may hold an iron throne carved from meteorites, according to new...
by | Jan 12, 2018 | Weirdness
from The Sun BLOODY VIOLENT: Inside the bloody world of hardcore wrestling where fighters brawl with shards of glass, barbed wire bats and fan-made weapons in ultra-violent ‘death matches’ These shocking pictures show hardcore wrestlers fighting until they are...
by | Jan 10, 2018 | Weirdness
from AFP via Yahoo! Deep, buried glaciers spotted on Mars By the 2030s, NASA hopes to send human explorers to Mars, the surface of which is seen in a May 2017 handout photo covered in carbon dioxide snow and ice, different from the buried glaciers researchers have...
by | Jan 8, 2018 | Weirdness
from The Daily Express Top SECRET US satellite launched by SpaceX aims to send ‘unknown group’ MYSTERY messages SPACEX are to launch a top-secret satellite codenamed project Zuma this Friday, the US Air Force confirmed. By TARYN TARRANT-CORNISH SpaceX cut...
