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Ripley's Says 2010 Was 'Another Unbelievable Year' -- Believe It or Not!

The economy may have struggled at times this year, but 2010 was a bull market for weirdness. That's the word from Tim O'Brien, the spokesman for Ripley's Believe It Or Not!, which just came out with its list of the year's weirdest stories. He says that weirdness seems to work whether times are good or bad. "Weirdness...

From Skulls to Straitjackets, This Is Your One-Stop Shop

(Nov. 2) -- Selling oddities is, well, an odd job. Just ask the folks at New York City's Obscura Antiques & Oddities, who have been acquiring and selling bizarre objects in Manhattan's East Village since 1991. "We deal in the odd and unusual, and we deal with the odd and unusual," co-owner Mike Zohn told AOL News. "A lot...

Happy Birthday, Khagendra! You're Now the World's Shortest Man

(Oct. 13) -- Being a 22-inch-tall adult makes it hard to buy clothes, drive a car and do many other things, but it's not without advantages. Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal turns 18 on Thursday and is now eligible to be the Guinness World Records title holder as the world's shortest man. Magar is five full inches shorter...