Marilyn Monroe Didn’t Have Six Toes on Her Left Foot, Alas
Sad but true: Marilyn Monroe did not have six toes on her left foot. Or on her right foot, either. She was a ten-toed beauty. We were unaware of the …..
Posts tagged: Oddities
Jesse Owens Was (Briefly) (Really!) a Coach for the Mets
He had a short “run” with baseball’s most hapless team in 1965.
The Dresses (and Skeletons) of the First Ladies
John Bailey Owen imagines a strange new wing of the Smithsonian.
Eva Longoria and Salty Snacks: Random Photo of the Day
Is posing at the stock exchange with Lays potato chips a sign of being on the way up or on the way down?
Pyongyang Rocks Not Quite Like a Pendulum Do
Google’s Eric Schmidt leads a delegation to the strange little world of North Korea.
Renaissance Art With a Stapler
Artist Baptiste Debombourg created these giant “paintings” by putting staples in a wall. About half a million of them.
Here Is the Very Strangest White House Photo of 2011
With four weeks left in 2011, we can declare a winner in the competition for strangest official White House photo of the year.