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Strange Deaths: More Than 375 Freakish Fatalities. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 14. ISBN 978-0-7607-1947-3 – via Google Books. Sieveking, Paul (1998). The Fortean Times Book of More Strange Deaths. John Brown. ISBN 978-1-902212-02-9. Sieveking, Paul (2011). The Fortean Times Book of Strange Deaths. Russell Blackman.
"James Otis, American patriot, struck and killed by lightning." - Nothing unusual there: lightning kills about 500-700 people a year. In the world it's said to be 1171 a year. However in a year something like 57 million people die. Although things like getting crushed by reptiles is far rarer, lightning deaths are unusual.--
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology.
Roughly 16% of all people who log in to Facebook do so solely to shop on Marketplace. 7% of all Facebook users in the United States have bought something on Marketplace, compared to 14% of all ...
5. Bubble Tape: ‘For You, Not Them’ Bubble Tape commercials from the ‘90s often portrayed adults as weird, over-the-top villains, with exaggerated features and bizarre behavior that seemed ...
Telling people to put rose quartz in a corner of their home or tie red ribbon around their sink pipes may be odd, but learning about feng shui and helping others incorporate its rules (your front ...
A sexual fetish that involves people swimming, posing, or even drowning in water. Armpit fetishism/maschalagnia Armpits. [3] Asphyxiophilia: Asphyxia or strangling of oneself or others. [5] [17] Attraction to disability: People with one or more physical disabilities. [18] Autagonistophilia: Being on stage or on camera. [19] [20] Autassassinophilia
People may perceive the individual's eccentric behavior as the outward expression of their unique intelligence or creative impulse. [2] In this vein, the eccentric's habits are incomprehensible not because they are illogical or the result of madness, but because they stem from a mind so original that it cannot be conformed to societal norms .