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#1 – Sink or Swim: The Suit Made of More Than 1,150 Corks

A dad from Riverside, Illinois, spent 130 hours turning wine corks into a wearable flotation suit!

Most people throw away corks... Kerry Haulotte kept them! Then he kept saving them until he had enough to build an amazing creation: a full suit made of more than 1,150 bottle corks.

The construction was slow. Kerry drilled a hole through each cork and threaded them together one by one, linking them like a string of pearls until the strands became panels and the panels became a suit. He worked on it in his spare time. When he finally counted up the hours, he'd spent more than...

#2 – 5 Foods Named After Real People: The Strange Stories Behind Them

A hungover stockbroker, a lust-fighting minister, and a maître d' whose cook went missing—meet the real people hiding on your menu.

You've likely eaten all five of these, probably dozens of times, and never once stopped mid-bite to ask, "Who was Benedict?" or "Why Rockefeller?" The answers are often stranger than the food.

Let's dive into the strange stories behind 5 foods named after real people!...

#3 – The Fiji Mermaid: History’s Most Infamous Maritime Hoax

Step right up and explore the legendary lore of the Fiji Mermaid!

Long before Hollywood special effects and digital editing, one bizarre oddity captured the world’s imagination and completely fooled the public.

Known as the Fiji Mermaid, or Feejee Mermaid in Barnum’s day, this eerie sideshow specimen remains one of history’s most famous maritime hoaxes...

#4 – No Man’s Land Fort: The Sea Fortress Turned Luxury Hotel

From military outpost to luxury hotel.

Floating in the Solent between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight sits a massive Victorian fortress with a story almost too strange to believe.

No Man’s Land Fort, also known as No Man’s Fort, was built in the 1800s to protect Britain from a feared French invasion. Instead, it became one of history’s oddest real estate adventures: a military outpost, a private island, a luxury hotel, and the site of a bizarre standoff...

Wired Into Weird

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