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Deputies were called to an ice cream parlour in South Lake Tahoe, California, after the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office received reports of an unusual disturbance on 17 August. Entering the shop, th

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

When famed country singer Willie Nelson’s home caught fire in 1969, he fought his way through the flames to rescue his best friend and bandmate, Trigger. Fifty-six years later, they’re still making mu

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b