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Bizarre Human Behavior
In Finland, mobile phone throwing is an official sport with world championships and prizes for distance and accuracy

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Bizarre Human Behavior
In Japan, there are professional line-standers called 'daikō' who wait in queues for busy people for up to $40 per hour

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Bizarre Human Behavior
In South Korea, there are professional video game mourners who attend funerals in online games and cry for deceased players' characters

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Bizarre Human Behavior
In 2009, a Japanese man married his Nintendo DS character girlfriend in a $600 ceremony with 40 guests

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Creepy Discoveries
Scientists discovered a zombie fungus that takes control of carpenter ants' brains and forces them to climb plants before killing them

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Science Gone Wrong
In 1958, the US Army accidentally irradiated an entire town in Tennessee while testing nuclear weapons effects on vegetables

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Dark History
The Dancing Plague of 1518 saw hundreds of people dance themselves to death in Strasbourg over several months

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Science Gone Wrong
The 1904 Olympic Marathon included a runner who hitchhiked half the race, another who was chased by wild dogs, and one who nearly died from rat poison

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Dark History
The London Bridge that was sold to Arizona in 1968 was actually the wrong bridge - the buyer thought he was getting Tower Bridge