Using Superpowers to Vanish, a Haunted Painting, & a Flatulent Founding Father

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5. Flatulence has likely been an issue since the first human ever farted. But one Founding Father loved it so much that he wrote a humorous essay titled, “Fart Proudly,” urging a team of scientists to tackle the challenge of making farts odorless.

4. Meet Gustave, the most dangerous crocodile in the world. This aquatic terror has a reputation as fearsome as his size. Is he just a massive crocodile that continuously eludes capture, or is he more of a mythical beast from a long-forgotten past?

3. This painting is unsettling enough just to look at, but the man who owns it claims to hear “crying and moaning” coming from it. As if that weren’t creepy enough, the painting’s haunting background is sure to keep you up at night.

2. This man believed his roommate was a vampire, so he did what anyone would do in his situation and attacked him with a metal rod—since, you know, that’s what you do against vampires.

1.  When the Chinese Communist Party sent police to arrest a woman in China for practicing Falun Gong, she decided to run. Approaching a wall over 10 feet high, she miraculously leaped over it in a single bound, shocking the policemen chasing her.