r/offbeat 5d ago

Woman wakes to find bat on her mouth: 'The bat is trying to get in my mouth'

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350 Upvotes

r/offbeat 5d ago

Fells Point driver tried to run over officer twice over $30 citation

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56 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

Judge orders farmer to destroy nectarine orchard after he gave away 180,000 pounds

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2.5k Upvotes

r/offbeat 5d ago

The epic La Tomatina food fight drew foreigners to paint a small Spanish town red

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10 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

Petition To Name the Ballroom for President Obama In Perpetuity

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1.6k Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

With ropes and chants, thousands move Japanese castle

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175 Upvotes

IF I did the math correctly, 400 tonnes equals 881,849.00 pounds.

  • Chanting in unison, hundreds of volunteers in northern Japan heaved on ropes on Wednesday to pull a 400-tonne castle back towards its original position.
  • The imposing fortified tower of Hirosaki Castle was shifted 80 metres (262 feet) in 2015 to allow for essential repairs to the stone walls that support it.

r/offbeat 5d ago

The Batman Part 2 Set Reportedly Has an Irn-Bru Stashing Problem in Glasgow

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15 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

Plastic Bottles Into Vanilla-Flavor Cookies: New Invention To Tackle Plastic Pollution and Food Scarcity Issues

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30 Upvotes

r/offbeat 6d ago

Bride and groom bedridden for days after norovirus-tainted wedding meal, lawsuit says

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737 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

Man faces 8 years in prison after placing fake $10,000 food order to stranger’s address

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967 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

‘The concert cannot take place’: Russian stadium pulls plug on Kanye West show

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404 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

Wisconsin kitten with 29 toes breaks world record for most toes on a cat

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96 Upvotes

r/offbeat 7d ago

Woman, 37, pretended to be an autistic 12 year-old girl to trick family into adopting her

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803 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

Wisconsin cat has 29 toes and a Guinness World Record

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260 Upvotes

That's a LOT of toe beans:)

  • Guinness World Records has officially recognized a cat in the Fox Valley for an unorthodox feat.
  • Erebus Anomaly has more than nine lives — he has 29 toes.
  • The genetic trait that caused it, polydactyly, is a naturally occurring one in cats, especially in Maine Coons. But Erebus takes it to a whole new level.
  • Kendra and Hunter of the Blue Northern Maine Coons quickly realized that they might have a world record holder on their hands after Erebus was born, and got to work counting his toes.
  • And sure enough, they were right. After completing the verification process required by Guinness, Erebus is now the world record holder for the most toes on a cat.

r/offbeat 8d ago

‘A sucker born every minute’: The man who duped tourists with a fake Greek amphitheater

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371 Upvotes
  • Of the eight TripAdvisor reviews of the amphitheater near Arcugnano, in Italy’s northern Veneto region, all give fulsome, five-star praise.
  • “An enchanting place,” reads one review.
  • “A world beyond space and time,” enthuses another. “Definitely one of the best places I have ever been to,” raves another.
  • “Unique on the planet,” writes another visitor. That last one was prescient, because the theater certainly was unique. It wasn’t Greek, as it purported to be. It wasn’t even Roman.

Instead, the “kind custodian” who was “more or less a historian, and an excellent narrator,” as one other visitor dubbed him, had built it himself. This month, after a 10-year legal battle, the owner has been jailed for forging works of art, carrying out building works without authorization, and destroying a protected landscape.


r/offbeat 8d ago

Shots fired at Indianapolis city councilman's home after vote on proposed data center

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904 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

2026-27 Asian Season to Be Held Entirely in Europe

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5 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

Completely off the wall: The Polish village where Van Gogh lives on

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25 Upvotes

The village has been called one of the wonders of Poland for its mesmerizing Van Gogh murals.


r/offbeat 9d ago

Western man teaching English in Asia, discovered to be a fugitive on America's Most Wanted List, accused of sexual abuse and murder

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621 Upvotes

r/offbeat 8d ago

What should I name her?

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She’s currently a street cat that I’ve been caring for but can’t figure out what to name her, any suggestions?


r/offbeat 10d ago

Father leaves 7-year-old son alone on Mount Fuji to continue hike

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1.6k Upvotes

IF this is a dup, let me know and I will delete.

  • A father has been reprimanded by police after leaving his son on Japan's highest mountain for several hours with just a soft drink and snack.
  • The seven-year-old was spotted sitting on a bench on Mount Fuji in foggy and rainy conditions, at a point situated at over 2,000m (6,500ft).

His father, 48, reportedly told him to "wait here" (for him) after the boy complained he was tired - and continued the climb with his elder son.

  • Staff at a mountain hut found the child near the sixth station of a hiking route towards the summit and alerted police. His father was tracked down between the route's seventh and eighth stations - said to be a three-hour hike away.
  • The boy was found on his own at 07:30 local time on Thursday (22:30 GMT).

r/offbeat 10d ago

Fishermen survive 5 days stranded in Pacific Ocean using cooler as makeshift boat

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535 Upvotes

r/offbeat 9d ago

From Hurricane Debris to Coastal Masterpieces: Katrina’s Fallen Trees Reborn as iconic works of art found up and down the Gulf Coast in South Mississippi.

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39 Upvotes

r/offbeat 10d ago

Houston-area man headed to prison after shooting bald eagle

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62 Upvotes

r/offbeat 11d ago

We Tested 13 Electric Scooters. We Don’t Recommend Any. - Consumer Reports

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849 Upvotes