Have you heard of this already? I was told about it years ago by my friend Andrew, who only said, "Just go here. Spend a day."
It's a listing of basically the weirdest/most-interesting-stuff-you've-never-heard-of-but-would-likely-be-intrigued-by on Wikipedia. There are a lot of sub sections, but the ones I enjoyed the most were probably:
- Technology, inventions and products
- Popular culture, entertainment and the arts
- Food
- Folklore
- Law, law enforcement and crime
And some favourites?
- Acoustic Kitty: A failed CIA experiment at using a cat for covert surveillance.
- Clocky: An alarm clock that hides from its owner (!)
- Capgras delusion: a disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
- Mary Toft: An English woman who hoaxed doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits.
Honestly, I still haven't gone over the whole document because there's just so much. So I have it bookmarked and go every once in awhile. Go here to see what I'm talking about.