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Ripley's Believe It or Not is a museum and website full of all sorts of strange stories that seem too strange to be true, but they are. Idaho has quite a few strange stories and several of them have been featured in Ripley's Believe it or Not!

This is interesting. Slate came up with official words or slang terms that help define each state. Some of them make sense and others seem to have make no sense at all. Alabama cattywampus (adjective): crooked, tipped over, sideways, crazy, messed up Who came up with this cattywampus campaign slogan?

AT&T Park in San Francisco is the home of the Giants. It is also known for seagulls flying on the field during games. Thursday night's game against the Arizona Diamondbacks had to be halted in the 12th inning when a chicken tender fell from the sky and landed on the pitcher's mound. Ho...

Women love to find ways to be unique on their wedding day. A Tennessee woman decided to be unique by attaching her one-month-old daughter to the train of her wedding dress.

You can’t make this stuff up. Okay, you can make it up, but many times you don’t have to. From the Washington Post comes a story about a man arrested for dealing drugs, a man by the name of…Cokayne.True story! Last week, Fairfax County Police arrested 24 yr old Kevin Lee Cokayne for dealing drugs...

A Medina, Ohio man pleaded not guilty to what is described as “persistent” disorderly conduct,  and resisting arrest after a couple of incidents, in which the man was acting strangely.  Hmmmm.  More after the jump.