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  2. Here are some of the weirdest things that happened in 2023 - AOL

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    Tick, mosquito and spotted lantern fly outbreaks made people crazy in 2023. Millions of Americans dealt with a surge of bugs this summer — from spotted lantern flies across the Northeast and ...

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    Lists of unusual things in Wikipedia mainspace (see Category:Lists of things considered unusual) should have an external reference for each entry that specifically classifies it as unusual, to avoid making it a point of view (POV) fork of original research. Still, all such lists risk being deleted for lack of a neutral definition of what counts ...

  4. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    The Egyptian pharaoh and unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt was carried off and then killed by a hippopotamus. [2] [3] Draco of Athens. c. 620 BC. The Athenian lawmaker was reportedly smothered to death by gifts of cloaks and hats showered upon him by appreciative citizens at a theatre in Aegina, Greece.

  5. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Events that can never happen. As a response to an unlikely proposition, "when pigs fly", "when pigs have wings", or simply "pigs might fly". "When Hell freezes over" and "on a cold day in Hell" are based on the understanding that Hell is eternally an extremely hot place. The "Twelfth of Never" will never come to pass.

  6. Rare events - Wikipedia

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    Rare or extreme events are discrete occurrences of infrequently observed events. Despite being statistically improbable, such events are plausible insofar as historical instances of the event (or a similar event) have been documented. [5] Scholarly and popular analyses of rare events often focus on those events that could be reasonably expected ...

  7. List of natural phenomena - Wikipedia

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    A natural phenomenon is an observable event which is not man-made. Examples include: sunrise, weather, fog, thunder, tornadoes; biological processes, decomposition, germination; physical processes, wave propagation, erosion; tidal flow, and natural disasters such as electromagnetic pulses, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes and earthquakes. [1] [2]

  8. Extreme weather - Wikipedia

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    They are defined as lying in the most unusual ten percent (10th or 90th percentile of a probability density function). [2] The main types of extreme weather include heat waves, cold waves and heavy precipitation or storm events, such as tropical cyclones. The effects of extreme weather events are economic costs, loss of human lives, droughts ...

  9. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Horizontal pitch. Horizontal pitch (HP) is a unit of length defined by the Eurocard printed circuit board standard used to measure the horizontal width of rack mounted electronic equipment, similar to the rack unit (U) used to measure vertical heights of rack mounted equipment. One HP is 0.2 inches (1/5") or 5.08 millimetres wide.

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