Toby Gormley of Whittset, Texas, had spent nearly his entire 14-year life collecting insect and arachnid specimens with one purpose. And in an astonishingly unlikely turn of events, he was, in fact, able to irradiate the specimens, blend them into a bug smoothie, and consume it to gain the strength of a Goliath beetle, the flight abilities of a cicada, the urticating hair of a tarantula, the deterrent scent glands of a stink bug, and a number other superpowers with varying degrees of practical application.

This charming little character was a lock for gold in the Wind-Up Toy Olympics with a perfectly executed loopsy-doo followed by a flawless round-he-goes. Sadly, however, his routine fell apart on the dismount. Because he couldn't dismount. Because of the wires. He was attached to the bar with wires.

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Medieval physicians believed the caladrius, a mythical bird, would absorb disease from a person’s body and fly into the sun to dispel it. This comb, thought to be crafted from the bone of a caladrius, offers a choice: run it through your hair and have any sickness removed, no matter how dire—but it will be replaced with what was taken from its previous owner.

On occasion, the radio was able to capture frequencies from beyond time and space, giving Bernice Frankmacher a glimpse of, for instance, a world in which the Jacobite revolution of the early 18th century had resulted in Scottish predominance in the global cultural influence of the colonial British Empire'big band music sounded much different with bagpipes!

This hat was meant to complete the lead character's costume in the Greater Topeka Middle School for the Performing Arts' original production "Napoleon: The Musical." Sadly, during the rehearsal of the finale, "You Had Me At Waterloo," he broke both legs falling from the third story of an ill-constructed set of the HMS Bellerophon, and the show was cancelled.

During her honeymoon in Haiti, Irine Beckner was surprised to learn that women there would regularly carry on their heads up to 70% of their own body weight in things like, just to take a random example, hand-carved souvenir statues!

Sergeant Smasher was smashing R.A.T. battle androids a little more mercilessly than usual on this mission. His kids had decided to give his beloved KA-BAR a “glow up” for Fathers Day, and he was not in the mood for that smirk from the Weasel Warlord. That guy was getting punched extra hard today.

David always got to be the hero, got the best of everything. David the Congressman. David the frontiersman. David the big shot war hero. Well, Richard thought as he unlocked the back gate, General Santa Ana promised me everyone will remember the name Ricky Crockett after this!

Discovered by Mayanist Wilhelm Östentner in 1917, this mask granted its wearer the ability to comprehend the Dresden Codex of pre-Spanish Mayan glyphs. Wilhelm was the first and last to wear it in modern times, however, as it also transformed its wearer into a serpent by day and a jaguar by night, a servant to the gods Kukulan and Ek' Chuah.