26 weird and wonderful facts -- Rugby World Cup final in numbers

It has taken 179 meetings between New Zealand and Australia -- the most-played match in international rugby union history -- before one of them was a World Cup final.

Given that between them they've been in six of the seven previous finals, it remains something of an oddity that they've not previously coincided there.

Three times -- in 1991, 2003 and 2011 -- they ran into each other in the semi-finals. On two other occasions, 1987 and 1999, a meeting was expected but one of them failed to make the appointment, in each case losing a semi-final to France.

Australia went down in the quarter-finals to England in 1995, but the real odd one out is 2007. Both fell on the same day in the quarter-finals, paving the way -READ MORE-http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/story/_/id/14007605/rugby-world-cup-final-numbers-26-weird-wonderful-facts-including-ultimate-richie-mccaw-statistic

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The Haunting of Meatloaf Is Exactly As Weird As It Sounds

This week the Lifetime Movie Network show The Haunting Of achieved utter weirdness with its spotlight on Meatloaf.

To be clear, that’s Meatloaf, the singer and actor of Rocky Horror Picture Showand Fight Club fame, not meatloaf, the thing your grandma makes for dinner when you visit her on Sundays. The Haunting Of shows “psychic medium” Kim Russo running interference between the spirit world and celebrities (and, more often, “celebrities” ... lookin’ at you, Tom Green). And this time, it was Meatloaf’s turn.

According to the show, Meatloaf (who insists that Kim Russo call him “Meat,” because everybody does) had a supernatural experience while recording his -READ MORE-http://io9.com/the-haunting-of-meatloaf-is-exactly-as-weird-as-it-soun-1738349647

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The Really Weird Thing About Movie Premieres That Take Place In Japan

Thanks to things like the internet, the world is becoming a much closer global community. We’re exposed to different cultures every day and we get a new understanding of different peoples and how their traditions differ from our own. Turns out some countries are weird, and movie premieres are very unusual.

Jurassic World’s Nick Robinson spoke to ScreenRant recently and he happened to mention his experience at the Japanese premier of the film. It turns out that movie fans don’t react to movie stars the same way there that they do here. He said:

...here [in the USA] you go to the movie premiere and people are screaming. There [in japan] it is dead silence..[but] everyone just waves at you. It’s crazy. It’s unlike anything I have experienced in my… life.

So the limo pulls up, you get out with a big smile for your fans, and you can hear a pin drop. And everybody’s waving at you. Honestly, the entire thing sounds more than a little creepy. I’ve never walked down the red carpet at a movie premier, but the idea of being surrounded by crowds of people waving at you while remaining utterly silent sounds like something out of a horror movie. I’ a-READ MORE-http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Really-Weird-Thing-About-Movie-Premieres-Take-Place-Japan-88867.html

Something Weird Is Happening With Placebos in America

Americans like their placebos. (Image via AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Figure this one out: The fake drugs we know as placebos seem to be getting more and more effective in the US. That strange finding comes out of a new analysis in the journal Pain, which looked at medical studies going back to 1990. 

It turns out that people who take placebos in studies today experience a 30 percent decrease in pain levels, a decrease that has dramatically increased from nearly a quarter century ago, say researchers out of McGill University in a press release. 

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The scientists theorize that people today have higher expectations about drugs, and when they’re participating in a big, fancy study — studies have-READ MORE-https://www.yahoo.com/health/something-weird-is-happening-with-placebos-in-180511779.html

Scientists are sharing weird animal sex facts on Twitter

Remember #JunkOff, the hashtag that had scientists sharing animal genitals all over Twitter? Now there's a hashtag to celebrate all manner of weird animal sex. Because the equipment isn't always the weirdest part.
Here are our favorite submissions to #HumpOff. If you're looking for more fun science, check out the Real Scientists Twitter account. Every week it's curated by a different scientist. #HumpOff was dreamed up by this week's curator, evolutionary biologist Tom Houslay.READ MORE