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2012: A look back in the year of weird news
Some really odd stuff happened in 2012
From reports of bears mourning Kim Jong-Il to Queen Elizabeth's unusual Olympics entrance, the world saw many unusual headlines in 2012.
LONDON — Presidential preening, golden Olympic gaffes, a royal windfall for a skydiving British queen on her diamond jubilee and the endless end of days marked the odd stories in 2012 which pranced across the news in "Gangnam Style."
The year opened with a tale that flocks of magpies and bears had been spotted in mourning for North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-il who died in December 2011 and was succeeded by his 20-something son Kim Jong-un.
Winter weather was so cold in Brussels that the Manneken-Pis, a bronze statue of a young boy urinating had to stop peeing because of sub-zero temperatures.
There was slightly warming news about Mondays in Germany, where crematoriums are struggling to adapt to an increasingly obese population and a boom in extra-large coffins.
More: http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/some-really-odd-stuff-happened-in-2012
From reports of bears mourning Kim Jong-Il to Queen Elizabeth's unusual Olympics entrance, the world saw many unusual headlines in 2012.
LONDON — Presidential preening, golden Olympic gaffes, a royal windfall for a skydiving British queen on her diamond jubilee and the endless end of days marked the odd stories in 2012 which pranced across the news in "Gangnam Style."
The year opened with a tale that flocks of magpies and bears had been spotted in mourning for North Korea's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong-il who died in December 2011 and was succeeded by his 20-something son Kim Jong-un.
Winter weather was so cold in Brussels that the Manneken-Pis, a bronze statue of a young boy urinating had to stop peeing because of sub-zero temperatures.
There was slightly warming news about Mondays in Germany, where crematoriums are struggling to adapt to an increasingly obese population and a boom in extra-large coffins.
More: http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/some-really-odd-stuff-happened-in-2012