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2025 Strikes Again: A Year That Refused to Make Sense

If you felt like 2025 was unusually strange, the headlines agree. From medieval weapons to drunken wildlife, the year delivered a steady stream of stories that left editors blinking twice before hitting publish.

Topping the list was an incident in Ancona, Italy, where police conducting a welfare check found a man lying calmly in bed with a crossbow bolt embedded in his forehead. He was conscious, talking, and survived surgery. No explanation has ever surfaced.

In Salt Lake City, a lunchtime meeting turned violent when a man allegedly attacked his companion with a wooden stake, claiming the victim was a werewolf — folklore logic applied with complete confidence in broad daylight.

Elsewhere, a professional mermaid performer was bitten on the head by a giant sturgeon during a live aquarium show in China, turning an underwater fantasy into a viral moment seen around the world.

History joined the chaos when researchers revealed an 18th-century Austrian mummy preserved using a previously undocumented embalming method involving materials inserted through the rectum — unsettling, effective, and unforgettable.

Science took a surreal turn as researchers wired mushrooms into robotic systems, allowing fungal electrical signals to influence experimental art and movement, blurring the line between biology and machines.

Nature added comic relief when a raccoon got drunk in a liquor store, staggering through the aisles and becoming an instant internet celebrity.

Pop culture wasn’t spared either, as a brief Coldplay kiss-cam moment exploded into a full-scale viral scandal, while the unlikely Labubu toy counterfeit frenzy triggered global crackdowns over tiny collectible plush figures.

Sometimes strange, unpredictable, even seemingly impossible, reality often beats fiction to the punch.