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1. A 61-year-old Texas man was thought to be a closet drunkard, but it turns out he is a walking brewery. The man would mysteriously become intoxicated at public functions, including church. His wife, a nurse, gave him a breathalyzer and it once read .4 percent, five times the legal limit. After a hospital stay where doctors monitored his intake, he was discovered to have a very rare condition called Auto-Brewery or Gut Fermentation Syndrome. Basically, due to certain bacteria which are present in his stomach, it was periodically churning out beer and getting him smashed. He was treated with antibiotics which shut the factory down before Budweiser could come calling.

2. A man from Winder, Georgia tried to prove that his wife was out to kill him by posing as her boyfriend. Texting her and using the name “Don Juan,” the husband convinced his wife that he knew people who could have him killed. A series of messages ensued, in which his wife and “Don Juan” plotted the deed and even agreed to split the insurance. Once he felt that he had enough evidence, the husband went to the Barrow County Sheriff's Department and had a deputy read the texts. The deputy informed the man that this is called “entrapment” and advised him to stop harassing his wife or get a restraining order if he truly feared for his life.

3. A ceramic bowl was bought at a yard sale for $3 in 2007 and sat on a fireplace mantel for years. The owner (who declined to reveal their name) became curious about its origins this year, and soon discovered it was a rare bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty, which ruled China from 960 to 1127. The only other known bowl from the same era is at the British Museum. Southeby's auctioned the bowl for a cool $2.2 million. What's on your shelves?