15 Most Bizarre Articles Hiding On Wikipedia
6. Kentucky Meat Shower
Remember that episode of Fargo when fish suddenly start falling from the sky? You might have seen that and thought the show had become too unrealistic, but something pretty similar actually happened back in the 1800s.
According to this magnificent article, in 1876, a bunch of meat started to fall from the sky one day in Kentucky. Two guys who tasted some speculated it was either mutton or venison, although should you really trust the judgement of a person who would eat random pieces of meat they found lying on the ground?
It was later identified as lung tissue from a horse or a human infant, a report that probably made those two gentlemen who willingly consumed it rethink their entire lives.
The hypotheses section offers a couple of explanations, the primary one being that buzzards or vultures vomited it up. There has never been a definitive answer, though, and the reader is left with so many questions. The post dedicated to the word "joke" is 7,000 words long, yet this unsolved mystery of falling meat gets a mere three paragraphs?