In a pairing for the ages, meet the Sumo wrestler and the baby. They look alike, they wear the same kind of clothes, they are both adorably chubby and bare-butted … They go together like peas and ...

Every year, Japanese sumo wrestlers stealthily creep like ninja manatees into local maternity wards around Tokyo and abscond with local babies. The aim? To make these young neonates compete in the ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Usually getting a baby to stop crying is the hard part of any parents’ day, ...