Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Are you curious about the world's most unusual habits? People can get hooked on things you might never even consider addictive.

Even when we think we’ve seen it all, someone goes viral and introduces us to a brand new world we never dreamt existed.

A decade and a half ago, TLC turned a voyeuristic lens to everyday people with unusual habits in the reality show My Strange Addiction. But the show more often than not covered obsessions rather than ...

These addictions are far from the usual suspects, beyond nicotine and alcohol. Some of these you may have never heard of, but ...

Today’s post is the first of a three-part series looking at some of the stranger addictions that have been written about in the academic literature (or by academics who have tried to argue that these ...