Kind Businessman Is Selling His Restaurant to Help Treat Employee’s Brain Tumor
In a world where getting a kind word from your boss is a huge achievement, businessman Michael De Beyer comes across as one-of-a-kind. Where else do you get to see employers selling an entire business to help out an employee in need? I for one have never heard of such a thing before. De Beyer […]
Star Trek Fan Turns the Basement of Her Home into an Awesome Replica of the Enterprise Deck
51-year-old Canadian social worker, Line Rainville, is a Star Trek superfan. She loves the 1960s Original Series so much that she spent $30,000 to bring the Enterprise spaceship into her basement. Rainville re-created parts of the bridge, transporter room, observation deck, recreation room and Spock’s quarters in her home in Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Quebec. You’ve got to […]
North Sentinel Island – The World’s Hardest Place to Visit
It’s hard to believe that there are people in this world who have no idea about the internet or cell phones. These are tribes that are completely cut-off from global civilization and do not welcome any kind of contact from the outside world. North Sentinel Island, a part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in […]
Iowa Businessman Poses as Homeless, Rewards Generous Passers-By
This Christmas, a businessman from Iowa came up with a very creative way of giving. Posing as a homeless person, Jonnie Wright gave away envelopes of cash to all the people who showed him kindness. On December 24, Wright stood at a street corner for four hours, in the bitter cold, in the Des Moines suburb […]
Indonesian Volcano Spews Hauntingly Beautiful Blue Lava
There are plenty of natural treasures hidden away in the most unsuspecting places on Earth. One of them is an Indonesian sulfur mine, Kawah Ijen, that produces stunning, spectral blue lava. The images of this mine are so breathtaking, I could just stare at them for hours. Kawah Ijen is a part of the Ijen […]
Crazy Aerosol Challenge Has Teens Burning Themselves with Sprays Just for Kicks
There’s always some weird teenage trend or the other doing the rounds online. The latest one has kids spraying aerosol deodorant on to their skin at an extremely close range. They film themselves performing the ridiculous stunt, to see who can endure it the longest. Teenagers all over the world have been taking part in […]
Belgian Artist Steps into His Own Incredible 3D Drawings
Ben Heine, a 30-year-old Belgian artist, creates amazing life-size 3D sketches. He then takes pictures of himself stepping into his own drawings. So he creates incredible images of his real-life self walking a black-and-white tiger, being held at gunpoint, and staring at a hand-drawn self-portrait. Ben makes use of a very interesting technique called anamorphosis. […]
Science Teacher Eats Only McDonald’s Fast Food for 90 Days, Loses 37 Pounds
Now this is what I call a dream diet. John Cisna, a school teacher from Iowa, ate only at McDonald’s for three whole months and managed to lose 37 pounds (16 kilograms)! He even made a short documentary on his experiences. John’s project was inspired by the 2004 documentary film, Supersize Me. It featured an […]
Functional Truck Made of Ice Blocks Is the Coolest Car Ever
A Canadian automotive products company recently built a pretty cool truck, quite literally. It was made of ice! Canadian Tire, in Zurich, Ontario, wanted to advertise the MotoMaster Eliminator Ultra battery that works at subzero temperatures. So they built a frozen truck using 14,000 pounds of ice. They also froze the battery to -40 degrees […]
Elderly Couple Run a Marathon a Day for a Whole Year, Set New World Record
Most people forget their New Year resolutions within a few weeks, some can’t even make it a day. But a Melbourne couple in their 60s have completed what they set out to do, every day of last year. For the whole of 2013, Janette Murray-Wakelin, 64, and Alan Murray, 68, ran marathons every single day across […]
14-Year-Old Can Lift Twice His Body Weight, Is Probably the World’s Strongest Kid
To be the ‘strongest kid in the world’ is a childhood dream that never translates into reality for most kids. But Jake Schellenschlager has managed to come very, very close to this goal. Inspiration hit him when he was 12 years old – when he saw his dad working out one day. Jake hasn’t looked […]
The Atlantic Road – Norway’s Amazing Island-Linking Scenic Route
In 2005, the Atlantic Road was honored as Norway’s Construction of the Year. The National Tourist Route runs between two Norwegian towns – Kristiansund and Molde – that are the main population centers in the county of More og Romsdal in Western Norway. The Atlantic Road (Atlantic Ocean Road) is an 8.3 kilometer long section […]
Romantic Bowerbird Builds Intricate Structures to Seduce Females
The concept of bachelor pads isn’t unique to humans. Male bowerbirds are amazing architects, but they reserve theirs skills for just one purpose – finding a mate. They construct such elaborate and dazzling nests to impress females, perhaps they could teach our men a thing or two about home décor. Male bowerbirds use embellishments such […]
Mystery Surrounds Colombian Cemetery That Turns Buried Bodies into Mummies
The ancient Egyptians spent centuries developing their mummifying techniques, but at a cemetery in San Bernardo, a small Colombian town, corpses somehow become naturally mummified in their coffins. The phenomenon was first noticed 15 years ago, by grave digger Eduardo Cifuentes. “The burial pit was full of bodies,” he said. “I didn’t like stepping on […]