People Keep Showing Up at This House Looking for Their Lost Phones
Since February last year, a host of strangers have been showing up uninvited at Christina Lee and Michael Saba’s suburban Atlanta home, for the weirdest reason – they’re all looking for their lost phones! Much to the young couple’s surprise, smartphone tracking apps all over the city have been directing phone owners to their house. […]
UK Company Is Growing Furniture by Molding Trees into Chairs, Tables or Lamps
Money might not grow on trees, but it seems that furniture does! Gavin Munro, a UK-based designer, has come up with a brilliant alternative to chopping beautiful trees and converting them into furniture. He simply molds young saplings to take the shape of any piece of furniture he wants. Once matured, the trees are ready to be […]
Neft Dashları – A Once Bustling City Built on Oil Platforms in the Caspian Sea
People have been temporarily living on oil platforms ever since they were created, in the early 20th century, but Neft Dashlari, a giant oil platform complex in the Caspian Sea, roughly 40 miles east of Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, serves as a permanent residence to around 1,000 souls. Known as the largest and oldest offshore […]
La Colonia Tovar – A Picturesque German Alpine Village in Venezuela
Venezuela is one of the last places you would expect to find a picturesque German alpine village, and yet… La Colonia Tovar, also known as ‘The Germany of the Caribbean’, is conspicuous for its white houses with timbers and red roofs surrounded by flower gardens, carefully tended fields and creeks with water mills, and its hearty German […]
Meet India’s Moonwalking Traffic Cop
Kunwar Ranjeet Singh, a self-confessed Michael Jackson fan, is also India’s most fascinating traffic cop. Drawing inspiration from his idol, he ‘moonwalks’ his way through his daily duties in one of the busiest intersections of the city of Indore, in central India. The ‘dancing cop of Indore’ has actually come up with several routines to help […]
Family Builds Glass Greenhouse around Their Home to Warm It Naturally
Even though the average temperature in Stockholm, Sweden, is at a frigid 27 degrees Fahrenheit, Marie Granmar, Charles Sacilotto and their young son enjoy a cozy atmosphre all year round. The young couple have managed to harness the power of the sun by encasing their home in a giant glass greenhouse. Aptly named ‘Naturhus’ (Nature House), the […]
Indonesian “Iron Man’ Allegedly Builds Brainwave-Controlled Robotic Arm from Scrap
Wayan Sutawan is being hailed as Indonesia’s very own Iron Man after building a robotic device that he claims can read signals from his brain allowing him to control his paralyzed left arm. This literally unbelievable story started six months ago, when Sutawan suffered a stroke that left him with a paralyzed arm. Having studied a bit of […]
Japanese Company Wants to Sell You These Awesome Levitating Bonsai Trees
Bonsai – the art of growing miniature trees in shallow pots – is pretty cool in itself, but a Japanese company is taking it to the next level with ‘Air Bonsai’an invention that has the miniature trees levitate and rotate about half an inch above their pots. Considering how mindblowing the effect is, it’s easy to […]
Patagonian Penguin Always Returns to the Human Who Saved His Life 5 Years Ago
João Pereira de Souza, a retired bricklayer from Rio de Janeiro, shares a heartwarming bond with a Magellanic penguin native to South America’s Patagonian region. For the past five years, the bird seems to have altered its natural migratory pattern just to be able to visit de Souza several times a year. The unlikely friendship […]
Japanese Taxi Drivers Report ‘Ghost Passengers’ in Area Hit by 2011 Tsunami
In a chilling turn of events, some taxi drivers in Japan are claiming to have picked up ‘ghost passengers’ in the aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the nation in March 2011. As many as seven of the 100 drivers interviewed by Yuka Kudo, a student of sociology at Tohoku, admitted to having encountered phantom […]
This Photo of a Potato Sold for over $1 Million
If you thought spending money on painted firewood logs was ridiculous, you’re not going to be able to wrap your head around this: a man in Paris recently spent a whopping €1,000,000 (over $1 million) on a photograph of a potato, making it one of the top 20 most expensive photos ever sold! To be […]
Bionic Filmmaker Replaces One of His Eyeballs with a Small Camera
Rob Spence, a Toronto-based filmmaker, is so dedicated to his craft that he’s replaced one of his eyeballs with a camera-eye. Before you become too horrified, you should know that he hasn’t taken out a real eyeball, just a fake one that he’s had since he was a kid. 43-year-old Spence – who calls himself an […]
Bizarre Skin Condition Turns Man into ‘Human Suction Cup’
Jamie ‘Canhead’ Keeton, a.k.a the ‘human suction cup’, can stick cans, bottles and other inanimate objects on to his skin. And he does it without using any external adhesives, because his skin’s pores are magically able to “suck up things” and make them stick! Things have always been sticking to Keeton, but as a kid […]
World’s First Caffeinated Toothpaste Jolts You Awake and Prevents Cavities
If you find that you simply cannot start your day without a caffeine fix, but can’t stand the aftertaste of coffee, this toothpaste is just the thing for you. Invented by American entrepreneur Dan Meropol, Power Energy Toothpaste is the world’s first caffeinated toothpaste, designed to give people that much needed morning boost as well […]
The Heartbreaking Story of the World’s Loneliest Whale
Having to roam the world in search of company, constantly calling out for a mate but never getting an answer sounds terrifying and sad, which is why so many around the world empathize with ’52’, the loneliest whale in the world. The solitary whale, named after the distinctive 52 hertz frequency of its call, belongs […]