No Joke: Russian Online Store Auctions Off 21-Year-Old Man to Recover Debt
After failing to deliver on the contract he had signed with Russian online gift store Pich Shop, a 21-year-old entrepreneur agreed to be auctioned off to the highest bidder and marry a complete stranger for at least one year, in order to avoid being sued. A week ago, a strange listing showed up on PichShop.ru […]
The Unlikely 25-Year Friendship Between a Human Diver and a Fish
Tateyama Bay, in Japan’s Chiba Prefecture, is the meeting place of two very unlikely friends – local diver Hiroyuki Arakawa and an Asian sheepshead wrasse by the name of Yoriko. The pair met 25 years ago and have been visiting each other ever since. Arakawa has been looking after an underwater Shinto shrine located in Tateyama Bay […]
This Exceptional 32-Year-Old Can Speak 56 Languages Fluently
It’s not unusual for youth nowadays to speak more than one language, but 32-year-old Muhamed Mešić is not your typical polyglot. He can communicate fluently in 56 different languages and claims to understand over 70 of them. Ever since he was a little boy growing up in Tuzla, an industrial city in the former Yugoslavia (currently in Bosnia […]