German Granny Has Been Battling Hate Speech All by Herself, for 31 Years
72-year-old Irmela Mensah-Schram is a special kind of cleaning lady. For the last 31 years, she has been travelling across Germany, cleaning its streets of hateful messages, be they propaganda posters or graffiti. She has received death threats from neo-nazis and the police have fined her numerous times, but she continues her fight against racism, antisemitism and […]
World’s First Automatic Toothbrush Takes Brushing Out of the Equation
Technology is changing every aspect of our lives and apparently tooth brushing is no exception. Amabrush, the world’s first automatic toothbrush promises to clean your pearly whites in just 10 seconds, with no effort required on your part. You may never have thought about it before, but you lose tens of hours a year just brushing […]
Umbrella Sharing Company Loses Most of Its 300,000 Umbrellas in a Couple of Months
Sharing E Umbrella, a new umbrella sharing company based in Shenzen, China, recently announced that it had lost most of the 300,000 umbrellas it made available since it launched, in April. China’s sharing economy has been booming, with companies offering anything from bicycles and basketballs to smartphone battery banks on a rental basis. Customers make a […]
Malaysian Man Faces Criticism for Using Plastic Surgery to Look Like Real-Life Anime Character
Amirul Rizwan Musa, a 21-year-old entrepreneur from Malaysia, has recently come under fire in his home country for spending tens of thousands of dollars on plastic surgery that left him looking like a real-life anime character. Amirul, better known by his online name, Miyyo Rizone, became the target of criticism from many of his countrymen, after […]
The Lifelike Digital Portraits of Irakli Nadar
28-year-old Irakli Nadar is considered one of the most talented digital artists of our time. Using only digital painting tools, he is able to create photo-like portraits from scratch. His works are so good that many in the digital art world accuse him of simply applying various filters to digital photographs and passing them off as […]
The Castle of Childhood – Russia’s Fairy Tale Kindergarten
For 150 lucky preschoolers in Moscow, Russia, every day is a fairy tale. Instead of the usual kindergarten, they go to the Castle of Childhood, a real-life fantasy castle where they can play and live out their dreams of being princes and princesses. The Castle of Childhood is often called the coolest-looking kindergarten in the world, […]
Meet Kina Shen, China’s Living, Breathing Porcelain Doll
Browsing through photos of Kina Shen, a young Chinese model with a massive following on Instagram, it’s often hard to tell if you’re looking at an actual human being, or just a life-size doll. There are many girls out there trying their best to capture the living doll look, but few – if any – […]
Filipino “Pixel Art Wizard” Creates Incredible Pixelated Portraits Using Any Medium Imaginable
26-year-old Kel Cruz, an artist from Quezon City, Philippines, is being hailed as a “pixel art wizard”, for his mind-blowing pixelated portraits created with everything from bits of scotch tape and matchsticks, to fingerprints and blood stains. Cruz, who works as a male nurse, used to create pixelated art the old fashioned way, with a […]
Ukrainian Shelter Rescues Dog That Had Been Stuck in Underground Heating System for Three Years
A dog shelter in Nikopol, Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast region, recently received a call from a concerned animal lover begging them to help her rescue a dog that had fallen down an exposed drain and had been stuck there for three years. The shocking story was shared on July 2nd, on a public dog-themed Facebook group, by Elena […]
16-Year-Old Boy Marries 71-Year-Old Woman in Indonesia (No Joke!)
Selamat Riayadi, a 16-year-old boy from South Sumatra, Indonesia, recently married his sweetheart, 71-year-old Rohaya. The two are apparently so in love with each other that they threatened to take their own lives if their families didn’t give their blessing for the controversial union. It’s not exactly clear how and when Selamat and Rohaya fell in […]
Vegetarian Cattle Farmer Who Can’t Kill His Cows Gives Away Whole Heard to Animal Sanctuary
When his father died, in 2011, Jay Wilde inherited the family cattle farm, in Ashbourne, UK. He has been constantly sending cows to the slaughterhouse ever since, but he recently decided he couldn’t do it anymore, so he gave away his heard of 59 cows to an animal sanctuary, where they will live out the rest […]
Indian Villages Allegedly Send the Elderly into Forests as Tiger Prey, to Receive Government Compensation
In a horrifying trend recently reported by Indian media, poor villagers near the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve are allegedly sending their elderly relatives into the jungle as tiger prey, so they can then claim compensation from the government. The disturbing tactic was discovered by officials at the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB) in Uttar Pradesh, who, […]
The “Forest Man of Bangladesh” Has Been Planting a Tree Every Day for the Past 48 Years
They say that one man can’t make a difference, but Abdul Samad Sheikh, a 60-year-old rickshaw driver from Bangladesh, is living proof that small contributions over a long period of time can mean very much. He has planted at least one tree every day since he was 12-years-old, which means that he has so far planted a […]
Chinese Woman Spends $900,000 Building Her Very Own “Palace of Ceramics”
Yu Ermei, and 86-year-old woman from Jingdezhen, Eastern China, has spent around $900,000 and five years of her life building a “palace” completely decorated with ceramic pieces. Most people consider her insane for spending so much time and money on this project, but she says that her life would be incomplete without it. When Yu came up […]
The Old Motorcycle Worshiped as a Deity in India
In the Indian state of Rajasthan, some 50 km from the city of Jodhpur, along National Highway 65, there is a temple. That, in itself, is not unusual, as temples are virtually everywhere in India, but what is strange is that the deities worshiped here are an old Royal Enfield 350cc motorcycle and its deceased […]