Man Suffers Collapsed Lung by Singing His Heart Out During Karaoke
A 25-year-old man wound up in the emergency room with a collapsed lung after straining himself while singing karaoke at a friend’s birthday party. Chinese media recently reported the bizarre case of a young man from Changsha, in China’s Hunan Province, who suffered a serious lung injury by trying to reach the high-pitch tones during […]
Italian Athlete Has 15-Year Online Relationship with Scammer Posing as Supermodel
Roberto Cazzaniga, a well-known Italian volleyball player, was scammed out of over $800,000 over 15 years by a scammer who posed as his online girlfriend and used photos of famous Brazilian supermodel Alessandra Ambrosio. The current captain of the Gioia Del Colle volleyball club was introduced to his online girlfriend by a mutual friend, Manuela, […]
Tech Company Will Pay $200,000 to Use Your Face and Voice on Its Robots
Russian robotics company Promobot recently announced plans to buy the rights to use someone’s face and voice on its robots forever for the price of $200,000. Known for producing hyper-realistic, humanlike robots, Promobot is currently developing “a humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls and other crowded places,” and is in the market […]
Russian Influencers Sentenced to Three Years in Gulag For Pranking Uber Driver
Three popular influencers were recently sentenced to over three years in a Russian penal colony for pranking the driver of a ride-sharing company by pretending to steal his car. In March of 2021, the three bloggers decided to pull another one of their popular pranks and then post the footage on social media. They called […]
Experts Baffled by Goose That Allegedly Lays Black Yolk Eggs
Photos and videos of eggs with black yolks that were reportedly laid by a grey goose have been doing the rounds on social media and leaving experts scratching their heads. The intriguing photos and videos of the black eggs were posted on Sina Weibo last week by a man surnamed Zhu from Hangzhou City, in […]
Businessman Build Taj Mahal Replica Home as Gift for His Wife
In a unique gesture of appreciation and love, an Indian man built a scaled-down replica of the iconic Taj Mahal as a “monument of love” for his wife of 27 years. The original Taj Mahal, the most famous building in all of India, was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a mausoleum for […]
Japanese Artist Creates the Most Intricate Food Carvings
Armed with an Xacto knife and mountains of patience, Japanese artist Gaku turns all kinds of fruits and vegetables into ephemeral works of art. Inspired by the Japanese traditional food carving art mukimono, Gaku takes fruits or vegetables from the grocery store and carves them into a variety of intriguing patterns, from geometrical designs to […]
Vulture Bees Feed on Dead Flesh Rather Than Nectar, Still Produce Sweet Honey
While the vast majority of bee species rely on the pollen and nectar of flowers for nutrients, a few so-called “vulture bees” have evolved to feast on carrion, just like vultures or hyenas. It was only a few decades ago that entomologists made the rather staggering discovery that not all bees feed on pollen and […]
Shocking Photos Reveal How Finnish Fur Farms Fatten Up Arctic Foxes For Profit
Finland is Europe’s largest producer of fox fur, but undercover investigations have repeatedly shown that arctic fox farms engage in dubious practices, such as fattening the animals until they become deformed, just to increase their fur yield. Despite a concentrated effort by PETA and many high-profile celebrities to deter the general public from buying natural […]
The Hyper-Realistic Big Cat Paintings of Julie Rhodes
Julie Rhodes is a UK-based artist who specializes in photo-like hyperrealistic paintings of wildlife, particularly big cats like lions and tigers. You’d be forgiven for mistaking Julie Rhodes’ paintings for photographs, as the differences are very hard to spot for the untrained eye. From her subjects’ intricate fur patterns, to the perfect coloring of the […]
Theme Park Visitor Seriously Injured by Crocodile He Mistook for Plastic Prop
In what can be described as one of the weirdest accidents of the year, a Filipino man was seriously hurt by a crocodile after climbing down into a pool to take a selfie with it, thinking it was just a realistic plastic model. 68-year-old Nehemias Chipada was visiting the Amaya View amusement park in Cagayan […]
Indian “Benjamin Button Siblings” Look Older Than Their Parents
Keshav and Anjali Kumar, two young siblings from Jharkhand, India suffer from two rare conditions known as Cutis Laxa and Progeria, which make them look incredibly old for their age. The Indian brother and sister originally made news headlines as the “Benjamin Button siblings” in 2016. Anjali was 7 at the time, and her younger […]
New Technology Tracks Facial Muscle Movements to Expose Liars
When it comes to telling when someone is lying, we currently have very few options, but a team of Israeli researchers claims to have come up with something better than anything we’ve seen before. Using stickers printed on soft surfaces containing electrodes that monitor and measure the activity of muscles and nerves, a team of […]
Young Father Sets Up DIY Lab to Create Medicine For His Son
Unable to find the medicine his two-year-old son desperately needs in China or even import it from abroad, a loving father set up his own laboratory and synthesized the drug himself. Two-year-old Haoyang suffers from Menkes Syndrome, an ultra-rare genetic disorder that affects how copper is processed and absorbed in the body. The boy cannot […]
Woman Tries to Hire Assassin on RentAHitman.com, Ends Up in Prison
A Michigan woman who turned to a bogus rent-a-hitman website to have an assassin kill her ex-husband was recently convicted for solicitation of murder. The internet is amazing. You can find just about any kind of information or service if you put in the work and do some research, but when it comes to hiring […]