Man Allergic to His Own Orgasm Actively Avoids Sleeping With Girlfriend
A 27-year-old man dubbed the “unluckiest man alive” suffers from a rare disease that causes him to experience flu-like symptoms whenever he orgasms. The unnamed man’s case was recently reported in the medical journal Urology Case Reports by a team of doctors who successfully managed to treat the condition with antihistamine. Scientists described the man’s […]
Artist Uses Hundreds of Dead Insect Body Parts to Create ‘Frankenstein’ Warriors
A young biology graduate and former taxidermist from Ghent, Belgium, creates warrior figurines out of hundreds of dead insect body parts. 28-year-old Joos Habraken typically spends between 20 and 30 hours working on each of his ‘Frankenstein bugs’, fantastic creatures born out of his imagination and featuring intimidating names and impressive backstories. He uses body […]
Doctor Removes 23 Forgotten Contact Lenses From Patient’s Eye
A California ophthalmologist recently shocked the internet by posting a video of herself extracting 23 forgotten contact lenses from a patient’s eye. Last month, Katerina Kurteeva, an eye doctor out of Newport Beach, California, posted an Instagram video of herself carefully removing a few contact lenses from a patient’s eye. ‘A few’ maybe isn’t the […]
Gadget Funeral – The Lucrative Service of Preserving Old and Broken Gadgets
A unique “gadget funeral” service allows people to preserve outdated and broken devices that they have become attached to. They say you shouldn’t get attached to material things, but most of us can’t really help it. Whether it’s our first car, the house we grew up in, or even an old phone, we tend to […]
Student Tries to Cheat on Law School Exam with Intricately Etched BIC Pens
A Spanish law school teacher recently shared one of the ingenious methods that one of her students used to cheat on an exam – a dozen of artistically etched BIC pens. Yolanda de Lucchi, a teacher at the University of Malaga, in Spain, recently shared a couple of very interesting photos on her Twitter account. […]
Gullible Woman Scammed Into Paying $30,000 to Help ‘Astronaut’ Return to Earth
A Japanese woman was somehow fooled into paying 4.4 million yen ($30,000) to help a “Russian astronaut” she had met online return to Earth from the International Space Station. It’s not often that we feature news stories worthy of an “Idiocracy” sequel, but this is definitely one such rare occasion. To be honest, had it […]
60-Year-Old Grandpa Undergoes Impressive Body Transformation in Only One Year
A 60-year-old grandfather from Leeds, in the UK, has become an inspiration for people less than half his age after going from ‘dad bod’ to ‘ripped’ in just one year. Looking at Steve Ramsden today, it’s hard to believe that only a year ago he was an overweight borderline diabetic struggling with high cholesterol. But […]
The World’s Highest ATM Sits Atop a 4,693-Meter-Tall Mountaintop
The highest-altitude cash machine in the world is located at the Khunjerab Pass border between China and Pakistan, at an elevation of 4,693 meters. Over the past few decades, the ATM has become one of the world’s most ubiquitous pieces of technology, but you wouldn’t expect to see one while trekking through the snow-covered mountains […]
Crocodile Crawling – Bizarre Back Relief Exercise Takes China by Storm
Thousands of people in China are taking up “crocodile crawling” classes, a weird type of back relief exercise inspired by the movement of a crocodile. Multiple news outlets in China have been reporting on a new health trend with dozens of people joining large groups and moving around on all fours. Viral videos shot in […]
The Gresham Lumberjack – Oregon’s Mysterious ‘Tree Serial Killer’
Authorities in Gresham, a suburb of Portland, Oregon, are trying to catch the infamous “Gresham Lumberjack”, a person who is suspected to have cut down around 700 trees in the area for no apparent reason. A special task force put together by Gresham Police and the Parks & Recreations has been scouring thousands of photos […]
Japanese “Plastic Surgery Twins” Stun the Internet With Their Transformation
Twin sisters Chie and Chika Yoshikawa are famous in their home country of Japan for turning to plastic surgery repeatedly to attain their desired looks. Comparing photos of Chie and Chika Yoshikawa from their early twenties and now – at age 34 – you could swear they were completely different people. It’s fair to say […]
Crossed Letters – A Vintage Way to Save Money and Paper
Back when paper and postage charges were prohibitively expensive, people developed a technique to convey as much information as possible on as little paper as possible. We’re privileged to live in an age when paper, writing supplies and postage fees are generally affordable, so much so that most of us take them for granted. But […]
Tarzan of Barcelona Teaches Monkey Climbing Classes in Public Park
A man known as Tarzan of Barcelona has been drawing a lot of attention with his monkey-inspired tree-climbing classes taught in the Spanish city’s Parque de la Ciudadela. Ever wish you could climb trees and leap from branch to branch like Tarzan, the protagonist of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ famous novel and the many big-screen adaptations […]
Man Who Has Never Been on a Date Tries to Find Love With Billboard Ad
A 23-year-old English man who has never been on a date in his life is trying to find a girlfriend by advertising himself on a large highway-side billboard near his home city. Ed Chapman claims to have spent his teenage years and his early 20s trying to find a girlfriend using more conventional means, like […]
Walking Robot Dogs Is Apparently Becoming a Trend in China
Photos and videos of people walking futuristic robot dogs instead of actual canines have been going viral in China lately, signaling a trend among the younger generations. Robotic dogs inspired by the impressive creations of Boston Dynamics have been available on Chinese shopping platforms for a while now, but they’ve only recently started actually becoming […]