Joke Gone Wrong – Retiring Cook Makes Space Cake for Colleagues, Gets Sued
A retiring Dutch cook who wanted to say goodbye to her colleagues in a special way cooked a cannabis-infused space cake for them as a surprise. It didn’t go well… The retiring cook, known only as Mariska, had worked in a Zeeland hotel alongside her colleagues for a long time and wanted to part ways […]
Book Club Has Been Reading the Same Difficult Book for the Last 28 Years
A California-based book club has recently finished its first reading of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’, a notoriously difficult book that it started reading 28 years ago. James Joyce once said that the demand he makes of his reader is that he “should devote his entire life to reading my works,” and some people actually took […]
Japanese Man Grows Banana Trees in the Middle of City Road for Two Years
A Japanese man planted three banana trees in the median strip of a major road in Kurume City and watered them daily for two years before anyone noticed their existence. A 50-something man from Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, was recently ordered to remove three banana trees he had illegally planted and cared for in the […]
Stobnica Castle – Poland’s Controversial Modern-Day Medieval Castle
Western Poland’s Notecka Forest is home to one of the country’s most controversial buildings, a medieval-style complex known as Stobnica Castle. The construction of Stobnica Castle began in 2015, but it didn’t start attracting nationwide attention until 2018, when people started wondering what this gargantuan structure rising up at the edge of a well-known nature […]
Devotees Allow Themselves to Be Trampled by Cattle in Bizarre Ritual
As part of a post-Diwali celebration in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhidavad village, brave men lie on the ground and allow themselves to be trampled by dozens of cattle in the name of religion. The festival of Diwali is marked with various rituals and traditions across India, but none quite as bizarre as the custom of one […]
Mother Stages 2-Year-Old Son’s Kidnapping to Get Ransom From His Father
A Colombian mother is being accused of staging her own toddler son’s kidnapping along with several accomplices in order to get ransom money from the boy’s father. On Sunday evening, November 12th, the news of a young boy kidnapped in Caribe Verde, south of Barranquilla, Colombia, started spreading like wildfire. The 2-year-old had apparently been […]
Man Tries to Take His Own Life After Becoming Convinced He Had Cancer by Doing Online Research
A Romanian man was recently saved by doctors after cutting his wrist with an angle grinder because he was convinced he had colon cancer by simply reading about his symptoms online. The bizarre incident took place on Saturday, in the Romanian city of Botosani. The unnamed man had been depressed about colon pain he had […]
Obese Convicted Killer Released from Prison Because He Can’t Diet Behind Bars
An Italian man who was serving 30 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend was recently released from prison because judges ruled that prison food didn’t allow him to go on a diet behind bars. In 2017, Dimitri Fricano was arrested for killing his girlfriend, Erika, during a heated argument, while they were vacationing in […]
Running-Obsessed Dad Locks Child in Car for Five Hours to Participate in Marathon
A recently divorced woman denounced her husband’s obsession with running, claiming that he once left their 5-year-old daughter locked in a car for hours so he could run a marathon. In an angry post on Chinese social media, Zhao, a woman living in southern China’s Hunan province, said that her former husband’s obsession with running […]
Wedding Photo Shredding Business Proves Big Hit in China
An offline business in China’s Shandong Province has been getting attention for offering divorcing couples the chance to destroy their wedding pictures in a cheap and effective way. Tearing up wedding photos after a failed marriage isn’t as easy as it sounds in China, a country where it’s customary to immortalize wedding stills on tough […]
Guiyang White House – China’s Largest And Most Mysterious Mansion?
The so-called ‘Guyiang White House’ is a gigantic structure located in the posh Huaguoyuan Wetland Park area of Guiyang City, in China’s Guizhou Province. It has gone viral as China’s largest mansion, but you can’t believe everything you read online… Featuring an architectural style usually observed in European palaces and museums, the Guiyang White House […]
South Korea’s Majestic 860-year-Old Ginkgo Tree
Every year, in late autumn, thousands of people flock to Bangye–ri, a village in Gyeongsang, South Korea, to witness the beauty of a majestic 860-year-old ginkgo biloba tree. The secular Wonju Bangye-ri Ginkgo Tree is a national monument of South Korea famous for its impressive crown which currently covers a perimeter of around 17 meters. […]
199 Members! The World’s Largest Family Lives Under One Roof
The village of Baktawng, in India’s north-eastern state of Mizoram, is home to the world’s largest known family, 199 people who live under the same roof in a giant building. Pu Ziona was the patriarch of what was generally regarded as the world’s largest family – 38 wives, 89 children, and 36 children. Ziona passed […]
Uncanny Valley Makeup – The Creepiest Trend on TikTok
Makeup artists on TikTok are busy freaking out their followers with a new style of makeup called “uncanny valley” and inspired by the human-like yet unnatural appearance of androids. The term uncanny valley is used to describe the hypothesized uncomfortable feeling triggered by seeing an entity appearing almost human but not quite so. It is […]
Street Cleaner Becomes Professional Ballet Dancer at 63, Is Living His Best Life
A 63-year-old Chinese man who only started learning ballet a decade ago has gone viral on social media as a living example that you are never too old to follow your dreams. Liu Ziqing has been a fan of ballet for as long as he can remember. He fell in love with it as a […]