A 24-year-old mother from Helsingborg, Sweden, was recently convicted of harassment after cracking an egg on her daughter’s forehead for a TikTok video. In 2023, a controversial trend went viral on TikTok – parents all over the world started filming themselves pranking their small children by cracking eggs on their foreheads. Many saw this as harmless fun, even though in certain cases, the kids hardly ever joined their parents in laughter. But one particular case in Sweden recently made national news headlines after a young mother was convicted of harassment for humiliating her daughter by cracking an egg on her forehead for the amusement of her viewers. The 24-year-old woman insisted that it was just a silly prank and that everyone was doing it on TikTok at the time, but that wasn’t enough to impress the judge. Read More »

A 42-year-old Spanish man has been unable to ingest any food or liquids for three weeks after taking a simple sip of bottled sparkling water at a restaurant. Pablo González, a 42-year-old businessman from Salvaterra de Miño, Spain, has been hospitalized in the city of Vigo since April 12, when he suffered a bizarre accident that has yet to be explained. After eating at a tapas-style restaurant with some friends, González ordered a bottle of sparkling mineral water along with a glass of ice and a slice of lemon. The water was a well-known brand, and the glass bottle looked properly sealed, from what he can recall, but what he can remember clearly is the burning sensation in his mouth mere seconds after taking his first sip of it. Read More »

The 25,000 residents of Lice, a town in Turkey’s Diyarbakır province, involuntarily got high after police burned tens of tons of seized cannabis in the town center. On April 18, Turkish authorities conducted an operation to burn over 20 tons of confiscated cannabis in Lice, which caused the air in the settlement to become thick with weed smoke. For at least five days, people couldn’t leave their windows open and avoided going out, for fear of becoming intoxicated and experiencing symptoms like dizziness, nausea, and hallucinations. The destroyed cannabis, valued at 10 billion Turkish Lira ($261,433,808), weighed 20 tons 766 kilos 679 grams and had been seized from all over Diyarbakır province during 2023 and 2024. Read More »

Dico’s, a popular Chinese fast food restaurant chain, has been attracting a lot of attention because of its newest menu item, charred-looking chicken strips that don’t have the most appetizing appearance. Since 2015, Dico’s has been celebrating ‘Krispy Day’ by adding one or two crispy items to its menu, but this year, their newest additions have been attracting more attention than usual, mostly because of their unusual look. The “Black Gold Pepper Crispy Pork” became available at Dico’s restaurants across China at the end of last month, and it has been going viral on social media ever since. Not only do the crispy strips look charred, but their shape has been drawing comparisons to human poop and inspiring hundreds of funny comments online. Although the company has clarified that the meat is covered in a special “black gold coating” that causes it to turn black when deep-fried, most people are still not very tempted to try the new menu item. Read More »

In a bid to build a sustainable and ethical future for the luxury materials industry, three companies have joined forces to create the world’s first T-Rex leather handbag. Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years, but thanks to cutting-edge technology and genetic research, humankind has apparently become able to use T-Rex DNA to create synthetic, lab-grown dinosaur leather. In a first-of-its-kind initiative, Creative agency VML has joined forces with genomic engineering startup The Organoid Company and biotechnology innovators Lab-Grown Leather Ltd. to produce a high-quality alternative to traditional leather that is both cruelty-free and sustainable. Using a protein found in a Tyrannosaurus fossil from about 80 million years ago as inspiration, The Organoid Company and Lab-Grown Leather have been able to synthesize a next-generation material that features the durability and repairability of T-Rex skin. Read More »

Police in Oviedo, Spain, recently rescued three young children who had been isolated in a house for over three years by their parents, who seemed obsessed with keeping them from getting infected with the coronavirus. People usually complain about nosy neighbors who can’t seem to mind their own business, but one woman in Oviedo, Spain, has been hailed as a hero after alerting police about unusual things going on in the house across the street from her property. The woman, referred to only as Silvia by Spanish media, had been keeping records about the activity in her neighbors’ house ever since they moved in, during the COVID pandemic. She had noticed that only the patriarch of the family was allowed to leave the house, mostly just to pick up groceries delivered at the front door, and that the family’s three kids only had their window blinds raised for short periods of time. However, the thing that prompted her to notify the authorities was the constant purchase of diapers, even though the children were eight and ten. Read More »

A UK man has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting to setting fire to his own home twice in one night just so he could see firefighters in action. Arsonists are obsessed with fire, but 26-year-old James Brown, from Northumberland, in the UK, has been described as having an obsession and a fascination with firefighters rather than fires. In an ideal world, he would be a firefighter himself, but things didn’t work out that way, so he just settled for admiring firefighters from a distance and calling the fire department incessantly. When that wasn’t enough anymore, he moved on to setting his own house on fire just to see the firefighters in action. Read More »

Victoria Lee is a talented tattoo artist from Beijing, China, who can create incredibly detailed color tattoos that look just as good as high-definition photographs. Over the last 17 years, we have featured some of the world’s best tattoo artists here on Oddity Central. Korean-born Yeono is one of the youngest masters we’ve posted about, but there were also the likes of Oleg Shepelenko, a talented tattoo artist from Russia, Poland’s Karol Rybakowski, or French sensation Sandry Riffard, just to name a few. Today, we add a new name to our already impressive list, the talented Ms. Victoria Lee, whose hyperrealistic tattoos are in a league of their own. Hailing from Beijing, Lee was originally known for her incredibly detailed black and white tattoos, but she has since transitioned to colored artworks as well, producing some truly mindblowing art pieces. Read More »

Doctors at Iran’s Isfahan University of Medicine recently documented the case of a 23-year-old male whose head dropped to a 90-degree angle because his neck muscles could no longer support it. Cervical Kyphospholiosis (CKS), aka “Dropped Head Syndrome,” is a serious medical condition characterized by weakness in the neck extensor muscles, which renders them unable to support the weight of the head. It is usually associated with various neuromuscular conditions, including mitochondrial myopathy, congenital myopathy, motor neuron disease, or anatomical abnormalities. such as an unusually large head, but doctors at an Iranian university recently reported a previously undocumented case of CKS caused by years of substance abuse. Read More »