22-Year-Old Woman Undergoes 30 Cosmetic Procedures Just to Please Her Boyfriend
A 22-year-old woman from Hong Kong has undergone over 30 plastic surgery procedures in a bid to impress her boyfriend. Berry Ng began getting the procedures when she was only 17, as she wanted to look more like western supermodels. She now regrets her decisions. Berry NG claims that her plastic surgery addiction began when […]
Belgian Artist Chains Himself to Giant Block of Marble, Has to Be Cut Loose after 19 Days
A Belgian man had to be cut free from his art installation after failing to liberate himself after 19 days. Mikes Poppe had tethered himself by the ankle to a three-meter (10ft) chain that ran through a massive four-ton block of marble and spent 438 hours attempting to chisel his way to freedom. The performance […]
German Man Needs to Drink 20 Liters of Water Per Day to Stay Alive
German architect Marc Wübbenhorst has to drink at least 20 liters of water a day or risk dying from dehydration. The 35-year-old suffers from the rare metabolic disease Diabetes insipidus, which causes intense thirst and the frequent excretion of large amounts of diluted urine. If Wübbenhorst stops drinking water, his body starts to dry out, […]
Woman Becomes Homeless Overnight After Thieves Drive Off with Her House
A 70-year-old widowed grandmother from Devon, England, was left homeless after thieves stole her 40-foot, £30,000 static caravan by lifting it from its base, putting it on a low loader trailer and just driving off with it. They broke into the yard s. The victim, Sonia McColl, believes that the unusual theft is somehow connected […]
Meet the Man Behind Russia’s Healing Pyramids
Ever heard of Russia’s healing pyramids? They are the work of Dr. Alexander Golod, a Ukrainian scientist who claims that they have the power to prevent diseases, enhance the potency of medicines, cure impotence and even control the weather. Dr. Golod, a Moscow-based scientist and defense engineer, began building his mysterious pyramids in 1990. By […]
Woman Leaves Her Husband After Seeing the View from Her Bedroom Window on Another Woman’s Instagram
A Russian woman has left her husband after she recognized the view from her bedroom window in a photo on another woman’s Instagram account and realized that he was cheating on her. Yulia Agranovych, a former model turned pediatric dentist, from St. Petersburg, was browsing through her Instagram feed one morning, when she noticed a […]
Vietnamese Blogger Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Reporting on Catastrophic Toxic Spill
A Vietnamese court recently sentenced 22-year-old blogger and journalist Nguyen Van Hoa to seven years in prison for reporting on the 2016 Formosa spill that devastated the Vietnamese coast. Arrested in April, Hoa had produced video footage, photos, and articles about Taiwan-owned Formosa Plastics Group’s April 2016 toxic chemical spill from its steel plant located […]
Loud “Booms” Occurring All Around the World Leave Experts Scratching Their Heads
Mysterious boom sounds have baffled people all over the planet throughout the past year. There have been 64 recorded incidents within the last 12 months, with the majority heard on the east coast of the USA, but also reported everywhere from the Middle East to Australia. Experts have no clear answer as to the cause […]
Designer Creates “Substitute Phone” to Help People Battle Smartphone Addiction
Austrian designer Klemens Schillinger has created a therapeutic replacement for smartphones called Substitute Phones. The Vienna-based designer made a series of five of these non-devices which feature a row of stone beads to imitate various motions typical to smartphone use, such as scrolling, zooming, and swiping. By using stone beads to emulate interaction with a […]
German Town Is Slowly Falling Apart Due to Geothermal Drilling Gone Wrong
The German town of Staufen is falling apart at the seams. The town of 8,100 residents, located on the edge of the Black Forest, decided to invest in geothermal energy back in 2007, aiming for a green energy future. Unfortunately, the decision backfired when the underground drilling went wrong causing hundreds of buildings to begin […]
Double Bionic Hands Aim to Prove That Four Hands Are Better Than Two
Bionic limbs used to be restricted to the realm of fiction, but the technology, first released in 1993, has been making massive leaps in the past few years. Now, one Italian Robotics company called Youbionic has taken the next significant leap forward by releasing a 3D printed and customizable bionic appendage consisting of two robotic […]
Chinese App Allows Celebrities to Sell Their Time by the Second, Fans to Buy It and Investors to Trade It
A new Chinese app called Miao A or “Seconds” allows celebrities and socialites to sell their time to fans, by the second. The unusual service has recently come under scrutiny, however, as investors are also able to buy and trade celebrity time, causing the app to operate as an illegal stock exchange. The Beijing-based app […]
Man Protest Unjust Firing by Gluing His Hand to Former Employer’s Floor
A Malaysian man is protesting what he claims was an unjust termination from oil giant Chevron Malaysia Limited (Caltex) by supergluing his hand to their headquarters floor. Fadzilah Abdul Hamid worked as a Caltex petrol station operator for the past 17 years at two sites in Kelana Jaya and Kampung Subang, Selangor, until being served […]
Pakistani Actress Has Spent the Last Seven Years Trying to Prove That She’s Not Married
Pakistani actress Irtiza Rubab, 40, known by her stage name Meera, has spent the past seven years entangled in a court case over whether or not she is married. Meera is best known for her commercially successful and critically acclaimed Pakistani films, as well as making forays into Bollywood. She is also famed for her […]
Gun Violence in Rio de Janeiro Is So Widespread That People Are Using a Smartphone App to Avoid Dangerous Areas
Gun violence is a very serious issue on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, so much so that people have begun using a smartphone app similar to the popular “Waze”, only instead of heavy traffic, they’re trying to avoid gun fire. Rio de Janeiro is facing a crisis of gun violence, as police raids […]