Specialty Shop Charges You 80 Cents to Destroy Your Secret-Filled Hard Drive
Japan is home to a variety of weird shops, from ones offering magic love-granting apples to others selling hoof sandals, but when it comes to services, this hard-disk crushing shop definitely stands out. Dark Past Final Disposal Site is a unique shop where anyone can safely destroy their potentially sensitive digital data by crushing their […]
Chinese Man Builds Lavish $51,000 Mini-Mansion for Pet Dogs
A dog owner in Eastern China’s Jiangsu province spent the last three years and a whopping 340,000 yuan ($51,156) building a miniature mansion for his 10 pooches. Mr. Zhou, a 33-year-old businessman who made his money in the crayfish trade, started his pet project in 2019, soon after finishing another, much more modest abode for […]
Man Fulfills Dream of Living as a Dog With Ultra-Realistic Rough Collie Costume
A Japanese man who had always wanted to live as an animal managed to fulfill his dream thanks to a professional dog costume made by a company specializing in special effects and special modeling. Ever wanted to live as an animal? No? Well, Japanese Twitter user ‘Toco’ had been thinking about it for a while, […]
Indian Runner Ducks Stand Upright Like Penguins, Can Outrun Most Humans
The Indian Runner duck has the most distinctive body type among all the world’s duck breeds. With legs positioned further back on the body than all other duck breeds, they stand upright like penguins and run rather than waddle. Native to the Asian continent, the Indian Runner duck is a development of the wild mallard. […]
The Indian Town Where Human and Leopard Allegedly Live in Harmony
Bera, a small town in the Indian state of Rajasthan is famous for being the only place on Earth where humans and leopards live in perfect harmony. India is one of the most densely-populated countries on Earth, and as humanity continues to encroach on the still-uninhabited woodlands and mountains, conflicts between leopards and humans are […]
Real-Life Elastigirl Can Stretch Her Earlobes to Hold an Umbrella or a Selfie Stick
A Japanese woman has been compared to The Incredibles’ Elastigirl because of her ability to stretch her earlobes enough to wrap them around things like umbrellas or selfie sticks. Ayumi Takada, a 37-year-old woman from Tokyo, first noticed that her earlobes were super-elastic when she was in elementary school. It was a rainy day, and […]
Japanese Company Creates Smart Eyeglasses That Cure Both Myopia and Hyperopia
Japanese smart eyewear company Vixion has been working on an innovative pair of eyeglasses that can adjust the focus of the lenses, thus helping wearers overcome both myopia and hyperopia. Suffering from either shortsightedness or farsightedness is bad enough, but as we age, many of us have to deal with the symptoms of both conditions. […]
The Rotary Un-Smartphone – The Retro Smartphone You’ve Been Looking For
If you’re a millennial who misses the old rotary phone that was such a big part of your life growing up, the Rotary Un-Smartphone Kit may be just what you’ve been looking for. Smartphones are cool if you like carrying a miniature computer everywhere with you, but if you only care about making calls and […]
People Are Getting Cosmetic Voice Surgery to Change the Way They Sound
Ever wish you had the deep voice of James Earl Jones? Well, maybe that’s an unattainable goal, but if you’re willing to go under the knife for a deeper or higher voice, there’s a surgeon in Turkey who can help. Dr Kursat Yelken has been performing voice deepening surgeries for 15 years and claims that […]
King of Gaokao – 55-Year-Old Man Fails to Get Into Dream College 25 Times, Is Still Trying
Despite failing the dreaded gaokao university entrance exam 25 times in a row, a 55-year-old man in China is still not giving up on his dream of attending college. At age 55, Liang Shi is the owner of a successful building materials company in Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province. He has enough […]
Impossible Rubik’s Cube Might Make Your Brain Explode
If you’re the type of person who struggles with the classic Rubik’s Cube, you should stay far away from this “impossible” version that recently went on sale in Japan. Designed by the wicked minds at Bandai Namco’s MegaHouse Co., the Rubik’s Cube Impossible is being marketed as the most challenging variant of the popular toy […]
Indian Woman Lived Disguised as a Man for 36 Years to Raise Child Alone
After losing her husband to a heart attack, an Indian woman spent 39 years pretending to be a man so she could raise her daughter alone in a patriarchal society. S Petchiammal had only been married for 15 days when her husband succumbed to a massive heart attack. She was 20 years old at the […]
Car Sickness Hell – A Winding Mountain Road With 600 Hairpin Turns
A 75-kilometer stretch of mountain road in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has been dubbed a car sick person’s worst nightmare for its hundreds of hairpin turns. Known as Pamir Plateau Sky road or the Panlong Ancient Road, the winding road traversing the Kunlun Mountains of Xinjiang is one of the most visually impressive […]
Clive Wearing – The Man With a 30-Second Memory
Clive Wearing, once an accomplished musicologist and orchestra conductor, is now known as the man with the 30-second memory, and for having one of the worst cases of amnesia ever recorded. Can you imagine being unable to remember most of your life or to make any kind of new memories? Most of us can’t even […]
Mom Draws Criticism for Giving One-Year-Old Son Realistic Temporary Tattoos
A young Florida fashion designer and tattoo-loving mother-of-one has been getting a lot of the online for covering her one-year-old son in hyperrealistic temporary tattoos. 29-year-old Shamekia Morris, a fashion designer from West Palm Beach, started putting temporary tattoos on her son Treylin when he was only six months old, and it has since become […]