Sweet Geometry – Lauren Ko’s Mesmerizing Pies
Seattle-based Lauren Ko is a self-taught baker who rose to fame thanks to the mathematical precision of her pie designs, most of which are inspired by complex geometric patterns. A former executive assistant in higher education, Lauren Ko got into baking completely by accident. She saw a picture of a really beautiful pie while surfing […]
You Can Now Buy a $35,000 Bugatti Electric Car For Your Kids
Introducing the electric toy car for the 1%. Luxury car maker Bugatti teamed up with London-based Little Car Company to create 500 miniature electric cars for kids, priced at a spicy $35,000 each. The French car maker originally unveiled the children’s electric car, named Bugatti Baby II, at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, and soon […]
Indonesian Woman Allegedly Gives Birth After One-Hour-Long Pregnancy
Human pregnancies normally last around 9 months, but one Indonesian woman has been making news headlines in her country for claiming that she gave birth just one hour after experiencing pregnancy symptoms. Heni Nuraeni, a 30-year-old woman from Mandalasari, a village in Indonesia’s Tasikmalaya Regency has become the main topic of conversation in her country, […]
The Potentially Deadly Mushroom That the Finns Can’t Get Enough Of
Gyromitra esculenta, or the False Morel, is a Spring mushroom that contains the toxin and carcinogen gyromitrin, which makes it illegal to sell and cook in countries around the world. In Finland, however, it is considered a delicacy. False Morel mushrooms have historically been consumed in northern Europe for centuries, but as chemistry and medicine […]
Engineers Claim to Have Created the World’s First Man-Made Non-Cuttable Material
An international team of researchers claim to have created the first synthetic cut-proof material that actively destroys the tool trying to cut through it. Even the toughest lock can do little more than delay a person properly equipped to cut through them, but engineers at Durham University in England and the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany […]
Vietnamese Tattoo Artist Masks People’s Scars With Beautiful Artworks
A young tattoo artist who goes by the name ‘Ngoc’ on social media has become famous for helping people, especially women hide their scars by inking beautiful artworks over them For many people having to live with visible scars, either from accidental burns, operations like appendectomy or cesarean section is an everyday struggle. But thanks […]
These Marine-Themed Cakes Are the Coolest Treats We’ve Seen in a While
From flamboyant wedding cakes shaped like fantasy castles, to edible optical illusions, we’ve featured some amazing cakes here on OC, but this collection of marine-themed treats definitely take the cake! The Covid-19 pandemic has made vacationing in a tropical island paradise a lot harder this year, but you can satisfy your craving for tropical destinations […]
Male Makeup Master Can Transform Himself Into Any Celebrity
Alexis Stone a makeup artist so skilled that he can virtually transform into anyone, including male and female celebrities, movie characters and historical figures. Elliot Joseph Rentz, aka Alexis Stone, is a drag queen and online influencer from Manchester, UK who rose to fame for his talent of using makeup to transform into various pop […]
Deepfake Journalist Is a Terrifying Sign of Things to Come
It’s almost impossible to tell, but the man featured in the photos below doesn’t exist. He is a deepfake, a persona created by a computer algorythim. However, the articles this “journalist” published in several popular newspapers are very real, and a sign of things we can expect from a fast-evolving AI. Oliver Taylor first got […]
People Are Now Praying to ‘Goddess Corona’ in Attempt to Stop Pandemic
India is one of the most affected countries by the Covid-19 pandemic, and people are turning to spiritual and divine powers in an attempt to protect themselves from the new coronavirus. Last month, Indian media reported on a group of women from a village in West Bengal who had decided to fight the coronavirus in […]
Tattoo Artist Specializes in ‘Secret Tattoos’ on the Roof of the Mouth
Belgian tattoo artist Indy Voet has earned a reputation for executing permanent tattoos in the most unconventional places, from people’s finger webs, to the hidden space behind their ears. But his specialty is hand poking tattoos on the roof of people’s mouths. Voet has been doing roof of the mouth tattoos for about five years […]
83-Year-Old Vietnamese Woman Hasn’t Cut Her Snake-Shaped Hair in 64 Years
Nguyen Thi Dinh, an 83-year-old woman from Vietnam’s Ben Tre Province, allegedly stopped cutting her hair when she was 19, which explains why it measures 6 meters in length and is shaped like a python. Just a week after Indian man Doddapalliah made international news headlines with his 7.3-meter-long-hair, which he claimed he had never […]
Italian Police Find Drugs Hidden Inside Coffee Beans
Drug dealers are always looking for ingenious ways to get their products past checkpoints, and sometimes they exhibit some truly outside-the-box thinking. The attention of Italian customs officers at Malpensa Airport was recently drawn by a small package from Colombia to a man named Santino D’Antonio. If you’re not an action flick buff, that name […]
Parasitic Wasp Turns Its Helpless Host Into a Bodyguard for Its Eggs
Thyrinteina leucocerae, the caterpillar of the geometer moth, is targeted as a host for a species of parasitoid wasp that can lay up to 80 eggs inside its body. The caterpillar’s reward is a job as bodyguard for the very parasites growing inside it and a slow, agonizing death. The Glyptapanteles wasp is one of […]
Bangkok’s “David Beckham Temple” Is One of the World’s Weirdest Religious Buildings
Wat Pariwat, in Bangkok, Thailand, gets its famous nickname – “David Beckham Temple” – from a gold-plated statue of the English former football player holding up a statue of Buddha. But that’s just one of the unexpected characters you’re bound to notice visiting this unusual holy place. David Beckham’s statue was installed at Pariwat Temple […]