Woman Fakes Own Kidnapping and Murder to Break Up with “Poor” Boyfriend
No one ever said that ending a romantic relationship was easy, but planning your own kidnapping and subsequent murder just to avoid telling someone “it’s over” sounds ridiculous. And yet, one Chinese woman did just that rather than tell her boyfriend she didn’t want to be with him anymore. A 37-year-old woman from Wuhan, in […]
Belly Destruction – Thailand Sends Overweight Policemen to Fat Camp
Police stations all around Thailand are sending their chubbiest officers to a weight-loss camp as part of a nation-wide program aptly called “Belly Destruction”. After the success of a two-week pilot program, police stations in Thailand have begun sending their fattest officers to the Central Police Training Center in the city of Pak Chong, to take […]
Average Joe Goes Viral Online Thanks to His Square Hairdo
A 59-year-old man from Taiwan has become an internet meme thanks to his ridiculously square hairdo that makes him look like a real-life Minecraft character. Wu Goren first made news headlines back in 2014, when photos of his bizarre square hairdo went viral on social media. Taiwanese news channels quickly tracked down the middle-aged man […]
Hindu Man Accidentally Eats Beef Mislabeled as Lamb, Demands Purifying Journey as Compensation
An Indian-born man living in New Zealand is fighting a David-vs-Goliath battle against a supermarket chain that accidentally sold him beef mislabeled as lamb. He is demanding a soul-purifying journey to India as compensation, but the supermarket is only willing to offer a $200 voucher. Jaswinder Paul’s spiritual woes began back in September of 2018, […]
Man Gets Tens of Thousands of Birthday Calls After Sons Post His Phone Number on Billboard
A New Jersey man will never forget 62nd birthday after his sons posted his phone number on a large roadside billboard inviting people to call and wish him well. So far, he has gotten over 15,000 calls and texts from people all over the world. Chris Ferry’s sons used to prank him when going to […]
Religious Movement Stores Positive Spiritual Energy in Special Batteries, to Be Used When the World Needs It Most
Members of the Aetherius Society, a fringe religious movement founded in the 1950s, believe that spiritual power is a tangible type of energy, like electricity, so they store it in special “spiritual power batteries” for release in case of global catastrophes. The Aetherius Society claims to have prevented several international crises by releasing the concentrated spiritual […]
Adventurer Spends Two Months Living on the Streets to Document Plight of Homeless Beggars
Ed Stafford, a former British Army captain and renowned adventurer recently embarked on a 60-day challenge that saw him sleeping on the streets of various cities in Britain. His experiment was meant to highlight the plight of homeless people, but he was shocked to find that begging can be more lucrative than he had ever imagined. […]
College Course on Tobacco Allows Students to Smoke in Class to Better Understand the Subject
A series of photos showing students casually lighting up cigarettes in what looks like a college classroom have been doing the rounds online for several months, leaving everyone puzzled as to what is going on. As it turns out, it’s just a display of hands-on learning in a course on tobacco. The controversial photos originally […]
Mother Abandons 12-Year-Old Child in the Street for Not Performing According to Expectations on Exam
A strict mother in China reportedly abandoned her 12-year-old son in the middle of a busy street in Luoyang City after he only managed to score 81 percent on an exam, which apparently wasn’t good enough. Police officers in Luoyang’s Gucheng district found the boy wandering the streets close to where his mother dropped him off […]
China’s Amazing “Human Money Counting Machines”
Money counting machines have been a staple of banks all around the world for decades now, and China is no exception, but here bank tellers still practice their banknote counting skills every day, and some of them can really give those automated counters a run for their money. Videos of Chinese bank tellers showing off […]
Bibles and Wooden Crosses Miraculously Survive Devastating Church Fire
Firefighters in West Virginia were stunned to find that not one of the over a dozen paper bibles and several wooden crosses at the Freedom Ministries Church were destroyed by the devastating fire that engulfed the holy place last Sunday morning. In a Facebook post that quickly went viral, the Coal City Fire Department shared […]
Swedish Experimental Project to Hire Someone to Do Nothing for the Rest of Their Life
If the idea of getting paid a decent monthly wage to do nothing, or whatever you want, for the rest of your life sounds appealing, you may be interested in this Swedish experimental art project that plans to hire a very lucky person for a responsibility-free job with just one very simple requirement. This government-funded […]
Real-Life Minority Report – AI Software Can Catch Shoplifters Before They Steal
A Japanese tech startup claims to have developed an artificial intelligence software that analyzes surveillance camera footage in order to detect suspicious behavior and prevent shoplifting before it actually happens. In 2002, when the movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, came out, the concept of preventing a future crime before the perpetrator did anything remotely […]
Woman Passes Out After Splitting Headache, Forgets the Last 40 Years of Her Life
A 56-year-old woman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been diagnosed with Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) after a terrible headache apparently caused her to completely forget the last 38 years of her life. One day in early October of last year, Kim Denicola was leaving a bible study at a local church when she called her husband to […]
Turkish Soccer Player Allegedly Uses Concealed Blade to Slash Opposing Players During Match
Mansur Çalar, a 33-year-old soccer player from Turkey, has been accused of using a concealed sharp object to repeatedly slash players of the opposing team during a third-division game last weekend. Allegations against the footballer started pouring in on Monday after several players from Turkish club Sakaryaspor, the club Çalar’s team, Amedspor, had played against a day […]