Man Caught Driving Car While Sitting on a Metal Bucket and Steering with Pliers
If you thought you needed a steering wheel to actually drive a car, let this story be an example of the opposite. A man in Norfolk, England, was really caught by police driving a battered car by using a metal bucket as a car seat and pliers for steering. You might think that this guy […]
Minnesota Designer Wants to Make Unisex Skirts Popular Again
A Minnesota felt so comfortable the first time he put on a skirt that he started thinking about why there weren’t more people making skirts for men. In the end, he started making them himself. Joe Quarion first put on a skirt in 2013, for an ultimate Frisbee match. Team captains would occasionally come up […]
Chinese Man Faces Prison Time After Squandering $36 Million to Satisfy Hot Girlfriend’s Desires
Zhang Xiaoen, the son of a successful businessman from Hangzhou, China, is facing prison time after borrowing tens of millions of dollars to satisfy the needs and desires of his beautiful and allegedly manipulative girlfriend. Growing up as the only child of a wealthy Chinese family, 29-year-old Zhang was accustomed to luxury and spending large […]
Blind Man to Walk Across World’s Largest Salt Desert Guided Only by Audio GPS
Albar Tessier, a blind teacher from France, recently arrived in Bolivia to prepare for a grueling challenge – walking 140 kilometers across Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest sand desert, in just seven days. Tessier, who teaches blind children in his home country, set this personal challenge for himself before losing his vision completely, and […]
Doraemon-Obsessed Family Turn Their House into a Shrine to the Popular Cartoon Character
As one of the most popular manga and anime characters of all time, Doraemon, the cuddly robotic cat, has millions of fans all around the world, but this family in Indonesia may just be his biggest fans. Just take a look at their house and you’ll see what I mean. Doraemon is considered to be […]
Chinese Woman Takes Weight Loss Pills for 7 Years, Doubles in Weight
A Chinese woman recently decided to have a stomach reduction operation after seven years of taking weight loss pills and actually putting on 100 pounds more than when she started taking them. 25-year-old Xiaoli (pseudonim) started taking weight loss pills seven years ago, after watching a convincing commercial on TV. She weighed around 100 pounds […]
The Amazing Stone Paintings of Stefano Furlani
Maybe “stone paintings” isn’t the best phrase to describe the amazing artworks of Stefano Furlani, but it’s so unusual that I just didn’t know what to call it. The Italian artist basically searches for geometrically appropriate stones on the beach and arranges them to create complex compositions. Stefano Furlani discovered this fascinating art form while […]
Dog Survives 6 Days in Atacama Desert After Jumping from Airplane
After falling from an airplane and roaming through the Atacama Desert for 6 days, “Gaspar the miracle dog” was recently rescued and reunited with his owner. Surviving the harsh Atacame Desert for almost a week is a challenge for any human, let alone a scared dachsund that happened to have fallen out of an airplane at […]
Billion Dollar Real Estate Company Ditches Physical Offices for Virtual Reality Campus
eXp Realty, one of the world’s fastest growing and most successful real estate companies, has become famous for not investing in any actual real-estate, opting instead for virtual reality offices that allow its agents and brokers to interact and socialize from anywhere around the globe. Glenn Sanford, eXp Realty’s founder and CEO, founded the company […]
World’s Most Cloned Dog Has 49 Copies of Itself
Miracle Milly, a six-year-old Chihuahua from Puerto Rico, was awarded the title of World’s Most Cloned Dog, by the Guinness Book of Records, after scientists in South Korea created a whopping 49 genetically-identical copies of her. The controversial Sooam Biotech Research Foundation in Seoul, South Korea, has been creating pet clones since 2006, and last year they […]
Turkish Cafe Keeps Live Lion in Narrow Glass Box as Entertainment for Customers
A cafe in Istanbul, Turkey, has been accused of animal cruelty after a video of a young lion nervously pacing back and forth in a narrow glass box inside the venue went viral online. The owner of Mevzoo, an animal cafe in Istanbul’s Beykoz district has been accused of animal cruelty and abuse after videos of […]
American Conman Poses as Saudi Prince for Two Years, Swindles Millions from Gullible Businessmen
A Florida-based conman who somehow managed to steal millions from wealthy investors all around the world by posing as a Saudi Arabian prince and diplomat was finally exposed after he made the mistake of eating bacon and other pork products at business meetings. Anthony Gignac, a Columbian-born man who was adopted by a Michigan family […]
Mexican Police Department Gets Armed with Slingshots Instead of Firearms
Police officers in the Mexican town of Alvarado were recently stripped of their firearms and armed with slingshots and rocks instead, after most of them failed their control tests and were deemed unfit for service. After only 30 officers of the 130-member police department in Alvarado managed to pass their control tests for the use of […]
Man Jumps Out of Moving Car During Argument with His Wife, Sues Her for Negligence
An Australian man who was left with “catastrophic” injuries after jumping out of a car driven by his wife has sued her for not slamming the brakes earlier, after seeing that he was about to jump. This unbelievable incident took place in December of 2012, when Brian Lim, his wife, Eunkyung Cho, and their two children were […]
China Claims to Have Invented Laser Assault Rifle That Can Burn Human Skin from Half a Mile Away
Chinese media recently reported about a new high-tech laser assault rifle that can allegedly fire an energy beam that cannot not be seen by the naked eye, but can cause “instant carbonization” of human tissue from up to half a mile away. Called ZKZM-500, the laser rifle was developed by scientists at the Xian Institute of Optics […]