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 […]
Flamingo That Escaped Kansas Zoo in 2005 Is Spotted Living It Up 700 Miles Away, in Texas
An African flamingo that famously escaped Wichita’s Sedgwick County Zoo in 2005 has been on the run ever since. The freedom-loving bird was recently spotted hanging out with a flock of seagulls, in Lavaca Bay, Texas, 700 miles from the zoo it once called home. The runaway bird is known as ‘No. 492’ because of the […]
Man Divorces Wife of 14 Years After She Mocks His Favorite Football Player
Big sporting events like the World Cup are supposed to bring people together in support of their favorite teams and players, but for one Russian couple married for 14 years, the 2018 World Cup was reason for divorce. 40-year-old Arsen and his 37-year-old wife, Ludmyla, are both big football fans. In fact, they met in […]
Feline Instagram Star Has the Most Mesmerizing Blue Eyes
Coby has only been on Instagram for three years, but he already has over 1.2 million followers. Those are A-list celebrity numbers, but Coby isn’t even human, he’s a cat. Rebecca Schefkind, Coby’s owner, created his Instagram page in June 2015, as a joke. It didn’t take long for people to notice his beautiful blue eyes, […]
Polish NGO Puts GPS Tracker on a Stork, Gets Hit with Unexpected $2,700 Phone Bill
Polish environmental group EkoLogiczna recently had to pay a massive phone bill, after the SIM card in a GPS tracker they put on the back of a white stork, so it could collect data about the bird’s winter migration route, got stolen. In April 2017, members of EkoLogiczna fit Kajtek, a white stork, with a GPS tracker […]
Ghana’s Professional Mourners Get Paid to Cry at Strangers’ Funerals
Some people find it hard to cry when their loved-ones’ die, but wailing and mourning are a big part of funerals in the African country of Ghana, as it is indicative of the deceased’ social standing or how beloved they were by their family and community. So it’s no wonder that some Ghanaians are willing […]
Russian Businessman Tasked with Decorating Moscow Facades for World Cup Commissions 120-Foot Portrait of His Wife
The head of a Russian advertising agency tasked with creating large building facades to promote the 2018 World Cup in Russia has come under fire for using one of the nearly 50-meter-tall facades to pay tribute to his wife, by using her as the model. Ivan Panteleev, director of advertising agency Novatek Art has been […]
Man Spends 23 Years Carving Sprawling Underground Temple Under His House
Levon Arakelyan was 44 years old in 1985, when his wife asked him to dig a potato storage pit under their house in the village of Arinj, in Armenia’s Kotayk region. He obliged, but after finishing work on the pit, he just couldn’t stop chiselling, so he kept at it every day, for the next […]
Iranian General Accuses Israel of Stealing His Country’s Clouds and Snow
Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, yesterday told members of the press that Israel has been stealing Iran’s clouds while also working to ensure that whatever clouds do make it into Iranian air space are unable to release rain. Relations between Iran and Israel have always been tense, but I […]