Police Dog Hailed a Hero for Performing CPR on His Human Partner
Poncho the police dog recently became famous online, after the Madrid Municipal Police shared a video of him on Twitter in which he is performing CPR on a fallen colleague. Despite being only a training simulation, Poncho’s life-saving skills and quick reactions left a lot of people impressed. As soon as his human partner collapses […]
Russian Woman Has Live Worm Crawling Underneath Her Face
Doctors in Russia recently reported the unusual case of a woman who noticed that a number blemishes appeared to move around her face every few days. Those blemishes turned out to be a live parasitic worm crawling under her skin. The unnamed woman first noticed a small bump under her left eye, but didn’t pay […]
World’s Longest-Running Mechanical Spinning Top Can Spin Continuously for Over 27 Hours
Limbo, a spinning top developed by Fearless Toys, was recently recognized by the World Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest-running mechanical spinning top after spinning continuously for a whopping 27 hours, 9 minutes and 24 seconds. Limbo may look like an ordinary spinning top, but it actually houses a high-tech mechanism that allows it […]
Jogger Accidentally Crosses Border into the US, Spends Two Weeks in Detention Center
A 19-year-old French woman visiting her mother in British Columbia, Canada, learned the hard way that going for a jog near the Canadian-US border is not a very good idea. Cedella Roman, who lives in France, was visiting her mother in North Delta, British Columbia, last month, when she decided to go for an evening […]
The Country Where Burying Someone Can Take Months Or Even Years
In most countries, people are buried within a few days of their death, but in the African country of Ghana, burials are complicated affairs that can take months or even years to prepare. In some communities, speedy burials are considered downright sacrilegious, so despite the wishes of the deceased and their immediate family, bodies spend […]
Chinese Restaurant Hires Pretty Crayfish Peelers So Patrons Don’t Have to Get Their Hands Dirty
A restaurant in Shanghai, China, recently made headlines for employing two young crayfish peelers who do the dirty work right at the customers’ tables, while they check social media or play mobile video games. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could handle those nasty crayfish shells and then just hand you the succulent flesh?Well, at […]
Artist Spends 14 Months Creating the Most Incredible Ghost Pirate Ship Sculpture
Jason Stieva has been doing Gothic assemblage art for roughly two decades, but his most intricate and impressive creation has to be the Leviathan – Ark of Apocalypse, an 8 feet high, 7.5 feet long ghost ship populated by hundreds of strange creatures. Most of the artworks in Jason Stieva’s ongoing “Gothic Times” series are incredibly […]
Japanese Public Service Issues Public Apology for Employee Starting Lunch Break Three Minutes Early
A 64-year-old employee of the waterworks bureau in the Japanese city of Kobe was recently fined and reprimanded by his superiors for going on his lunch break three minutes early, on more than one occasion. The lunch break at the Kobe waterworks bureau starts at 12 pm sharp and lasts until 1 pm. However, an […]
Man Shocks Family by Showing Up at His Own Wake
A 20-year-old man in Paraguay recently gave his family and friends the shock of their lives when he returned home after three days to find them all grieving over what was supposed to be his dead body. Juan Ramón Alfonso Penayo, from the village of Santa Teresa, close to Paraguay’s border with Brazil, had last […]
Hilarious “Hot Dog Water” Turns Heads at Vancouver Food Festival
Visitors at this past weekend’s Car Free Day Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia, had the chance to buy one of the most unusual health food products ever created – unfiltered hot dog water. Gluten-free, keto-compatible, rich in sodium and electrolytes, and bottled in a sleek glass bottle, unfiltered hot dog water has all the making […]
Son Banned from Contacting His Parents After Constantly Begging Money From Them
A 24-year-old man from Southampton, England, was banned from contacting his parents for five years after they got so fed up with his constant pestering for money that they got a restraining order against him. A restraining order was issued against Matthew Kerley last year by the Crown Prosecution Service, after his parents complained that his […]
The Strange Case of a Man Who Couldn’t Burp for 34 Years
A 34-year-old man who lost his ability to burp when he was only a baby, due to a condition so rare it doesn’t even have a name, has recently been cured by Botox injections in his throat, and claims his life has improved more than anyone could ever imagine. Most of us take burping for […]
Teen Finds YouTube Success by Filming Himself Studying for Hours in Silence
Making it as a YouTube creator usually involves posting informative or exciting content, but one young YouTuber in South Korea has been proving that doing the exact opposite can have very similar results. He has been posting 7-hour long videos of him just studying in silence and still managed to get hundreds of thousands of […]
Eibenthal – A Picturesque Village Where Theft Doesn’t Exist
Eibenthal is an idyllic village nestled in the Banatului Mountains of Western Romania. It’s a charming place inhabited mainly by ethnic Czechs, but what really makes it stand out from other villages in the area, or pretty much anywhere else in the world, for that matter, is its reputation as a theft-free community. There is […]
The Fairytale “Pit Bull Village” Where Rescued Canines Have Their Own Cozy Cottages
The Luvable Dog Rescue is a canine shelter unlike any other. Located in the idyllic woods of Oregon and featuring cozy, colorful cabins complete with miniature furniture, instead of the usual kennels, this place looks more like a fairy-tale village than a shelter for rescued pit bulls. The 55-acre wooded sanctuary, near Eugene, in Oregon, currently […]