67-Year-Old Man Has the World’s Largest Collection of Hello Kitty Memorabilia
Hello Kitty was designed to appeal to young girls, but its biggest fan may just be an adult Japanese man. 67-year-old Masao Gunji has been collecting Hello Kitty memorabilia for the last 30 years, and he was recently acknowledged by Guinness Records as the owner of the largest Hello Kitty collection in the world. Gunji, a […]
White Jewel – The Japanese White Strawberries Worth Their Weight in Gold
Most people have never even seen, let alone tasted, white strawberries, but they’ve been a staple of the Japanese luxury fruit market for years. The Asian country actually has several varieties of white strawberries, among which the White Jewel, or Shiroi Houseki stands out as the rarest and most expensive. White Jewel strawberries were created […]
Talented Artist Turns Her Hair into Incredible Sculptures
Laetitia KY, a young fashion designer from the Ivory Coast, recently went viral on social media for an original photo series where she sculpts her long hair into a variety of shapes, from human hands, to bunny ears and even the African continent. KY says that she has always been fascinated by hairdressing, but got […]
Woman with Two Skin Tones, Two Immune Systems Is a Living, Breathing Medical Oddity
Taylor Muhl, a model and singer from California, often says that she is her own twin, and as strange as that sounds, she means it quite literally. The 33-year-old was diagnosed with genetic Chimerism, an extremely rare condition explained as “an organism composed of cells from different zygotes”. As a child, Taylor was obsessed with twins, constantly […]
Thai Woman Who Has Dated 5,000 Men Launches Online Course on How to Seduce Rich Foreigners
Thai women looking to date a walking ATM machine, but with no clue on how to catch one, can now rely on the services of “Madam Raya”, a seduction expert who claims to have dated 5,000 wealthy men. She is offering online course to help like-minded women bag the rich foreigner of their dreams. 24-year-old Praiya Suriya […]
Cleverly Designed T-Shirt Can Give Anyone an Ample Bosom
ekoD Works, a Japanese fashion company that specializes in “humorous art and design”, has recently unveiled an optical illusion t-shirt that can give anyone a busty chest. The Illusion Grid t-shirt uses distortion and clever shading to manipulate perspective and make anyone looking at it from the front believe that they are staring at two large, […]
Lord of the Birds – Indian Man Dedicates His Life to Saving Endangered and Abandoned Birds
Dr. Sri Ganapathy Sachchidananda Swamiji has recently been recognized by Guinness Book of Records for housing the most bird species under a single roof, 468. He is not a collector who takes pleasure in depriving exotic birds of their freedom, but simply a compassionate man who rescues endangered, injured and abandoned birds from around the world […]
Brazilian “Traffic Waiter” Is Probably the World’s Most Elegant Street Vendor
Aílton Manuel da Silva is not your usual waiter. He dresses as one, carries himself as one and even sports a tray full of cold drinks and snacks, but instead of a restaurant or a cafe, he works in the streets, braving the hot sun and incoming traffic to provide for his family. He is […]
In Mexico, Ice Cream Sandwiches Are Actual Sandwiches
When they hear the phrase “ice cream sandwich”, most people think about creamy ice-cream squeezed between two waffers or cookies, but in Mexico, it can mean a regular bun stuffed with scoops of ice-cream. Street vendors in various parts of Mexico have been selling “tortas de nieve” for a few years now, but they’re once […]
Meet Eclipse, Seattle’s Famous Solo Bus Riding Canine
Eclipse, a black Labrador-bull mastiff mix from Seattle, really loves going to the park. So much so that when her owner is too busy to take, or when he’s taking too long, she just leaves the house by herself, gets on the bus and goes to the park by herself. It all started one day, […]
Breatharian Couple Claim They Haven’t Had a Proper Meal in 9 Years, Survive on Cosmic Energy
Scientific evidence shows that fasting for brief periods of time can have positive effects on our health, but one California couple say they haven’t eaten any real food in 9 years, as they live off “the universe’s energy” instead. 36-year-old Akahy Ricardo and his wife, Camilla Costello, 34, had their last real meal in 2008, […]
Alarm Clock Stuck in Wall Has Been Ringing Every Day for the Last 13 Years
Every day, a homeowner in Pennsylvania is reminded of a mistake he made 13 years ago. At around 8 in the evening, his otherwise peaceful house comes alive with the beeping of an alarm clock he accidentally dropped down a vent over a decade ago. It’s been stuck in the wall ever since. 13 years ago, […]
Italian Man Lives Life of Luxury, Brushes Shoulders with Celebrities for Years by Posing as “Prince of Montenegro”
A 57-year-old Italian conman was recently arrested and charged with fraud and document forgery, after its was revealed that he had been posing as a member of the Montenegro Royal Family for years. His con was so elaborate that he had even managed to fool many real royals and celebrities. The man, whose real identity […]
UK Couple Looking for Nanny Willing to Work in a Haunted House
A family of four from Scotland is offering a £50,000 ($64,000) to a professional nanny willing to work in a haunted house and put up with supernatural occurrences that have so far driven away five other nannies in the last year alone. This may be just a clever hoax, but even so, it’s a very entertaining story. […]
Talented Makeup Artist Turns Model into a Living Painting
A 22-year-old French makeup artist recently caused quite a lot of dropped jaws on Twitter with a set of photos of a “painting” whose protagonist turned out to be a living, breathing model. I don’t know if that opening line made any sense to you (probably not), but what 22-year-old Kenza managed to do is best explained in […]