Man Spends a Full Month Decorating His Home for Christmas
People generally love decorating their homes for the winter holidays, but how many of us would actually put a whole month into making sure that the whole place is filled with Christmas decorations? Well, one man does it every year. 43-year-old Jack Baremans, from Etten-Leur, a commune in southern Netherlands, has always loved the Holidays. […]
Indian Company Makes Edible 100% Biodegradable “Plastic” Bags
In an effort to combat plastic pollution, Indian startup EnviGreen has come up with a combination of natural starch and vegetable oils that looks and feels just like plastic, but is 100 percent organic, biodegradable and eco-friendly. You can even dispose of such a “plastic” bag by eating it. EnviGreen founder Ashwath Hedge came up […]
Fake U.S. Embassy in Ghana Shut Down after Operating for a Decade
Authorities in Ghana have recently shut down a fake United States embassy in the capital Accra that had been issuing illegally-obtained but authentic visas for the last 10 years. The fake institution was being run by members of organized crime from both Ghana and Turkey. The real U.S. embassy in Acra is a large office building complete […]
Flower Light Bulbs – Forgotten Wonders of the Mid 1900s
Most of us don’t pay much attention to light bulbs. They play a very important role in our lives, but when it comes to aesthetics, most of them are nothing special. But there was once a company that produced the most amazing flower light bulbs, and luckily some of its creations are still around today. […]
Someone Is Meticulously Shaving Kittens and Selling Them as Hairless Sphynx
A number of people looking to buy hairless Sphynx cats for cheap fell victim to a scammer who meticulously shaves regular kittens to make them look exactly like the exotic breed. Genuine Sphynx cats usually sell for $1,000 or more, so when Shayla Bastarache, from Alberta, Canada, saw an ad for a Sphynx kitten for just […]
Japanese Designer Creates Solar-Powered Coat That Charges Gadgets
If you’re sick of running out of battery on your smartphone when you need it the most, and don’t mind paying a whopping $2,480 on a coat, you might want to consider getting this solar-powered jacket that can charge your gadgets on the go. COMME des GARÇONS’ alumnus Junya Watanabe first unveiled his FW16 solar-powered men’s […]
Swedish Artist Creates Incredibly Realistic Drawings with Thousands of Tiny Dots
23-year-old Julia Koceva has taken the internet by storm with her impressive drawings created using an old technique known as stippling – creating pattern and applying varying degrees of solidity or shading to it by using small dots. A criminologist by day, Koceva spends her nights working on her amazing drawings. She takes between 40 and 100 hours […]
The Kooty Key – A Wacky Device That Helps Germaphobes Keep Their Hands Clean
Developed by champion bodybuilder and auto parts salesman Ken Kolb, the Kooty Key is a handy little tool designed designed to help people avoid touching germ-infested surfaces like door handles, ATM machine keyboards public toilet faucets. Ken Kolb says that he spent most of his life as a traveling salesman, and the years he noticed how air blowers in public restrooms were […]
Heartless Family Abandons Loving Dog at Shelter, Wants to Adopt a New One
The staff at a dog shelter in Downey, California, recently had to go through one of the most heartbreaking experiences of their lives – watching a rescued dog get all excited after seeing its family walk through the door, only to learn that they weren’t there to take the pooch home, but pick out another dog. […]
Company Creates World’s First Running Shoes for Horses
For over 2000 years, the good ol’ iron horseshoe has remained the only reliable footwear for horses, but an Austrian company is ready to “take the horse out of the Iron Age” with the world’s first equine running shoes, the Megasus Horserunners. Charly Forstner, the founder of Megasus, used to work as an animal welfare inspector […]
The Pilgrim – Man Spends Eleven Years Walking 107,000 Kilometers in the Name of Faith
Jose Antonio Garcia has become known as ‘The Pilgrim’ in his native country of Spain, after spending the last 11 years of his life walking over 100,000 kilometers to various pilgrimage sites on all continents except Oceania. This year, his amazing journey has finally come to an end. Born in Puerto de Santa María, in the […]
The Green Lady of Carroll Gardens Has Been Wearing Only Green for the Last 20 Years
For the last 20 years, Elizabeth Eaton Rosenthal, a.k.a. Elizabeth Sweetheart, a fine artist in Brooklyn, New York, has been dressing from head to toe in various shades of green. To her, green is the happiest, most positive color in the world, so she can’t imagine wearing anything else. ‘The Green Lady of Carroll Gardens’, […]
Young Entrepreneur Undergoes Plastic Surgery to Look Like Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma
Jack Ma, founder of internet giant Alibaba Group, has one of the most recognized faces in China, but he’s not exactly famous for his good looks. Still, that hasn’t stopped on young entrepreneur from spending a small fortune on plastic surgery just so he could look more like the popular billionaire. Huang Jian, a young man […]
This Japanese Restaurant Chain Is an Introvert’s Paradise
If your idea of a good restaurant experience includes a nice conversation and interaction with the waiting staff, then Ichiran Ramen is probably not a place you want to visit. The popular Japanese chain is all about solo dining, taking extraordinary measures to ensure that patrons avoid human interaction as much as possible. Manabu Yoshitomi, the founder […]
Australian Cattle Farm Claims Feeding Cows Chocolate Is the Secret to Tastier Beef
They say chocolate makes everything better, and apparently premium wagyu beef is no exception. For the past 10 years, the Mayura Station Farm in southern Australia has been feeding its full-blood wagyu cattle chocolate and other sweets mixed with their regular feed, and the results have been spectacular. When Scott de Bruin, managing partner at Mayura […]