Senegalese “Melanin Goddess” Conquers the Internet with Her Incredibly Dark, Beautiful Skin Tone
Khoudia Diop is a young Senegalese fashion model who recently rose to internet stardom after her unusually dark skin tone was captured in a photo for the Colored campaign, a platform that celebrates different skin shades. Khoudia’s melanin-rich skin has taken the internet by storm, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, especially on Instagram, where […]
Man Claims God Told Him to Dig a Hole 18 Years Ago and He Has Been Doing It Ever Since
69-year-old Santiago Sanchez, from western El Salvador, has been spending his days digging away at a tunnel ever since God told him to do it, 18 years ago. A reporter recently entered the tunnel, but had to exit before reaching the end, due to respiratory problems, so no one really knows how long it really is. Every […]
“Cat Man of Aleppo” Cares for Hundreds of Abandoned Felines in the War-Torn City
The Syrian city of Aleppo is probably the most dangerous place to be living in right now, but while many of its residents have left their homes to escape the war, one man has remained behind to care for the hundreds of abandoned and stray cats. Known as “the cat man of Aleppo”, Mohammad Alaa Jaleel […]
Get a Life-Size Tattoo of a Burger, Win Free Burgers for Life
Cafe 51, a popular burger joint in Melbourne, Australia, is offering anyone the chance to receive a free burger per day, for the rest of their lives, if they get a scale tattoo of one of their delicious burgers, anywhere on their bodies. “Tattoos are for life, so why shouldn’t burgers be free for life […]
Japanese Bar Replaces Seats and Tables with a Giant Ball Pit
If you ever feel like connecting with your inner child while sipping on your favorite alcoholic drink, the Ball Pool Bar Dive in Osaka, Japan, is probably the best place to do it. Kids love ball pits, and the masterminds behind Ball Pool Bar Dive seem to think adults do too, so they got rid […]
Someone Invented an Alcohol-Free Spirit and People Are Loving It
Until recently, having an alcohol-free night at the local bar left you with only a few bland options – water, a sweetened soft drink or a non-alcoholic cocktail. But that was before someone had the brilliant idea to create Seedlip, the world’s first alcohol-free spirit. Ben Branson, the mastermind behind Seedlip, claims he came up with the […]
Turkish Company Creates Real-Life Car-Morphing Transformers
Thirty-some years after making their debut as cartoon characters, vehicle-morphing Transformers have finally become a reality, thanks to the efforts of a Turkish company out of Ankara. The R&D-focused company, called Letvision, recently wowed the internet with a presentation video for their prototype car-transforming robot, ANTIMON. The recently-released footage shows a red BMW M3 being unveiled […]
This Swedish Eco-Lodge Offers Tourists the Opportunity to Escape Modern Life
Modern life has its perks, but if you feel like taking a break from it all and going back in time for a few days, there’s a unique tourist facility in Sweden that offers you the opportunity to live in a wooden charcoal-burner hut located in the middle of a forest, cook your own food over […]
Bicycle Company Puts TV on Boxes, Reduces Delivery Damage by 80 Percent
Dutch manufacturer VanMoof has come up with a very ingenious way of making sure that its products arrive safely to their customers – printing a flat screen TV on their delivery boxes instead of a bicycle. VanMoof plans to sell 90 percent of its bicycles online by 2020, but after seeing a considerable number of […]
World’s Most Expensive Chili Peppers Cost $25,000 per Kilo
You should never judge a pepper by its size, especially when it comes to price. The Aji Charapita chili pepper grows is roughly the size of a pea, but there’s nothing small about its price. A kilogram of this stuff will set you back a whopping $35,000. Native to the jungles of norther Peru, the […]
World’s Spiciest Tortilla Chips Are Sold One at a Time in Coffin-Shaped Boxes
Using extract from the hottest chilli pepper on the planet, American company Paqui Chips has created the world’s spiciest tortilla chip – the Carolina Reaper Madness. It’s apparently so hot that it only comes in packs of one. Usually, when you open a bag of tortilla chips, you never stop at one, but when it comes to […]
Chinese University Students Sit in on Extra Classes Just to See the Beautiful Teachers
Students at the Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu, south-west China, are apparently studying harder and sitting in on extra classes just to see their ‘impossibly beautiful’ female educators. Photos of 16 attractive female teachers from Sichuan Normal University have become a hot topic on Chinese social media websites, after they were uploaded online by their school. […]
Hungarian Anti-Semitic Political Leader Discovers He Is a Jew, Moves to Israel
Four years ago, Csanad Szegedi was a deputy leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary, and he blamed Jews as well as the Roma people for his country’s problems. But then he learned he was a Jew himself, and everything changed. Szegedi was once notorious for his extremist views and anti-Semitic statements, and as a […]
App Gives Japanese Drivers Free Coffee for Not Checking Their Phones at The Wheel
In a bid to convince drivers in Aichi Prefecture to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road, a new Japanese smartphone app offers free coffee coupons to drivers who don’t check their phones for at least 100 km. For the last 13 years, Aichi Prefecture has recorded the highest rate of traffic […]
Mother Forces Toddler Son to Sit in a Parking for 20 Minutes to Save Her a Spot
A photo showing a young boy sitting in a busy Kuala Lumpur parking lot has been doing the rounds online, causing controversy. According to the original Facebook post, the boy had to wait all alone in the hot sun for 20 minutes, to save the empty spot for his mother, while she went to bring […]