Awesome Dad Sends His Kids’ Toys into Outer Space, Records the Whole Trip
Children make all kinds of ridiculous requests, and sometimes parents agree to them, even if they don’t plan on keeping their promises. But not Nicholas L., a French father-of-three who in order not to let his kids down actually sent a couple of their toys into outer space. Last December, Nicholas’ three children asked him […]
Girls Squeeze Limes in Sunlight, Suffer Severe Caustic Burns on Their Hands
Squeezing a slice of lime into a refreshing drink on a hot summer day isn’t as harmless as you may think. Fredrikke and Selma, two young Norwegian girls, found that out first hand after they suffered from severe Margarita Dermatitis during their vacation in Spain. Fredrikke and Selma, both seven years old, were vacationing with their families in […]
Mr. Zoom Freaks People Out with Eye-Popping Performances
30-year-old John Edward Doyle has the ability to squeeze his eyes out by up to 12 millimeters. He discovered his “talent” about two years ago while entertaining his friends, and for the past six months he has been using it to freak people out online under the alias “Mr. Zoom”. John discovered his bizarre eye-popping […]
Airplane Enthusiasts Build Realistic Boeing 737 Cockpit and Flight Simulator
For as long as he can remember, Kjetil Mathisen has been fascinated with flying machines. As a kid he spent most of his time playing with model airplanes, helicopters and virtual flight simulators, but as an adult he has taken his passion to a whole new level by building his very own scale replica of a […]
Croatian Confectioners Create White-and-Blue Ice Cream, Name It Facebook, Make a Killing
Facebook, the world’s most popular social network, has just passed the 100 billion valuation mark, but thanks to a couple of business-savvy ice-cream makers from Croatia, anyone can have a slice of it for as little as 1 euro. Brothers Admir and Ibi Adili run the Valentino ice cream shop in Tisnom, on Croatia’s Murter […]
Burping Champion Tries to Get Drunk by Chugging 30 Non-Alcoholic Beers in One Hour
Competitive eater Tim Janus wanted to make history by becoming the first person to get legally drunk on non-alcoholic beer. To reach his goal, Tim recently tried to chug 30 cans of non-alcoholic beer in one hour. People have been asking if it’s possible to become intoxicated by drinking non-alcoholic beer for years. Theoretically, it’s […]
Pop-Out Coffee – The 3D Latte Art of Kohei Matsuno
Latte art has become very popular in recent years, with more and more talented baristas using the fragile milk foam as a miniature canvas for their artworks, but Japan’s Kohei Matsuno is already taking the delicate art form to a whole new level with his amazing 3D latte masterpieces. Kohei Matsuno used to work in an […]
Ambitious Jogger Is Running from Canada to Argentina Barefoot
Joseph Michael Liu Kai-Tsu Roqueni, a young engineer from Montreal, is planning to raise money for charity by running 19,000 kilometers, from Canada to Argentina, within 18 months, barefoot. The self-described “Chexican” – because of his Chinese, Mexican and Canadian heritage – had been training for his epic barefoot run across the Americas for a […]
The Pavlov Poke – A Shocking Way to Cure Facebook Addiction
Frustrated by the amount of time they spent on Facebook during workdays, two MIT doctoral candidates have created the Pavlov Poke, a keyboard palm rest that sends electric shocks whenever the user spends too much time on “email, social networking, or other online distractions”. Robert R. Morris and Dan McDuff are both Ph.D. candidates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, […]
Japanese Social Club Cleans Public Toilets as a Weekend Hobby
Most people would rather their bladder burst than walk into a public toilet to do their business, let alone to clean it, but the members of Tokyo social club Benjyo Soujer do it for free, with their bare hands, as a therapeutic hobby. On Sunday mornings, a group of 35 adults and children gather at public […]
Smog-Covered Hong Kong Installs Clear Skyline Banners for Vacation Photos
Hong Kong has one of the world’s most stunning skylines. The problem is it’s becoming barely visible behind the dense curtain of smog that has engulfed several of the city’s districts, and even harder to capture in vacation photos. Unable to fix the air pollution problem, tourism authorities have instead decided to install clear skyline […]
Russian Powerlifter Has the Face of a Porcelain Doll and the Body of an Amazon
Yulia Viktorovna Vins, or Julia Vins, as she is known in the online bodybuilding and powerlifting communities, is a 17-year old Russian powerlifter who recently shot to Internet fame after a series of photos showing her doll-like face and impressive physique went viral. Russia and countries of the former USSR have their share of doll-faced […]
Loving Husband Buys His Wife 55,000 Dresses in 56 Years
If love was measured in dresses, Paul Brockman would probably be the most loving husband in the world. Over the past 56 years, the German-born contractor from Lomita, California, has gifted his wife Margot with 55,000 dresses, all of which he picked out himself. The first 10 dresses in Paul Brockman’s impressive collection were free. […]
Guy Drinks Human Toe Cocktail, Swallows the Toe
There is a bar in Dawson City, Canada, where patrons can opt to have their liquor spiked with a very unusual ingredient – a severed human toe. Those brave enough to try the world-famous Sourtoe Cocktail are required to pay a $5 toe tax and touch the human digit with their lips without swallowing it. […]
Plastic Surgeon Uses His Skills to “Sculpt” the Perfect Wife
Ever since they first met in 2007, Dr. David Matlock, a famous Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, has been using his body-sculpting skills to turn his wife Veronica into the perfect wife. When Veronica first visited Dr. Matlock to ask about a vaginoplasty procedure after giving birth to her daughter, she had no idea she would soon […]