Dashrath Manjhi – The Man Who Moved a Mountain
Dasrath Manjhi, a landless farmer from India, made history after he spent over two decades chiseling away at a mountain with rudimentary tools, in order to create a road for his community, when the Government refused to. If you’re looking for some motivation, stories don’t get much more inspirational than that of Dasrath Manjhi. 53 years […]
Japanese Company Creates Mind-Controlled Cat Tails for Humans
Remember the Necomimi, those wacky brainwave-controlled cat ears we featured around this time last year? Well, the same Japanese company that makes those, Neurowear, has just released a fluffy mind-controlled tail to go with them. I have to admit it’s kind of strange seeing a company that has the knowledge to create mind-controlled gadgets create […]
Russian Dude Has Successful Career as a Female Model
Meet Stanyslas Fedyanin, a 16-year-old guy from Moscow, Russia, who has gained notoriety for his very successful career as an international female body. Stas, as he likes to be called, says he is heterosexual, and even has a girlfriend, he just has an androgynous figure that makes him perfect for female modelling. There are definitely people […]
Craig Tracy’s Unbelievable Body-Painting Optical Illusions
New Orleans-based artist Craig Tracy is considered a trendsetter in the art of body painting. He spends hour painstakingly painting his subjects’ bodies with water-based paint, before taking photos of them in unique positions. The first time we featured Craig Tracy on Oddity Central, was in January 2010, right after he created a jaw-dropping image […]
Chinese Hospitals Introduce Automatic Sperm Extractors
No, this is not a joke, it’s not fake, Chinese hospitals really are using automatic sperm extractors for the most serious medical purposes. Still, I thought this was weird enough to post an article on. So, an entry about automatic sperm extractors being introduced in a Nanjing hospital recently went viral on China’s Weibo social […]
Cartoonist Looking for Solvers of World’s Largest Hand-Drawn Maze
Joe Wos, a Pittsburgh-based cartoonist and performer, is currently working on what he hopes will be the new world’s largest most difficult hand-drawn maze. Creating this thing is one daunting task, but nowhere as difficult as finding someone willing to spend approximately 40 hours trying to solve it. Like all children, Joe Wos loved to […]
Chinese Festival Organizers Create Human Zoo for Beggars
Beggars at a religious festival in Nanchang, southern China, have been ordered to either stay in specially-built metal cages or risk being removed from the city, in an attempt to stop them from harassing visitors. Living in a country where begging is a very lucrative business, I know what it’s like to constantly be disturbed by […]
Meet Hostgator Dotcom, Formerly Known as Billy Gibby, the Human Billboard
If the name Hostgator Dotcom sounds familiar it’s because it’s also the name of a popular Internet hosting company. The man formerly known as Billy Gibby sold the rights to his name to the highest bidder, in addition to selling advertising space in the form of permanent tattoos on his face and body. We’ve seen similar […]
Wacky Scientist-Turned-Artist Uses Bacteria to Create Art
Zachary Copfer, a former microbiologist recently turned visual artist, uses bacteria like E.coli to create detailed artworks in petri dishes. His weird technique is aptly called “bacteriography”. If you’re hungry for some out-of-this-world art, then Zachary Copfer’s bacteriography series should feed your appetite for a while. His photo-printing technique is unlike anything you’ve seen before, in […]
World’s Largest Vertical Garden Grows on Italian Shopping Center
A shopping center in the Italian town of Rozanno has recently claimed a rather unusual Guinness record, for the world’s biggest vertical garden. Growing on the walls of the commercial complex, the unique garden covers an area of 1,263 square meters and is made up of about 44,000 plants. Just o be clear, the thousands […]
Japanese Divorce Newspaper Lets Your Loved-Ones Know You’re Happily Divorced
Created by Japanese divorce guru Hiroki Terai, Divorce Newspapers are gaining popularity as a quick and painless way to let family, friends and acquaintances know your marriage is over. This saves couples the embarrassment of having to tell each one of them their marriage has failed and explain how it happened. You know those awkward moments when you bump into […]
The Mind-Blowing Date Stamp Paintings of Federico Pietrella
Italian-born Federico Pietrella uses an item usually associated with corporate offices to created incredible works of art. It’s simply mind-blowing how he can use a restrictive tool like the date stamp to achieve this level of detail. Looking at Federico Pietrella’s artworks from a distance, you’d never guess they were actually executed using a date stamp. But […]
China Hosts World’s First Ever Goldfish Beauty Pageant
3,000 goldfish from 14 different countries around the world competed for the title of “World Goldfish Queen” in the first ever International Goldfish Championship, hosted in Fuzhou, China’s Fujian Province. A warehouse full of thousands of big white bowls of water sure doesn’t sound like the beauty pageant events we’re normally used to, but that’s […]
Artist Creates Controversial Collages from Adult Magazine Clippings (NSFW)
British artist Jonathan Yeo creates collages and portraits of various celebrities from adult magazine clippings. He doesn’t call them insults, but “comments on people who trade off their morality and sexuality.” Yeo isn’t the first artist we’ve featured who uses the controversial medium as a means of expression. Brussels-based Tom Gallant creates intricate cutouts from […]
Cinema Uses Volunteer Ninjas to Silence Rude Moviegoers
Unless you want to be confronted by a group of ninjas, you don’t want to break the code of conduct at London’s Prince Charles Cinema. They won’t run a katana through you or use throwing stars, but they will pop out of nowhere and give you a stern warning. Invisible Cinema Ninjas, now there’s a cool […]