Superman Fan Undergoes Plastic Surgery to Look Like His Favorite Superhero
Herbert Chavez, a Superman fan from the Philippines, is so obsessed with the Man of Steel that he underwent several plastic surgery procedures just to look like his favorite superhero. According to a video report by Bandila News’ Marie Lozano, 35-year-old Herbert Chavez has dramatically altered his appearance to look more like Superman. Unfortunately, the report […]
French Coffee House Owner Refuses to Sell His Life’s Work – A Story of Courage
Although his is the only standing building in what used to be an old neighborhood of Roubaix, in Northern France, Salah Oudjani refuses to sell the coffee house he has worked in for the last 46 years. The title doesn’t sound like anything special, after all, many people refuse to have their property demolished, at […]
Sweet-Toothed Siblings Make Giant Versions of Their Favorite Treats
Have you ever wondered what a giant Toffifee candy would look like? Well, now you don’t have to, because sweet-loving Laura Parry and her brother David have already made one, as well as several other giant versions of popular English sweets. 23-year-old Laura and her brother David, 20, spend one day each week cooped up […]
Japanese Botaoshi – Arguably the Craziest Sport Ever
Botaoshi is a wacky Japanese sport played by cadets at Japan’s Military Defense Academy, where opposing teams literally fight each other over a wooden pole. Now I’ve seen my share of bizarre sports and games since I started Oddity Central, but Botaoshi (poll-pull-down) definitely takes the cake, and guess what, it’s Japanese. The game, which […]
Duzzle Art – Doug Powell’s Puzzle Piece Mosaics
Mosaic artist Doug Powell uses thousands of puzzle pieces to assemble mosaic portraits that capture facial features right down to the finest features. We’ve featured some of Doug’s work on OC a while ago, when he created a space shuttle mosaic exclusively out of keyboard keys. But he is actually most famous for his unique […]
Arab Sheikh Pays $10 Million for World’s First Superbus
The Superbus looks more like a very long Lamborghini than a regular bus, but it’s able to transport 23 people over long distances at speeds of up to 250 km/h. The world’s first superbus was developed at the Delft University of Technology, in Holland, under the supervision of professor Wobbo Ockels, who in 1985 became […]
The Camel-Riding Robot Jockeys of Arabia
Camel racing is a really popular sport throughout the Arab world, and owning a heard of specially-bred fast camels is apparently considered a symbol of wealth and power. But it’s not the animals we should be talking about, it’s their weird-looking robot jockeys. Obviously, robot jockeys aren’t exactly an integral part of the old camel […]
Would You Believe These Were DRAWN by an 18-Year-Old?
Rajacenna is an 18-year-old self-taught artist from the Netherlands who draws the most realistic portraits I have ever seen, using only pencils. I’m a big fan of realistic drawings, and I’ve previously featured amazing works like the pencil drawings of Paul Lung, the ballpoint pen portraits of Juan Francisco Casas, or Cristina Penescu’s detailed scratchboard masterpieces, […]
World’s Most Expensive Sheep Is Worth over $2 Million
This whole economic boom is just making China weirder with each passing day. Just last week I read they inaugurated their first gold-dispensing machine and now the country’s big bosses are paying millions of dollars for sheep. Dolan sheep, to be exact, a rare breed which according to breeders has very special features that make it the […]
Manly Man Considers Razors a Luxury, Shaves with Shovel
Alexander Karpenko, a 35-year-old English teacher from Nizhny Novgrod, Russia shaves with all kinds of sharp objects, including a shovel, hatchet or scissors, but not with razors. Impressed by the war stories his grandfather, a WW2 veteran, told him about men who used anything sharp to shave on the battlefield, Alexander first experimented shaving with scissors […]
British Artist Paints Masterpieces on Swan Feathers
Artist Ian Davey has found a natural and sustainable canvas to paint his masterpieces on – swan feathers. Now his light works sell for thousands of dollars. Each individual piece can take up to a week to complete, but Ian Davey’s delicate feather paintings really are something special to look at. The 46-year-old artist, who […]
Japanese Toilet Company Creates Poop-Powered Bike
The Toilet Bike Neo is a toilet-bike hybrid that runs entirely on biogas (human poop). It was created by TOTO, Japan’s biggest toilet manufacturer as part of a campaign to reduce CO2 emissions in toilets by 50% until 2017. Believe it or not, we may have been looking for alternatives to fossil fuels in all the wrong places. […]
10 Coolest Finds of the Week #11
Pages from an Amazing Chinese Revolutionary Textbook Written in English (Asia Obscura) NYC Comedian Gives Out Free Cab Rides to New Yorkers for 14 Hours (Mark Malkoff) Stag Beetles Locked in Mortal Combat (Environmental Graffiti) China Inaugurates Gold Dispensing Machine (Reuters) World’s Youngest Professional Mountain Climber (Huffington Post) Devoted Piranha Parents Attack Beachgoers in Brazil […]
Russian Couple Build Their Own Fairy Tale Castle
A retired couple from the suburbs of Artyom, Russia have worked for 16 years transforming an ordinary house into a fairy tale castle, using only junk materials found on the street and at a local landfill. They might be pensioners, but Alexey and Valentina Krivov don’t consider themselves too old for fairy tales. They didn’t […]
The Mysterious Magus of Java and His Amazing Power of Chi
John Chang, also known as the Magus of Java or the Electric Eel man is a mysterious Indonesian healer who reportely possesses an incredible power called nei kung. Mr. Chang was first presented to the world in an award-winning documentary called The Ring of Fire, by brothers Lawrence and Lorne Blair. He requested his identity be protected […]