Woman Suffers Permanent Hearing Loss by Listening to Music in Headphones Every Night for Two Years
A young Chinese woman who went to sleep every night for two years by playing music in her headphones now has to wear a hearing aid to compensate for the hearing loss. Ms. Wang, a young woman from Shandong, China who works as a secretary at a local firm, recently went to the hospital for […]
Teacher Suspended After Allegedly Shooting a Student in Class
A Bangladeshi medical school teacher has been suspended after allegedly pulling out a firearm and shooting a student in the leg during a heated argument. Raihan Sharif, a lecturer at a medical college in Sirajganj, north-western Bangladesh, has been suspended from his job two days after allegedly shooting and injuring a student in a classroom. […]
Chinese Parents Increasingly Suffering Heart Attacks and Strokes While Helping Kids with Homework
Stressed Chinese parents are reportedly suffering heart attacks and strokes while helping their children with homework, especially math. One evening in January, Ms. Dong, a 40-year-old mother-of-two from Hangzhou, was helping one of her sons with his math homework when she lost her cool because the child didn’t understand a problem. Soon after this outburst, […]
Man with Hoarse Voice Finds Leech Attached to His Throat
A Vietnamese man who started experiencing throat discomfort and speaking with a hoarse voice discovered that he had a 6-cm-long leech sucking blood from his throat. Ever wake up with a soar throat and a scratchy voice? Of course, you have, but you probably never thought it was more than a mild cold. A 53-year-old […]
Brazilian GrandpaClaims He Has Been Drinking Only Coke for the Last 50 Years
A 70-year-old retiree from Bahia, Brazil, claims that he has drunk a drop of water in the last 50 years, relying solely on Coca-Cola for hydration, despite suffering from diabetes and heart problems. Roberto Pedreira, probably the world’s no. 1 Coca-Cola fan, recently went viral online for his love of the popular fizzy drink. While […]
Scientists Baffled by Man Who Got Vaccinated for Covid-19 a Whopping 217 Times
A team of German scientists studied a 62-year-old man who deliberately got 217 Covid-19 vaccine shots over 29 months and found that he suffered from no negative vaccine-related side effects. Many people wouldn’t get a shot of Covid-19 vaccine if their lives depended on it, but a German man decided to compensate for many of […]
70-Year-Old Grandpa Shocks Internet With His Toned Physique
A 70-year-old fitness enthusiast from Chongqing, China, has been getting a lot of attention on social media thanks to his enviable physique and seemingly endless energy. Zou Heping’s epic fitness journey started in 1979 when he read about the benefits of running in a magazine. He has been running up Gele Mountain, near Chongqing, ever […]
German Student Creates the World’s Fastest Toy Car
A German engineering student spent 10 months modifying a toy car and turning it into an extremely fast vehicle capable of reaching speeds of up to 92.24 mph (148 km/h). 31-year-old Marcel Paul has always been fascinated by Bobby Cars, a type of toy car that was invented to help children learn to walk but […]
Professional Actor Makes a Living Playing a Beggar for Handouts
For the last 12 years, Chinese professional actor Lu Jingang has been making a living by playing a poor beggar in a popular scenic spot and collecting money and food from kindhearted citizens. Seeing Lu Jingang on the job, you’d think he was nothing but a poor beggar looking to make ends meet, but that’s […]
Rock Band Singer Fired for Allegedly Dosing Bandmate with Estrogen to Steal His Girlfriend
A Nashville-based hardcore band named Llorona announced that it had fired its lead singer after he allegedly dosed the band bassist with estrogen as part of a bizarre ploy to steal his fiancée. The unusual news was shared by Llorona in a series of posts on the band’s Instagram account, which has since been suspended. […]
Woman Allegedly Pays Thugs to Ruin Bride’s Dress to Stop Son’s Wedding
A Mexican woman is being accused of paying three thugs to throw red paint on her future daughter-in-law’s wedding dress to stop her from marrying her son. On February 17, a couple managed to get married in the town of Ciudad Obregón, Mexico’s Sonora Province, despite facing constant harassment from the groom’s family. News of […]
Woman Loses $820,000 Injury Insurance Claim After Winning Christmas Tree Throwing Contest
A woman who had filed an insurance claim of $820,000 claiming that she had suffered debilitating injuries in a car accident has had her claim dismissed after it was proven that she won a Christmas tree-throwing contest a year after the accident. On February 3, 2017, Kamila Grabska was involved in a car accident on […]
Man Goes to Hospital for Gallbladder Surgery, Walks Out with Accidental Vasectomy
An Argentinian man got the shock of his life after undergoing what he thought was surgery on his gallbladder, only to later learn that the doctors had performed a vasectomy instead. Earlier this week, 41-year-old Jorge Baseto went to the Florencio Díaz Provincial Hospital in Cordoba, Argentina, for a gallbladder surgery. The operation was scheduled […]
Skilled Chinese Makeup Artist Renders People Unrecognizable
A Chinese makeup artist known as Tuzi (Rabbit) has been getting a lot of attention on social media for her ability to completely transform her clients to the point where they are impossible to recognize. Tuzi runs the Starlight Rabbit Portrait Studio in Yunan Province, but she gets most of her clientele from social media, […]
Frog Smaller Than a Human Fingernail May Be World’s Smallest Vertebrate
The Brazilian flea frog (Brachycephalus pulex) measures only between 7 and 8 millimeters in length, which likely makes it the smallest vertebrate on Earth. In 2011, Mirco Solé, a researcher at the State University of Santa Cruz in Brazil, discovered the tiny Brazilian flea frog, an amphibian so small that it could comfortably fit on […]