Woman Suffers Fatal Water Intoxication After Drinking Two Liters in 20 Minutes
A 35-year-old American woman tragically lost her life while vacationing with her family after drinking two liters of water in a very short time and suffering severe brain inflammation. Ashley Summers was celebrating the Fourth of July with her family on Lake Freeman in Indiana when she started feeling really dehydrated because of the hot […]
Woman Under Investigation After Serving Deadly Mushrooms to Former In-Laws
An Australian woman believed to have invited her former in-laws over for lunch only to serve them highly poisonous mushrooms claims she knew nothing about the poisonous ingredients and had no reason to hurt her guests. Two weeks ago, Erin Patterson, a 48-year-old woman from Leongatha, near Melbourne, invited her ex-husband’s parents to her house […]
Israeli Restaurant Serves Chocolate Ice Cream in the Most Disgusting Way Possible
Gordos, a popular restaurant in Holon, Israel, has been getting a lot of attention online because of its latest dessert – a real toilet bowl full of chocolate ice cream. I don’t care how much you like chocolate ice cream, you can’t tell me that you don’t find “Third House of Shit”, the controversial dessert […]
City Mistakenly Tears Down Man’s Home Then Charges Him $68,000 in Demolition Costs
An Atlanta man who lost his house after the city tore it down by mistake is now facing a lawsuit to have the entire property foreclosed unless he pays the $68,000 demolition costs. Everett Tripodis’ property in Atlanta’s historic West End is now an empty lot, but until a few months ago he actually owned […]
Boy Allows Himself to Be Bitten by Black Widow to Become Spider-Man
An 8-year-old Bolivian boy ended up in the hospital after allowing himself to be bitten by a dangerous black widow spider in order to become like his favorite superhero, Spider-Man. The incident occurred in the municipality of Vichuloma, near the city of Oruro, in Central Bolivia. The 8-year-old child, whose name has not been revealed […]
Somali Athlete Runs “Slowest” Official 100-Meter Race Ever
The embarrassing performance of a Somali athlete during the women’s 100-meter race at the World University Games in Chengdu, China prompted a public apology from the African country’s sports minister. It takes an abysmal athletic performance to warrant accusations of “defaming the name of a nation in the international arena,” but then again, the run […]
Toyota Land Cruiser Drives 7 Km Underwater, Sets New World Record
A group of car enthusiasts in Australia recently drove a 1978 Toyota Landcruiser seven kilometers on the bottom of the ocean, setting a new world record for the longest underwater drive. On the morning of July 29th, a bright orange Toyota LandCruiser drove into the northern Australian Sea to the cheers of dozens gathered at […]
Family Tries to Survive Off the Grid Using YouTube Tutorials, Fails
Two women and a teenage boy were found dead after they ventured into the mountains to live off the grid using only knowledge from YouTube tutorials. The partially mummified bodies of 42-year-old Rebecca ‘Becky’ Vance, her 14-year-old son, and her sister Christine, 41, were recently discovered by a hiker at a camp site in Gunnison […]
Woman Shatters World Record with 107-Decibel Burp
An American woman recently set a new world record for the world’s loudest burp by a woman after belching at a measured 107.3 decibels. The previous Guinness record for the loudest burp by a woman dated back to 2009 when Elisa Cagnoni of Italy managed a 107-decibel belch. It was an impressive achievement, but now […]
Woman Miraculously Survives After Spending 90 Minutes in the Grip of a Crocodile
An Indonesian woman is lucky to be enough after surviving a crocodile attack for 90 minutes before finally being rescued and taken to a hospital. On July 27, Falmira De Jesus, a 38-year-old palm oil plantation from Indonesia’s West Kalimantan Province, was collecting water from a shallow, greenery-covered stream in Ketapang Regency when she was […]
Company Accidentally Pays Employee 367 Times His Salary, He Refuses to Pay Money Back
A Hungarian man temporarily became a rich man, after the company he worked for accidentally paid him 367 times more than he had actually earned. And when the employer asked for the money back, he refused to pay. The unnamed man, who hails from Hungary’s Somogy County, briefly worked for a company in Kaposvár but […]
Washington Man Is Selling a Crumbling Wall for $50,000
Finding a property for $50,000 in Georgetown, Washington, where the median price is $1.6 million can be considered a major bargain, but what if that property is a crumbling wall? Last month, a realtor at Keller Williams Capital Properties posted a listing for a property in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington D.C. for just $50,000. […]
Vietnamese Artist Sculpts Papaya Fruits into Realistic Flowers
Nguyen Thi Thu is one of the few remaining artists practicing and constantly enhancing the traditional Vietnamese art of sculpting realistic-looking flowers out of papaya fruits. Thu became enamored with carving various flowers from papaya fruits at the age of 15, when, like many other parents during the 1980s, her family registered her for an […]
Mayor Comes Under Fire for Hiring Strippers for Father’s Day Celebrations
The mayor of Huehuetán, a town in the Mexican state of Chiapas, has come under harsh criticism for hiring strippers to entertain his male constituents during this year’s Father’s Day celebrations. It’s been over a month since this year’s Father’s Day, and while most of us have already forgotten all about it, the men of […]
The “Beautiful Princess” of Strawberries Costs Up to $350 Per Piece
Bijin-Hime, aka ‘Beautiful Princess’, is a Japanese strawberry variety that is perfectly shaped and colored and offers an unmatched flavor. It also costs up to $350 a piece, making it one of the world’s most expensive fruits. Developed by Mikio Okuda, a Japanese farmer with over 45 years of experience growing strawberries, over 15 years […]