Luxury Car Dealer Unveils $27,000 Aston Martin for Kids of 10 Years and Over
Aww, this has got to be the most adorable car in the world. The Aston Martin DB Junior is a fully functioning classic petrol-engine sports car for children aged 10 and over. Its design is inspired by 007’s legendary Aston Martin DB5 of the 1960s. No machine guns or ejector seats included, though. So if […]
Woman Who Has Never Eaten Solid Food Lives off Milk, Tea and Water
Manju Dharra, a 25-year-old Indian woman, hasn’t had a bite to eat since she was born. For the past two-and-a-half decades she has been surviving on a liquid diet consisting of milk, tea, buttermilk and water. Manju is from a small town called Sonipat, located near India’s capital, New Delhi. She suffers from a rare […]
Real-Life Khal Drogo Looks even More Awesome than the TV Series Character
29-year-old Rene Koiter spent the past ten months exercising like a maniac. And now, all his efforts have finally paid off. After putting on 10 pounds of pure muscle, he has succeeded in perfectly resembling the terrifying Khal Drogo, leader of the Dothraki and husband of Daeneyrs Targaryen in The Game of Thrones TV series. […]
Artist Turns the Streets of Toronto into Amazing Outdoor Art Gallery
Peter Gibson, a Montreal-based artist, began a campaign in 2001 to encourage the city to build more bike lanes. Although intended as an activism effort, the campaign was artistic in nature – it involved huge drawings on black asphalt, plain for everyone to see. A decade ago, around the same time, Gibson was actually charged […]
Real-Life Spider-Man Climbs 1,500-Foot Rock Wall without Any Safety Equipment
American rock climber Alex Honnold has had an incredibly good (and miraculously lucky) start to 2014. He managed to climb El Sendero Luminoso, a 1,500 foot wall, without the use of any safety gear. Alex is being dubbed a ‘real-life Spiderman’, but I wouldn’t agree with that moniker because even Spiderman spun a web and […]
America’s Most Exclusive Restaurant Has a 5-Year Waiting List
Damon Baehrel has what most chefs in the world would kill for – a restaurant with a five-year waiting list. The restaurant is aptly named after himself; in his own words he’s “the chef, the waiter, the grower, the forager, the gardener, the cheesemaker, the cured-meat maker,” and everything on the menu comes from his […]
Artist Carves Incredibly Accurate Fast-Food Kitchen Exclusively Out of Wood
‘Carcass’ is an odd name for a kitchen, don’t you think? But this isn’t a regular kitchen we’re talking about. It’s a diorama on view at Kavi Gupta Gallery in Chicago. This happens to be artist Roxy Paine’s first solo show, ‘Apparatus’. Carcass is the full-scale replica of a real fast-food kitchen that Roxy made […]
Just Another Russian Daredevil Hanging Off Vertigo-Inducing Ledges
Kirill Oreshkin, from Moscow, is a photographer with a strange passion. He’s crazy about ‘rooftopping’ – a sport that involves hanging on for his dear life from all kinds of precarious ledges. In all the photographs, you can see him smiling nonchalantly at the camera. Going by his expression, you’d think he was hanging around […]
Ski Resort Has Been Using Contaminated Sewage Water to Make Artificial Snow
Arizona Snowbowl, a resort in Flagstaff, Arizona, has resorted to the worst kind of commercialism seen in modern times. Since 2002, they’ve been using the city’s treated sewage effluent to make fake snow. Environmental groups, concerned citizens and the indigenous people of the region have been opposing this for years. For the Hopi Tribe, the San […]
Artist Sculpts Animal Bones into Delicate Works of Art
Artist Jennifer Trask creates sculptures that are so delicate, it’s easy to mistake them for paper. But they’re actually made of bones. I’m seriously awe-struck at how she can convert something as hard and dry as bone into such exquisite works of art. Some of the petals carved by Jennifer are so thin and frail, […]
Meet the German Prince Skiing for Mexico in a Unique Mariachi-themed Suit at the Sochi Winter Olympics
Prince Hulbertus von Hohenlohe – his name might sound German, but he’s actually Mexican. But he’s also a German prince. Confused? Let’s start again. Prince Hulbertus was born in Mexico in 1959, to Prince Alfonso and Princess Ira of the reigning dynasty of a former German county. The German prince and Mexican citizen is often […]
Guy Gives His Dog Away after She Chews on His $130,000 Sports Car
This has got to be the saddest picture of a dog I’ve ever seen. It broke my heart to see Luce, a Border collie spaniel, literally in tears. Her owner gave her away after she chewed through the fiberglass wheel arch of his US $130,000 sports car last Wednesday. 42-year-old builder Royston Grimstead, from Chedzoy, […]
Chinese Girl Rotates Non-Stop for Four Hours during Spring Festival Celebration
15-year-old Wei Caiqi, the niece of Chinese dancing star Yang Liping, twirled nonstop for four hours straight during China’s New Year celebrations. The annual China Central Television (CCTV) gala was aired live on January 30 and watched by 704 million viewers across the nation. Wei, clad in a white gown, spun on a special stage […]
African City Replaces Traffic Lights with Intimidating Robots
The intersection of Boulevard Triomphal and Huileries Avenue in Kinshasa, Congo, has two new additions – robot traffic policemen. These large robocops have replaced human police officers and traffic lights, and, believe it or not, they’re actually doing a great job. At first glance, the robocops don’t look like much. They appear to be rudimentary […]
Yemeni Girl Cries Stone Tears, Baffles Scientists
We’ve seen people shedding tears of blood before, but this 12-year-old Yemeni girl’s problem is truly baffling. When Saadiya Saleh cries, her eyes release small, hard stones. They form under her eyelids and get pushed to the front of her eyes, emerging as tears. Doctors are unable to explain the strange phenomenon because Saadiya isn’t […]