Chololi – Japan’s Nose Hair Notification Service, Now Available in English
Have you been dying to tell someone that their nose hairs gross you out? Do you find yourself facing them every day, unable to voice out your disgust? If your answer to these two questions is “yes” , Chololi is just the service for you. It allows anyone to email people anonymously, telling them that their […]
Parents Keep Child’s Sex Secret for Five Years, to Raise Him Gender Neutral
Ever looked at a baby and wondered if it was a boy or a girl? I’ve been there. It’s a dicey situation because most parents take offence if you blurt out the wrong gender. Beck Laxton and Keiran Cooper are exceptions, though. They raised their kid for five years without revealing the gender to anyone, […]
Man Devises Aerobic Exercises Based on House Cleaning
If you’ve been wanting to get into shape but haven’t had the time to exercise, Aerobic House Cleaning might just be the thing for you. The fitness program was devised by Steve Markovich, who has been following it for the past 16 years. The 57-year-old from Crescent Springs, Ky., has managed to make a heart-pumping […]
Man Wants to Live Like Bear Grylls for a Year, Dies in Less than a Month
Nature has always been about the ‘survival of the fittest’, but sometimes even the fittest cannot survive its harsh conditions. What happened with David Austin is a classic example of how merciless the outdoors can truly be. He had embarked upon a year-long survival challenge in the Scottish wilderness, but was found dead within a […]
Chara Sands – The Miniature Desert of Siberia
If I showed you an image of desert sands set up against a background of snow-capped mountain peaks, your first word would probably be ‘Photoshoped’. That’s what I thought too, but such a place really does exist and it’s called Chara Sands. There is really no end to nature’s mysteries and Chara Sands, in Siberia, […]
Gardener Claims Viagra Makes Plants Perkier
Celebrity TV Gardner David Domoney has made a startling revelation. The drug that has helped so many men spruce up their love-life apparently works wonders for flowers as well. And only 1/50th of a regular sized pill of Viagra is all that’s required. Cut flowers that are placed in a vase end up wilting in […]
Meet the Man Who Gets Paid to Break Up with Other People’s Girlfriends
If you can pay someone to help you get a date, then who says you can’t do the same when you want to dump them? Meet Jonathan Kiekbusch from Brighton, U.K., the 21-year-old who has managed to make a living out of breaking-up for others. Not surprisingly, he’s single himself. Jonathan doesn’t charge the sun […]
Faecal Transplant – A Stomach-Turning Medical Procedure
Here’s something I never thought I’d hear, let alone write an article about – faecal transplants. Yes, it’s exactly what you think it is. Taking the poop out of one person and putting it into another. It’s a lot, more disgusting that it sounds, but this medical procedure actually has the potential to save lives. […]
Preacher Stages ‘Sexperiment’ to Encourage Worshipers to Make Love More Often
This one is definitely going in the file as one of the most bizarre church stories ever. I mean, we’ve seen ministers rapping the nativity story and also starting tattoo parlors at church. But putting a bed on the roof of a church to encourage couples to have sex? That’s just taking it a bit too far. […]
Woman Travels the World to Meet All Her 325 Facebook Friends
ArLynn Presser is a 51-year-old woman who lives in Winnetka, Illinois. It’s normal for ArLynn to stay indoors all the time. In fact, for most of her adult life, she hardly ever left the confines of her home, and most certainly did not venture out of her home town. Her career as a writer ensured […]
Singaporean Woman Lives on Toilet for 932 Days
A 58-year-old Singaporean woman lived on the toilet for over two years, before she was forced to undergo treatment. She felt that someone was holding her down and preventing her from leaving the toilet. Quite understandably, she had been suffering from depression for a long time. According to her 64-year-old husband, Ong Kean On, the […]
Calligrapher Works Five Years Making 500 Kg Qur’an
The world’s largest copy of the Qur’an was recently unveiled in Kabul, Afghanistan. It was created painstakingly by calligrapher Mohammed Sabir Khedri and his 9 assistants, over five long years. The massive project was undertaken by Khedri in an attempt to prove that the rich traditions and heritage of the nation have certainly not been […]
French Women Live in Cave to Escape Electro-Magnetic Rays
I’ve read a lot of reports stating that the electro-magnetic radiation from mobile phones and other Wi-Fi devices are harmful to humans. But I never really believed it until I actually heard the story of these two French women who are living in a cave to escape these evil rays. Anne Cautain and Bernadette Touloumond […]
Gympact App Makes You Pay for Skipping Workouts
Money is one of the best motivators for most people. And when money is tied to something like fitness? Well, you’re bound to get fit. Here’s a system that pays you when you workout and takes away your money when you don’t. GymPact is an iPhone application started by a couple of young Harvard graduates […]
36-Year-Old Virgin Man Fathers 14 Children
This is the story of a man who has fathered 14 children without ever being intimate with a woman. How, you ask? Why sperm donation, of course. “Donorsexual” is what 36-year-old Trent Arsenault from Freemont, California, calls himself. Since 2006, the computer security specialist has been giving away his sperm free of cost, through a […]