This Japanese Bookstore Only Stocks One Book at a Time
Japanese bookseller Yoshiyuki Morioka has come up with a highly unusual concept for a bookstore – he sells one book at a time in a tiny shop located in Ginza, Tokyo’s luxury shopping district. Ever since he launched the store in May, he has stocked multiple copies of only one title per week. You might argue […]
Wonder Boy Gets Two College Degrees, Flies Airplanes, Writes Two Books, Works for NASA, All by the Age of 17
Seventeen is a confusing age for many, but Moshe Kai Cavalin seems to have it all figured out. The California teenager already has two college degrees to his name, he’s a published author, nearly a licensed pilot, and he works for NASA. That’s a lot more than most of us hope to achieve in a […]
Staffless Pay-What-You-Will Bookstore in China Actually Works
A peculiar outdoor bookstore recently opened in Nanjing, China. There is no cashier desk and no working staff to keep an eye on the books. Instead, visitors are invited to peruse the reading material on offer and pay whatever they want for books by dropping the money in a lock-box. Organizers say the aptly named Honesty […]
Chinese Boss Takes 6,400 Employees on Holiday to France, Books Hundreds of Hotels
A Chinese billionaire has made a serious claim for the title of best boss ever, after taking half of his employees – over 6,400 people – on an all-expenses-paid nine-day holiday to France, to celebrate his company’s 20th anniversary. The epic trip is expected to cost a whopping 33 million euros, of which 13 million will […]
South African Homeless Man Refuses to Beg, Makes a Living by Selling Books on the Pavement
Philani Dladla, a homeless man living on the streets of Johannesburg, is probably the last person you’d expect to be a bookworm. Yet, the 24-year-old is quite a voracious reader. And instead of begging like other homeless people, he has chosen to make a living by reviewing and selling books. South African director and cinematographer […]
Illustrator Creates Incredibly Detailed Drawings Inside Matchbooks
Jason D’Aquino is an expert miniaturist who unleashes his talent on all kinds of recycled objects, from ledgers, leaflets, vintage calendars to small pieces of paper and even tiny matchbooks. And to make sure everyone understands just how skilled he is, the man doesn’t do some simple doodles, he recreates the Mona Lisa, vintage movie portraits […]
Clever Experiment Proves We Do Judge Books by Their Covers
Brian Brushwood and Justin Young, hosts of the NSFW Podcast, managed to push their $0.99 e-book to the #4 position on iTunes, without having to write a single word. How did they do it? Easy, they included lots and lots of sex. You’ve probably heard of Fifty Shades of Grey, the erotic novel that took the […]
Modern Tower of Babel Made of Books Appears in Buenos Aires
Popular Argentine artist Marta Minujin has created a 25-meter-high spiraling Tower of Babel made from 30,000 books written in various languages. This modern version of the Tower of Babel was designed in celebration of Buenos Aires’ designation as World Book Capital 2011, by UNESCO, and local authorities say it represents the ideas of pluralism and diversity which […]
Designer Makes Impressive Gown from Discarded Children’s Books
Boston-based fashion designer Ryan Novelline has created an amazing fairytale dress using only pages from children’s Golden Books. If you had any doubts regarding human creativity being endless, this unique creation will definitely make you a believer. Now I’m not very big on fashion, but I know impressive when I see it, and Ryan Novelline’s […]
Man Wins ‘Lying Flat’ Contest by Laying on a Matress for 33 Hours Straight
A Chinese man won an unusual ‘lying flat’ contest in which participants needed to lie on a mattress for as long as possible, without even going to the toilet.
World’s Most Inaccessible Library Is Carved into the Side of a Cliff
The Mianhua Library, located near the village of Mianhua, in China’s Guanxi Province, is a unique library housed in a large grotto, on the side of a rock cliff. Ever since it opened in May of this year, Mianhua Library has been going viral on Chinese social media. Libraries aren’t usually very popular online, but […]
Man Obsessed with Lab-Grown Viruses Raises Children in Complete Isolation
Italian police recently discovered two siblings, ages 6 and 9, raised on an isolated farm in Piedmont by their virus-obsessed father. During the flood that affected the Italian province of Piedmont in April, local carabinieri visited an isolated farm in the foothills of Lauriano, a small comune near Turin. They were there to issue a […]
24-Year-Old Woman Mysteriously Stops Speaking Language She Was Fluent In
Chinese doctors were recently baffled by the curious case of a young woman who suddenly became unable to speak English, a language she had been fluent in. Last week, Wan Feng, the director of the Department of Neurosurgery at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital in Guangzhou, China, posted a video of a 24-year-old woman who had […]
Nosy Neighbor Leads Police to Children Isolated for Years by COVID-Paranoid Parents
Police in Oviedo, Spain, recently rescued three young children who had been isolated in a house for over three years by their parents, who seemed obsessed with keeping them from getting infected with the coronavirus. People usually complain about nosy neighbors who can’t seem to mind their own business, but one woman in Oviedo, Spain, […]
Nun-Man – The Incredible Story of a Man Who Lived as a Nun for 22 Years
Frank Tavares was born a man in the Dominican Republic, but for 22 years of his life, he lived as Sister Margarita in two different convents, posing as one of the nuns there without anyone suspecting anything. The unusual story of “nun-man”, as Frank came to be known following his shocking reveal, began when he […]