Man Catches Wife in Bed with Another Man, Gets Prison Time for Extortion
A Chinese man was sentenced to six months behind bars after catching his wife sleeping with another man and accepting money as compensation for the cheating. In March 2021, Lu, a 33-year-old man from Shandong, eastern China, noticed that his wife was taking unusually long to get ready to take their daughter to her private […]
Exhausted 38-Year-Old Woman Moves into Retirement Home to Slow Down Life Pace
A 38-year-old woman in China has been living in a nursing home for the elderly after becoming ill due to overwork and looking for a way to slow things down in her life. Ms. Yang had been working as a screenwriter in the film and television industry for 11 years when the hectic schedule and […]
Chinese Military Buff Unknowingly Buys Classified State Secrets for One Dollar
A military buff in China alerted authorities after discovering that the discarded books he had bought from a recycling station for just one dollar were classified military documents. China’s Ministry of State Security recently took to social media to praise the actions of a military enthusiast surnamed Zhang who had alerted authorities after buying some […]
Young Artist Brings Dying Art of Book Fore-Edge Painting into the Limelight
Maisie Matilda, a 24-year-old artist from the UK, is being credited for shining a bright spotlight on the fascinating but dying art of book fore-edge painting. Matilda had been painting for a long time, but she only started experimenting with fore-edge painting during the first COVID-19 lockdown, when she found herself with lots of time […]
Book Club Has Been Reading the Same Difficult Book for the Last 28 Years
A California-based book club has recently finished its first reading of James Joyce’s ‘Finnegan’s Wake’, a notoriously difficult book that it started reading 28 years ago. James Joyce once said that the demand he makes of his reader is that he “should devote his entire life to reading my works,” and some people actually took […]
Japanese Woman Arrested for Selling Book on How to Swindle Sugar Daddies
Mai Watanabe, a young self-proclaimed dating scammer, was arrested for selling how-to guides on defrauding ‘sugar daddies’ through paid dating. 25-year-old Watanabe, who hails from Nagoya, Japan, was arrested in August for selling a number of dating scam manuals to her social media followers. featuring titles like ‘Textbook for Sugar Babies: The Right Profile and […]
Iran Mall – The World’s Largest Shopping Mall
The shopping mall is considered a symbol of American consumerism and the US is indeed home to over 100,000 shopping malls, but the title of world’s biggest shopping mall actually belongs to one of America’s biggest rivals, Iran. Located northeast of Teheran, the humongous Iran Mall shopping mall covers an area of 31 square meters […]
This Shopping Mall Bathroom Has Been Dubbed the World’s Most Beautiful Public Bathroom
Tucked away on the sixth floor of a Nanjing shopping mall is one of the fanciest, most impressive public bathrooms in the world. To some, it is the world’s most beautiful public bathroom. Designed by X+Living, a Shanghai-based architecture firm, the bathroom on the sixth floor of the Deji Plaza shopping mall in Nanjing, China […]
Wearable E-Book Reader Is Shaped Like a Pair of Eyeglasses
The Sol e-book reader is a new and innovative e-book reader that you wear on your face, just like a pair of sunglasses. If the humble Kindle isn’t just isn’t good enough anymore and you’re looking for the next big thing in the e-book reader space, you may want to check out the Sol e-book […]
Tattoo Artist Sparks Controversy with Amateurish-Looking $700 Tattoo
A German tattoo artist has been criticized for charging a client hundreds of dollars for a back tattoo that many have compared to a childish doodle. Mykhailo, a 21-year old tattoo artist from Berlin, Germany, recently posted a TikTok video of one of his latest projects, an abstract, scribble-like design that his client allegedly paid […]
Woman Returns to Civilization After Spending 500 Days Isolated in a Cave
A Spanish extreme athlete who voluntarily isolated herself from the world by entering a cave in November 2021 recently emerged from her self-imposed exile after a record 500 days. When female climber Beatriz Flamini entered an isolated cave in the Spanish region of Granada on November 21, 2021, the world was still in the middle […]
Fat Cat Becomes Polish City’s Top Rated Tourist Attraction
With a nearly perfect 4.9/5.0 stars out of thousands of Google reviews, Gacek, an overweight black-and-white street cat, is the top-rated tourist attraction in the Polish city of Szczecin. Szczecin, a medieval city in northwestern Poland, close to the border with Germany, has plenty to offer visitors. The Pomeranian Duke’s Castle and Kasprowicza Park are […]
‘Dead’ Book Author Comes Back to Life Two Years After Allegedly Faking Her Death
A Tennessee romance book writer whose own daughter announced her tragic death to friends and fans two years ago recently announced that she is coming back to writing, and everyone is really confused. In September 2020, friends and colleagues of Susan Meachen, a self-published romance fiction writer, were shocked to hear that she had taken […]
The World’s Largest Monastic Library Is Also One of the Most Beautiful
Admont Abbey, a Baroque monastery in Austria, hosts the world’s largest monastic library, which also happens to be a stunning work of art. Dating back to the year 1074 when the Benedictine monks of Salzburg decided to found their own abbey in the town of Admont, Admont Abbey is one of the most popular tourist […]
Parents Punish Child Who Watches Too Much TV by Making Him Watch More TV
A Chinese couple recently sparked controversy online after punishing their child for watching too much television by making him stay up all night watching TV. It’s a problem most modern parents – myself included – deal with at some point. Kids today love looking at screens, be they big or small, and unless you do […]