The Unbelievable Story of Carlos Kaiser, the Greatest Conman in Football History
Carlos Henrique Raposo, aka Carlos Kaiser, is a Brazilian former football player known primarily for having a decade-long career without actually playing a single game. As children, most people grow up dreaming of one day becoming sports champions, despite an obvious lack of athletic abilities. Most of us realize this to be nothing more than […]
Swiss Man Hit by “Ghost Gunshot” No One Even Heard
A Swiss man has found himself at the core of a modern mystery after discovering that he had been by a bullet that seemingly came out of nowhere. Last Thursday, the unnamed 38-year-old man was walking with his two children and an acquaintance in Frauenfeld, a town around 45 kilometers northeast of Zurich, when he […]
Self-Taught Artist Draws the Most Amazing Optical Illusions
Aria, a 25-year-old self-taught artist from Japan, specializes in 3D color pencil drawings that look ready to jump off of the sheet of paper they are drawn on. Despite what your eyes are desperately trying to make you think, Aria’s works are all two-dimensional. She just has this innate ability to draw a variety of […]
Catholic Priest Resigns After Church Declares His Baptisms Invalid Due to a Single Wrong Word
A Catholic priest who has performed thousands of baptisms over the last two decades recently resigned after learning that they are all invalid, because of a simple mistake. Father Andres Arango recently resigned as a priest from St. Gregory’s Catholic Parish in Phoenix, Arizona, after a 25-year career. He stood accused of botching thousands of […]
Pregnant Woman Has Nail Hammered Into Her Head to Guarantee Baby Boy
A so-called faith healer in Pakistan convinced a pregnant woman that she would give birth to a baby boy if she had a metal nail hammered into her skull. Doctors at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar were shocked when they examined the head of a pregnant woman who claimed to have a two-inch-long nail […]
Finally! Scientists Find Way of Making Non-Alcoholic Beer Taste Just Like the Real Thing
It’s no secret that non-alcoholic beer tastes much worse than regular lager, but scientists in Denmark now claim to have developed a way of making it taste just as satisfying. When making alcohol-free beer, either by heating it up or by minimizing fermentation, what is lost is the complex aroma of the hops. However, after […]
Gold-Obsessed Man Wears Up to Two Kilograms of Jewelry, Drives Gold-Plated Car
A 39-year-old Vietnamese man recently went viral because of his obsession with gold, wearing kilograms of jewelry around his neck and on his hands, and driving gold-plated cars and motorcycles. Tran Duc Loi, an entrepreneur from Vietnam’s An Giang province has been getting a lot of attention in his home country because of his fascination […]
Kjeragbolten – A Photo-Friendly Boulder Wedged Over a 3,228-Foot Deep Abyss
Kjeragbolten is one of the most instagrammable places in Norway. It’s an ancient boulder wedged in a crevasse by the edge of Kjerag mountain, in Lysefjord. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably seen photos of people standing on this giant boulder wedged in-between two stone walls, above this seemingly bottomless abyss. Well, […]
Klee Kai – The Husky Miniature You Probably Didn’t Know Existed
Klee Kai – literally “little dog” in an Alaskan indigenous dialect – is a fairly new dog breed designed as a smaller version of the popular Alaskan Husky. The husky is one of the world’s most beloved dog breeds, but it’s no secret that their medium-to-large frame requires a lot of space, making them less-than-ideal […]
Security Guard Drew Eyes on Million Dollar Painting Because He Was Bored
A security guard got so bored on his first day at work that he ruined a million-dollar avant-garde painting by drawing eyes on the faceless figures depicted in the artwork. Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures, an artwork painted between 1932 and 1934, was on display at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center in Ekaterinburg as part of […]
Turkish Man Credited for Turning Barren Hill into Thriving Forest
Hikmet Kaya, a retired forest technician from Turkey, is being praised as the main driving force behind an impressive ecological achievement – turning a barren hill in Sinop city into a green oasis of million trees. During his 24-year tenure as Head of Afforestation at Boyabat Forestry Operations Department in Sinop’s Boyabat district, Hikmet Kaya […]
Potato Milk, the New Health Drink That’s About to Take the World by Storm
When it comes to dairy alternatives, we already have a lot of “milks” to choose from, but the latest alternative could prove to be a game-changer due to how available and cheap its main ingredient is. Potato milk doesn’t sound like the most delicious thing in the world, but then again, neither does oat milk […]
South-Korean Tattoo Artist Specializes in Superb Watercolor-Inspired Tattoos
A South Korean porcelain painter specializing in watercolor-like designs, managed to adapt her art to a whole new, more sensitive canvas, the human skin. Bucheon-based tattoo artist Abii had spent about six years working as a professional porcelain painter when her mentor encouraged her to start practicing tattooing as well. She had always wanted to […]
Man With World’s Most Insect Tattoos on His Body Actually Hates Bugs
Michael Amoia, a music producer and entrepreneur from New York, recently set a new world record for the most insects tattooed on his body, a whopping 864. But just because he has a giant centipede covering most of his front torso, and a menacing scorpion inked on the right side of his face does not […]
Turkish Man Has Been Testing Positive for Covid-19 for Fourteen Months
A 56-year-old man from Turkey has spent the last fourteen months of his life in isolation, testing positive for Covid-19 no less than 78 times ever since becoming infected in November of 2020. Muzaffer Kayasan from Turkey has been confined to hospitals and his own home for over a year, and is desperately looking for […]