High School Students Create High-Tech Device to Accurately Cut Cake Into Equal Pieces
A team of Japanese high-school students recently won a regional innovation competition with a high-tech device that divides cake and pizza into equal portions every single time. It’s a problem as old as the world – cutting a round treat into more than two equal parts. You either end up with portions that are not […]
Scientists Create Strong Bubble That Only Popped After 465 Days
Bubbles are fragile structures that only last a few seconds before popping, but a team of scientists has apparently found a way to keep bubbles from bursting for over a year. Soap bubbles are subject to a series of processes that cause them to pop in a matter of seconds, minutes at best. They lose […]
Man Fathers Four Children in Fifteen Years from Inside an Israeli Prison
A Palestinian man who spent 15 years in an Israeli prison recently explained how he was able to father four kids during that time, despite not being able to be intimate with his wife. Rafat Al-Qarawi was arrested in 2006 for terror activity during the Second Intifada against Israel and sentenced to fifteen years in […]
Man Makes Up to $215 a Day Waiting in Line on Behalf of Other People
A 31-year-old man from the UK works as an “expert waiter” in his spare time, spending hours in long queues on behalf of rich people too busy to do it themselves. For the last three years, Freddie Beckitt, a historical fiction writer from Fulham, in the United Kingdom, has been supplementing his monthly revenue by […]
Lingerie Company Launches Line of Lace Underwear for Men
Japanese lingerie manufacturer Wacoal recently launched a line of lace boxer briefs for men that are said to be both beautiful and functional. Lace lingerie doesn’t sound like the most masculine thing ever, but reputed underwear company Wacoal didn’t just jump into this project blindly. In November of last year, they tested the waters of […]
The Crooked Bush of Saskatchewan – An Intriguing Botanical Anomaly
Saskatchewan’s Crooked Bush, a small grove of aspen trees that grew in a very unusual way, is a botanical oddity that has fascinated both tourists and scientists for years. Aspen trees don’t usually grow crooked. Like most other threes, they grow straight up, towards the sun, but not the specimens that make up the Crooked […]
Real-Life Aquaman Survives 28-Hour-Swim After Being Washed Out to Sea by Tsunami
A 57-year-old Tongan man who reportedly swam for 28 hours after being washed to sea by a tsunami has been dubbed a real-life Aquaman. On Saturday, the island nation of Tonga was hit by a devastating tsunami caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano. Lisala Folau, who lived on the small island of Atata, […]
Taiwan Punishes Drunk Drivers by Having Them Clean Funeral Parlors
Authorities in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, have come up with an ingenious way of getting drunk drivers to reflect on their behavior – they are now required to clean funeral parlors in order to feel what it’s like being close to death. Last month, Kaohsiung was rocked by a car accident caused by a drunk driver, […]
Botched Plastic Surgery Leaves Pensioner Unable to Close His Eyes
A 79-year-old man who underwent a series of cosmetic procedures to make himself look young found himself unable to fully close his eyes, and having to tape them shut at night. Pete Broadhurst decided to go under the knife in 2019, after the mother of his two children allegedly broke up with him over his […]
Latvia’s Iconic Blue Cows
Once driven close to extinction, the blue cows of Latvia, a proud symbol of the Baltic country, have been making a comeback over the last couple of decades. Originally found only on the Baltic coast in the Kurzeme region, cows with light blue or dark ultramarine hides can now be found grazing all over the […]
The Tamaskan – A Dog Bred to Look Like a Wolf But That Doesn’t Have Any Wolf in Its Lineage
The Tamaskan is a relatively new and rare breed of dog created with the specific purpose of mimicking the looks of a grey wolf without any genetic relation to the wild predator. In the 1980s, a group of British dog breeders set out on a mission to develop a new dog breed with a wolf-like […]
This Company Builds Fantastic Playhouses That Can Cost Up to $400,000
Most people can only dream of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on their dream home, but some are paying the same amounts, if not more, on intricate, fully-furnished playhouses for their kids. Charmed Playhouses, a family business based in Letherbridge, Canada, claims to build the world’s most fantastic, luxurious and quality playhouses, and looking […]
Police Officers Fired for Ignoring Robbery Call to Hunt Monsters in Pokemon Go
Two LAPD police officers ended up losing their jobs after ignoring calls about a robbery so they could drive around hunting pokemon in the augmented reality mobile game Pokemon Go. Last week, California’s court of appeals upheld a previous decision according to which officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell were rightfully terminated from the Los […]
Man Left Paralyzed and Unable to Speak by Car Accident Miraculously Recovers After Covid-19 Vaccine
An Indian man who had become paralyzed and unable to speak after being involved in a tragic car accident 5 years ago, reportedly started walking and talking again after getting the Covid-19 vaccine. We keep hearing about potential negative side-effects of getting vaccinated against the coronavirus, but Dularchand Munda, a 55-year-old man from India’s Jharkhand […]
Japanese Students Compete in Making Earthquake-Resistant Toothpick Towers
A Japanese engineering university in Kumamoto is famous for holding a unique competition, challenging students to build toothpick towers that can resist a simulated earthquake. As you probably already know, because of its location in the Circum-Pacific Mobile Belt, where there is constant seismic and volcanic activity, Japan is the world’s most earthquake-prone country. Even […]