Artist Can Turn Virtually Any Object into a Real-Life 3D Sketch
From clothing and footwear to lifesize cars and wedding chapels, there is virtually nothing artist Joshua Vides cannot turn into black-and-white sketches. Joshua Vides uses a technique he calls Reality to Idea (RTI) to revert different objects back to sketch form, but few people know that his success story began with a pair of Nike […]
63-Year-Old Woman Thought She Was in Online Relationship with Enrique Iglesias
Online scammers tricked a 63-year-old Los Angeles woman into thinking that she was in a romantic relationship with Spanish musician Enrique Iglesias. Guadalupe Cepeda has been a fan of Enrique Iglesias for over two decades, so when the “Bailamos” singer approached on social media one day, she couldn’t believe it. He apparently found her on […]
Cambodian Male Beauty Pageant Goes Viral for Quality of Participants
Popular Cambodian beauty pageant Miss and Mister Majestic has been getting a lot of attention after photos of its “ordinary-looking” participants went viral on social media. The winner of Mister Majestic 2025 will represent Cambodia in the Mister Universe international beauty pageant, but the contest has created a lot of buzz online due to the […]
Aether Clock OC 020 – The World’s Most Accurate Clock
Created by Japanese manufacturer Shimadzu Corp, the Aether Clock OC 020 is a strontium optical lattice clock advertised as the most accurate clock in the world and sold for over $3 million. The world’s most accurate clock looks less like you’d imagine and more like a small refrigerator. Its rectangular case is around three feet […]
Solo Garlic – The Single-Clove Garlic You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Garlic is probably the world’s most popular seasoning, but most of us hate pealing it about as much as we love to eat it. Having to go through over a dozen clovers per garlic bulb is just not fun, but what if I told you there was such a thing as single-clover garlic? If you […]
Man Charged with Manslaughter After Son Bumps into Pensioner While Learning to Ride a Bike
An Italian man recently had to fight charges of manslaughter after his five-year-old son hit an 87-year-old pensioner while learning to ride a bicycle in a Milan park. What was meant to be a rite of passage for a young boy, turned into a nightmare for his entire family and that of an 87-year-old woman […]
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 […]
Russia’s Youngest Pensioner Retired at the Age of 23
At age 16, Pavel Stepchenko joined the school of Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs as a student, and by age 23, he had already retired, becoming the country;s youngest pensioner. Retirement is traditionally associated with old age, and while today’s youth dream of retiring young to focus on living their best lives, that usually means […]
Fox and Raccoon Meat Sold as Mutton and Beef in China, Journalistic Investigation Finds
A journalistic investigation by the Chinese newspaper The Paper revealed the widespread commercialization of “fake meats”, such as fox or raccoon meat being sold as beef, mutton, or rabbit to restaurants. The Paper reports that in Chinese areas known for fur production, such as Tangshan, Hebei, Weifang, Linyi, or Shandong, animal farms resell fox and […]
Ghazipur Landfill – The World’s Highest Garbage Mountain
Known as the Garbage Mountain of Delhi, Ghazipur Landfill covers an area of about 70 acres (over 50 football) and is almost as tall as the iconic Taj Mahal. Established in 1984, on the outskirts of Ghazipur, in the eastern district of Delhi, Ghazipur Landfill reached its maximum capacity in 2002, but it has since […]
24-Year-Old Mukbang Streamer Dies of Obesity-Related Complications
Efecan Kultur, a Turkish Tiktoker who rose to prominence for his “mukbang” binge eating streams, tragically lost his life at the age of 24 due to obesity-related health complications. The “mukbang” trend, in which people costume copious amounts of food on camera to the delight of their fans, originated in South Korea but quickly spread […]
People Are Buying “Bank Soil” as Part of Bizarre Get-Rich-Quick Trend
Chinese people desperate to get rich by any means necessary are putting their faith in bags of “bank soil” sold online as wealth-bringing talismans. Bank robberies usually involve cold harsh cash or gold ingots, but several Chinese banks have recently become the target of an unusual type of theft, that of soil from potted plants […]
Russia’s Rulling Party Sparks Outrage by Gifting Meat Grinders to Mothers of Soldiers Killed in Ukraine
The Murmansk branch of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia political party made the controversial decision of gifting meat grinders to mothers of soldiers killed in the war with Ukraine to celebrate International Women’s Day. Over the past three years, the meat grinder has become a symbol of the Russian military’s high casualty rate in its assault […]
Company Unveils World’s First Biological Computer Based on Human Brain Cells
The CL1 is an innovative biological computer that combines living cultured human brain cells with silicon hardware in an advanced computer case that also acts as life-support for the cells. Australian biotech company Cortical Labs recently made international news headlines by announcing what it calls “the world’s first code deployable biological computer.” The innovation behind […]
Girl Born with ‘Patella Dislocation’ Can Pop Her Knee Caps Out at Will
A 19-year-old Chinese girl has gone viral after posting a video demonstrating her unusual ability to pop her kneecaps out and then back in painlessly because of a condition she was born with. The unnamed girl from Jiangssi claims that she never even knew her kneecaps were special until schoolmates saw her popping them out […]