22-Year-Old Basketball Coach Impersonates 13-Year-Old Girl in Official League Game
A 22-year-old assistant basketball coach lost her job with a Virginia high school after she reportedly impersonated a 13-year-old girl during an official game. Arlisha Boykins, an assistant for the Churchland H.S. Truckers in Virginia, recently made international news headlines after it was reported that she impersonated a 13-year-old player who was out of time […]
Man Finds Teeth Embedded in His Face Days After Basketball Court Collision
A Chinese man was shocked to find two human teeth embedded in his face days after accidentally colliding with another person during a basketball game. The unnamed man was reportedly back in his home city of Dongguan, China’s Guangdong Province, for the Lunar New Year, when he was invited to a basketball game by some […]
Begging 2.0 – Indonesian Beggars Get on TikTok Instead of Going Out on the Street
Begging is reportedly going digital in Indonesia, with street beggars posting clips on TikTok asking for virtual gifts instead of actually going out on the street. TikTok begging has reportedly become such a widespread phenomenon in Indonesia that the Government has been forced to step in to reign it in. The Asian country’s social minister […]
Woman Allegedly Seeks Out and Kills Lookalike in Order to Fake Her Own Death
A young German woman stands accused of premeditated murder after allegedly seeking out a doppelganger on social media and then brutally killing her in order to stage her own death. When police in Ingolstadt, Germany’s Bavaria region, received calls about a dead woman in the car abandoned on the banks of the Danube river, they […]
Parrot Owner Gets Jail Time After Bird Injures Passer-By
A Taiwanese man was sentenced to two months in jail and fined 3.04 million New Taiwan dollars ($91,350) after his large parrot allegedly caused a jogger to fall and hurt himself. The bizarre incident reportedly took place in Tainan, when a man surnamed Huang took his two pet macaws for a flight in a local […]
“Traumatized” Man Sues Love Interest Who Only Wanted to Be His Friend
A Singapore man ended up suing the woman he hoped to become romantically involved with after learning that she only viewed him as a friend. Mr Kawshigan and Ms Tan met in 2016 and gradually became friends. Friction between them first appeared around the year 2020, when it became clear that they viewed their relationship […]
Jakarta’s Rooftop Suburb Is Built Atop a Giant Shopping Mall
The Indonesian city of Jakarta is home to one of the most unusual residential projects in the world – a suburb located atop a 10-storey shopping mall. Over the past 20 years, Jakarta has become one of the world’s most crowded megacities. With over 10 million residents in its metropolitan area alone and up to […]
Real-Life T-1000 – Scientists Create Robot That Can Liquify Its Body and Then Resolidify
A team of scientists has created a tiny robot that can melt itself and then resolidify on command in order to pass through tight spaces. Remember Terminator 2’s terrifying antagonist, the advanced T-1000 shapeshifting android? It was made out of this liquid metal that allowed it to melt and then resolidify and cause all kinds […]
The Stunning 3D Murals of Wild Drawing
Wild Drawing is a talented street artist who specializes in stunning 3D murals that turn transform bland structures into works of art. Born in Bali, Wild Drawing, or WD for short, first got into street art in the year 2000 during his studies at the School of Fine Arts. He and his colleagues were often […]
Woman Left With Car Key Sticking Out of Her Face in Freak Accident
A young Canadian woman needed to be hospitalized after a car key got lodged in her face when a friend casually tossed it to her. Renée Lariviere, a 24-year-old woman from Sudbury, Canada was leaving her apartment to visit a local McDonald’s when she asked a friend to toss her the car keys she had […]
Blind Computer Scientist Creates AI-Powered Suitcase For the Visually Impaired
AI Suitcase is a smart suitcase developed by a blind computer scientist to aid the visually impaired in navigating their surrounding more efficiently without the aid of white canes or guide dogs. 65-year-old Chieko Asakawa has been completely blind since she was only 14, following a tragic accident. A computer scientist and also the director […]
Tech Entrepreneur Spends $2 Million a Year to Regain His Youth
A 45-year-old American tech-mogul claims that he spends around $2 million a year bio-hacking his body into regaining its youth. First of all, if you’re younger than 35, you should know 45 isn’t that old, especially by modern standards, but Bryan Johnson, a tech entrepreneur who once sold his payment processing company Braintree Payment Solutions […]
Russian IT Specialist Has Been Hiding in Freezing Forest to Avoid Army Conscription
A Russian man who didn’t want to answer Putin’s call to arms and join his country’s war against Ukraine has been living alone deep in the middle of the woods for almost four months. Adam Kalinin (alias) was against the war in Ukraine from the very beginning. He was actually arrested for two weeks and […]
Man Gets Wrongfully Arrested 3 Times for Having the Same Name as Notorious Criminal
A Colombian man had the misfortune of being thrown in jail three times in the last 13 years because he has the same name as a wanted drug cartel leader. 46-year-old René Martínez Gutiérrez is a peaceful family man with no criminal record to his name. The problem is he shares the same name with […]
Man Fakes His Own Death to See Who Would Attend His Funeral
A Brazilian man sparked the outrage of his friends and family after he faked his death out of pure curiosity, to see who would attend his funeral. As an experienced ‘ceremonialist‘, a sort of master of ceremonies for various kinds of events, 60-year-old Baltazar Lemos had conducted hundreds of funerals, some of which had been […]