3-Year-Old Israeli Boy Baffles Doctors by Speaking English Without Ever Having Learned It
O’Neal Mahmoud, a 3-year-old from an Arabic-speaking Druze family in the Golan Heights, Israel, has amazed doctors with his ability to speak English with a British accent without ever having been exposed to the foreign language. Named after legendary basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, O’Neal Mahmoud didn’t speak at all until he was 2-years-old. Then he started making these unintelligible […]
Snake Catcher Lets Cobras Bite Him Every Week to Build Up Venom Immunity
Joe Quililan, a young snake catcher from the Philippines, has been dubbed “Venom Man” for his unusual habit of allowing poisonous snakes to bite him every week and even injecting small quantities of venom into his body in order to boost his resistance to it. 31-year-old Quililan, from Cagayan de Oro City, caught his first […]
69-Year-Old Double Amputee Conquers Everest 40 Years After Losing Both Feet to Frostbite
69-year-old Xia Boyu recently became the oldest double amputee to conquer Mount Everest. That alone is an amazing achievement, but even more impressive is the fact that he did it on his fifth attempt, the first of which had caused him the loss of both his feet as a result of severe frostbite. Xia Boyu’s […]
Monkeys’ Father – The Man Who Dedicated His Life to Wild Macaques in Tibet
When 69-year-old Dobrgyal started looking after the wild macaques at at scenic spot in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, their population numbered only 40-50 specimens. Today, 18 years later, that same place is home to over 2,800 Tibetan macaques. Dobrgyal’s relationship with the Tibetan macaques in Gongbo’gyamda County has been described as a heartwarming love story between man […]
Let This Blind Skateboarder Show You That Nothing Is Impossible
Blind people can still lead normal lives and do most of the things that perfectly healthy people can, but one would imagine that riding a skateboard isn’t one of them. Well, this 20-year-old blind skateboarder proves otherwise. Known as The Blind Rider, Marcelo Lusardi lost his sight completely two years ago, when he was diagnosed with Leber […]
Woman Risks Her Life Tending to Abandoned Cattle in Fukushima Radiation Zone
A Japanese animal lover risks her life every single day by venturing into the Fukushima exclusion zone to feed a heard of 11 cows abandoned after the 2011 nuclear disaster. The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Fukushima in 2011 claimed the lives of over 20,000 people, and forced another 160,000 to leave everything behind […]
Woman Spends $19,000 on Kidney Transplant for Her 17-Year-Old Cat
At 17-years-old and suffering from kidney failure, Stanley the cat was on the last of his nine lives. Luckily, his owner decided to gift him a tenth, by shelling out $19,000 for a kidney transplant. Betsy Boyd earns just $46,000 a year, working as a part-time writing professor, and her husband Michael is a freelance journalist […]
Man Spends 409 Days Recreating Forrest Gump’s 15,000 Mile Run Across America
In Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 film Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks’ character is supposed to have run a total of 15,248 miles coast-to-coast across America, after being left heartbroken by his childhood sweetheart, Jenny. It seems like an impossible challenge in real life, but someone actually managed to break Forrest’s record by running a total of 15,600 […]
Louisiana Retiree Dedicates His Life to Rescuing Cats from Trees
Cats get stuck high up in trees all the time, and there’s often no one to call for help, but if you live within an hour’s drive of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, you can rely on Randall Kolb, a 64-year-old retiree who has dedicated the last four years of his life to rescuing felines from trees. Kolb, […]
12-Year-Old Girl Sets Two New World Records for Singing in 102 Different Languages in 6-Hour Long Concert
Suchetha Satish, a 12-year-old Indian girl living in Dubai, recently shattered two Guinness World Records at the same time by singing songs in 102 different languages during an epic concert that lasted 6 hours and 15 minutes. A seventh grade student at the Indian High School in Dubai, Suchetha only started preparing to break the […]
New York Man Turns His Home into a Sanctuary for Hundreds of Cats
If you passed by Chris Arsenault’s home, in Medford, New York, and saw the 300 cats living there, you’d probably consider the 58-year-old retired train conductor a crazy cat person, but that’s only because you don’t know his history with them. In the summer of 2006, about two months after Arsenault lost his son Eric, 24, in […]
Indian Man Single-Handedly Builds 8-Km Mountain Road So His Kids Could Visit More Often
A devoted father in the eastern Indian state of Orissa has single-handedly constructed an 8-km (5 miles) stretch of mountain road so that his children, who live away from home for school, can visit him more frequently. For the past two years Jalandhar Nayak, 45, set out every morning with an ax and crowbar and spent up […]
The Heartwarming Story of a Foster Father Who Only Takes in Terminally Ill Children
Mohamed Bzeek, a 62-year-old Muslim immigrant in California, has spent the past two decades caring for terminally ill foster children. These children are neglected by the foster care system, frequently spending the whole of their short lives in state-run hospitals, and rarely get to experience love, hope, and laughter. About 600 of the 35,000 children […]
Handless Magician Proves You Don’t Need Hands to Master Sleight of Hand
Meet Mahdi Gilbert, the 25-year-old Canadian magician making waves in the world of magic. He practices card manipulation and sleight of hand, a common skill set for a magician, but what sets him apart is his lack of hands. Standing at four-feet-six inches, Gilbert’s left arm stops at the elbow, and he has an articulated […]
11-Year-Old Nepalese Girl Claims She Can Recognize Colors by Smell
Deepti Regmi, an 11-year-old girl from Nepal, spontaneously developed a peculiar ability last year. She is, inexplicably, able to smell colors, and can supposedly even identify them while blindfolded. Although she does not have an official diagnosis, her ability appears to be related to the sensory phenomena known as synaesthesia. Synaesthesia causes the person’s senses […]