The Asador Aupa restaurant in Spain serves the world’s most expensive and exclusive burger. It costs $11,000 and can only be experienced by those invited by the restaurant.

Burgers have gotten considerably more expensive in recent years, but they remain among the most affordable food items on restaurant menus. There are a few exceptions, though, the most notable of which recently claimed the title of ‘the world’s most expensive burger’. Thought up by the chefs at Asador Aupa, a Basque cuisine eatery located in Cabrera del Mar, Catalonia, this exclusive treat reportedly took eight years of research and experimentation to develop, and its exact ingredients remain a secret. All we know is that the burger’s heart-stopping €9,450 ($11,000) price tag isn’t linked to gimmicky and meaningless ingredients like edible gold, but to quality ingredients, a unique dining experience, and exclusivity.

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A French TikToker who pranked people on the streets of Paris by pretending to inject them with syringes has been sentenced to six months in prison.

Amine Mojito, whose real name is Ilan M., became a viral sensation after he started posting social media clips wherein he spoofed injecting bystanders with an empty syringe around Paris, during a time when genuine fear of such attacks was at an all-time high. After being accused of “violence with a weapon not resulting in work incapacity,” the popular TikToker defended himself by claiming that he never intended to hurt people, and that he only copied the prank from other countries in order to promote himself. However, prosecutors showed that some of his victims were so traumatized by the sick prank that they had to be hospitalized for mental health assessments.

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A 33-year-old UK truck driver needed emergency treatment after consuming a large quantity of gummies in a relatively short period of time.

Nathan Rimington, a truck driver from Yorkshire, reportedly ordered a 3kg (6.6 pounds) container of Haribo Cola Jelly from Amazon after getting a craving for gummy candies. He proceeded to consume the 10,461kcal-worth of gummies in just three days, and started experiencing serious physical symptoms shortly after. He was taken to the emergency room with severe abdominal pain, sweating, high blood pressure, and cold sweat. Initially, the medical staff suspected that the man was suffering from food poisoning, but further tests revealed unusually high levels of gelatin in his digestive tract. After performing several tests, Rimington was diagnosed with acute diverticulitis.

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In an effort to combat the spread of Dengue fever, Brazil recently inaugurated the world’s largest mosquito factory, capable of producing up to 190 million winged bloodsuckers per week.

Located in Campinas, Brazil’s Sao Paolo state, the world’s largest mosquito factory is a 1,300-square-meter facility where staff work tirelessly to ensure that almost 200 million mosquitoes reach maturity before being released to reproduce. It sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but in reality, it is part of a well-documented process of preventing the spread of Dengue fever. During their stage, the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes bred inside the massive factory are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents the Dengue virus from developing in their bodies and, therefore, from being transmitted to humans. Furthermore, when they reproduce, the bacteria is transmitted to their offspring. 

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The airship-like S1500, the world’s largest flying wind turbine, recently became the first device of its kind to generate one megawatt of power during a test flight.

Wind turbines are already a big part of China’s big bet on renewable green energy, but the Asian country is always looking to lower the cost and increase the efficiency of its installations. That’s how it came up with a versatile inflatable turbine capable of being relocated quickly while generating significant amounts of electricity. The S1500 floating wind power system is about as tall as a 13-storey building and as long as a basketball court. It looks like a giant floating airplane engine and it is capable of operating at heights of up to 1,500 meters, where winds are faster and more stable than at the level of traditional towers (approximately 200 meters).

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Russian women are reportedly paying up to 20,000 rubles ($245) for tiny wigs that they glue to their pubic area for a more natural look inspired by the 1990s.

According to Russian media, the popularity of pubic hair wigs has skyrocketed in recent months, inspired by a naturalness trend sweeping Russia. Both young men and women are flocking to specialty online stores and marketplaces to look for realistic pubic wigs. You’re probably asking yourself why on Earth someone would need such a bizarre accessory, but the answer is pretty simple. Most users want to adhere to the natural look of the nether regions inspired by the 90s era, but don’t really want to grow their own hair, for multiple reasons. Some have opted for permanent hair removal, others just don’t want to deal with the itchiness of growing hair, so the wigs are the perfect solution.

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Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated young actress who has been stirring things up among human actors who see her as a threat, has the potential to become a global star, at least according to her creator.

AI has slowly been encroaching on virtually every sector of society and the job market, and if you needed more proof that no profession is truly safe, AI-generated actors are getting ready to take on their human counterparts. Artificial intelligence talent studio Xicoia sparked controversy when it started promoting its impressive creation, an AI-generated actress named Tilly Norwood, during the summer. Launched by Dutch technologist Emily Van der Velden as part of her company Particle 6 Productions, Xicoia specializes in AI acting talent, and Tilly is the startup’s first big project. Hollywood talent agents have allegedly been quietly circling Norwood for representation, and Van der Velen believes that the AI actress could one day become as big as Scarlett Johansson.

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Chinese researchers claim to have developed a revolutionary bone “super glue” that can fix fractures, which traditionally would take months to heal, in a matter of minutes.

Bone fractures are painful and very difficult to fix, with the recuperation period most often taking several months, but thanks to an innovative bone super glue, they can now be dealt with in minutes rather than months. Dubbed ‘Bone-02’, the bone-fixing miracle glue was reportedly developed by researchers at Zhejiang University, in Hangzhou and has already been successfully used in over 150 trial cases. According to Lin Xianfeng, an orthopedic surgeon at Hangzhou’s Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, the revolutionary adhesive comes in the form of a single injection and “glues broken bone fragments together in just three minutes.”

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A Mexican man is accusing his ex-wife and her plastic surgeon boyfriend of causing the death of his 14-year-old daughter by performing various plastic surgery procedures on her, including breast implants.

Paloma Nicole Arellano Escobedo tragically lost her life at a hospital in Durango, Mexico, after suffering cerebral edema due to a respiratory illness, but her father claims that the real cause of death has nothing to do with the official report. Carlos Arellano accused both the 14-year-old girl’s mother and her plastic surgeon partner of causing Paloma’s death by performing breast enhancement surgery on her without his consent. According to Mexican news media, Paloma allegedly underwent a number of procedures, including breast augmentation, a Brazilian Butt Lift (fat-filled buttock lift), and liposuction. The case has caused public outrage in Mexico, and authorities have launched an investigation into the teen’s death.

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If you’ve been saving your fingernail clippings and need some quick money, you should consider selling them as traditional medicine ingredients in China.

Fingernail clippings are usually discarded as disgusting pieces of trash, but according to Chinese traditional medicine, they are valuable ingredients in concoctions used to treat conditions like abdominal distension in children and tonsillitis. Companies producing traditional Chinese medicine reportedly purchase fingernail clippings from schools and villages, which they then wash thoroughly before drying and grinding them into a fine powder that gets mixed into various medicinal products. Because human adults only grow about 100 grams of fingernails per year on average, collecting enough to keep up with demand is a difficult task and the price of clippings is relatively high.

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An Evangelical pastor in Honduras ignited a heated online debate after asking a parishioner to hand over his land to the Church by divine command.

In a viral video that has been doing the rounds on Latino social media for weeks, Jorge Pompa, an evangelical pastor from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, can be seen pressuring a local parishioner to sign over his property to the Church, as a test of true faith that would ultimately see him rewarded greatly. Speaking in front of his congregation, Pompa tells the confused man that God had spoken to him the other night, ordering him to tell the parishioner that He wanted him to give up his land. Despite the man’s evident hesitation to answer the request, the pastor continues to pressure him, claiming that he would only be giving God what was already His.

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A 36-year-old woman in the UK almost lost her life after yawning so forcefully one morning that she broke her neck and required emergency surgery.

Hayley Black had just woken up one morning to heat her daughter Amelia a bottle of formula when she saw the baby yawning and instinctively followed her example. It was a casual thing, but the 36-year-old mother instantly felt an “electric shock sensation” shoot through her body, leaving her arm stuck in the air. Black immediately realized that something was wrong, so she asked her husband, Ian, to call an ambulance. When she arrived at the hospital in Milton Keynes, she was in excruciating pain, but doctors struggled to understand what was going on because their scans didn’t really show anything. It was only after taking scans of the woman’s neck that they realized the C6 and C7 bones in her neck had “shot forward into her spine”.

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A German woman caught by police transporting a Shetland pony in the back seat of her pink car refused to pay a €35 ($41) fine and now faces administrative proceedings.

Earlier this month, police in Alsdorf, near Aachen, Germany, pulled over a suspicious pink car after seeing something strange through the rear window. Upon popping open the trunk, police officers came face to face with a cute Shetland pony sitting on a small carpet rolled over the reclined rear seats with a bucket of feed in front of it. The animal seemed quite calm, suggesting that this wasn’t its first ride-along, and the woman didn’t seem to acknowledge that there was anything wrong. She had simply tied the small horse with a tope to a metal eyelet, which she seemed to believe was safe enough. Not even the policeman’s explanation that, in case of a traffic accident at a speed of 50 km/h, a 150-kilogram pony would be hurled forward with a force of 7.5 tonnes changed her mind.

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Russian tech startup Neiry has become the first in the world to insert neuro-implants into cow brains to increase milk yield when all other methods are exhausted.

Neiry announced its intention to begin testing its neuro-implants on live cows back in April. Last month, its specialists performed surgeries on five cows to fit them with a stimulator attached to the back of the head and electrodes that penetrate deep into the brain. With the help of these devices, they hope to reach areas responsible for appetite, stress, and reproductive function, and stimulate them through electric impulses. The first tests were performed in Russia’s Sverdlovsk region, and so far, the results are very encouraging.

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A 16-year-old teenager spent $2,350 on growth therapy sessions over six months, but lost the 1.4 centimeters he had gained in just two weeks after quitting the therapy.

Limb lengthening surgery is a painful and extreme way oaf adding an inch or two to one’s height, but those unwilling to go under the knife and hammer for a more imposing stature can opt for so-called ‘non-invasive growth therapy”. This basically involves various stretching exercises that can allegedly unlock a person’s growth potential. One Chinese teenager convinced his family to spend about 16,700 yuan ($2,350) on growth therapy sessions over a period of six months, but he was ultimately disappointed because the 1.4 centimeter he gained during that period of time vanished soon after the therapy stopped.

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