Man Convicted of Posing as Flight Attendant to Fly for Free 120 Times
A 35-year-old American man has been found guilty of impersonating a flight attendant at least 120 times in order to avoid having to pay for plane tickets. Federal prosecutors accused Tirone Alexander of entering the secure area of an airport under false pretenses and committing wire fraud at least 120 times between 2018 and 2024. […]
English Teenager Sues Parents for Tricking Him into Moving to Ghana
A 14-year-old English boy recently won a legal battle against his parents, whom he accuses of tricking him into flying to Ghana and then preventing him from returning home. The unnamed teen and his lawyers told a London Court of Appeal that in March of 2014, he was tricked by his parents into flying to […]
South Korea’s “Mukbang Queen” Baffles Fans With Her Extremely Thin Figure
Tzuyang, a young mukbang streamer and one of South Korea’s most popular YouTubers, is somehow able to consume absurd amounts of food in a single sitting and maintain a slender figure. 28-year-old Tzuyang’s physique has long been the topic of online debates and conspiracy theories. Mukbang streamers often get accused of “fake eating” by speeding […]
Unemployed Chinese Youths Pay Fake Companies to Hire Them to Pretend to Work
A bizarre trend sweeping through China has unemployed youths paying fees to pretend to work in rented offices for absolutely no financial gain. Millions of Chinese people report to their office jobs every day, but while the overwhelming majority get paid to do so, some actually pay fake companies to allow them to pretend to […]
Woman Attends Funerals for Two Years Hoping to Catch Undertaker’s Eye
After falling for the local undertaker, a Brazilian woman spent two years attending funerals in her community in hopes of catching the man’s eye. Daniela Signor and Apollo Scariot surprised a lot of people when they arrived at their wedding venue in a funeral hearse, but to those who knew their unusual love story, the […]
UK Woman with Forged Diploma Works as Psychiatrist for 20 Years
A fake doctor who used forged documents to practice psychiatry in the UK’s national healthcare system for two decades has been jailed and ordered to pay back hundreds of thousands of pounds. Born in Iran, Zholia Alemi and her family emigrated to Auckland, New Zealand, in the early 1990s. There, she failed to secure the […]
Woman Does 7,079 Pull-Ups in 24 Hours, Almost Double the Previous World Record
A 34-year-old Australian woman smashed the Guinness World Record for the most pull-ups performed by a woman in 24 hours by doing a whopping 7,079 pull-ups. To say Olivia Vinson put the old record for most pull-ups by a woman in 24 hours to shame would be an understatement, considering that the Australian fitness enthusiast […]
Pet Yeast Craze Gaining Traction in China
A growing number of young Chinese looking for low-maintenance companionship are turning their attention to jars of activated yeast that only need flour and water. So-called static pets such as stones, mango pits, paper boxes, and even toothpaste have become very popular with Chinese youths looking for low-commitment companionship to compensate for their stresfull daily […]
Woman Experiences Shocking Physical Transformation During Pregnancy
A young Chinese woman recently went viral after sharing the dramatic physical transformation she experienced during her pregnancy, changes that have since subsided. Li Wei, a young woman from Kunming, in China’s Yunnan Province, was ecstatic when she first learned that she had become pregnant. She even looked better, her skin cleared up, and she […]
The More You Play This VR Video Game, the Better Your Eysight Gets
Japanese researchers have published a small study about a virtual reality video game that can reportedly improve players’ eyesight instead of damaging it. Video games and staring at digital screens in general have long been associated with eyesight problems, but according to a study published by researchers from Kwansei Gakuin University’s Graduate School of Science […]
Japanese Man Praised for Aging Backwards Thanks to Lifestyle Changes
A 33-year-old Japanese man has been raising eyebrows because of his radical change in appearance after making drastic lifestyle changes and turning to cosmetic enhancements. Aki, who goes by @Aki_fit on X (Twitter), was recently featured on a popular show by Japanese online television network ABEMA, where he spoke about the shocking physical transformation that […]
Paraglider Nearly Freezes to Death After Being Sucked Up 28,000 Feet into Clouds
A seasoned paraglider miraculously survived a rare and dangerous phenomenon that saw him being sucked up by clouds to an altitude of 28,210 feet (8,600 meters). Photos and videos of Chinese paraglider Liu Ge trying to keep his cool (pun intended) as he experienced dangerously low levels of oxygen and temperatures as low as -40 […]
Texas Doctor Gets 10 Years in Prison for Diagnosing Healthy People with Chronic Conditions
A Texas rheumatologist was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a cruel health care fraud scheme that involved diagnosing hundreds of healthy people with chronic diseases that required expensive and dangerous treatments. Jorge Zamora-Quezada M.D. of Mission, Texas, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud, several counts of healthcare fraud, and conspiracy to obstruct […]
Squatters Install Alarm System to Protect House They are Illegally Occupying
A group of squatters who illegally took over a house on the outskirts of a village in Spain’s Burgos Province has installed an alarm system to prevent others from breaking into their illegally occupied home. The people of San Miguel de Pedroso, a neighborhood in the village of Beldorado, are on high alert because of […]
Belgium Accused of Literally Stealing the Wind of Its Neighbor
The CEO of a Dutch weather forecaster recently suggested that Belgian wind farms are inadvertently “stealing” wind from his own country’s wind farms in the North Sea. In an interview with Belgian broadcaster VRT, Remco Verzijlbergh, the CEO of Dutch weather forecasting service Whiffle, claimed that Belgian wind farms in the North Sea have an […]