“Rice Babies” Help Japanese Parents of Newborns to Respect Social Distancing Rules
Japanese parents are sending bags of rice that weigh as much as their babies to relatives who can’t visit them because of the Covid-19 pandemic. As is customary in many cultures around the world, when a Japanese couple welcomes a baby into the world, relatives come to visit the family and celebrate, but because of […]
Chinese Youths Are Increasingly Turning to AI-Powered Chatbots as Alternative to Real Dating
Romantic relationships between humans can get complicated, sometimes messy or even downright toxic, but if being single isn’t an option, technology now offers a new alternative in the form of advanced AI chatbots that make you feel like you’re interacting with a real person. Chinese youths are reportedly turning to AI-powered chatbots as an alternative […]
Call Center Operator Wants to Install Surveillance Cameras in Employees’ Homes
Teleperformance, one of the world’s largest call center companies, recently sparked controversy after it was announced that it has been pressuring employees to agree to have AI surveillance cameras installed in their homes. Call center work has been booming during the pandemic, because many businesses started operating online, and many of them preferred relying on […]
Woman Crashes Ex-Boyfriend’s Wedding, ends Up Becoming His Co-Wife
Indonesian media recently reported the bizarre story of a young man who ended up marrying both his fiancée and his ex-girlfriend at the same time, after the latter crashed his wedding ceremony. Late last month, 20-year-old Korik Akbar, from the regency of Central Lombok in the Indonesian state of West Nusa Tenggara, was in the […]
This Elite English College Trains the World’s Most Expensive Nannies
For over 120 years England’s Norland College has been known as the most prestigious nanny-training school in the world, with graduates landing jobs with wealthy families and earning upwards of $100,000 per year. Founded in the late 1800s by Emily Ward, who realized that there was no official childcare training at the time, Norland College […]
Man Wears Elaborate Female Disguise to Take Graduation Exam on Behalf of Girlfriend
A young African man was recently placed under arrest after he tried to pass as a woman while trying to pass the graduation exam on behalf of his girlfriend. 22-year-old Khadim Mboup, a student of the Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis University, in Diourbel, Senegal, managed to fool faculty and supervisors at a Baccalaureate (high-school graduation […]
Innovative Japanese Service Lets You Rent Paintings Instead of Buying Them
Buying works of art can become an expensive habit, but what if you didn’t have to buy the artworks and instead lease them for however long you wanted? That’s the premise of an ingenious Japanese business that lets people rent paintings. Casie is an innovative service that connects painters and art lovers in a whole […]
Woman Sues McDonald’s For Making Her Break Fast With Aggressive Advertising
A Russian woman is reportedly taking fast-food giant McDonald’s to court for making her break fast during Lent with its aggressive advertising showing delicious burgers. Ksenia Ovchinnikova, an Orthodox Christian from the Russian city of Omsk, is suing the world’s largest fast-food restaurant chain for allegedly making her break fast for Lent two years ago, […]
Man Spends Two Years Locked Up in Mental Institution in Shocking Mistaken Identity Case
In what can only be described as the real-life plot of a horror movie script, a homeless man was wrongfully arrested and locked up in a mental hospital for over two years, after being mistaken for a man he had never even met. Joshua Spriestersbach’s nightmare began on a hot day in 2017, while waiting […]
Welwitschia – The World’s Most Resilient Plant
Welwitschia is a fascinating plant that can not only survive for several thousands of years, but it can do so in one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet, the Namib Desert. Named after Austrian botanist Friedrich Welwitsch, who discovered it in Angola in 1859, Welwitschia is actually called ‘tweeblaarkanniedood’ in Afrikaans, which translates […]
Plastic Bag With AIR From Kanye West Listening Event Sells for $7,600
Someone just managed to sell a small plastic bag they claim contains air from a recent Kanye West listening event for a whopping $7,600 on eBay. It’s no secret that the Kanye West brand is synonymous with commercial success, but not even that explains how someone can pay almost $8,000 for an empty plastic bag […]
Scorned Contractor Destroys Façade of Apartment Building He Himself Built
A contractor who didn’t receive the payment he was promised rented an excavator and destroyed the façade of an apartment building he himself built. Tenants were supposed to move into a newly completed apartment building in Blumberg, a small town in Germany’s Baden-Wurttemberg, in the next couple of weeks, but a bizarre incident has delayed […]
Hardcore Gamers Continue Playing in Flooded Internet Cafe
A group of gamers in the Philippines recently made international news headlines for continuing to play their favorite video game despite being waist-deep in floods from a typhoon. Surreal footage showing the young video game enthusiasts simply ignoring the rising water level was captured last Thursday, at an internet cafe in the town of Cainta […]
Woman Eats One Meal a Day, Wears Corset Every Day for Extreme Hourglass Figure
A young Vietnamese-born woman has gone to extreme lengths to shrink her waist to just 46 centimeters in circumference, including eating just one meal a day and wearing a corset almost all the time. An Ky, a part-time dancer living in the United States, was discovered by popular Vietnamese entertainer Thuy Nga, during the latter’s […]
37-Year-Old Man Wakes Up One Day Thinking He is 16 And Still in High-School
A 37-year-old father of one from Texas woke up one day ready to go to school, thinking it was the 1990s, after losing the last two decades of his life, including ever marrying his wife and having a daughter. In July of last year, Daniel Porter, a hearing specialist from Texas woke up in his […]