Woman’s Pet Micro-Pig Grows Into 150-Kg Behemoth
A Chinese woman who thought she had bought a pet micro-pig three years ago ended up with a 150-kg regular pig usually bred for its meat. In 2018, Zhang Li, a young woman living in Shanghai, decided to get a pet animal for company. She wasn’t really a cat or dog person, so she started […]
Suck-On Gadget Promises to Give Women a Coveted V-Shaped Face
A small, oval-shaped face with a well-defined and pointy V-line chin is one of the most coveted female beauty features in many Asian countries, and they can apparently get it by simply sucking on a bottle-shaped gadget for 10 minutes a day. You can buy pretty much anything online these days, but every once in […]
Numerologist Wants to Cure the World of Coronavirus With Bad Spelling
Scientists the world over have been struggling to contain the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus for almost two years, but one Indian numerologist believes we can cure the world of this pandemic just with the help of bad spelling. SV Annandd Rao, a stenographer and numerology hobbyist from Ananthapuram, in India’s Andrash Pradesh state, believes […]
The Satisfying Art of Hand-Sculpting Ice Cubes With a Knife
Who knew watching and listening to a bartender chop block of ice into translucent jewels with a santoku knife could be so satisfying? A Tokyo bartender recently got his five minutes of online fame after a video of him carefully turning blocks of ice into beautiful jewels went viral on Twitter, getting over one million […]
Bugatti Now Sells Self-Leveling Pool Tables for $300,000
Bugatti, a company known for its exclusive sport cars, recently unveiled a $300,000 luxury pool table that relies on highly advanced gyroscopic technology to remain perfectly level in any conditions, making it usable on yachts. There are a few things in this world that money can’t buy, and until now, playing pool at sea was […]
Man Sells Permanent Advertising Space on His Neck
Egor Onopko, an up-and-coming blogger from Vladivostok, Russia, managed to attract a lot of media attention and make some nice pocket money by turning the right side of his neck into advertising space for interested individuals and businesses. No one really believed Onopko, who goes by “onokonda” on social media, would go through with the […]
Woman Declared Missing in Canyon 6 Months Ago Found Living in Tent on Diet of Grass and Moss
A 47-year-old woman who went missing almost half a year ago in a canyon in Utah was recently found living in a small tent, surviving mostly on a diet of grass and moss. The woman, whose name has not been released, was declared missing last November after her car and camping equipment were found in […]
Company Develops AI-Controlled Shoes That Help the Blind Avoid Obstacles
Austrian company Tec-Innovation recently unveiled smart shoes that use ultrasonic sensors to help people suffering from blindness of vision impairment to detect obstacles up to four meters away. Known as InnoMake, the smart shoe aims to become a modern alternative to the decades-old walking stick that millions of people around the world depend on to […]
Thousands of Cockroaches Released in Restaurant to Settle Debt Dispute
Patrons at a restaurant in Taipei, were recently shocked to see cockroaches crawling all over the place after thousands of them were released on the premises by two masked men. On May 4th, two masked men entered the G House Taipei restaurant holding large bags filled with over 1,000 cockroaches, which they simply released at […]
Filipino Man Has the Largest Collection of Fast Food Toys in the World
Percival Lugue, a graphic artist from the Philippines, has been collecting toys from various fast food chains since he was just 5-year-old. Now, at age 50, he holds the Guinness Record for the most fast food toys in the world, over 20,000 of them. Lugue has held the record for the largest collection of fast […]
Man Eats Rotisserie Chicken, Preserves Skeleton as Museum Exhibit
A Japanese skeleton enthusiast recently got his five minutes of online fame after posting photos of an impressive chicken skeleton he managed to put together out of the bones of a rotisserie chicken he ate. Mr. Kudo, a Japanese man who dreams of transforming his home into a museum-of-sorts filled with all sorts of animal […]
Woman Spends Over $150,000 on Two Footbridges to Make Sure Her Son Gets to School Safely
A loving mother in China’s Henan province spent more than a million yuan ($154,000) building two metal footbridges in front of her son’s school, to make sure he and the other kids cross the road safely. The woman, identified only by her surname, Meng, recently told Henan Television Station that the road outside her son’s […]
China’s Rich Paying Big Money on Learning How to Recognize Fake Luxury Goods
With counterfeit luxury goods getting harder and harder to spot, China’s rich are paying thousands of dollars for specialized courses on how to tell apart authentic luxury products from fakes. China’s domestic luxury market is currently valued at approximately 4 trillion yuan ($617.7 billion) and that’s not even taking into account the second-hand luxury goods […]
Thursday the Dating App Only Works One Day a Week, Can You Guess Which?
New dating app ‘Thursday’ is trying to make online dating fun and exciting again by only letting users access it on just one day of the week (yeah, you guessed it). It’s hard to believe that a dating app that isn’t even active six days a week can have any success, let alone challenge big […]
Thousands of Cockatoos Take Over Australian Town
The New South Wales resort town of Nowra was recently invades by thousands of corellas, a subgenus of white cockatoo, which made it look like the set of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. Photos and videos of white birds gathered on the streets of Nowra have been doing the rounds online for about a week. The […]