15-Year-Old Girl Claims People Always Mistake Her Youthful-Looking Father for Her Boyfriend
A 15-year-old Chinese girl and her youthful-looking father have been getting a lot of attention on Asian social media recently because they look more like a romantic couple than father and daughter. Qi Bao and her 35-year-old father have always been very close, but their relationship has become a bit more complicated recently, because as […]
Amazon Drivers Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Deliveries
Amazon contract delivery drivers in Chicago are allegedly hanging their smartphones outside warehouses and delivery points to boost their chances of getting delivery orders. Major news outlet Bloomberg last week reported on a strange new trend among Amazon and Whole foods contract drivers in Chicago – hanging their smartphones in trees close to the companies’ […]
Japanese Restaurant Finds Success With “Delivery Macho” Service
After struggling to stay open during the Covid-19 pandemic, a sushi restaurant in Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, has found success with an ingenious “macho delivery” service that involves using buff bodybuilders as delivery boys. Masanori Sugiura, a third-generation owner of the 60-year-old sushi restaurant Imazushi in the city of Anjo, started working out at the gym […]
Man Leaves Window Open for Five Months, Finds Apartment Invaded by Pigeons
A UK student who left his apartment window open before going away for five months found his home covered in bird droppings after it was taken over by pigeons. 20-year-old Oluwageorge Johnson had to leave his rented apartment in Nottingham in a hurry back in March, after his parents turned up to take him home, […]
White Woman from Kansas Spends Years Pretending to Be Black
Jessica A Krug, a professor of African American history at George Washington University, spent years pretending to be of North African, then Caribbean descent despite actually being a white, Jewish woman from Kansas. In a case oddly reminiscent of Rachel Dolezal’s story from a few years ago, and American academic and author whose worked focused […]
Japanese Woman Has the World’s Largest Collection of Plastic Food
Akiko Obata has been fascinated by plastic food ever since she was a child, and 10 years ago she started collecting all sorts of plastic food items, amassing a collection of over 8,000 individual pieces. “Sampuru”, the fake food displays used by most restaurants to showcase their dishes to potential diners, is an important part […]
Mysterious Radio Station Has Been Broadcasting Continuously Since 1982 And No One Knows Why
MDZhB is the name of a mysterious radio station that has been broadcasting for nearly four decades, but that no one has ever claimed to operate. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week since 1982, MDZhB (pronounced ‘MJB’) has been broadcasting a dull, monotonous tone followed by a second, foghorn-like sound every few seconds. […]
Mysterious Funnel-Like Crater Opens Up in Remote Arctic Tundra
A gaping, funnel-like hole estimated to be at least 50-meters-deep has been discovered in a remote area of the arctic, on the Yamal Peninsula, in Siberia. Discovered accidentally from the air by a Vesti Yamal television crew en route from an unrelated assignment, the mysterious crater is the latest to be spotted in northern Siberia […]
10-Year-Old Boy Stuns Internet With His Muscular Physique
A 10-year-old Vietnamese boy has been turning heads on Asian social media after photos of his unusually muscular physique went viral. Nguyen Hoang Nam’s parents claim that he was always more muscular than other kids his age. Even at birth, doctors noticed that he had more developed muscles than other babies, and by age 6, […]
Greek Man Has Been Posting Photos of His Forehead on Instagram for the Last Six Years
While most Instagram users strive to take the most stunning photos possible to impress their friends and followers, one man has been using the popular social network to post snaps of his forehead… Georgios Schieich, a 25-year old Greek man living in Malta, has one of the most intriguing profiles on Instagram. That’s not because […]
Engineer Creates ‘A.I. Jesus’ Trained Only on King James Bible
An artificial intelligence engineer has created an intriguing algorithm that learned human language from reading “the bible and nothing else” and is now churning out ominous prophecies based on the Holy Book. George Davila Durendal, a childhood coding prodigy and current AI engineer and entrepreneur, recently unveiled his wackies creation yet, an A.I. algorithm trained […]
Indian Resort Turns Luxury Swimming Pool into Fish Pond to Weather Pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic is forcing tourism businesses to think outside the box in order to stay afloat. Case in point, a Kerala hotel and spa that turned its pristine swimming pool into a fish farm. The Aveda Resort and Spa in Kumarakom, Kerala had to shut down operations in March, as part of a nationwide […]
Aspiring Teachers Caught Cheating With Exam Answers Painted on Nails
Thirty-five young women were caught trying to cheat on their entrance exam into schools for teachers in the Mexican state of Michoacán; they allegedly had the correct answer pattern painted on their nails. The entire admission process into teaching schools in Michoacán had been under suspicion of fraud since the first stage of exams, on […]
Mysterious Safe Discovered in the Middle of New York Field to Remain Locked
Here’s another thing to add to your ‘weird things that happened in 2020’ list: a locked safe with a mysterious note attached to it was discovered in the middle of an agricultural field in New York state. Kirk Mathes was out of town last Thursday, when he got a phone call about a large metal […]
Mexican Bank Builds Branch in the Middle of Nowhere
Photos and videos of a functional Banco del Bienestar branch seemingly located in the middle of nowhere have been getting a lot of attention on Mexican social media this week. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador was one of the very first people to get blamed for wasting government money on useless buildings after the […]