Meet “Optimosprayn”, the Son of a Paraguayan Transformers Fan
Whenever 19-year-old Optimosprayn Ismael Meza Barbosa tells people his name, they think he is making fun of them. That’s because his name is the phonetic version of how some people pronounce “Optimus Prime” in Spanish. It was given to him by his father, an avid fan of the Transformers animated series. The Paraguayan teen recently […]
Human Zoo – Football Fans Forced to Watch Match from Inside Metal Cage
A football match between two teams from Poland’s third division received a lot of international attention last week, not for the quality of the football displayed by the players, but for the appalling conditions in which fans of the visiting team had to watch the game. Shocking photos show a group of supporters crammed in […]
University Professor Tasks Students with Getting 1,667 Friends on Social Media to Get an A+
A Chinese university professor has sparked a heated online debate after giving his students an unusual assignment that required them to add 1,667 friend on WeChat, China’s most popular social network, in order to get an A+. The controversial assignment required students taking the Online and New Media course at the Henan University of Economics and […]
Thrift Shop Warns Potential Buyers of Old Furniture About Haunting Activity Reported by Previous Owners
A North Carolina thrift shop recently sold a $1,000 hand-carved furniture set that came with a warning of haunting activity reported by its previous owners. We’ve all heard stories about allegedly haunted furniture or memorabilia before, but it’s not everyday that we see these claims made on the price tags of stores selling them. However, […]
Woman Fakes Own Kidnapping and Murder to Break Up with “Poor” Boyfriend
No one ever said that ending a romantic relationship was easy, but planning your own kidnapping and subsequent murder just to avoid telling someone “it’s over” sounds ridiculous. And yet, one Chinese woman did just that rather than tell her boyfriend she didn’t want to be with him anymore. A 37-year-old woman from Wuhan, in […]
Belly Destruction – Thailand Sends Overweight Policemen to Fat Camp
Police stations all around Thailand are sending their chubbiest officers to a weight-loss camp as part of a nation-wide program aptly called “Belly Destruction”. After the success of a two-week pilot program, police stations in Thailand have begun sending their fattest officers to the Central Police Training Center in the city of Pak Chong, to take […]
Hindu Man Accidentally Eats Beef Mislabeled as Lamb, Demands Purifying Journey as Compensation
An Indian-born man living in New Zealand is fighting a David-vs-Goliath battle against a supermarket chain that accidentally sold him beef mislabeled as lamb. He is demanding a soul-purifying journey to India as compensation, but the supermarket is only willing to offer a $200 voucher. Jaswinder Paul’s spiritual woes began back in September of 2018, […]
Man Gets Tens of Thousands of Birthday Calls After Sons Post His Phone Number on Billboard
A New Jersey man will never forget 62nd birthday after his sons posted his phone number on a large roadside billboard inviting people to call and wish him well. So far, he has gotten over 15,000 calls and texts from people all over the world. Chris Ferry’s sons used to prank him when going to […]
Adventurer Spends Two Months Living on the Streets to Document Plight of Homeless Beggars
Ed Stafford, a former British Army captain and renowned adventurer recently embarked on a 60-day challenge that saw him sleeping on the streets of various cities in Britain. His experiment was meant to highlight the plight of homeless people, but he was shocked to find that begging can be more lucrative than he had ever imagined. […]
College Course on Tobacco Allows Students to Smoke in Class to Better Understand the Subject
A series of photos showing students casually lighting up cigarettes in what looks like a college classroom have been doing the rounds online for several months, leaving everyone puzzled as to what is going on. As it turns out, it’s just a display of hands-on learning in a course on tobacco. The controversial photos originally […]
Mother Abandons 12-Year-Old Child in the Street for Not Performing According to Expectations on Exam
A strict mother in China reportedly abandoned her 12-year-old son in the middle of a busy street in Luoyang City after he only managed to score 81 percent on an exam, which apparently wasn’t good enough. Police officers in Luoyang’s Gucheng district found the boy wandering the streets close to where his mother dropped him off […]
Bibles and Wooden Crosses Miraculously Survive Devastating Church Fire
Firefighters in West Virginia were stunned to find that not one of the over a dozen paper bibles and several wooden crosses at the Freedom Ministries Church were destroyed by the devastating fire that engulfed the holy place last Sunday morning. In a Facebook post that quickly went viral, the Coal City Fire Department shared […]
Swedish Experimental Project to Hire Someone to Do Nothing for the Rest of Their Life
If the idea of getting paid a decent monthly wage to do nothing, or whatever you want, for the rest of your life sounds appealing, you may be interested in this Swedish experimental art project that plans to hire a very lucky person for a responsibility-free job with just one very simple requirement. This government-funded […]
Real-Life Minority Report – AI Software Can Catch Shoplifters Before They Steal
A Japanese tech startup claims to have developed an artificial intelligence software that analyzes surveillance camera footage in order to detect suspicious behavior and prevent shoplifting before it actually happens. In 2002, when the movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise, came out, the concept of preventing a future crime before the perpetrator did anything remotely […]
Woman Passes Out After Splitting Headache, Forgets the Last 40 Years of Her Life
A 56-year-old woman from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been diagnosed with Transient Global Amnesia (TGA) after a terrible headache apparently caused her to completely forget the last 38 years of her life. One day in early October of last year, Kim Denicola was leaving a bible study at a local church when she called her husband to […]