Man Makes Short Film, Plasters Neighborhoods with Thousands of Posters in Hope of Finding Girl He Saw on Train
A 29-year-old love-struck man from Kolkata, India, recently made international headlines for his efforts to get in touch with a woman he exchanged glances with on a train. He made a short film that he then posted on YouTube, plastered several neighborhoods with around 4,000 posters, and has been wearing the exact same clothes he […]
High-School Removes Cafeteria Chairs to Make Students Study More
A high-school in the Chinese city of Shangqiu, Henan Province, recently attracted criticism for removing cafeteria chairs to motivate student to eat faster and dedicate more time to their studies. Students returning from their summer break were shocked to learn that they would have to start eating standing up after their school’s administrators decided to […]
Bride-to-Be Cancels Wedding After Guests Refuse to Pay $1,150 Attendance Fee
A Canadian woman known only as “Canadian Susan” recently got her five minutes of online fame after revealing that she had to cancel her dream wedding just 4 days before it was scheduled to take place, because guests refused to pay a $CAD 1,500 “cash gift” required to attend. The unnamed bride and her fiancee […]
Woman Who Identifies as an Elf Wants to Help Other Humans Become Mythical Creatures Too
“The Lord of the Rings” is widely regarded as one of the most influential intellectual properties of all time. The fantasy genre as we know it today was almost single-handedly inspired by Tolkien’s epic novels, and has generated many fans across the globe. But Kimberel Eventide of Illinois has taken her love of Tolkien’s fantasy […]
Restaurant Owner Restricts Entry to Children Under 14 Years of Age
The owner of a restaurant in Binz, Germany, has come under fire for banning children aged 14 and younger from entering his establishment after 5 pm. Rudolf Markl, the owner of “Oma’s Küche” (Grandma’s Kitchen), a traditional restaurant in Binz, on the German island of Rügen got so fed up with children’s tantrums and unruly behavior that […]
Spanish Second-Hand Bookstore Finds Fake Bomb-Book in Its Collection
Staff at a second-hand bookstore in Badajoz, western Spain, were terrified to discover that one of the books in their collection had had its pages removed and replaced with a complex mechanism that closely resembled a bomb. The book in question, a copy of “The King of Beggars” by French writer Jean Larteguy attracted the […]
Fish Shop Sticks Plastic Eyes on Fish to Make Them Look Fresher
A fish shop in Kuwait was recently shut down by authorities after it was revealed that the fishmonger was sticking plastic googly eyes on the fish in an attempt to make them look fresher. The measure to shut down the unnamed shop was taken after photos of a plastic eye that had slipped off revealing […]
Drought Reveals Medieval “Hunger Stones” in European Rivers
“When you see me, cry”. This is just one of the ominous messages carved into the medieval ‘hunger stones’ that have been revealed by sever drought in the Elbe River, near the northern Czech town of Decin. Hunger stones, or ‘hungersteine’ as the Germans call them, are carved boulders or river plates that only become […]
Hong Kong Woman Gets Scammed into Marrying Total Stranger
A 21-year-old woman from Hong Kong who though she was undergoing a ‘mock wedding test’ to secure a job as a wedding planner ended up officially married to a total stranger from mainland China. The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, told authorities that her ordeal began in May of this year, when she saw […]
Portugal’s ‘Chicken Girl’ – The Tragic Story of a Girl Who Grew Up in a Chicken Coop
In 1980, Portugal was shocked by the story of Maria Isabel Quaresma Dos Santos, a 9-year-old girl who had spent her entire childhood in a chicken coop, deprived of any human interaction and affection. Because of the effects growing up with chickens had on her behavior, Isabel became known as “Chicken Girl”. According to an article […]
Store Owner Fights Consumerism by Renting Out Clothes Instead of Selling Them
Do you buy too many clothes? Or do you often buy new garments only to wear them once before throwing them away? Research shows that you are not alone; a recent YouGov survey in Australia has shown that roughly a quarter of Australians have thrown away an article of clothing after wearing it just once. […]
Russian Man Gets Over 11 Years in Prison for Shamanic Medicine He Bought in Peru
A young Russian artist was recently sentenced to 11.5 years in prison for bringing home two small bottles of ayahuasca – a famous spiritual medicine prepared by indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin – that he bought while visiting Peru. Maxim Gert, a resident of Nizhny Tagil, a city in Russia’s Sverdlovsk Oblast, had no idea […]
Woman Earns a Living Hugging Total Strangers
As human beings, one of the things we often overlook in our daily lives is physical touch; without it, we can fall into depression and a number of other mental health problems. To fulfill this need, a mother of 3 from Australia’s Gold Coast has become a “cuddle therapist”, and currently makes around $58,000 a […]
Rare Medical Condition Causes Vietnamese Girl to Sweat Blood
An 11-year-old girl was recently admitted at the Quy Hoa National Leprosy Dermatology Hospital, in Vietnam, under suspicion of suffering from hematidrosis, a very rare medical condition in which people sweat blood. The young girl, identified only as N., to protect her privacy, allegedly started sweating blood three or four months ago, when her parents claim […]
Gongbang – South Korea’s Fascination with Watching Other People Study for Hours on End
Gongbang is the name of a growing live-streaming trend in South Korea, where people broadcast themselves studying in almost total silence for hours on end to dozens, sometimes hundreds of viewers who love nothing more than to watch them do it. Ask most popular streamers and they’ll tell you that the keys to a successful […]