Company Buries $50,000-Worth of Cryptocurrncy on Mount Everest, Challenges People to Go Find It
Popular Q&A online platform AskFM recently launched its own cryptocurrency, ASKT, and decided to celebrate by hosting an original giveaway. Instead of simply giving away some tokens to randomly selected winners, they buried a crypto-wallet with 500,000 tokens in it on Mount Everest and challenged anyone brave enough to go find it. The Dublin-based start-up is […]
Chinese City Introduces Special Walkway for Smartphone-Using Zombies
Authorities in the Chinese city of Xi’an recently inaugurated a special sidewalk lane designed for “phubbers” – people who walk while staring at their smartphones and ignore everything around them. Painted red, green and blue and featuring pictures of smartphones, the special lane is located on the busy Yanta Roan, in Xi’an, and is 80cm wide […]
Russian Fashion Blogger Conquers Social Media with Her Huge Eyebrows
Anzhelika Protodyakonova, a young fashion blogger from Russia, shot to social media flame after photos of her huge eyebrows, which cover most of her forehead, went viral on the internet. They say every cloud has a silver lining, and the story of how Anzhelika Protodyakonova became a popular online fashion blogger and a social media […]
Allegedly Self-Taught Pilot Flew Passenger Planes Without Ever Attending Aviation University
Russian media recently featured the story of Taras Shelest, a highly-regarded passenger jet pilot who turned out to be a complete fraud. Despite having never attended aviation university and instead faking his diploma, Shelest allegedly flew thousands of people all around the world for several years, until a bizarre incident finally exposed him. In August […]
Rare Condition Makes 18-Year-Old Student Look Like an 80-Year-Old Grandpa
Looking at Xiao Cui for the first time, you could swear he is at least 80 years old, but in fact he is only an 18-year-old high-school student suffering from a very rare health condition that has caused his facial muscles and skin to droop, making him look a lifetime older than he really is. […]
3-Year-Old Israeli Boy Baffles Doctors by Speaking English Without Ever Having Learned It
O’Neal Mahmoud, a 3-year-old from an Arabic-speaking Druze family in the Golan Heights, Israel, has amazed doctors with his ability to speak English with a British accent without ever having been exposed to the foreign language. Named after legendary basketball player Shaquille O’Neal, O’Neal Mahmoud didn’t speak at all until he was 2-years-old. Then he started making these unintelligible […]
The Man Who Became a Millionaire by Selling Fake Dog Balls
Gregg Miller is living proof that a crazy idea can sometimes turn out to be pure genius. He is the inventor of Neuticles, silicone implants for male dogs to replace testicles after neutering so they don’t lose their manly look, and he is a millionaire. Miller came up with the idea for a purely cosmetic replacement […]
Pregnant ‘Illegal Immigrant” Cow to Be Executed For Accidentally Crossing National Border
A pregnant cow from Bulgaria has been sentenced to death for “illegally” crossing the border into neighboring Serbia. She apparently didn’t know that Serbia isn’t a member of the European Union and could not return to her home country without the appropriate paperwork… Penka the cow sealed her fate last month, when she broke away from […]
Unlicensed Surgeon Films Rap Videos While Operating on Unconscious Patients
An Atlanta-area dermatologist has been dubbed the “rapping doctor” for her unusual habit of filming herself and her staff dancing and rapping during surgery, with unconscious patients used as props, and posting the videos online for promotional purposes. Dr. Windell Boutté promotes herself as the “#1 Female Plastic Surgeon in the Southeast” despite not being […]
Australian Psychic Claims That She Can Smell Imminent Death on People
Ari Kala, a 24-year-old psychic from New South Wales, Australia, claims to have a very unusual clairvoyant gift – she can tell if people are about to die just by taking a whiff of them. The self-described ‘psychic coach’ apparently discovered her unique talent when she was just 12 years old, while visiting her terminally-ill uncle. […]
Europe’s Oldest Tree Is At Least 1,230 Years Old And Still Growing
A team of researchers studying a national park in southern Italy recently discovered the oldest tree in Europe ever to be scientifically dated – a Heldreich’s pine that is at least 1,230 years old and still growing. Nicknamed “Italus”, the ancient tree was discovered on a steep mountain slope in Italy’s Pollino National Park by a […]
Doctor Sues Patient for $1 Million Over 1-Star Online Reviews
A New York woman who posted some not so favorable online reviews of a Manhattan gynecologist she visited last year has been forced to spend close to $20,000 to defend herself in a $1 million defamation suit filed by the doctor. When Michelle Levine decided to share her negative experience regarding an annual checkup performed by […]
Swedish Brewery Makes Beer with Recycled Sewage Water
In an attempt to raise awareness about the ability to turn wastewater into safe drinking water, a brewery in Stockholm, Sweden has launched a new beer brand made with recycled sewage water. Aptly called PU:REST, the new beer crafted by Stockholm’s Nya Carnegiebryggeriet (New Carnegie Brewery) in collaboration with the Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL) […]
Prosperity Preacher Says God Wants Him to Have a New Private Jet, Asks Flock to Pay for It
Jesse Duplantis, one of America’s most popular prosperity preachers has his eyes on a new $54 million Dassault Falcon 7X private jet, but he wants his followers to pay for it. Duplantis, who runs a ministry and a church in Destrehan, Louisiana, just outside New Orleans, already owns a private jet, in fact it’s already his […]
Chinese School Uses Facial Recognition to Monitor Students’ Attention in Class
Students at the No. 11 Middle School in Hangzhou, China, may want to think twice before dozing off or getting distracted in class as a new facial recognition system will be scanning their faces every 30 seconds to make sure they are paying attention. Called a “smart classroom behavior management system”, the new monitoring solution […]