2.06-Meter-Tall, 11-Year-Old Boy Eyes Guinness Record for World’s Tallest 6th-Grader
Ren Keyu, an elementary school student from Leshan, in China’s Sichuan province, is only 11-years-old but already measures 2.06 meters and thinks he may just be the tallest 6th grader on the planet. The average 11-year-old Chinese boy measures 1.453 meters, according to data released last year, but Ren Keyu was that height when he finished […]
Man Doesn’t Give Up on Dream of Finding a Wife Despite Being Rejected 80,000 Times
A Chinese man recently made national news headlines for his years-long struggle to find a suitable wife. He claims to have asked around 80,000 women if they wanted to date him over the last eight years, but got rejected no less than 80,000 times. Ouch! 31-year-old Niu Xiangfeng has been described as a “dating madman” for […]
Woman Poisons Dozens at Housewarming Party Trying to Kill Family Who Made Fun of Her Cooking
A 23-year-old woman from Khalapur, India, is risking the death penalty for poisoning the food at a relative’s housewarming party in an attempt to kill attendees who made fun of her dark completion and cooking skills. Police in Khalapur claim that 23-year-old Pradnya Survase confessed to mixing snake poison into the dal served to some of […]
Russian Woman Has Live Worm Crawling Underneath Her Face
Doctors in Russia recently reported the unusual case of a woman who noticed that a number blemishes appeared to move around her face every few days. Those blemishes turned out to be a live parasitic worm crawling under her skin. The unnamed woman first noticed a small bump under her left eye, but didn’t pay […]
World’s Longest-Running Mechanical Spinning Top Can Spin Continuously for Over 27 Hours
Limbo, a spinning top developed by Fearless Toys, was recently recognized by the World Guinness Book of Records as the world’s longest-running mechanical spinning top after spinning continuously for a whopping 27 hours, 9 minutes and 24 seconds. Limbo may look like an ordinary spinning top, but it actually houses a high-tech mechanism that allows it […]
Jogger Accidentally Crosses Border into the US, Spends Two Weeks in Detention Center
A 19-year-old French woman visiting her mother in British Columbia, Canada, learned the hard way that going for a jog near the Canadian-US border is not a very good idea. Cedella Roman, who lives in France, was visiting her mother in North Delta, British Columbia, last month, when she decided to go for an evening […]
Chinese Restaurant Hires Pretty Crayfish Peelers So Patrons Don’t Have to Get Their Hands Dirty
A restaurant in Shanghai, China, recently made headlines for employing two young crayfish peelers who do the dirty work right at the customers’ tables, while they check social media or play mobile video games. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could handle those nasty crayfish shells and then just hand you the succulent flesh?Well, at […]
Japanese Public Service Issues Public Apology for Employee Starting Lunch Break Three Minutes Early
A 64-year-old employee of the waterworks bureau in the Japanese city of Kobe was recently fined and reprimanded by his superiors for going on his lunch break three minutes early, on more than one occasion. The lunch break at the Kobe waterworks bureau starts at 12 pm sharp and lasts until 1 pm. However, an […]
Man Shocks Family by Showing Up at His Own Wake
A 20-year-old man in Paraguay recently gave his family and friends the shock of their lives when he returned home after three days to find them all grieving over what was supposed to be his dead body. Juan Ramón Alfonso Penayo, from the village of Santa Teresa, close to Paraguay’s border with Brazil, had last […]
Son Banned from Contacting His Parents After Constantly Begging Money From Them
A 24-year-old man from Southampton, England, was banned from contacting his parents for five years after they got so fed up with his constant pestering for money that they got a restraining order against him. A restraining order was issued against Matthew Kerley last year by the Crown Prosecution Service, after his parents complained that his […]
The Strange Case of a Man Who Couldn’t Burp for 34 Years
A 34-year-old man who lost his ability to burp when he was only a baby, due to a condition so rare it doesn’t even have a name, has recently been cured by Botox injections in his throat, and claims his life has improved more than anyone could ever imagine. Most of us take burping for […]
Chinese Restaurant Forced to Close Down After Failed All-You-Can-Eat Promotion
The owners of a struggling hotpot restaurant in Chengdu, China, hoped that a month-long all-you-can-eat promotion would bring in new customers, but it actually put the place out of business in under two weeks. On June 1st, Jiamener, a relatively new hotpot restaurant in Chengdu, China’s Sichuan province, kickstarted its cheap all-you-can-eat buffet in the […]
Incredibly Tall 12-Year-Old Basketball Player Can Dunk Without Even Jumping
At just 12-years-old, Olivier Rioux already stands at 6-foot-11 (2.11 meters) which makes him one heck of an asset for his basketball team. Not only can he shoot the ball without any of his opponents even coming close to a block, but he can literally slam dunk on the 8-foot-tall basket without his feet leaving […]
Artist Spends Three Days Buried Under Busy Road, with No Food
Mike Parr, a 73-year-old Australian performance artist, recently spent three days in a container buried under one of the busiest roads in Tasmania, with no food, as a “response to 20th-century totalitarian violence in all its forms”. The unusual performance was apparently conceived a decade ago for an arts festival in Germany, but could not […]
Seafood Rains Over Chinese City After Powerful Storm Sends Marine Creatures Flying
It’s not every day that you see octopuses, starfish and prawns literally raining down from the sky, but that’s exactly what happened Wednesday in the Chinese coastal city of Qingdao, after strong winds sucked the marine creatures from the sea. On Wednesday, the seaside city of Qingdao, in China’s Shandong province, was hit by a severe […]