Russian Parents Accidentally Discover Their Baby Is Alive Seven Years After Being Told It Had Died
A couple in Volvograd, Russia, were recently reunited with the child they had though had died seven years ago, right after birth. What’s even more astonishing is that the startling revelation was the result of a completely accidental administrative error. In 2011, a young girl gave birth at a hospital in Volgograd, but was soon […]
California’s “Butt Lady” Picks Up 1 Million Discarded Cigarette Butts in Just Over 3 Years
Sally Dawly is a woman on a mission. Over the last three and a half years, the anti-littering activist has spent most of her free time picking up cigarette butts from the streets of her home city of Auburn, in California, and on this year’s Valentine’s Day she picked up her millionth butt. Dubbed the […]
Japanese “Baby Factory” Dad Wins Custody of 13 Thai Surrogate Children
Mitsutoki Shigeta, the heir of a wealthy Japanese businessman, was recently awarded sole custody of 13 children he fathered through surrogate mothers in Thailand. Dubbed the “baby factory dad”, 28-year-old Shigeta is believed to be the father of at least 17 children, all conceived through surrogacy. The “baby factory” scandal began in 2014, when Thai authorities […]
That’s a Wrap! Woman Divorces Husband After He Refuses to Buy Her a Shawarma
A 30-year-old woman in Egypt recently filed for divorce from her 32-year-old husband after only 40 days of marriage on grounds that he is so stingy that he refused to buy her a shawarma sandwich on their first and only outing as a married couple. Speaking before the Family Court in Zananiri, the young woman, […]
Suspected Drug Dealer Goes 34 Days Without Taking a Poo
Can you imagine going a whole month without taking a dump? One suspected drug dealer in Harlow, England has gone a record-breaking 34 days without passing stools for fear of providing police with evidence after allegedly swallowing drugs right before his arrest last month. 24-year-old Lamarr Chambers was arrested on January 17, after failing to stop […]
Canadian City Has Been Plagued by a Mysterious Noise for Over Eight Years, and Nobody Knows What’s Causing It
Residents of Windsor, a Canadian city near Detroit, have been complaining about a mysterious noise interfering with their daily lives for over eight years now, but despite numerous attempts to establish its origin, nobody has been able to figure out what’s causing it. Called the ‘Windsor Hum’, the mysterious noise plaguing the Canadian city of […]
12-Year-Old Girl Sets Two New World Records for Singing in 102 Different Languages in 6-Hour Long Concert
Suchetha Satish, a 12-year-old Indian girl living in Dubai, recently shattered two Guinness World Records at the same time by singing songs in 102 different languages during an epic concert that lasted 6 hours and 15 minutes. A seventh grade student at the Indian High School in Dubai, Suchetha only started preparing to break the […]
Russian Artist Builds 30-Meter-High Gothic Cathedral Out of Tree Branches, Then Sets It on Fire
Every year, the Nikola-Lenivets art park, near Moscow, Russia, burns a wooden structure to celebrate Maslevitsa, the oldest surviving Slavic holiday. This year, founder Nikolay Polissky burned the largest structure yet – a 30-meter-high Gothic cathedral made of wooden branches. On February 17, 2018, art lovers gathered at the Nikola-Lenivets art park witnessed one of the largest […]
Rebel Cow Escapes Slaughterhouse in Poland, Swims Away to Uninhabited Island
After making a daring escape while being loaded on a truck headed for the slaughterhouse, a cow in Nysa, Poland, swam to an uninhabited island on a nearby lake and has been living there ever since. Cows are among the most obedient of domestic animals, but when their survival instincts kick in, they can pull […]
Indian Woman Posing as Man Marries Two Other Women for Dowry
Krishna Sen, a woman from India’s Uttar Pradesh state who posed as a man for over 4 years, was recently arrested for marrying two women and harassing them for dowry. Krishna had always been a bit of a tomboy, but in 2013 she went a step further, adopting a male persona on social media and […]
Woman Uses Large Billboard to Contact Man Who Got Her Pregnant Then Blocked Her on Facebook
A woman from San Luis Potosí, Mexico came up with an ingenious way of notifying the man who allegedly got her pregnant and then cut off all contact, even blocking her on Facebook, that her pregnancy test came out positive. Photos of a bizarre advertising billboard on top of a building between Mariano Jiménez Street and […]
German Lawyer Can’t Get Any Work Done Because Someone Keeps Ordering Pizza on His Behalf
Guido Grolle, a lawyer from Dortmund, Germany, was recently forced to file complaint with the local police, because someone keeps sending him pizzas to his workplace. Over the past two and a half weeks, the man has received over 100 pizzas he never ordered, and he just wants the madness to stop. By the time […]
Peruvian Police Capture Inmate Who Escaped Prison by Leaving Twin Brother in His Place
Alexander Jheferson Delgado, a convicted sex offender and burglar from Peru, was captured by police a year after successfully escaping prison by drugging his identical twin bother, who had come to visit him, and putting on his clothes. On January 10th, 2017 Alexander Jheferson Delgado pulled off one of the most incredible prison escapes in history, […]
Woman Worried Someone May Steal Her Luggage Climbs Into Train Station X-Ray Machine with It
A woman traveling from Dongguan, in southern China, recently made international news headlines after climbing into a train station X-ray machine with her luggage, to make sure no one tried to steal it. One of the millions of Chinese traveling home for the Lunar New Year holiday, the unnamed woman reportedly had a lot of money […]
Arizona Woman Goes to Bed with Bad Headaches, Wakes Up Speaking in Different Accents
45-year-old Michelle Myers, from Phoenix, Arizona, suffers from Foreign Accent Syndrome, a very rare condition that causes her to speak in various foreign accents – British, Australian, Irish – despite having never traveled outside of the United States. Myers was diagnosed with the unusual condition in 2015, when, after going to bed with a pounding headache, […]