Brazilian Drug Dealer Kidnaps Medical Staff, Makes Them Vaccinate Community Against Yellow Fever
Thomaz Vieira Gomes, also known as 2N, is considered one of the most dangerous criminals in Rio de Janeiro, but recently he actually did something decent, albeit still illegal, for once. He and his gang kidnapped two male nurses and made them vaccinate the poor people of his favela against yellow fever. For months, Brazil […]
Bizarre Toy Lets Users Experience the Sensation of Popping a Huge Pimple
If you love watching those stomach-churning pimple popping videos on YouTube and wish you could squeeze massive amounts of puss yourself, you’ll probably fall in love with Pop It Pal, a squishy toy that recreates the sensation of popping huge zits. 2017 was the year of the fidget spinner, but 2018 might just turn out […]
Couple Sell Everything They Own to Go on Sailing Adventure, Their Boat Sinks Just Two Days Later
A young couple who quit their jobs and sold everything they owned in order to buy a boat and go on an epic sailing adventure had to put their bold dream on hiatus after their sailboat sank just two days into their voyage. Tanner Broadwell and Nikki Walsh had been planning their once-in-a-lifetime adventure for […]
Japanese Public School Sparks Controversy After Adopting $700 Dollars Armani Uniforms
Ginza is known as the most fashionable district of Japan’s capital, Tokyo, and one public elementary school located there recently decided that it would be very fitting for children to dress accordingly. Thus Taimei Elementary School students will be donning $700 designer uniforms created by Italian fashion label Armani. The school’s decision to replace its old […]
Indian Man Allegedly Steals Wife’s Kidney as Unpaid Dowry
28-year-old Rita Sarkar’s husband frequently complained about her family’s failure to pay her dowry after their wedding, but she never imagined he would go as far as stealing one of her kidneys to make up for the unpaid dowry. She was wrong. The young woman recently told reporters that she had been the victim of domestic […]
Russian Crypto-Currency Fund Offers Psychological Support for Investors
Investing in crypto-currency like Bitcoin is a bit like going on a wild roller-coaster these days, and that can really take a toll on investors’ psyche. To help them better cope with the fear of losing huge sums of money due to devaluation, one Russian crypto-currency fund will start offering investors free psychological support. Moscow-based Blockchain […]
Man Drops iPhone 8 in Cafe Toilet, Gets Stuck Trying to Retrieve It
A man in Liuzhou, China’s Guanxi Autonomous Region, recently made national news headlines after getting his arm stuck in a squat toilet while trying to retrieve his iPhone 8. The man, surnamed Tang, had been drinking with some friends at a local hotel’s cafe, last weekend. At one point he had to go to the […]
76-Year-Old Woman Has Been Pushing Wheelchair-Bound Grandson 15 Miles to School Every Day for the Last 4 Years
When it comes to making sure that her disabled grandson gets the education he deserves, there’s nothing 76-year-old Shi Yuying won’t do. The elderly woman has been making eight daily trips pushing Jiang Haowen to and from his school in Guangxi Province, for the past 4 years, and plans to continue doing it for as long as she […]
New York Man Turns His Home into a Sanctuary for Hundreds of Cats
If you passed by Chris Arsenault’s home, in Medford, New York, and saw the 300 cats living there, you’d probably consider the 58-year-old retired train conductor a crazy cat person, but that’s only because you don’t know his history with them. In the summer of 2006, about two months after Arsenault lost his son Eric, 24, in […]
The Focus Cap – A Noise-Cancelling Accessory for Your Eyes
Noise-cancelling audio gadgets have been around for a while now, but one Berlin-based designer believes that blocking “visual noise” is as important, if not more so, as cancelling out unwanted sounds. To this end he has created a simple accessory called the Focus Cap. Open work spaces definitely have their benefits, but they come with the […]
Chinese Fashion Brand Makes Sandals for Your Sneakers
You probably didn’t even know your shoes needed sandals, did you? Well, that’s because you’re not as avant-garde as Sankuanz, a Chinese fashion label that knows just what you need to keep your brand new sneakers looking flawless for longer – sandals, of course. Now, we’ve featured commercially-available sneaker protectors aimed at sneaker-heads before, but […]
Woman Wears Corset for 23 Hours Every Day to Maintain Her Super Thin Waist
How far would you go to achieve that extreme hourglass figure you’ve always dreamed of? How about wearing a tight corset around your waist for 23 hours a day? When Navy veteran Diana Ringo, 39, of Chula Vista, California gave birth to her twins three years ago, she felt that the loss of her curves […]
Long-Assumed-Dead Dog Returns Home After 10 Years
Ten years ago, Abby, a year-old black lab, was playing with her human family outside of their Apollo, Pennsylvania home, when something caught her attention and she just wandered off. Her owner,Debra Suierveld, spent weeks searching for the pup, but she eventually gave up, assuming the dog had been killed. Life went on for Debra […]
Cow Heading to the Slaughterhouse Makes Daring Escape, Hides in Forest and Becomes Social Media Star
Hermien, a plucky cow from Lettele, in the Dutch province of Overijssel, recently became a social media star and a symbol of freedom, after making a daring escape just as her owner was trying to load her on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse. Named after her owner Herman Jansen, the cow initially escaped with […]
The Sinister True Story of the Triplets Separated at Birth as Part of Cruel Social Experiment
In 1980, when Robert Shafran arrived for his first day of college at Sullivan County Community College in New York, he was confused and overwhelmed by people he had never met warmly greeting him with hugs and high-fives, and, strangest of all, calling him Eddy. The reason behind the odd reception emerged when he met […]