World’s Most Expensive Pair of High-Heels Costs a Whopping $15 Million
UK Designer Debbie Wingham has unveiled the world’s most expensive pair of shoes. The stiletto heels are encrusted with precious metals and rare stones — and feature a whopping $15.1 million (USD) price tag. Wingham is famous for her opulent creations and has worked for many celebrities, royals, and wealthy elite over the course of […]
Wedding Invitation Goes Viral Because It Features One Groom and Two Brides
Polygamy, the practice of taking several wives, is legal in Indonesia, but it usually implies marrying one woman at a time. However, one impatient polygamist decided to beat the system by marrying two ladies at the same time and even sent out bizarre wedding invitations where he can be seen posing with both his brides-to-be. […]
11-Year-Old Nepalese Girl Claims She Can Recognize Colors by Smell
Deepti Regmi, an 11-year-old girl from Nepal, spontaneously developed a peculiar ability last year. She is, inexplicably, able to smell colors, and can supposedly even identify them while blindfolded. Although she does not have an official diagnosis, her ability appears to be related to the sensory phenomena known as synaesthesia. Synaesthesia causes the person’s senses […]
British Ex-Pat Who Loves Taiwan Tattoos Its Name on His Forehead
Paul Ferrell, a British ex-pat who has been living in Taiwan for the last 13 years, recently decided to show everyone how much he loved the small Asian country by getting a tattoo of its Chinese name on his forehead and its green independence flag inked on his chin. Ferrell became the talk of the […]
Woman Earns Over $70,000 a Year Showing Her Feet on Instagram
Some people can barely make a living working 9-to-5 jobs, but that’s definitely not the case of Jessica Gould, a 32-year-old woman from a small town in Ontario, Canada, who makes upwards of $70,000 by taking photos of her feet in various positions and posting them on Instagram. Gould discovered the lucrative albeit unusual source […]
Single Entrepreneur Sets Up Website to Find His Ideal Woman
Ladies, meet Alan, a 37-year-old computer science graduate looking for a partner to share his life with. But he doesn’t want just any lady, he’s looking for the ideal woman, and to increase his chances of finding her, he has set up a one page website as a guide for possible candidates. If you can’t […]
Filipino Man Rescued After Spending Three Years Atop 60-Foot-Tall Coconut Tree
A 47-year-old man from La Paz, in the Agusan del Sur province of the Philippines, had last felt solid ground under his feet in 2014, before climbing a 60-foot-tall coconut tree near his house. He had never come down since, and would have probably stayed atop the tree till the end of his days, had […]
Get What You Get – A Gumball Machine for Random Tattoo Designs
If you’re looking to get a tattoo, but don’t have a specific design in mind, or if you’re just looking to get a classic tattoo at a discount, the Get What You Want tattoo gumball machine may be just what you’ve been looking for. Located at the Elm Street Tattoo shop, in Dallas, Texas, the Get […]
This Boy Slept for 11 Days Straight and Doctors Have No Idea Why
7-year-old Wyatt Shaw, a 7-year-old boy from Elizabethtown, Kentucky, recently woke up from an 11-day slumber that left doctors scratching their heads. When he finally woke up, the second-grader had trouble speaking and moving around, but has since made good progress and is expected to make a full recovery. After attending his aunt’s wedding and being […]
This Hipster Bar Only Lets in Genuine Hipsters
You probably didn’t even know there was such a thing as a hipster-only bar, did you? Well, there is (sort of) and if you plan on getting in, you better grow a beard, put on some glasses and wear those checkered shirts hipsters love so much. The Hipster Bar isn’t technically a bar, but an […]
Wanted Man Promises to Turn Himself In if Police Get 1,000 Facebook Shares, Stays True to His Word
A Michigan man wanted for violating the terms of his probation promised to turn himself in and also bring police some donuts if they could get at least 1,000 shares on a Facebook post. The unusual challenge went viral and once the police got their shares, the man fulfilled his end of the bargain. 21-year-old […]
The “Gangs of Urban Turkeys” Terrorizing Massachusetts
After being nearly wiped out from New England in the 1800s, wild turkeys are apparently turning the tables on their human oppressors, wreaking havoc on the streets of Boston and other urban areas of Massachusetts. The number of residents attacked by the aggressive birds has increased dramatically in the last year, police say. Wild turkeys once […]
Cheese-Topped Ice Tea Is Apparently a Thing, And People Are Queuing for Hours for a Cup
Cheese and ice tea doesn’t sound like a particularly tasty combination, but just try telling that to the thousands of people all across China standing in line for up to five hours to get their hands on a cup of it. Cheese tea is a nationwide sensation, making it hard to believe that it was […]
Chinese University Requires Students to Lose Weight in Order to Receive Full Grades
In an attempt to tackle obesity on its campus, a university in Jiangsu, China, is offering overweight students the chance to enroll in a special weight-loss program, where they will receive their grades based on how much weight they shed and on how well they do in class. Zhou Quanfu, a lecturer at the Nanjing Agriculture University, […]
Japanese Man Invents Coffee Made Entirely of Garlic
When you think about coffee alternatives, garlic is probably one of the last things that comes to mind, but that exactly the ingredient that one Japanese inventor used to create a drink that looks and tastes like coffee. 74-year-old Yokitomo Shimotai, a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, claims that his unique “garlic coffee” is […]