Indian Woman Claims She Hasn’t Eaten Solid Food in 60 Years
Saraswati Bai, a 75-year-old woman from India, claims that she hasn’t consumed a grain of rice, or any other solid food, for that matter, in the last 60 years. Apart from one banana a week – eaten only occasionally – she survives on water and tea alone. Saraswati remembers that she used to have a […]
Mysterious Condition Causes Woman’s Eyes to Clamp Shut for Three Days at a Time
For the past 13 years, Natalie Adler, of Melbourne Australia, has been battling a strange medical condition that causes her eyelids to close for up to three days at a time, rendering her completely blind. After countless tests and procedures, doctors still don’t have a proper diagnosis. Natalie’s life changed dramatically one seemingly normal Sunday, […]
Hermes Sells Rocks with Leather Straps as $840 Paperweights
Paying $840 for an original Hermes item seems like a great deal, but in this particular case we’re talking about a paperweight consisting of a rock and a calf leather strap. How do you even sell something like that? Well, the French luxury brand found a way – they are marketing the “galet pebbles” (rocks) […]
The Chinese Town Where Crickets Are Worth Much More Than Gold
Cricket fighting has been popular in China for thousands of years, and with the country in full economic boom, fans of the “sport” are investing more money into it than ever before. One town in particular has built an entire industry around the genetically-superior crickets living in the surrounding fields, and for good reason, as […]
Belgian Winemaker Creates White Wine That Tastes Like Beer
Having trouble deciding between white wine and beer? Thanks to artisan wine maker in Belgium, you can now have both in the same bottle. 49-year-old Filip Decroix, an experienced winemaker from Ypres, has spent the last year trying to perfect the formula for his “Steenstraetse Hoppewijn”, a sparkling white wine with a beer-like bitterness created […]
Russian Family Comes Home to Find Asphalt Road Where Their House Used to Be
A family of migrant workers from Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, recently returned to their native village of Zavod after a month of work to find their house partially demolished and an asphalt road passing through their property. The Udalov family spend most of their time away from home, working in the nearby city of Nizhny Novgorod, but […]
23-Year-Old Woman Memorizes IKEA’s New 328-Page Catalogue in a Week
Most people could probably spend a whole year just looking at IKEA’s 2018 catalogue and still not remember all the details in its 328 pages. But then again, Yaanja Wintersoul is not most people, she is a two-time World Memory Champion so she only needed one week to accomplish the seemingly impossible task. 23-years-old Yaanja […]
Peruvian Diver Left Looking Like a Balloon After Rising From the Depths Too Fast
Alejandro Ramos Martínez, a seafood diver from Pisco, Peru, recently made international headlines after a terrible accident left him looking like a human balloon. He apparently rose from a depth of 30 meters too fast, which caused the nitrogen in his blood to form giant bubbles that adhered to his muscles, leaving him looking deformed. […]
Cleverly-Designed Mirrored Tableware Tricks You into Eating Less
Nutritionists claim that portion size control is one of the keys to losing weight and staying in shape. Using smaller dishes is probably the most popular way to control the size of your meals, but a couple of London-based art students may have come up with an even more effective one – using mirrors to make tableware […]
Thai “Runaway Bride” Cons at Least 8 Men by Marrying Them and Disappearing with the Dowry
Police in Thailand are looking for a serial scammer who has apparently married at least eight men in the last two years, disappearing from their lives completely right after collecting the dowry money from their families. The real-life “runaway bride”, 32-year-old Jariyaporn “Nammon” Buayai, had apparently been called out as a scammer on social media a […]
UCLA Researcher Grows Colony of 200-Plus Hummingbirds Outside Her Office
Melanie Barboni, an assistant researcher at UCLA’s Earth, Planetary and Space Science department, is known as an expert in geology and volcanic activity among her colleagues, but those who haven’t worked with her before know her only as the “hummingbird whisperer”. She has always been fascinated by the tiny birds, and after moving to Los […]
Serbian Barber Trims Celebrity Portraits on Customers’ Heads
Mario Hvala, a barber from Novi Sad, Serbia, recently made international headlines for trimming a detailed portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the back of a client’s head, but that was only his most recent achievement. He has been creating “hair tattoos” for the last eight years, and there’s nothing he can’t trim […]
Vietnamese Woman Has 3-Meter “Hair Snake” Growing Out of Her Scalp
We’ve seen people grow their hair ridiculously long before, but what sets 81-year-old Trinh Thi Nghien is that her 3-meter-long locks are bundled together in a thick mass that looks like a snake curled on her head. She claims it just started growing like this 22 years ago, and it hasn’t stopped since. Trinh Thi Nghien’s […]
21-Year-Old Woman Controlled Ex-Boyfriend’s Life for Two Years by Impersonating Police Officers
A jealous woman was somehow able to control her ex-boyfriend’s life – forbidding him from seeing other women and even going to certain bars – for two years, by posing as police officers and convincing him that he was part of an investigation. 21-year-old Lauren Adderley and Mitchell Lloyd, 22, both from Shrewsbury, UK, were […]
From Mugshot to Head Shot: How One Young Man Went from Felon to Professional Fashion Model
Last year, 20-year-old Mekhi Alante Lucky got himself arrested in North Carolina for speeding and driving a stolen vehicle. Little did he know that this even would completely change his life for the better. The young man’s mugshot soon went viral and he recently signed with an Atlanta modelling agency. True to his name, Mr. Lucky […]