Incredibly Spicy Meal Burns Large Hole in Man’s Esophagus
According to a recently published medical report, a 47-year-old American man who ate a burger smothered in Ghost Pepper puree ended up with a large hole in his esophagus. The report published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine mentions that the unnamed man ate ‘ghost peppers’, also known as Bhut jolokia, in puree form, smothered on top […]
Chinese Woman Terminates Her Pregnancy to Save Brother’s Life
Having to decide between saving your unborn child or your brother is a choice no person should ever have to make, but it’s exactly what a young Chinese woman recently went through. Her touching story has been doing the rounds online, leaving millions of people wondering what they would have done in her place. 24-year-old […]
Chinese Restaurant Adopts “Pay What You Want” Policy, Loses $15,000 in a Week
A naive restaurant owner in Guiyang, China, who thought that appealing to people’s inherent goodness would be a good way to attract customers to his new karst cave-themed restaurant, managed to lose over 100,000 RMB in just seven days. Liu Xiaojun and his two business partners did the math, and decided that promoting their new restaurant […]
This New Los Angeles Nightclub Will Only Admit Attractive People
Beautiful people sick of having to share the same partying space with less attractive human specimens will soon get the chance to mingle only with their own kind at a new bar that turns away ugly people. It sounds like a joke, but, sadly, it is not. The new venue is being opened by BeautifulPeople.com, an […]
The Mexican Town That Threw Out Criminals, Politicians and Police
Five years ago, the people of Cherán, a small town in Mexico’s Michoacan state, made international headlines for taking up up arms against the powerful drug gangs threatening their livelihood, driving off local politicians and police in the process. Today, the self-governed settlement is a beacon of hope for many other Mexican communities. The inspiring story […]
World’s Best Dressed Farmer Works the Fields Wearing Fancy Suit
Kiyoto Saito, a young rice farmer from Kengo, Japan’s Yamagata prefecture, is trying to change people’s perception of agricultural work through his unusual attire. Whether he’s driving a tractor, or is standing up to his knees in the marshy rice fields, Kiyoto is always wearing an elegant suit complete with shirt and tie. Kiyoto’s family […]
World’s Most Exclusive Social Network Charges Rich Snobs $1,000 a Month
Snobby rich kids sick of sharing the social media space with plebs can now sign up for the “world’s most exclusive social network”. It’s even named after them and only costs $1,000 a month. What’s not to like, right? These days, anyone with a smartphone, tablet or laptop can just go online and create an […]
French Florist Spends 15 Years Decorating His Shop with 800 Water Cans
Bruno Geyer, a passionate florist from the quaint village of Rougemont Le Chateau , in the Franche-Comté region of France, has been decorating his flower shop with water cans for the last 15 years. He currently has around 800 of them hanging from the walls and roof of his shop, and even covering a nearby hillside. It’s […]
Rich Chinese Bachelors Are Touring Siberia in Search of Beautiful Brides
Faced with a shortage of eligible women back home, China’s successful businessmen are apparently turning their attention to Russia. They are apparently paying thousands of dollars to go on ‘wife tours’ in Siberia, hoping to find the brides of their dreams. Elena Suvorova, head of a marriage agency in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third largest city, organized the first […]
Australian man Spends 12 Years Turning Potatoes into Dairy-Free Cheese Called ‘Chato’
Andrew Dyhin, an Australian inventor and founder of the PotatoMagic company, claims that he has spent the last 12 years researching ways of transforming common potatoes into a cheese-like product that is completely dairy-free. “The product is called chato – cheese potato. It looks like cheese and melts like cheese, but it is nothing but […]
Russian Programmer “Ressurects” Deceased Best Friend as an AI Chatbot
It’s hard to let go of loved ones, especially when they pass away suddenly. But thanks to rapidly evolving artificial intelligence, you soon may not have to let go. Well, not completely, anyway. Case in point, Eugenia Kuyda, the co-founder and CEO of a Russian artificial intelligence startup called Luka Inc, who recently brought her best friend […]
Chinese Boss Forces Female Employees to Kiss Him Every Morning
The male boss of a company in Beijing, China, has recently come under fire for forcing female workers to line up and give him a kiss every morning, claiming that it enhances the corporate culture and improves relations between manager and employees. Women working at a company that sells home brewery machinery, in Tongzhou District, Beijing, are required […]
Versace-Obsessed Albanian Car Salesman Is Probably Fashion Label’s Biggest Fan
Shenki Maslani, a 30-year-old Albanian car salesman living in northern Macedonia, has taken on the unofficial name “Shenki Versace” to show off his obsession with the Italian fashion label. Virtually everything he owns has either the Versace name or the company’s iconic Medusa logo on it. Shenki recently told Macedonian media that he first fell […]
Brewers Legally Change Their Names to Elvis to Avoid Legal Action from Presley Estate
The two founders of Scottish brewery BrewDog have both legally changed their names to ‘Elvis’ after being threatened with legal action by the Presley Estate over their grapefruit and blood orange IPA, called Elvis Juice. Formerly known as James Watt and Martin Dickie, the two Elvises sought to prove that their new name is not exclusive, so they […]
Cop Who Never Forgets a Face Has Recognized Over 850 Criminals in the Last Four Years
Andy Pope, a Police Community Support Officer for West Midlands Police, in the UK, has come to be known as memory cop, thanks to his incredible photographic memory, which has helped him successfully identify over 850 suspects in the last four years. Every day, PCSO Pope arrives at work half an hour early, logs on to his […]