World’s Most Expensive Chili Peppers Cost $25,000 per Kilo
You should never judge a pepper by its size, especially when it comes to price. The Aji Charapita chili pepper grows is roughly the size of a pea, but there’s nothing small about its price. A kilogram of this stuff will set you back a whopping $35,000. Native to the jungles of norther Peru, the […]
Chinese University Students Sit in on Extra Classes Just to See the Beautiful Teachers
Students at the Sichuan Normal University in Chengdu, south-west China, are apparently studying harder and sitting in on extra classes just to see their ‘impossibly beautiful’ female educators. Photos of 16 attractive female teachers from Sichuan Normal University have become a hot topic on Chinese social media websites, after they were uploaded online by their school. […]
Hungarian Anti-Semitic Political Leader Discovers He Is a Jew, Moves to Israel
Four years ago, Csanad Szegedi was a deputy leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary, and he blamed Jews as well as the Roma people for his country’s problems. But then he learned he was a Jew himself, and everything changed. Szegedi was once notorious for his extremist views and anti-Semitic statements, and as a […]
App Gives Japanese Drivers Free Coffee for Not Checking Their Phones at The Wheel
In a bid to convince drivers in Aichi Prefecture to keep their hands on the wheel and their eyes on the road, a new Japanese smartphone app offers free coffee coupons to drivers who don’t check their phones for at least 100 km. For the last 13 years, Aichi Prefecture has recorded the highest rate of traffic […]
Mother Forces Toddler Son to Sit in a Parking for 20 Minutes to Save Her a Spot
A photo showing a young boy sitting in a busy Kuala Lumpur parking lot has been doing the rounds online, causing controversy. According to the original Facebook post, the boy had to wait all alone in the hot sun for 20 minutes, to save the empty spot for his mother, while she went to bring […]
Activist To Wear All The Trash He Creates in a Month
Environmentalist Rob Greenfield wants to change the way Americans think about their trash footprint by wearing every piece of trash he creates over 30 days. “For one month, Rob Greenfield is going to live like the average American. He’ll eat, shop, and consume just like the average American which produces 4.5 pounds of trash per […]
The NoPhone Air – Plastic Phone Packaging with Nothing but Air Inside
While millions of people around the world eagerly awaited the release of Apples’s new iPhone 7, dozens of attendants at the Fireside Gathering – a no-phone, no-reception event held at a summer camp two hours west of Ottawa – had to make due with a “revolutionary NoPhone Air, a simple phone package with nothing but […]
Meet the Man with the World’s Best Memory
He has won the World Memory Championship eight times in a period of ten years, can memorize a full deck of cards in a few seconds and is banned from casinos all across the world. He is Dominic O’Brien, the man with the world’s best memory. Looking back at his childhood, 59-year-old Dominic O’Brien admits […]
Son of China’s Richest Man Buys Eight iPhone 7s for His Dog
In case you needed any more proof that life is unfair, a dog managed to get his paws on an iPhone 7 before you. In fact, she got eight of them, as a gift from her wealthy owner, the son of China’s richest man. Photos doing the rounds on Chinese social media show Coco, a gorgeous […]
The Mysterious “Binary Bandits” of Philadelphia
In what has been described as one of the most bizarre strings of petty crimes ever recorded, dozens of people in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood have been reporting the theft of their house numbers. Interestingly, in all cases, only the “1” and “0” have been taken, which has earned the yet-to-be-identified thieves the nickname “binary bandits”. […]
Taxidermist Turns Dead Cat into a Handbag, Sparks Controversy
A one-one-of-a-kind handbag fashioned out of the pelt of a dead cat and featuring the feline’s intact head as part of the decor has sparked quite the debate online after its listing on an online auction site wen viral. Created by Clare Hobbs, a professional taxidermist from Christchurch, New Zealand, the bizarre accessory is currently […]
Chinese Couple Have Been Living in a Cave for the Past 54 Years
Unable to afford a proper home after getting married, a Chinese couple moved into a mountain cave near the city Nanchong, and have been living there for the past 54 years. 81-year-old Liang Zifu and 77-year-old Li Suying found the cave three years after their wedding, and since they couldn’t afford to buy a real house, […]
English Engineer Performs Surgery on Himself After Being Put on Waiting List
Graham Smith, an engineer from Lancashire, England, was recently in the news for performing surgery on himself to remove eight millimeters of stitches left by surgeons inside his body years ago, after operations to correct it were cancelled twice. Smith had underwent bowel surgery 15 years ago, and was left with stitches protruding through the skin on his […]
Former Inmates Are Obsessed with These Heavenly-Tasting Jail Potato Chips
The Whole Shabang chips reportedly taste like heaven, but until recently, you literally had to commit a crime to get your hands on a bag. That’s because they are jail chips available exclusively to inmates and jail visitors. To say that former inmates are obsessed with The Whole Shabang chips would be an understatement. For years, […]
Tiny Device Claims to Heat Your Room for 10 Cents a Day
Egloo is a clever little terracotta heater that harnesses the power of tealights to heat spaces up to 20 square feet for as little as 10 cents a day, without using any electricity. Developed by Marco Zagaria, a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Egloo is both cheap to use and eco-friendly. Made […]