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 […]
Japan’s “Poop Man” Teaches People How to Not Give a Crap
For the past five years, Akihiko Koseki, has been putting on his bright yellow spandex suit and trademark poo-shaped hat, and going out on the streets of Tokyo to put a smile on people’s faces and teach them to be happier by not giving a crap. In the beginning, Poop Man was merely a cheap […]
Polish City Unveils Beautiful Glow-in-the-Dark Bicycle Path That’s Charged Directly by the Sun
Cycling enthusiasts in Lidzbark Warminski, a small town in Northern Poland, have recently received a unique, awesome present from the local authorities – a brand new sun-powered bicycle path that glows bright blue all night long. Scientists at Polish construction company TPA Instytut Badan Technicznych in Pruszkow created the innovative 100-meter bicycle path using luminophores, a synthetic material […]
Man Hiking Through New York Forest Finds Creepy ‘Shrine to Missing People’
A man hiking through the woods in Huntington’s Berkeley Jackson County Park recently came across what he described as a creepy ‘shrine to missing persons’ made up of over a dozen missing persons flyers posted on trees, close to the remnants of a shelter. James Rankin says that he was hiking through the woods in Long Island when […]
48-Year-Old Korean Dentist Stuns the Internet with Her Unusually-Youthful Appearance
Lee Su Jin, a female dentist from South Korea, is a very strong contender for the title of world’s youngest-looking 48-year-old. Judging by the photos posted on her online social media accounts, you’d think she was a beautiful college girl, but the woman recently revealed that she was born in 1969 and has been practicing […]
Wannabe Youtuber Confuses Adwords with Adsense, Ends Up Owing Google $120,000
A 12-year-old boy from Spain who dreamed of becoming a popular YouTube entertainer and making lots of money online, signed up for Google’s Adwords promotion program instead of its Adsense revenue program and racked up €100,000 in debt. Jose Javier, from the town of Torrevieja, in Spain’s Alicante province, dreamed of becoming rich and famous, like […]
“Santa of Syria” Smuggles Toys into War-Torn Aleppo to Bring Children Joy
For the past five years, 44-year-old Finish-Syrian Rami Adham has dedicated his life to helping the children of Aleppo cope with the horrors of war by smuggling toys into the besieged city. Rami Adhman was born in Aleppo, but moved to Finland with his family in 1989. When the Syrian civil war started, in 2012, […]
Scented Candle That Smells Like New Apple Mac Computer Sold Out in Two Hours
Twelve South, an American company that specializes in Apple product accessories, recently launched a scented candle that it claims captures the specific smell of a newly-opened Apple computer. Called “New Mac”, the unique scented candle has notes of mint, peach, basil, lavender, mandarin and sage, which combined closely mimic the smell of a fresh new Apple product. […]
Chinese Man Gets Breast Implants to Improve Chances of Finding a Job
Convinced that women have more job opportunities than men, a 30-year-old Chinese man decided to get breast implants to increase his odds of finding employment. The man, surnamed Ho, had been struggling to find a job for months, when he became convinced that looking more like a woman would make things a lot easier for him. […]