Spiderman Got a Job as a College Professor in Mexico
When he’s not too busy fighting crime and battling super-villains in New York, Spiderman teaches computer science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, in Ciudad de Mexico. It all started in 2002, when the blockbuster movie Spider-Man, featuring Tobey Maguire, started screening in Mexico. 12-year-old Moises Vazquez Reyes instantly fell in love with the Marvel superhero […]
Russian Man Sues Ex-Girlfriend for Expenses Incurred During Their Relationship
When 29-year-old Nina Zgurskaya, from Krasnoyarsk, Russia, started dating the charming director of a law firm, she thought she had finally met the man of her dreams. Little did she know he would one day take her to court for all the expenses incurred during their relationship. Nina met 38-year-old lawyer at a ski resort and […]
Grandfather Very Sorry for Picking Up Wrong Grandson from School
A grandfather from Orangeburg County, Columbia, recently made the news after going to school to pick up his young grandson and coming home with a totally different child. It sounds like the plot of a 90’s comedy, but this happened in real life. On May 19th, 65-year-old Joseph Fuller went to Edisto Primary School in order to […]
Stunning Kim Kardashian Doppelganger Has Everyone Rubbing Their Eyes in Disbelief
As hard as it may be for you to believe, the woman in the photos below is not reality TV star Kim Kardashian, but a 24-year old talented makeup artist from Croatia. Jelena Peric has attracted over 700,000 followers on Instagram thanks to her uncanny resemblance to socialite Kim Kardashian. It’s nowhere close to the celebrity’s […]
Russian Couple Share Their Home with a Full-Grown Brown Bear
Svetlana and Yuriy Panteleenko seem like a perfectly average family, but that’s until they introduce you to their 23-year-old adopted son, Stepan, a 300-lb brown bear. The unlikely family do almost everything together, right from playing in the backyard, to cuddling and watching TV on the sofa. Stepan was just three months old when the Panteleenkos […]
Scientist Creates Possible Cure to All Viruses, Needs It to Go Viral
When MIT-trained engineer Todd Rider revealed his revolutionary idea for killing virtually any virus, everyone from fellow scientists to The White House praised him for his results, with some going as far as to call his discovery the most important medical breakthrough since antibiotics. Yet four years later, Rider is struggling to find funds for his research […]
Meet Jana Jihad – Palestine’s Youngest Amateur Reporter
While most 10-year-olds are busy playing games, learning the ropes at school and enjoying their childhood, Janna Jihad risks her life reporting on the Palestinian – Israeli conflict in the occupied West Bank, in an effort to raise awareness to the plight of her people. A resident of Nabi Saleh, a small Palestinian village north of […]
Japanese Boy Missing for Three Days After Parents Left Him in Woods as Punishment
Rescue teams have been scouring the thick woods of northern Hokkaido, Japan, for the past three days in search of a young boy who had been abandoned there by his parents, as punishment for being naughty. 7-year-old Yamato Tano-oka was first reported missing on Saturday, when his parents alerted the police saying that he had […]
Every Year This Man Organizes a Very Popular Conference about Boring Things
Most conferences tend to be boring, although not intentionally so. But there is one event that is deliberately dedicated to all things dull and tedious – the ‘Boring Conference’ hosted every year at London. Believe it or not, it’s a sell-out event where attendees are treated to talks on all sorts of boring things like […]
Coca Cola Japan Launches “Sleep Water” It Claims Could Help You Sleep Better
Capitalizing on the Japanese work culture that makes insomniacs of employees, Coca Cola Japan has recently released a new beverage that the company claims can help people get a better night’s sleep. Aptly named ‘Glaceau Sleep Water’, the drink is perfect for those who have trouble nodding off every night and are desperate to experience deep, […]
World’s Proudest Grandma Plasters Grandchildren’s Photos on Virtually Everything
Grandmas are usually proud of you even if you so much as sneeze, but this North Carolina woman has taken granny-love to a whole new level. 66-year-old retiree Carmen Baugh is so enamoured with her grandkids that she’s converted her living room into a shrine of sorts, with their photographs plastered across the wallpaper, curtains, and […]
South-Korean Technology Addicts Participate in Bizarre Space-Out Competition
A strange ‘space-out competition’ recently saw 60 South Koreans in the country’s capital of Seoul put aside their smartphones and tablets and simply sit on the ground in a public park, thinking and doing nothing for 90 minutes. The person measured as having the most stable heart rate at the end of that period was judged the […]
Amazing Human Being Has Laid Over 550 Unclaimed Bodies to Rest in the Last 60 Years
Mithalal Sindhi, from the Indian city of Ahmedabad, is not a rich man, by any means. He has been living on the streets for the last six decades, earning a modest living by selling Bajra (pearl millet) from his pedal rickshaw. Most of what he makes, Mithalal spends on performing the last rites for unclaimed dead […]
Car Chased by 20,000 Bees for Two Days After Hive Queen Gets Stuck in Trunk
A woman in the UK was left baffled by a swarm of about 20,000 bees that latched onto the back of her car and refused to budge for over 28 hours. The mystery was eventually solved when she discovered that they were actually following their queen, which had gotten stuck in the trunk of the car! […]
Filipino Man Turns His Home into a Public Library to Help Kids Learn to Read
Retired Filipino accountant Hernando Guanlao has found a wonderful way to spend all his free time – he’s set up a public library right outside his home and he regularly hands out books to poor children for free. Hernando’s little library is very relevant to the society he lives in, where many children drop out […]