Boston Man Commits to Never Telling a Lie Again, Ever
Can you imagine never telling another lie – not even an innocent one – for the rest of your life? How about for a whole day? Yeah, me neither, which is why Keith Frankel’s commitment to a no-lie lifestyle is so intriguing. Up until six months ago, Keith Frankel, a product design executive at Boston education software […]
Legally Blind Amateur Astronomer Can See the Night Sky Better Than You
Despite being born with congenital cataracts and having just 10 percent of a normal person’s vision during the day, when the night comes amateur astronomer Tim Doucette can see things most of us cannot. When he was just a teenager, Doucette underwent an operation that removed the lenses from his eyes, and widened his pupils, […]
Chinese Man Shocked to Learn His Pregnant Bride Was Actually a Guy
In the span of just one year, a young Chinese conman reportedly managed to fool 11 other men into thinking that he was their dream girl before disappearing with large sums of money. Believe it or not, the guy even managed to trick one of them into a wedding after telling him that “she” was pregnant. A man […]
Two Average Guys from Boston Just Found the Black Box of a Plane That Crashed in Bolivia 31 Years Ago
Dan Futrell and Isaac Stoner, two average guys from Boston, recently set out on an expedition to find the black box of Eastern Flight 980, which crashed into the Andes Mountains killing everyone on board, 31 years ago. Believe it or not, they actually did it! A year ago, while researching the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight […]
Hungarian Gravediggers Compete in National Grave Digging Competition
In an attempt to increase respect for grave digging and attract more people to the job, three dozens of the best gravediggers in Hungary competed in a unique grave digging competition, last Friday. The bizarre competition took place at a graveyard in the city of Debrecen. 18 two-man teams were assigned their plots arbitrarily by […]
Thai “Drug Robin Hood” Accidentally Brings Down Meth Black Market Prices
A man from the Thai province of Ayutthaya was arrested last month and charged with possession of drugs and intent to distribute, after he allegedly gave away over 200,000 methamphetamine pills to friends who were down on their luck. But this isn’t your average drug dealer news story… Police in Ayutthaya started an investigation last month, after the of meth on the […]
Male Rapunzel with 62-Feet-Long Hair Eyes Guinness Record
Seen from a far, Savjibhai Rathwa looks like he is carrying a long black rope wrapped around his right arm, but that is actually a thick dreadlock made from his still-growing 19-meter-long hair. The 60-year-old man from Vadorara, India’s Gujarat state, has been growing his hair for decades, always treating it with great care. He spends three hours […]
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 […]