Hardcore Gamer Completes Popular Video Game ‘The Legend of Zelda’ Blindfolded
Drew Wissler, a.k.a Runnerguy2489, is the new superstar of the gaming world for his impressive feat of completing an entire video game (with all its levels and challenges) blindfolded. After 103 hours of sightless gameplay, he finally defeated the classic game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on October 14. Thousands of fans who […]
The Guerrilla Grafting Movement – Secretly Grafting Fruit-Bearing Branches onto Ornamental City Trees
There is a group of fruit lovers in San Francisco that practice something known as “guerrilla grafting” – they graft fruit bearing branches onto fruitless, ornamental trees across the Bay Area city. Having access to free fruit sounds like a wonderful idea, considering the number of homeless people who can rarely afford a decent meal, but guerrilla grafting […]
New Service Allows NYC Millennials in Need of Motherly Advice to Rent a Mom
Once they reach a certain age, lots of women find motherhood exhausting, but not Brooklyn-based Nina Keneally. The 63-year-old still has lots of ‘mothering skills’ that she’s actually more than happy to rent out through a unique service called ‘NeedAMom’. Her motto is “When you need a mom… Just not YOUR mom.” A former theatrical producer and […]
Man Sells House and Company to Bond with His Daughter While Traveling Around the World
In a bid to spend more time with his daughter and get to know her better, a Shanghai dad sold his two million yuan ($300,000) house and his share of the company that he co-founded. He is now using the money to travel the world for five years, along with his two-year-old girl. “If I […]
Man Claims He Made $15 Million Fortune by Retrieving Lost Golf Balls
14 years ago, out-of-work thief Glenn Berger was struck by a crazy idea that would turn out to make him a millionaire. He decided to dive in lakes across the golf-course rich state of Florida, looking for lost golf balls. He now fishes out about 1.3 to 1.7 million balls a year, and claims to […]
The Birdman of Chennai – Indian Man Feeds 4,000 Parakeets Every Single Day
62-year-old Sekar has earned himself the nickname ‘Birdman of Chennai’ for his remarkable generosity towards thousands of parakeets. Every day, he hosts a grand feast for 4,000 of the exotic birds at his home in Chennai, India. Sekar’s unusual interaction with the birds began after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. He had noticed a pair […]
Meet The Guardian Shield, a Real-Life Crime-Fighting Superhero
The residents of Beaverton, Oregon, can rest peacefully at night, knowing their streets are being patrolled by their very own real-life superhero. ‘The Guardian Shield’ has taken it upon himself to ensure the neighborhood’s safety after dark, and in true superhero fashion, the masked crusader hasn’t revealed his identity because he wants people to focus […]
Bizarre “Death Experience” School Helps Depressed Koreans Appreciate Life by Locking Them in Coffins
A new treatment for suicidal patients in South Korea involves locking them up in wooden coffins. The fake “death experience” apparently helps students appreciate life better after confronting a simulated version of their last moments. The rate of suicide in Korea is on the rise, with about 40 people killing themselves every day. Experts believe […]
Marathon Runner-Up Faces Fraud Charges for Only Running Half a Mile of 26 Mile Race
In a bizarre turn of events, the second place winner at the Nairobi International Marathon last Sunday was arrested for blatant cheating. Julius Njogu apparently stayed hidden among the crowd for most of the 26-mile race before joining the other runners for about half a mile, on the last stretch and laying claim to the $7,000 prize […]
Indian Cook Can Dip Hands in Boiling Oil without Pain or Injury
Prem Kumar, from New Delhi, India, regularly shocks people with his high tolerance to heat – the man can fry fish with his bare hands, dipping them into and out of a wok of boiling oil. The 65-year-old runs a street food stall in Karol Bagh, where he serves fried fish to thousands of customers each day. […]
This Amazing Seattle Preschool Also Doubles as an Elderly Nursing Home
A facility in Seattle has come up with an innovative way of caterung to both the very young and the old. They’ve paired up a preschool with an elderly nursing home, so that the children and the 400-odd residents at the home have an amazing time with each other. The preschool, called the Intergenerational Learning Center, […]
Google Engineer Saves 90% of His Salary by Living Out of a Truck in the Company’s Parking Lot
In a bid to save money, Google employee Brandon S. has made the company’s vast parking lot his home. The 23-year-old software engineer lives out of a box truck parked near the search engine giant’s campus in Mountain View, California. Brandon started work at Google as a summer intern in 2014 – he rented a […]
Israeli Restaurant Gives 50% Discount to Jews and Arabs Who Share a Table
32-year-old Kobi Tzafrir has come up with the perfect peace plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – bonding over hummus! He’s offering a 50 percent discount to Arabs and Jews who choose to share the universally popular middle-eastern dish at his Tel Aviv restaurant, ‘Hummus Bar’. “Afraid of Arabs? Afraid of Jews?” his Hebrew poster on […]
This Woman Can Actually Smell if Someone Has Parkinson’s Disease
Meet Joy Milne, a woman with a peculiar sense of smell. Scientists in Scotland recently learned that she can actually sniff out people with Parkinson’s disease! “I could always smell things other people couldn’t smell,” Milne, 65 from Perth, said. But it wasn’t until much later that she began to correlate a particular ‘musky’ odor with Parkinson’s disease. She first […]
African Pastor Sells Anointed Pens That Help Students Pass Exams without Studying
A pastor in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe was in the news recently for selling hundreds of special, ‘anointed’ pens to local students. Prophet Sham Hungwe claims that the miracle pens will help students pass exams without even studying! “It is anointed and I declare passes when your children sit for exams; when you sit for exams,” he told […]