Woman Spends over $130,000 on Plastic Surgery to Look Like a Drawing
When Krystina Butel was 15 years old, she went on a holiday and decided to get her caricature done. And then she fell in love with the drawing so much that she has spent the past 15 years and over $200,000 trying to look just like it. Krystina, now 30, has gone through five boob […]
Loyal Dog Goes 15 Days without Food Guarding His Teenage Master’s Grave
When Indian teenager Bhaskar Shri passed away in a car accident, his loyal dog Tommy refused to leave his graveside for two whole weeks. The sweet old canine reportedly went without food the entire time, guarding the grave in the outskirts of Chennai city through 15 hot days and freezing nights. Bhaskar was a construction […]
Cash-Strapped Couple Seek Corporate Sponsors to Fund Their Wedding
A young couple from Orlando, Florida, have found the perfect way to organise their dream wedding without spending a penny. Courtney McKenzie and her fiancé Jamil Newell are opting for a corporate-sponsored ‘social’ wedding and honeymoon, which means their special moments will feature all sorts of product endorsements and ads. Courtney, who works in social […]
Bachelors Wanted in Brazilian Town Made Up Entirely of Women
UPDATE: Apparently, Noiva de Cordeiro isn’t exactly the bachelors’ paradise it was made out to be by Western media. According to a recent article in the Brazilian newspaper O Globo, the Belo Vale town isn’t that much different from any other rural settlement. Most of the women shown in the photos working in the field […]
Sheep Found Wandering through Tasmanian Wilderness May Be the World’s Woolliest
A Tasmanian farmer-couple recently discovered what might just be the world’s woolliest sheep. They’ve named the super-fluffy creature ‘Shaun’, after popular cartoon character Shaun the Sheep from the British comedy series Wallace and Gromit. As it turns out, Shaun has never had his coat cut, and it is at least half-a-meter thick now. In fact […]
Mangetsu Man – The Anonymous Japanese Superhero Keeping Tokyo Clean
Mangetsu Man is a likable Japanese superhero whose only superpower is the determination to keep the streets of Tokyo clean, especially the Roppongi district, which locals say is always in need of a dust sweep. As you might have guessed, his arsenal of super-weapons consists of a broom and a dust pan. Donning a purple […]
Vacuum Company Brand Manager Eats Pasta Off Subway Floor to Demonstrate New Product’s Effectiveness
Ravi Dalchand, senior brand manager at Bissell Canada, will stop at nothing to demonstrate just how great his company’s new steam vacuum cleaner is. Believe it or not, he has actually eaten pasta off the floor of a busy subway station, after cleaning it with the vacuum. The event in question took place at Toronto’s […]
This Guy Has Been Saving All His Nail Clippings Since 1978
58-year-old oil investor Richard Gibson has one of the weirdest collections in the world. For the past 36 years, he has been religiously saving all his toenail clippings in a glass jar. Collecting toenails is a strange hobby, but Richard says that he didn’t exactly plan for it – it sort of happened as a […]
Every Single Day This 99-Year-Old-Woman Sews a Dress for a Child in Need
Lillian Weber, from Iowa, is almost 100 years old, but she doesn’t let her age stand in the way of her life’s mission – helping those in need. She spends every single day making a dress from scratch, so that a child in need will have something to wear. She started the unique project in […]
Couple Fascinated with Fatbergs Celebrate Their First Anniversary in the Sewer
It’s hard to find a partner with similar interests, especially if you’re into weird things. That’s why I’d say Dan MacIntyre and Dunya Kalantery are quite lucky they found each other. The two lovebirds share an extremely rare and gross hobby – looking at ‘fatbergs’. If you have no idea what a fatberg is, well, […]
Chinese Woman Addicted to Dog Hair Has Eaten 1,000 Hairballs in the Last Two Years
I’ve seen plenty of dog lovers displaying their affection in rather questionable ways, but this is a first – a woman in China loves her so much that she loves eating its hair! Wang Jing, 27, is a self-proclaimed canine lover from Heilongjiang province – she actually gave up her regular job to become a […]
Professional Poo Diver Loves His Stinky Job
Brendan Walsh is a professional sewage diver who, believe it or not, actually loves his job. He’s covered in poop for a large part of the day, every day, but that doesn’t seem to bother him at all. He runs a commercial diving business in Melbourne and he has been doing the job for over 25 […]
Guy Fakes His Own Death to Escape Getting Married
Men can be real jerks sometimes, but this guy has got to be the worst of the lot – he actually faked his own death to get out of his wedding. 23-year-old Tucker Blandford, from Connecticut, didn’t have the guts to tell his fiancee the truth – that he wasn’t ready for marriage – so […]
Cambodia’s Miracle-Performing Baby Draws Thousands of Sick Pilgrims
Kong Keng, a 2-year-old kid from Khnor village in Cambodia, is being hailed as a miracle baby with special healing powers. Thousands of people are traveling from as far as Laos and Vietnam, believing that even a glimpse of Kong will help cure them of their ailments. He appears to be the last ray of […]
Man Plans to Live Alone on an Iceberg until It Melts
In a bid to get people to take climate change more seriously, Italian adventurer Alex Bellini is going to live on an iceberg until it melts. He plans to take on the challenge in the spring of 2015, on an iceberg in Greenland. He expects that he’ll have to live there alone for at least […]