Brain Tumor Survivor Has Painted Every Sunrise for the Last Seven Years
People find unique ways of storing and recording memories of the most important days of their lives. Some save cinema ticket stubs from their first date, some like to keep home videos and photo albums of family events. The methods of storing memories – both happy and sad – are endless. But the story of […]
English Astronomer Makes World’s First Meteorite-Aged Wine
What do you get when you mix an interest in wine-making and a passion for astronomy? Why meteorite wine, of course. Meteorito, as it’s called, is a unique blend of wine that has been aged with a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite. Meteorito, a Cabernet Sauvignon, is the creation of Norwich-born Ian Hutcheon. Ian has long been […]
Japan’s New Creepy Anti-Aging Mouthpiece
Throughout the years, we’ve seen some pretty genius inventions from Japan, but every once in a while they come up with something so strange, so bizarre, you can’t help but ask yourself “what were they thinking?” The new Face Slimmer anti-aging mouthpiece is one of those things… The so-called face Slimmer was launched in Japan, late […]
Kissenger – The Long-Distance Kiss Messenger
Hooman Samani, an artificial intelligence researcher in Singapore, has developed a kiss-transmission robot messenger that can emulate and transmit a kiss over long distances. It’s called the Kissenger. About a year ago, I wrote an article about young Japanese student working on an experimental device able to transmit kisses over long distances. His machine looked pretty awful, […]
Woman Marries 107-Year-Old Warehouse to Save It from Demolition
Babylonia Aivaz, from Seattle, fell in love with an old warehouse where she and other activists protested inside the building, during an Occupy Seattle event. Now, the 107-year-old facility has been scheduled for demolition, so Aivaz decided to marry it to show her love, and hopefully save it. It sounds like a pretty bizarre situation, […]
Rent-a-Girlfriend Services Are Becoming Popular in China
In recent years, young men and women pressed by their families to bring their girlfriends home with them for the seven-day Spring Festival prefer to rent total strangers, just to avoid long lectures and appease their relatives. Single men and women have it tough in China, a country where most parents go to any lengths […]
Man Trains to Become Real-Life Tarzan
DeWet Du Toit, a 24-year-old South African man obsessed with Tarzan, spends his days swinging on vines and tree branches, riding elephants and eating fruits of the bush, just like his celluloid hero. He traveled to England where he worked as a security guard and delivery driver for a year, but returned to his native […]
17-Year-Old Girl Has Eaten Chicken Nuggets Every Day for the Last 15 Years
Everyone craves fast food every once in a while, but for 17-year-old Stacey Irvine, chicken nuggets have been a part of her daily diet ever since she was 2 years old. Although you wouldn’t think so by looking at her. I’m a big cheeseburger fan myself, though I try not to eat more than one […]
Billion Euro Home Is Made from Shredded Remains of 1.4 Billion Euros
Unemployed Irish artist, Frank Buckley, has built an entire apartment from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euros he borrowed from the national mint. He says the Billion Euro Home is a monument to the madness the single currency brought to Ireland. In 2002, when Ireland adopted the euro, a wave of cheap credit flooded the […]
Guy Spends Six Years Making the World’s Largest Gumball
This is one of the grossest world records I have ever covered, but it’s just so unusual I couldn’t resist sharing it with you guys. A man has kept the around 95,200 pieces of nicotine gum he has chewed over the last six years and put them all together in what is considered the world’s […]
Chinese Cat-Boy Can See Perfectly in the Dark
If you ever doubted real X-Men were among us, check out the neat super-power of Nong Youhui, a young Chinese boy who can see in total darkness. Riddick, the cool antihero played by Vin Diesel in Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi movie characters, but I never […]
Chinese Army Plays Lethal Pass-the-Bomb Game
A video showing Chinese soldiers in a circle passing an explosive satchel from one man to another, until one of them decides to throw it in a hole just before it explodes, has been making the rounds online, leaving everyone flabbergasted. Photos of South Korea’s special forces troops training in all kinds of extreme conditions have been […]
Chololi – Japan’s Nose Hair Notification Service, Now Available in English
Have you been dying to tell someone that their nose hairs gross you out? Do you find yourself facing them every day, unable to voice out your disgust? If your answer to these two questions is “yes” , Chololi is just the service for you. It allows anyone to email people anonymously, telling them that their […]
Parents Keep Child’s Sex Secret for Five Years, to Raise Him Gender Neutral
Ever looked at a baby and wondered if it was a boy or a girl? I’ve been there. It’s a dicey situation because most parents take offence if you blurt out the wrong gender. Beck Laxton and Keiran Cooper are exceptions, though. They raised their kid for five years without revealing the gender to anyone, […]
Man Devises Aerobic Exercises Based on House Cleaning
If you’ve been wanting to get into shape but haven’t had the time to exercise, Aerobic House Cleaning might just be the thing for you. The fitness program was devised by Steve Markovich, who has been following it for the past 16 years. The 57-year-old from Crescent Springs, Ky., has managed to make a heart-pumping […]