New World’s Most Expensive Dessert Costs $34,000
Chef Marc Guibert at Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel in Windermere, Cumbria has created the world’s most expensive dessert– a pudding worth an astonishing $34,000. I have a sweet tooth and I rarely find the power to resist a good dessert, but I’m really not the kind of guy who splurges thousands of dollars on […]
Indian Artist Makes Detailed Model of the Taj Mahal from Matchsticks
It takes a great deal of skill and patience to create even the simplest matchstick model, but a detailed structure like the famous Taj Mahal seems almost impossible to recreate using the tiny sticks of wood. But Indian artist Shaikh Salimbhai challenged himself to create an almost identical model of the iconic structure using only wooden […]
Artist Plans to Give Birth in Art Gallery, in Front of an Audience
Brooklyn performance artist Marni Kotak plans to have her baby in an art gallery, before an audience, during a performance she hopes will convince people “that human life itself is the most profound work of art, and that therefore giving birth, the greatest expression of life, is the highest form of art.” Entitled “The Birth […]
Vietnamese Man Still Sleeps with His Dead Wife
Le Van, the man who made headlines two years ago after it was discovered he had been sleeping with his dead wife for five years, has confirmed he is still sleeping with his beloved, and authorities can’t do anything to stop him. The story about Le Van’s bizarre sleeping habit broke out at the end […]
Finally, Someone Invents a Chewable Licorice Pencil
If you’re sick of picking splinters from between your teeth after chewing dozens of pencils, you’re going to love Cecilia Felli’s newest invention – a licorice pencil called Matitizia. Inspired by people’s habit of chewing on wooden pencils, Italian designer Cecilia Felli has created a truly revolutionary tool that’s not designed to stop them from […]
Restaurant’s Hot Curry-Eating Contest Puts Two People in the Hospital
Eating hot curry is definitely not as fun as watching other people eat it, and two eating contest participants found that out the hard way after they were rushed to the hospital trying to eat as much Killer Kismot curry as possible. The Kismot Restaurant in Edinburgh, Scotland organizes its world’s hottest chilli eating contest every […]
Superman Fan Undergoes Plastic Surgery to Look Like His Favorite Superhero
Herbert Chavez, a Superman fan from the Philippines, is so obsessed with the Man of Steel that he underwent several plastic surgery procedures just to look like his favorite superhero. According to a video report by Bandila News’ Marie Lozano, 35-year-old Herbert Chavez has dramatically altered his appearance to look more like Superman. Unfortunately, the report […]
French Coffee House Owner Refuses to Sell His Life’s Work – A Story of Courage
Although his is the only standing building in what used to be an old neighborhood of Roubaix, in Northern France, Salah Oudjani refuses to sell the coffee house he has worked in for the last 46 years. The title doesn’t sound like anything special, after all, many people refuse to have their property demolished, at […]
World’s Most Expensive Sheep Is Worth over $2 Million
This whole economic boom is just making China weirder with each passing day. Just last week I read they inaugurated their first gold-dispensing machine and now the country’s big bosses are paying millions of dollars for sheep. Dolan sheep, to be exact, a rare breed which according to breeders has very special features that make it the […]
Manly Man Considers Razors a Luxury, Shaves with Shovel
Alexander Karpenko, a 35-year-old English teacher from Nizhny Novgrod, Russia shaves with all kinds of sharp objects, including a shovel, hatchet or scissors, but not with razors. Impressed by the war stories his grandfather, a WW2 veteran, told him about men who used anything sharp to shave on the battlefield, Alexander first experimented shaving with scissors […]
Japanese Toilet Company Creates Poop-Powered Bike
The Toilet Bike Neo is a toilet-bike hybrid that runs entirely on biogas (human poop). It was created by TOTO, Japan’s biggest toilet manufacturer as part of a campaign to reduce CO2 emissions in toilets by 50% until 2017. Believe it or not, we may have been looking for alternatives to fossil fuels in all the wrong places. […]
Monsieur Pingouin – The Man Who Thinks He’s a Penguin
79-year-old Alfred David has come to be known as “Monsieur Pingouin” by the people of Brussels because he almost always walks around in his big penguin suit and even “talks” like one. People who see Mr. Penguin for the first time and don’t know his story might think he’s on his way to a costume […]
Fan Builds Six-by-Six Foot LEGO Model of Star Wars Scene
Jay Hoff, an American school teacher from Florida, has spent six months of his life building a large-scale LEGO model of a scene from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. The first time Jay encountered LEGO was in 1973, when he found a biplane in a Burger King lunchbox, and he’s been fascinated with the […]
Mexican Woman Has Live Grenade Lodged in Her Face
Karla Flores, a 32-year-old street vendor from Culiacán, Mexico can consider herself after she survived being shot in the face with a live grenade. On August 6, 2011 Mexico’s “Miracle Woman”, as she’s come to be known, was selling seafood on the street when all of a sudden she heard an explosion. As she turned around […]
Peruvian Smoothie Stand Sells “Delicious” Frog Juice
A counter-top restaurant in Lima, Peru has been selling fresh frog juice for the last 15 years, and some locals drink it every day because they say it gives them strength. There’s nothing like a glass of fresh juice in the morning, right? Peruvian restaurant owner Carmen Gonzales would agree with this 100%, only she […]