Prague Zoo Sells Elephant Dung as Souvenirs
Something doesn’t smell right in Prague, and I’m pretty sure it’s the buckets of elephant dung the local zoo has started selling to visitors, as souvenirs. That’s right, the Czechs have apparently found a way to turn mounds of crap into piles of cash, by selling it in 1,5 kg plastic buckets, for 70 koruna […]
Designer Creates Fashion Items from Used Tea Bags
Grace Robinson, 52, from Cambridgeshire, England, takes used tea bags and sews them into fashionable dresses, shoes and accessories. Grace has been drinking tea for most of her life and she’s been recycling used tea bags for over 10 years now. The process is quite simple: she drinks tea every day, saves the tea bags […]
1,500 Unwanted Facebook Guests Show Up for Girl’s Birthday Party
Facebook is one powerful tool, and a 16-year-old German girl found that out the hard way, after she forgot to set her Facebook birthday party invitation as private and had her celebration crashed by 1,500 strangers. The girl, known only as Thessa, had originally planned to invite only a few friends over at her house […]
Father Waves Goodbye to His Son in 170 Different Costumes
Rain Price is probably the world’s most embarrassed son, after his father waved goodbye to him dressed in all kinds of wacky costumes, as he went away in the school bus. This happened every day, for the entire school year. While the sixteen-year-old found his father’s daily ritual embarrassing, especially since this was his sophomore year, […]
Solar-Powered Bikini Charges Your Gadgets While You Tan
American designer Andrew Schneider has used conductive thread to sew photo-voltaic panels together in a Solar Bikini that allows you to charge your favorite gadgets while getting a nice tan. 30-year-old Schneider says ‘I use 40 individual paper-thin flexible, photo-voltaic panels for each bikini. I sew them together over a normal bikini using soft-conductive thread,’ […]
Painting Horse Gets His Own Art Gallery Exhibition
Napoleon, a four-year-old Dutch Friesian stallion, has developed a talent for painting after working with artist Sergio Caballero and his worked are now on display at the Mutt art gallery, in Barcelona. The Dutch Friesian horse breed is famous for being very responsive to dressage, but I doubt too many people thought a horse could […]
World’s First Amphibious Ice-Cream Truck Sails the Thames
HMS Flake 99, the world’s first floating ice-cream truck, was seen sailing the river Thames, yesterday, trying to attract attention to the decreasing number of land ice-cream trucks in the UK. The mobile ice-cream business in England has definitely seen better days, as the number of ice-cream trucks has dropped from 20,000 to around 5,000, […]
New York Hosts Rat Fashion Show
I thought rats were the most hated creatures in New York City, but it seems now it’s become fashionable to actually have them as pets. On Sunday, dozens of rat lovers gathered in Manhattan to attend the world’s first Fancy Rat Convention, where pet fashion designer Ada Nieves showed off her rodent clothing collection, featuring […]
Man Is Helplessly Addicted to Sausages
I suppose it could be worse, but 47-year-old David Harding has become the first man in Britain (and probably the world) who has undergone therapy to cure his addiction to sausages. David has had at least one sausage a day ever since he was five years old – either in sandwiches, as fry-ups or main […]
Austria Hosts Motorized Toilet Bowl Race
In an attempt to raise awareness to the seriousness of chronic inflammatory bowel disease, an Austrian association asked various celebrities to participate in a toilet bowl race, in Vienna. Usually it’s always about the fastest way to the toilet, but yesterday, people were more concerned about being the fastest on the toilet. No, I’m not talking about […]
Chinese Woman Performs Surgery on Herself
Wu Yuanbi, a 53-year-old woman, from Chongqing, China, has recently performed surgery on herself, with a common kitchen knife. Wu, who works as a migrant worker, has been suffering from a chronic condition known as Budd-Chiari syndrome, for the last 13 years. This causes her stomach to gradually fill up with large quantities of fluid, […]
Don Gorske – The Mac Daddy of Big Macs
57-year-old Don Gorske ate his first Big Mac 39 years ago, to celebrate buying a new car. He was hooked and on that same day he went back and ate eight more before the McDonalds restaurant closed. On May 17 2011, he ate his 25,000th Big Mac. The retired prison guard planned to eat his […]
New York Hosts First Pillow Fight World Cup
Most people think of pillow fighting as a fun childhood game or some scantly clad women putting on a show, but for the women participating in the Pillow Fight World Cup it’s a real sporting competition. Eight women armed with fluffy pillows and dressed like athletes could be seen stepping into the ring during this first […]
Car Lover Builds His Own Lamborghini Reventon
A Chinese car enthusiast from Kunming has spent around $13,800 to turn his old Nissan A31 into the sports car of his dreams, a Lamborghini Reventon. What’s a car lover to do when he likes a luxury car so much, but can’t afford to buy it? Build one of his own, of course, and that’s […]
Couple Claim They Are Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene
A couple who claim they are reincarnations of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene have recently set up camp in Queensland’s Bible Belt, joined by 30 – 40 followers. Australian cult watchers are concerned about a new organization known as Divine Truth, led by Alan John Miller and Mary Suzanne Luck, who claim they are Jesus […]