Company Gives Bonuses to Employees Who Run Two Miles Per Day
A Chinese company has replaced its year-end employee bonus program with another scheme designed to promote exercise – enticing financial rewards for employees who exercise on a daily basis. Guangdong Dongpo Paper, a paper company in Guangdong Province, China, recently made international headlines for replacing its traditional performance-based employee bonus scheme with one based on […]
Killer Reading – The Hunt for the Potentially Deadly Arsenic-Infused Books of the 19th Century
Book conservationists have launched an effort to locate thousands of 19th-century books containing ’emerald green’, a rare and coveted pigment created with the help of arsenic. Before the industrial revolution, books were leather-bound artisanal creations that took a lot of time and effort to produce, but the invention of bookcloth changed everything. It was both […]
Woman Legally Adopts Best Friend So They Can Take Care of Each Other as Family
A South Korean woman made international news headlines for legally adopting her adult best friend after a medical emergency made her realize that they needed a stronger connection to take care of each other. 44-year-old Eun Seo-ran grew up in a stereotypical South Korean patriarchal family in which her father was the breadwinner and her […]
Man Sets New Record for the Largest Nasal Flesh Tunnel
Colton Pifer currently holds the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest nasal septum flesh tunnel – a giant hole with a diameter of 2.6 centimeters. Colton was 18 years old when he first decided to get his nasal septum pierced. It was a routine procedure that involved the use of a 16-gauge needle and […]
Man Tears Windpipe While Trying to Supress a Sneeze
In what has been described as a first-of-its-kind medical case, a man in his 30s ended up with a hole in his throat after pinching his nose and pressing his lips shut in order to surpress a sneeze. The unnamed man was taken to Ninewells Hospital, in Dundee, Scotland, in severe pain, after trying to […]
Woman Suffering from Chronic Dehydration Has Over 300 Kidney Stones Removed
A 20-year-old woman from Taiwan recently underwent surgery to have no less than 300 small stones removed from her right kidney. The young woman, identified as Xiao Yu by Taiwanese media, was admitted to a hospital in the city of Tainan earlier this month, after complaining of severe pain in her lower back. She also […]
Hermès Billionaire Trying to Adopt His 51-Year-Old Gardener as His Only Heir
Nicolas Puech, an heir to the legendary Hermès fashion house, recently stunned the world by announcing his intention to legally adopt his former gardener and leave him his $11 billion fortune. 81-year-old Puech, who is unmarried and without children, ranks among Switzerland’s wealthiest individuals with a net worth estimated between $10.3 billion and 11.4 billion. […]
Man Asks Uber Driver To Find Him a Hitman Willing to Take Out Ex-Wife
A Kenyan man has been arrested in Connecticut for trying to have his estranged wife killed by asking a random Uber driver to help him find a hitman willing to do the dirty deed. Leonard Thuo Mwithiga, 52, a former high-flying executive at Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) is facing a lengthy prison sentence for attempting […]
Scientist Spends 10 Months in Prison After AI System Wrongly Identifies Him as Murderer
Russian hydrologist Alexander Tsvetkov was detained in February 2023, after an AI system determined that his face was a 55% match to the sketch of a murderer drawn 20 years ago by a witness. Alexander Tsvetkov, a scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Inland Water Biology, has been living a nightmare for […]
World’s First Microwave Bag Lets You Heat Meals on the Go
The Willtex ‘Willcook’ microwave bag looks like a stylish laptop bag but is actually made out of conductive fabric that allows the user to heat the inside all the way up to 250 degrees Celsius. Say what you will, but there’s nothing more comforting than a nice hot meal on a cold winter day, especially […]
Man Sets World with 40.5-Meter ‘Death Dive’ into Ice-Cold Water
Norwegian death diver Ken Stornes just became the first person to perform a ‘death dive’ from over 40 meters, jumping from a rock wall into the icy water below. Invented by guitar player Erling Bruno Hovden at Frognerbadet during the summer of 1972, death diving or ‘Dødsing‘ is a form of extreme freestyle high diving […]
China Builds World’s Deepest Underground Laboratory to Study Dark Matter
Located 2,400 meters under the Earth’s surface, the Deep Underground and Ultra-low Radiation Background Facility for Frontier Physics Experiments (DURF) is the world’s deepest underground laboratory. In December 2020, Tsinghua University and Yalong River Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. began work on a daring project under Jinping Mountain in Sichuan’s Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. Designed to […]
McDonald’s Restaurant in the “Middle of Nowhere” Sparks Conspiracy Theories
A McDonald’s restaurant that only opened a week ago has already gone viral on social media because of its unusual location – in rural Quebec, Canada, surrounded by farmland. McDonald’s is one of the world’s most recognizable brands, and one of the ways it built this reputation was by opening restaurants in busy areas that […]
Unusual Number of Bald, Beardless Men Going into Barbershop Leads to Drug Bust
Italian police recently arrested a Genoa barber for drug dealing after noticing that many of the clients going into his shop were bald and beardless. The Carabinieri (Italian police) had received reports of drug dealing activity in Genoa’s Foce area, but they didn’t really have any strong leads. An investigative unit was charged with gathering […]
Months of Punctured Tire Incidents Revealed to Be Work of Dog Suffering from Gingivitis
The people of Vastogirardi, a town of 600 souls in the south of Italy, have finally solved the mystery of a series of flat tires over the last few months – a local dog with a bad case of gingivitis. It all started in July of this year when the quiet town of Vastogirardi was […]