Man Changes Gender So He Can Legally Retire and Receive Pension a Year Earlier
Thanks to a new law, a Swiss man was able to change to officially change his gender so he could retire and receive his pension a year earlier. On January 1st, 2022, a new law came into effect in Switzerland, one that allows any Swiss resident with the “intimate conviction” that they do not belong […]
Chinese Company Names AI-Powered Debt Collector Employee of the Year
Chinese real-estate giant Vanke Group recently sparked controversy after naming its advanced AI-powered debt collector its employee of the year for 2021. Looking at a picture of Cui Xiaopan, Vanke Group’s employee of 2021, you’d think she was a woman in her 20s with a very determined look on her face, but in reality, she […]
Man Suffering From Severe Headaches Lived With Bullet in His Skull for 20 Years
A young Chinese man who had been experiencing severe headaches lately was shocked to learn that he had been living with a bullet in the left side of his skull for about two decades. Xiao Chen (pseudonym), a 28-year-old man from Shenzen, had been suffering from random headaches for as long as he could remember, […]
Heavy Soot Pollution Causes Snow in Russian Region to Turn Black
Residents of several villages in Russia’s Magadan region have recently reported black snow caused by the soot produced by an outdated, coal-powered water-heating plant. In Omsukchan and neighboring Seimchan, two villages in the Siberian far east, snow doesn’t always look the way you’d expect. In fact, sometimes it’s quite the opposite. Instead of an immaculate […]
Swedish Startup Trains Crow to Pick Up Litter in Exchange for Food
Corvid Cleaning, a Swedish startup specializing in training crows to pick up litter in exchange for food, claims that its program could save communities a fortune in cleaning costs. According to the Keep Sweden Tidy Foundation, over a billion cigarette butts are left on Sweden’s streets every year which represents about 62 percent of all […]
Swiss Woman Rents Out Tent on Balcony for $540 a Month
People on the lookout for affordable housing in the Swiss city of Zurich can now opt for a two-person tent on an open balcony offering “a view of the starry evening sky” for just 500 Swiss francs ($540) a month. Finding a cheap place to rent in Zurich is almost impossible these days, because of […]
Young Woman Finds Success Working as an “Auntie” Fashion Model
Liang Xiaoqing is China’s most popular “auntie” fashion model, a niche segment aimed at marketing fashion products to middle-aged and elderly women. Although Liang Xiaoning is only 29-years-old, you’d probably think she was well in her 40s, maybe even her 50s, if you looked at any of her professional modeling photos. She has been working […]
High School Students Create High-Tech Device to Accurately Cut Cake Into Equal Pieces
A team of Japanese high-school students recently won a regional innovation competition with a high-tech device that divides cake and pizza into equal portions every single time. It’s a problem as old as the world – cutting a round treat into more than two equal parts. You either end up with portions that are not […]
Scientists Create Strong Bubble That Only Popped After 465 Days
Bubbles are fragile structures that only last a few seconds before popping, but a team of scientists has apparently found a way to keep bubbles from bursting for over a year. Soap bubbles are subject to a series of processes that cause them to pop in a matter of seconds, minutes at best. They lose […]
Man Fathers Four Children in Fifteen Years from Inside an Israeli Prison
A Palestinian man who spent 15 years in an Israeli prison recently explained how he was able to father four kids during that time, despite not being able to be intimate with his wife. Rafat Al-Qarawi was arrested in 2006 for terror activity during the Second Intifada against Israel and sentenced to fifteen years in […]
Man Makes Up to $215 a Day Waiting in Line on Behalf of Other People
A 31-year-old man from the UK works as an “expert waiter” in his spare time, spending hours in long queues on behalf of rich people too busy to do it themselves. For the last three years, Freddie Beckitt, a historical fiction writer from Fulham, in the United Kingdom, has been supplementing his monthly revenue by […]
Doctors Baffled by Health of 87-Year-old Homeless Man Who Hasn’t Bathed in 67 Years
An 87-year-old Iranian man who has been living on the streets and hasn’t taken a bath in almost seven decades recently baffled scientists with his good health. We first wrote about Amou Haji in 2014, dubbing him ‘the world’s dirtiest man‘. At the time, he was living in a small village in Southern Iran’s Fars […]
Lingerie Company Launches Line of Lace Underwear for Men
Japanese lingerie manufacturer Wacoal recently launched a line of lace boxer briefs for men that are said to be both beautiful and functional. Lace lingerie doesn’t sound like the most masculine thing ever, but reputed underwear company Wacoal didn’t just jump into this project blindly. In November of last year, they tested the waters of […]
85-Year-Old Man Gets 11 Covid-19 Vaccine Jabs, Claims He’s Never Felt Better
An 85-year-old man from India’s Bihar state is being investigated after claiming to have received 11 Covid-19 vaccine doses in less than a year. Brahmdeo Mandal, a retired postman from Bihar’s Madhepura district was stopped from getting what he claimed would have been his 12th Covid-19 shot at the beginning of January. Although it’s unclear […]
Man Sets Bank Branch on Fire After Being Denied Loan
Indian police recently arrested a disgruntled charity worker accused of setting fire to a bank branch in Karnataka after being denied a loan. 33-year-old Wasim Hazaratsab Mulla, a charity worker from Haveri, approached state-run Canara Bank for a loan of 1.6 million rupees ($21,600) in December of last year. His application was eventually denied, because […]