Dentist Boosted Profits by Damaging Patients’ Teeth So He Could Fix Them
A Wisconsin dentist was recently found guilty of intentionally damaging his patients’ teeth so he could charge them more after fixing them. 61-year-old Scott Chamolli faces up to 10 years for each of his five healthcare fraud charges, and a maximum of five years for two other charges. The experienced dentist allegedly made millions by […]
India’s ‘Living Dead’ and the Man Who Spent 18 Years Proving That He Was Alive
Lal Bihari is probably India’s most famous living dead, one of many people killed off in official records so that relatives can claim their possessions for themselves. Killing off somebody on paper is apparently not that hard to do in India. All you need is some bribe money and local officials willing to do some […]
The World’s Toughest Bacterium Can Withstand Anything From Radiation to Life in Outer Space
Deinococcus radiodurans is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the world’s toughest bacterium,” and it is fully deserving of that title. Scientists discovered the red, spherical bacterium that later came to be known as deinococcus radiodurans about 70 years ago, when examining a can of ground meat that had spoiled despite having […]
Self-Proclaimed ‘World’ Happiest Man’ Has Been Living on Cruise Ships for Over 20 Years
Most people go on cruise ships for vacations, but for Mario Salcedo, cruise ships have been his home for the last 23 years, and this continuous life on the water has made him “the world’s happiest man”. Calling Mario Salcedo a “super cruiser” would probably be an understatement. The retired financier has been on hundreds […]
Residents of Afghanistan’s ‘One Kidney Village’ Sell Their Organs to Survive
Shenshayba Bazaar, an Afghan village near the city of Herat, has become known as Afghanistan’s ‘one kidney village’, because of the large number of residents who have sold one of their kidneys in order to make ends meet. Afghanistan wasn’t doing too well economically before the Taliban came to power last year, but the brutal […]
China’s Mountainous “Tesla Village” Is Home to Over 40 Tesla Electric Cars
Panzhiga, a remote mountainous village in China’s Yunan Province has been dubbed “Tesla Village” for the unusually high number of Tesla electric cars owned by the locals. The popularity of electric cars around the world is growing at an unprecedented pace, but there are still many skeptics who believe the rapid adoption of electric vehicles […]
Bachelor Tries to Find a Wife With Witty Subway Advertising Banners
A London bachelor is taking extreme measures to increase his chances of finding a wife – renting subway advertising banners in the English capital to get as much exposure as possible. If you’ve passed through the Oxford Circus subway station in London during the last few days, you’ve probably seen a couple of unusual advertising […]
Man Vividly Remembers Past Life as WWI Pilot
A UK man claims that a hypnosis session triggered vivid memories of his past life as an airplane photographer and gunner during World War One. Steve Mulligan was born in 1961, in the city of Manchester, but also has very clear memories of growing up in Llandudno, Wales, in the beginning of the 20th century. […]
Hungarian Woman Claims to Be in a Romantic Relationship With a Toy Plane
Sandra, a 28-year-old woman from Hungary, claims to have shunned romantic relationships with other humans to be with a toy plane that she has fallen madly in love with. Sandra has had a thing for airplanes for as long as she can remember, and that fascination stayed with her all through her teenage years, and […]
Woman Walks Out of Her Own Wedding After Discovering That the Groom Is Bald
An Indian wedding recently ended as a total fiasco, after the bride refused to tie the knot to a man whom she had just discovered was bald… Arranged marriages are common affairs in India, but despite families arranging and negotiating well in advance, they don’t always go without a hitch. Sometimes the bride or groom […]
Animal Lover Has Spent the Last 30 Years Running “World’s Loneliest Zoo”
Luo Yingjiu, an 81-year-old man in China’s Hubei Province, has spent the last three decades of his life taking care of sick and disabled animals at the “world’s loneliest zoo”. It was during the 1980s that Luo Yingjiu started buying animals and taking them home with him. He wasn’t doing it as a pet collector, […]
This Indoor Nuclear Shelter Fits Even in a Tiny Apartment
A Japanese company is selling metallic shelters that can be installed in apartments and small houses, for protection against natural disasters and even radiation and missile strikes. You’ve probably heard of millionaires and doomsday preppers building their own luxury underground bunkers, but one Japanese company claims you can ride out the nuclear apocalypse from the […]
Man Marries Identical Triplets Who Didn’t Want to Get Separated
A Congolese man recently shocked the world by marrying three identical triplets who decided to share the same man in order to stay together, instead of becoming separated. A 32-year-old Congolese man identified only as Luwizo recently married sisters Natasha, Natalie and Nadege, identical triplets, in a colorful wedding ceremony that made international headlines. After […]
Office Worker Does Ab Wheel Exercises Every Day for a Year to Get Anime Character Body
A young Japanese office worker has allegedly been doing ab wheel exercises every day for the last year in order to attain the muscular body of his favorite anime character, Inosuke Hashibira. On March 1st, 2021, the 33-year-old office worker, known only by his Twitter handle (@InosukeWorkout) posted photos of his body on the microblogging […]
Playboy Model Charges Up to $2,000 to Test Men’s Loyalty Online
Playboy model and Instagram star Carolina Lekker allegedly charges women up to $2,000 to approach their boyfriends on social media and test how faithful they really are. Carolina, who recently appeared on the cover of Playboy Africa, recently revealed that she supplements her income by putting her looks and flirting abilities in the service of […]