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 […]
6-Year-Old Girl Becomes First Female to Solve Rubik’s Cube in Under 6 Seconds
6-year-old Cao Qixian set the new women’s world record for solving a 3x3x3 Rubik’s cube in 5.97 seconds (average) at the World Cube Association Rubik’s Cube International Open in Singapore. Qixian, who hails from China’s Jiangsu Province, started playing with a Rubik’s cube when she was only three, inspired by a cousin who taught her […]
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 […]
Smart Toilet Bursts into Flames as Someone Is Using It
A Chinese man barely managed to get off his smart toilet with his bum intact after smoke started coming out of the toilet bowl and the whole thing burst into flames. The Yangtze Evening News newspaper recently reported the story of a man from Xiamen, Fujian Province, who recorded his smart toilet burning after a […]
Japanese Metal Manufacturing Factory Goes Viral with Banana Hammers
A Japanese precision part manufacturing factory recently went viral for its bizarre new product – a line of hammers shaped like realistic bananas. Hiroshima-based Iron Factory Ikeda is not your typical precision metal manufacturing plant. They specialize in precision metal processing for creating original products with the potential to go viral online. Over the years, […]
Man Suffering from Headaches for 5 Months Discovers Chopsticks Stuck in His Skull
A Vietnamese man who had been suffering from severe headaches and even loss of vision over the last five months recently learned that he had a pair of chopsticks stuck in his skull. The unnamed man was recently admitted to the Cuba Friendship Hospital in the city of Dong Hoi, Vietnam’s Quang Binh province, after […]
30-Year-Old Woman Impersonates 13-Year-Old Daughter in Class to Prove a Point
A young mother who went viral for recording herself impersonating her 13-year-old daughter at her school in order to prove a point was recently found guilty of criminal trespassing. On November 15, a jury sentenced Casey Garcia to six months of probation and ordered her to pay a fine of $700 in connection to a […]
Doctors Find Living Fly in Man’s Intestines During Colonoscopy
Doctors in Missouri got the shock of their lives during a routine colonoscopy when they came across a fully developed fly living in the patient’s traverse colon. The American Journal of Gastroenterology recently published the bizarre case of a 63-year-old man who had a fly living inside his intestines. The man had shown up for […]
Mysterious Hum Keeps Irish Town Residents Awake at Night
The people of Omagh, a small town in Northern Ireland, have been complaining about a mysterious humming sound that can be heard at night and disrupts their sleep. In recent weeks, the Omagh District Council has actively been trying to identify the source of a nighttime noise that several residents from all over the small […]
Japanese Man Grows Banana Trees in the Middle of City Road for Two Years
A Japanese man planted three banana trees in the median strip of a major road in Kurume City and watered them daily for two years before anyone noticed their existence. A 50-something man from Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, was recently ordered to remove three banana trees he had illegally planted and cared for in the […]
Mother Stages 2-Year-Old Son’s Kidnapping to Get Ransom From His Father
A Colombian mother is being accused of staging her own toddler son’s kidnapping along with several accomplices in order to get ransom money from the boy’s father. On Sunday evening, November 12th, the news of a young boy kidnapped in Caribe Verde, south of Barranquilla, Colombia, started spreading like wildfire. The 2-year-old had apparently been […]
Man Tries to Take His Own Life After Becoming Convinced He Had Cancer by Doing Online Research
A Romanian man was recently saved by doctors after cutting his wrist with an angle grinder because he was convinced he had colon cancer by simply reading about his symptoms online. The bizarre incident took place on Saturday, in the Romanian city of Botosani. The unnamed man had been depressed about colon pain he had […]
Running-Obsessed Dad Locks Child in Car for Five Hours to Participate in Marathon
A recently divorced woman denounced her husband’s obsession with running, claiming that he once left their 5-year-old daughter locked in a car for hours so he could run a marathon. In an angry post on Chinese social media, Zhao, a woman living in southern China’s Hunan province, said that her former husband’s obsession with running […]