Young Woman Yawns So Strongly That She Breaks Her Neck
A 36-year-old woman in the UK almost lost her life after yawning so forcefully one morning that she broke her neck and required emergency surgery. Hayley Black had just woken up one morning to heat her daughter Amelia a bottle of formula when she saw the baby yawning and instinctively followed her example. It was […]
South Korean Man Gets Sued for Criticizing the Appearence of Digital Avatars
A South Korean man found himself at the center of a controversial legal battle after criticizing the appearance of Plave, a K-pop boy band made up of five digital avatars. Digital models and influencers are all the rage online these days, with some of them raking in millions for their creators, but Plave isn’t your […]
Man Gets Head Stuck in Traffic Light After Crashing into It
A Chinese man went viral after spending almost an hour with his head stuck in a traffic light after crashing into it with an electric scooter. A shockingly bizarre traffic accident got a lot of attention on Chinese social media last month, when a young man driving an electric scooter crashed into a temporary traffic […]
Bankruptcy Lawyer Mark Zuckerberg Sues Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
An Indiana bankruptcy lawyer named Mark Zuckerberg has filed a lawsuit against the Meta CEO whose name he shares for repeatedly banning him on his social platforms. It’s not easy being Mark Zuckerberg. No, not the Facebook founder, but an Indiana bankruptcy lawyer whose life has been negatively affected by sharing the younger tech maven’s […]
Couple File for Divorce After Being Unable to Agree on a Name for Their Child
A child in Shanghai, China, could not be issued a birth certificate and scheduled for vaccinations one year after his birth because the parents couldn’t settle on a name. The Pudong New Area People’s Court in Shanghai recently heard a divorce case involving a couple who registered their marriage in 2023 and had a healthy […]
Doctors Find Threads of Pure Gold in Woman’s Knees
While treating a 65-year-old woman for knee osteoarthritis, doctors in South Korea discovered hundreds of pure gold threads inserted in her legs. The unnamed patient had previously experienced severe pain and stiffness in her knees due to osteoarthritis and had been prescribed painkillers, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and even steroid injections directly into her knees, none […]
Friends Take Turns Shooting Each Other in the Head, What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
A Texas man has been charged with murder following a game in which he and his friend took turns shooting each other in the head with rifles while wearing Kevlar helmets. On 17 August, good friends Sean O’Donnell (37) and Aaron Prout (34) were hanging out in the former’s home when they decided to play […]
Football Star Named the Heir of Childless Billionaire He Never Even Met
Brazilian football legend Neymar Jr. stands to inherit over $1.1 million after being named the only heir of a single, childless billionaire he has never even met. You know the story – an anonymous billionaire leaves his fortune to a poor soul and changes their life forever. Most of us have dreamed of something similar […]
Teacher on Sick Leave for 16 Years Sues Employer For Asking Her to Prove Her Illness
A German teacher who has been on sick leave since 2009, while receiving a full salary, has sued her employer after being asked to undergo a medical examination to confirm her condition. An unnamed teacher from Germany’s North Rhine-Westphalia has sued her employer after it began to challenge her unusually long absence from the workplace […]
Online Flea Market Bans the Sale of Ultrasound Photos to Prevent Pregnancy Fraud
Mercari, Japan’s leading online flea market, decided to prevent the sale of ultrasound photos on its platform to prevent people from using them to commit pregnancy fraud. Selling ultrasound photos of unborn babies on a flea market app is strange, but Mercari never even considered taking action against the practice until one person noticed the […]
Angry Patron Sets Fire to Café Because They Had Run Out of Mayonnaise
An angry café patron in Los Palacios y Villafranca, Spain, was recently arrested for allegedly setting fire to the eatery because the staff told him they had run out of mayonnaise. Last Wednesday, the staff and customers of a café in the municipality of Los Palacios y Villafranca, Seville, got the fright of their lives […]
Austria’s Heaviest Inmate Costs Tax Payers 10 Times More Than Normal
A 289-kilogram man in Austria, dubbed the country’s heaviest inmate, has sparked outrage in the European country due to the unusually high cost of supporting him on taxpayer money. The 29-year-old man, who weighs nearly 300 kilos, was arrested after a search of his home in Vienna, where police discovered large quantities of drugs, including […]
Silent Man Has Been Blocking Traffic in UK Town for Over a Decade and No One Knows Why
David Hampson is one of the UK’s greatest unsolved mysteries. For over a decade, he has been silently blocking the same intersection in the city of Swansea, for reasons no one can uncover. We first wrote about David Hampson four years ago, when he made news headlines in his home country of England for his […]
75-Year-Old Pensioner Asks Wife for Divorce After Falling in Love with AI-Generated Girl Online
A Chinese old man recently fell victim to the deception of artificial intelligence by falling so in love with an AI-generated online model that he asked his wife for a divorce. According to the Beijing Daily, a 75-year-old man named Jiang came across an AI-generated female avatar while browsing social media. To those familiar with digital […]
Estonian Theater Stages Unique Romeo and Juliet Play with Construction Vehicles as Actors
Estonian theater Kinoteater recently staged one of the most unusual versions of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” featuring heavy-duty vehicles as actors and a limestone quarry as the stage. “Romula ja Julia” was a nearly wordless performance that relied on the movements and interactions of dozens of vehicles to convey the classic love story. Romeo was […]