Someone Keeps Leaving Plates of Peeled Bananas on a Street Corner, And Nobody Knows Why
For more than a year, at the start of every month, the people of Beeston, a town in the United Kingdom, have been finding a plate of peeled bananas in exactly the same place. Between the first and second day of each month, a plate stacked with 16 to 20 peeled bananas always shows up […]
Mermaid Performer Has Her Head Swallowed by Giant Aquarium Fish During Show
A viral video shot at the Mekong Underwater World in Yunnan, China, shows a young mermaid performer getting attacked by a giant aquarium fish during a live show. A popular tourist attraction in Xishuangbanna, China’s Yunnan Province, recently attracted a lot of criticism for allegedly trying to cover up an incident involving a mermaid performer […]
Chinese Influencer Sparks Adam’s Apple Cover Craze
A female Chinese influencer has been urging men to wear Adam’s Apple covers to highlight gender inequality and promote women’s rights. Zhu Miaolin, better known as Ah Miao on Chinese social media, recently sparked a bizarre craze in her home country, urging her male friends to wear Adam’s Apple covers to protect what she describes […]
Boy Scolded for Not Doing Homework Reports His Father for Drug Use
A 10-year-old boy reprimanded by his father for not completing his homework took revenge on his parent by calling the police and telling them that his father was hiding forbidden drugs. The bizarre incident took place earlier this month in China’s Yongning County. After being severely scolded by his father for not completing his homework […]
Man Has 3-Inch Chopstick Stuck Behind Eyeball, Doesn’t Notice for Three Weeks
A Vietnamese hospital recently reported the extremely rare case of a 24-year-old man who had a wooden chopstick lodged in his eye socket for three weeks without noticing. The unnamed man was admitted to the Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Vietnam’s Can Tho Province when he came in with symptoms of pain […]
Tattoo Artist Sparks Conroversy by Tattooing 9-Year-Old Girl
An Arizona tattoo artist has come under fire for tattooing an American flag on a 9-year-old girl’s arm after she asked to get Trump’s portrait on her neck. A video posted on social media by a tattoo artist at the Black Onyx Empire Tattoo parlor in Yuma, Arizona, has been getting a lot of attention […]
Viral Conspiracy Theory Claims Fog Is a Chemical Weapon
Fogvid-24 is a new conspiracy theory doing the rounds online, and it’s a doozie! People are claiming that the thick fog engulfing parts of the US these days is a man-made chemical weapon. In the first days of 2025, large parts of the United States were blanketed by a “mysterious” that made some people experience […]
Russian Police Detaines Party-Goers for Looking Too Gay
Russian police have been enforcing the country’s controversial anti-LGBT legislation by arresting people for dressing in ways that made them “look too gay”. “Trying to arouse interest in non-traditional sexual relations” has been considered a crime in Russia for over a decade, but the law was usually enforced against individuals and organizations that published and […]
High School Students End Up in Hospital After Doing 400 Pushups in 50 Minutes
A team of Texas high school students is being sued for allegedly forcing players to do up to 368 pushups in under an hour during a grueling training session that put their lives at risk. Former Rockwall-Heath High School coach John Harrell and a dozen assistant coaches stand accused of having junior varsity football players […]
Shy Man Cuts Off 4 Fingers Instead of Telling Boss He Wanted to Quit His Job
A 32-year-old Indian man admitted to cutting off four fingers on his left hand to avoid having to continue working as a computer operator at a relative’s company. Learning to say ‘no’ sounds easy, but for some people, it can be harder than crippling themselves for life. Case in point, a Gujarat man who staged […]
Man Accidentally Drops iPhone into Donation Box, Temple Refuses to Return It
An Indian devotee who accidentally dropped his iPhone into the collection box at a Hindu temple while making a donation was told that the phone was now the deity’s property and could not be returned. Last month, a Chennai man who was visiting Arulmigu Kandaswamy Temple in Thiruporur with his family to offer prayers, felt […]
Woman Takes Husband to High Court for Caring More for Pet Cat Than for Her
In a case that recently scandalized the Karnataka High Court, a woman filed a cruelty case against her husband, claiming that he cared more about their pet cat than about her. An Indian woman was scolded by judges in Bengaluru for filing a frivolous cruelty complaint against her husband in which she mostly complained that […]
World’s Saltiest Body of Water Is So Salty It Doesn’t Freeze at -50 Degrees Fahrenheit
Located in Antarctica’s McMurdo’s Dry Valleys, the shallow Don Juan Pond is the world’s saltiest body of water. With a salt content that puts the Dead Sea to shame, it remains liquid even at -58 degrees Celsius (-50 Fahrenheit). At four inches deep, Don Juan Pond looks more like a large puddle than an actual […]
Man Spends 3 Days Stuck in Well Because People Mistook His Cries for Ghost Wailing
A 22-year-old man spent three days trapped at the bottom of a 12-meter-deep well because villagers who heard his cries for help thought he was a wailing ghost and wouldn’t approach the well. It’s unclear what Liu Chuanyi, a young Chinese national, was doing in the forest on the border between Thailand and Myanmar, but […]
Man Spends 21 Days in Jail After Police Mistake Talcum Powder for Drugs
An Argentinian man was wrongfully imprisoned after police mistook 18 containers of talcum powder for cocaine and it took three weeks to analyze the true nature of the substance. In early October, Maximiliano Acosta got on a bus in the town of Mendoza towards the capital, Buenos Aires. Shortly after, the bus was stopped in […]