A major food safety scandal involving fake rice recently rocked China; News reports suggested that the grain is produced by mixing the po...
The Glowing Firefly Squids of Toyama Bay
Every year, between March and June, the 14-km coast of Japan Toyama Bay is lit up in blue. The electrifying light show is not man-made; It...
The Mexican Town Where Women Engage in Bloody Fist Fights to Call the Rain
Every year, in the month of May, the women from the Nahua village of Guerrero, Mexico, get together to beat the living daylights out of ea...
Kindhearted Woman Saves 100 Dogs From Being Eaten During Controversial Festival
A 65-year-old dog lover from China has gone to great lengths to save as many dogs as he possibly could from being eaten during Yulin Dog M...
The Man Who Made Millions by Selling Rocks as Pets
Gary Ross Dahl, who died earlier this year at age 78, will always be remembered for inventing the "Pet Rock", a 1970s toy craze ...
Bon Appetite! 40-Year-Old “Zombie Meat” Sold in Restaurants Across China
after rice plastic, concrete-filled walnuts, flavored pork and beef, the latest food scandal in China involves expired meat be at least 30...
African Pastor Turns Woman’s Hair into Delicious Food for His Congregation
A shepherd of the sheep from South Africa, who made headlines for former prayer for His Society Until they got, now in the news again for ...
World's Biggest Liar
The World's Biggest Liar competition is held every November at the Bridge Inn, Santon Bridge , in memory of Will Ritson (1808–1890...
Bishop Rock: The Smallest Island in the World
Bishop Rock is a small rocky ledge jutting out of the sea, 4 miles west of the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall. The rock rises from a depth...
French Cafe Charges Rude Customers More Than Double
Here's a cafe that's being proactive about customer behavior towards waitstaff: A Nice-Matinreporter tweeted a photo of the menu a...
An Island within a Lake on an Island within a Lake on an Island
Vulcan Point in the Philippines is the world's largest island within a lake (Main Crater Lake) that is situated on an island (Volca...
The world’s oldest cosmetic face cream
The world’s oldest cosmetic face cream has been found by archaeologists by excavating a Roman Temple on the banks of river Thames and wh...
Dancing Plague of 1518
The Dancing Plague (or Dance Epidemic) of 1518 was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roma...
Russell Brand says no to Katy Perry's $44 million fortune in 'amicable' divorce
WHEN you're legally entitled to half your ex-wife's $US44 million fortune, ($40.87 million) it's rare that a divorce would eve...
Tree of 40 Fruit
Sam Aken is an art professor at the University Of Syracuse, US. After growing up on a farm, he became an artist and it’s with these two t...
Chasing Bugs
Remember the first time you ever saw an ant hill? That parade of black insects pouring in and out of a small sand mound...most of us stopp...
Brazilian man has 10 operations on his eyes so he can look Asian
A man obsessed with Korean culture has gone to extraordinary lengths to look Asian after having 10 plastic surgery operations to change hi...
1.8-Million-Year-Old Skull Debunks Idea that Multiple Ancient Human Species Co-Existed on Earth
In a completely lucky and unexpected discovery, scientists have found a complete skull from a human ancestor believed to be 1.8 million ye...
Man Drives 20 Hours, Saves 11 Sochi Strays
One man, infuriated by Sochi’s program to exterminate thousands of stray dogs in preparation for the Olympic Games, took the rescue effort...
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