Man Suffers Collapsed Lung After Long Karaoke Session
A 65-year-old man from eastern China needed to be hospitalized after an unusually long karaoke session allegedly left him with a serious medical condition known as a collapsed lung. Identified solely by his surname, Wang, the elderly karaoke enthusiast realized something was wrong when he experienced shortness of breath and sharp pain on the left […]
The Indonesian Island That Somehow Makes Mammals Smaller
Ever since the remains of “Homo Florensis”, an extinct species of unusually short humans, were discovered on Flores Island, in eastern Indonesia, scientists have been fascinated with this patch of land, which apparently has the power to somehow make mammals shorter and smaller. It all began in 2004, when the remains of a human who […]
Doctors Pull Over 500 Teeth from 7-Year-Old Boy’s Mouth
Dentists at a hospital in Chennai, India, were shocked to find over 520 teeth growing in the mouth of a seven-year-old boy who occasionally complained of toothaches. 7-year-old P. Ravindran was taken to Saveetha Dental College and Hospital in Chennai to have a swelling on his lower right jaw looked at. Dentists ordered an X-Ray […]
Pakistani Reporter Receives International Praise for Brave, In-Depth Reporting
Azadar Hussain, a news reporter for Pakistani channel GTV News, shot to worldwide fame last week after footage of his daring reporting of local floods went viral online. In a commendable attempt to show viewers what the people of Pakistan’s Kot Chatta region had to put up with following devastating floods, Azadar Hussain decided to […]
Boy Inserts Sewing Needle in His Urethra to Keep Himself Awake
When it comes to keeping your self awake while doing homework, I could think of much better techniques than inserting a 10cm metal needle through my urethra, but it seems that’s the best a 12-year-old boy in China could come up with. The unnamed by from Shanxi, China’s Xi’an province, was apparently so desperate to […]
Indonesian Man Walks Backwards 800 Km to Meet the President
An Indonesian man has been making news headlines around the world for embarking on a unique challenge to save the environment. 43-year-old Medi Bastoni is walking backward some 800 kilometers, from his village in East Java all the way to the capital Jakarta, to meet the president. Bastoni set off from his home village of […]
Thai Restaurant Has Been Serving the Same Batch of Soup for 45 Years
Wattana Panich is a one of the most popular restaurants in Bangkok’s Ekkamai neighborhood, with hundreds of hungry patrons coming in to feast on its selection of delicious soups and stews every day. But the secret of the flavorsome dishes served at this Thai eatery may put a lot of Westerners off. One of the […]
Indian Man Hasn’t Cut or Washed His Hair in 40 Years
A 63-year-old man in India who hasn’t cut or washed his hair in over 40 years has to keep his tangled 6-foot-long locks wrapped in a head cloth just to walk around without stepping on them. Sakal Dev Tuddu, a resident of Mandada village, in Eastern India’s Bihar state, claims he has been growing his […]
The Predator of Mukdahan – Thailand’s Real-Life, Chopper-Riding Predator
A longtime Predator fan in Thailand has been getting a lot of attention for dressing up as a real-life human-hunting alien and riding his custom-made, Predator-themed choppers on the roads of his home province. A video of a someone wearing a realistic Predator costume and riding an alien-looking chopper on a road in Thailand’s Mukdahan […]
Restaurant in Japan Bans Japanese Customers, Only Serves Foreigners
A restaurant owner on Ishigakijima Island, Japan, has had enough of his countrymen’s bad banners, so he banned all Japanese customers, serving only overseas tourists instead. Yaeyama Style, a small ramen restaurant in Japan’s Okinawa Prefecture should be packed this time of year, but owner Akio Arima says he only serves a couple of bowls […]
Increasing Number of Japanese People Are Renting Cars for Everything But Driving
Car-rental operators in Japan recently observed a very strange trend – a considerable number of their clients were renting cars but logging an unusually low mileage or not driving the cars at all. Renting a car is a very efficient and convenient way of getting from point A to point B, and operators prefer the […]
Chinese Man Makes a Living Posing as Real-Life “Laughing Buddha”
Unless you’ve been living under a rock your whole life, you’ve probably seen one of those souvenir statues of Maitreya, aka the Laughing Buddha. They’ve pretty popular even in non-Buddhist countries, and many people use them as good luck charms. But you know what’s better than a Laughing Buddha statue? A living, breathing Smiling Buddha. […]
Woman Praised as a Saint for Adopting 45 Children in the last 47 Years
Kong Zhenlan, a 71-year-old woman from China’s Shanxi Province, has dedicated the last four decades of her life to adopting and raising orphaned children, making sure that they had food on the table and got access to education. Even though she could barely afford to support herself on a modest income, Kong Zhenlan couldn’t bear […]
Thai Doctor Finds Tiny Lizard Living in Patient’s Ear
25-year-old Varanya Nganthavee will likely remember her first day as a doctor at at Rajavithi Hospital in Bangkok for a very long time. After all, it’s not every day that you find a live gecko in a patient’s ear. The young doctor recently posted her unusual experience on Facebook. She had nearly finished her first […]
Parents Name Son “Google” Hoping It Will Give Him a Leg Up in Life
A baby in Indonesia has been awarded the title of “world’s strangest name” after it was revealed that his parents legally registered him as “Google”; no surname or middle name, just Google, just like the search engine. The eight-month-old boy’s father, 31-year-old Andi Cahya Saputra, told Indonesian media that he first contemplated the idea of […]