The Potentially Deadly Mushroom That the Finns Can’t Get Enough Of
Gyromitra esculenta, or the False Morel, is a Spring mushroom that contains the toxin and carcinogen gyromitrin, which makes it illegal to sell and cook in countries around the world. In Finland, however, it is considered a delicacy. False Morel mushrooms have historically been consumed in northern Europe for centuries, but as chemistry and medicine […]
Engineers Claim to Have Created the World’s First Man-Made Non-Cuttable Material
An international team of researchers claim to have created the first synthetic cut-proof material that actively destroys the tool trying to cut through it. Even the toughest lock can do little more than delay a person properly equipped to cut through them, but engineers at Durham University in England and the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany […]
Deepfake Journalist Is a Terrifying Sign of Things to Come
It’s almost impossible to tell, but the man featured in the photos below doesn’t exist. He is a deepfake, a persona created by a computer algorythim. However, the articles this “journalist” published in several popular newspapers are very real, and a sign of things we can expect from a fast-evolving AI. Oliver Taylor first got […]
People Are Now Praying to ‘Goddess Corona’ in Attempt to Stop Pandemic
India is one of the most affected countries by the Covid-19 pandemic, and people are turning to spiritual and divine powers in an attempt to protect themselves from the new coronavirus. Last month, Indian media reported on a group of women from a village in West Bengal who had decided to fight the coronavirus in […]
83-Year-Old Vietnamese Woman Hasn’t Cut Her Snake-Shaped Hair in 64 Years
Nguyen Thi Dinh, an 83-year-old woman from Vietnam’s Ben Tre Province, allegedly stopped cutting her hair when she was 19, which explains why it measures 6 meters in length and is shaped like a python. Just a week after Indian man Doddapalliah made international news headlines with his 7.3-meter-long-hair, which he claimed he had never […]
Italian Police Find Drugs Hidden Inside Coffee Beans
Drug dealers are always looking for ingenious ways to get their products past checkpoints, and sometimes they exhibit some truly outside-the-box thinking. The attention of Italian customs officers at Malpensa Airport was recently drawn by a small package from Colombia to a man named Santino D’Antonio. If you’re not an action flick buff, that name […]
Parasitic Wasp Turns Its Helpless Host Into a Bodyguard for Its Eggs
Thyrinteina leucocerae, the caterpillar of the geometer moth, is targeted as a host for a species of parasitoid wasp that can lay up to 80 eggs inside its body. The caterpillar’s reward is a job as bodyguard for the very parasites growing inside it and a slow, agonizing death. The Glyptapanteles wasp is one of […]
Window Swap – A Site That Lets You Experience the Views From Total Strangers’ Windows
In a time when traveling the world isn’t as simple as it used to be, a site that lets you experience the view from a window halfway around the world sounds pretty interesting. That’s where Window Swap comes in. Developed by Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam, a husband and wife team from Singapore, as a […]
Michigan Jeweler Closes Shop And Buries Stock as Treasure for Anyone to Discover
After seeing his business affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, a Michigan jeweler decided to close shop and make money by using about $1 million in precious metals as treasure for would-be treasure hunters willing to pay for clues. Johnny Perri has been a jeweler his whole life, after learning the business from his father, but […]
Kids Playing at Museum Break World’s Largest Glass-Blown Sculpture
Spanish glassblower Miguel Arribas spent around 500 hours making the world’s largest glass-blown sculpture, a whimsical castle fashioned after Cinderella’s castle, but it took a couple of children just a fraction of a second to ruin it. Last weekend, the Shanghai Museum of Glass announced that Arribas’ Fantasy Castle exhibit had been broken into pieces […]
75-Year-Old Woman Marries Son-in-Law After Her Daughter Kicks Him Out
A bizarre love triangle between a 75-year-old woman, her 52-year-old ex-son-in-law and her 56-year-old daughter has sparked controversy in Russia after their story went viral this month. Galina Zhukovskaya, 75, from St. Petersburg, Russia, married Vyacheslav Zhukovsky, a man 23 years her junior back in 2010, but it wasn’t the age difference between them that […]
Image of “Jesus Christ” Discovered in Cut Tree Branch Sparks Online Controversy
Photos of what many religious people are describing as a detailed representation of Jesus Christ discovered inside the branch of a recently-pruned willow tree have gone viral in Brazil. Last Thursday, while pruning a willow tree in Itaquiraí, Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul, municipal maintenance workers noticed a strange pattern on the inside of a […]
15-Year-Old Allegedly Suffers Stroke After Playing Video Games Almost Non-Stop for a Month
A 15-year-old Chinese boy was rushed to a hospital back in March after passing out in his home in the city of Nannning. He reportedly suffered a stroke that left his left arm paralyzed, after spending the past month gaming and sleeping just two hours a night. Like many other Year 9 students, the boy, […]
Photographer Living in Camera-Shaped House Names Sons Canon, Nikon and Epson
An Indian man is so obsessed with photography that he named his three sons after iconic camera brands – Canon, Nikon and Epson – and spent a small fortune on a three-story villa shaped like a giant camera. You hear the phrase “passionate about photography” a lot among photography enthusiasts, but Ravi Hongal, a 49-year-old […]
95-Year-Old Indian Man Has Allegedly Never Cut His Hair
A 95-year-old man from India’s Karnataka state claims that he has never once cut his hair, which now measures an impressive 24-feet-long and has to be bundled into a huge, entangled mass on top of his head. During this year’s lockdown, a lot of people were freaking out for not being able to visit the […]