Catholic Man Has Been Nailed to a Cross Every Good Friday for 33 Years
A Filipino Catholic man playing the role of Jesus Christ in a yearly Good Friday reenactment of his crucifixion has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 33rd consecutive time last week. 58-year-old Ruben Enaje, from the barangay of San Pedro Cutud, in San Fernando City, has been volunteering to get nailed to a cross on Good […]
10,000 Rabbits Literally Scared to Death by Firecracker Celebration
A Chinese man was recently ordered to pay tens of thousands of dollars in compensation after his firecracker celebration killed over 10,000 of his neighbors’ rabbits to death. This unusual tragedy occurred at the beginning of 2018, when a man named Cai Nan decided to celebrate the renovation of his home in Xuzhou, China’s Jiangsu Province, […]
Cardboard Modelling Experts Build Life-Size Replica of Israeli Battle Tank
A team of Chinese cardboard modelling experts stole the show at this year’s Hobby Expo China (HEC) International Model Expo, in Beijing, with a 1:1 cardboard replica of the Merkava MK4 Israeli battle tank. Photos of this awe-inspiring masterpiece of cardboard modelling have been doing the rounds on Chinese social media for the last five days, […]
Man Cuts Off His Own Finger After Accidentally Voting for Wrong Candidate in National Election
Pawan Kumar, a 25-year-old Indian man from Uttar Pradesh, chopped off his index finger with a meat cleaver in desperation, after accidentally voting fro the wrong candidate in India’s national election. Kumar became an overnight sensation, first in India, and then globally, thanks to a viral video of him with a bandaged index finger after […]
Golden Blood – The World’s Rarest and Most Precious Blood Type
Golden Blood, or Rh-null blood is an extremely rare blood type that has only been identified in 43 people around the world in the last 50 years. It is sought after both for scientific research and blood transfusions, but also incredibly dangerous to live with for the people who have it, because of its scarcity. […]
The 10-Year Court Battle of a Woman Fined for Not Holding Escalator Handrail
When riding an escalator, it’s recommended that you keep a tight grip on the handrail, just to be safe. But what if you choose to disregard that advice? Well, one Canadian woman has been fighting a 10-year-long court battle for her right to ride escalators hands-free. In 2009, Bela Kosoian was riding an escalator at a […]
Chinese People Keep Trying to Throw Metal Coins Into Airplane Engines For Good Luck
For the seventh time in the last couple of years, a Chinese person has been arrested for trying to drop a handful of metal coins into an airplane engine, for good luck. On Monday morning a 66-year-old woman surnamed Wang was detained for attempting to throw six metal coins into the engine of a Tianjin […]
Shinjuku Tiger – Tokyo Living Legend Has Been Wearing a Tiger Mask for 45 Years
Yoshiro Harada, a newspaper delivery man from Tokyo, Japan, was only 24 years old when he decided to live the rest of his life as a tiger and became Shinjuku Tiger. Today, at age 69, he is considered a living legend of the business district. Born in Nagano Prefecture, Harada moved to Tokyo in 1967 to […]
Woman Left Partially Paralyzed After Involuntary Neck Cracking Causes Stroke
Natalie Kuniciki, a 23-year-old paramedic from London, UK, was left partially paralyzed after her vertebral artery burst when she involuntarily cracked her neck, causing a blood clot to trigger a stroke in her brain. We all crack our joints every once in a while, whether accidentally or on purpose, but apart from that satisfying “pop” sound, […]
Homeless by Choice: Hong Kong Man Gives Up Middle-Class Life to Live on the Street
52-year-old Simon Lee has been sleeping rough on the streets of Hong Kong for the last seven years, but unlike most homeless people, he didn’t just wind up there after some tragic, life-altering event. He actually chose to be homeless, giving up on his material possessions and a comfortable office job for a carefree, stress-free […]
Woman Swallows 5-Inch Spoon While Using It to Dislodge Fish Bone Stuck in Her Throat
Doctors in Shenzen, China recently performed an emergency endoscopy to remove a 13-centimeter metal spoon from a woman’s duodenum, after she accidentally swallowed it while trying to dislodge a fish bone from her throat. The reckless patient, known only as Lily, reportedly swallowed the stainless steel spoon before the Qingming Festival on April 5, but […]
Miss Sunshine, the Woman Who Surrounds Herself with the Color Yellow
What started as a creative way to honor her late father turned into an obsession for Ella London, a 35-year-old woman from Los Angeles who has been wearing and surrounding herself with everything yellow for the last seven years. Ella has always loved the color yellow, but it only became an important part of her […]
Man Who Spent 50 Hours at Internet Cafe Was Actually Left Paralyzed by Stroke
A 42-year-old man in Shenzen, China, was recently hospitalized with a stroke after the staff at a local internet cafe noticed that he hadn’t got up from his seat in 50 hours. According to CCTV footage, the unnamed man arrived at the internet cafe on the morning of March 31st and never once got up […]
Chinese Street Cleaner Donates Most of His Money to Impoverished Children
A 58-year-old street cleaner in China has been hailed as a hero after it was reported that he has donated over 180,000 yuan ($27,000) to dozens of poor children in the last 30 years, despite earning a monthly salary of just 2,000 yuan ($300). Mr. Zhao, a street cleaner from Shenyang, in China’s northeast Liaoning Province, […]
Man Destroys His Own Brand New Condo for Not Being Luxurious Enough
A Malaysian man recently went viral after filming himself thrashing a brand new condominium in the heart of Kuala Lumpur because it wasn’t as luxurious as the developer had promised. The unnamed man became an overnight internet celebrity thanks to a series of short Facebook clips in which he complains that the condo he allegedly […]