Rejoice, You Can Now Spend $1,450 on Half a Jacket
Unravel Project, a non-conformist luxury fashion brand created by French designer Ben Taverniti, is taking the ‘less is more’ concept to a whole new level with a deconstructed blazer that consists of half an actual blazer. Luckily, what this intriguing garments lacks in fabric, it more than makes up in price, costing a whopping $1,450. […]
Teen Claims She Has to Live ‘Like a Peasant’ After Mom Cut Her Monthly Allowance from $5,000 to $1,000
A Beverly Hills teenager recently dragged her mother on the Dr. Phil show to complain that she has to live like a peasant, after her monthly allowance was cut from $5,000 to just $1,000. Ever since she was born, 15-year-old Nicolette has been given everything she ever wanted, including a nanny, personal driver and trainers, […]
Canadian Man Named ‘Grabher’ Has ‘GRABHER’ License Plate Revoked for Being Offensive to Women
A Canadian man has been involved in a legal battle with the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation after having his vanity license plate revoked for featuring a “socially unacceptable slogan”. The problem is that that slogan is also the man’s family name. In December of 2016, Lorne Grabher, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, was informed that his license […]
Man Allegedly Traveled 10,000 Miles Just to Damage $3 Million Painting Owned by His Father
A 40-year-old man allegedly traveled almost 10,000 miles from England to an art gallery in Aspen, Colorado, where he used a sharp object to slash a $3 million dollar painting by New York artist Christopher Wool, before storming out. It was later revealed that the painting was owned by his father. The bizarre incident occurred last […]
Woman Accidentally Enters PIN Code as Tip at Cafe, Ends Up Tipping $7,700
A Russian woman who used her credit card to pay for coffee and a cake at a cafe near Zurich, in Switzerland, accidentally typed in her PIN code as the tip and ended up paying 7709.70 Swiss francs ($7,732) for a 23.70 francs ($23.76) bill. Back in February, 37-year-old Olesja Schemjakowa and her son stopped for coffee and […]
Plane Passenger Opens Emergency Door to Get Some Fresh Air
A young passenger trying to get some fresh air on a crowded plane at Myanyang Airport, in China’s Sichuan Province, ended up accidentally opening the aircraft’s emergency hatch and triggering the inflatable escape slide. Most passengers consider the flight crew’s instructions before a takeoff to be pointless, but this story is a clear example of […]
Chinese Companies Equip Workers with Brainwave Reading Helmets to Increase Productivity
It sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode, but according to recent news reports, Chinese companies are using special helmets to monitor workers’ brain activity in order to reduce stress, manipulate break times with the ultimate goal of increasing productivity. The South China Morning Post recently reported employee brainwave monitoring in China is […]
Resourceful Chinese Ingenious Use Perpetuum Mobile Device to Fool Their Pedometer Smartphone Apps
In China, health insurance companies apparently offer discounts to people who can prove they get enough exercise every day by using their mobile phones to monitor their movement. Only instead of actually going for walks, some people use ingenious perpetuum mobile devices to cheat the system. I first learned about China’s “mobile phone cradles” a […]
Controversial High School Class Has Students Hatching and Raising Chickens Before Killing and Eating Them
For the past 60 years, every generation of freshman students at Izumo Agricultural and Forestry High School, in Izumo, Japan’s Shimane prefecture, has taken the “Class of Life”, a controversial six-month course during which the students help hatch and raise chickens, before having to slaughter and eat them. Last year, the Class of Life at […]
This Pocket-Friendly Machine Signs Your Name for You, Costs $365,000
Whether you’re a celebrity or a famous author who spends a lot of time giving autographs, or just a busy businessman who doesn’t have time to sign mountains of documents, you can now spend $365,000 on a state of the art Signing Machine, and it’ll do it for you. I bet you didn’t even know […]
Russia’s Recently Completed Floating Nuclear Power Plant Dubbed a “Nuclear Titanic”
While countries like Germany or on track to completely phase out nuclear power plants by 2022, Russia’s is building more of them and even making them floatable so they can provide power to remote areas. However, not everyone is convinced that placing a powerful nuclear reactor on a ship is such a good idea. Looking […]
Millions of Ladybugs Are Converging on a Remote Radio Tower in Australia and Nobody Knows Why
A remote radio tower near Mount Burr in South Australia has attracted millions of ladybugs for reasons no one seems to understand. The unusual sight was recently reported by wildlife photographer Steve Chapple, who posted several photos and a video of it on his Facebook page. Contacted by ABC News Australia, Mr. Chapple said that […]
French Museum Discovers That More Than Half of Its Artworks Are Fake
In what the local community has named a ‘catastrophe’, a museum in Elne, Southern France, dedicated to the work of painter Etienne Terrus recently discovered that at least 82 of its 140 artworks were actually fakes. The Terrus museum in Elne had bought the paintings, drawings and watercolors over a period of 20 years, for […]
Turkish Soccer Fan Banned from Stadium Rents Crane to See His Team Play Live
A die-hard fan of Turkish soccer club Denizlispor recently made international headlines after renting a crane so he could watch his team play in a league game, after being banned from the stadium for one year. 37-year-old Ali Demirkaya, a.k.a. ‘Amigo Ali’ is well-known as one of Denizlispor most fanatic suporters, and this weekend he […]
South-Korean Woman Allegedly Dates Almost 200 Men in Less Than Two Years
Popular South Korean TV show Mars People XFile recently featured a young woman who claimed to have dated nearly 200 men in the last two years, purely for materialistic purposes. The young and attractive woman, named Han Mirim, gives speed dating a whole new meaning, admitting that she sometimes broke up with men on the […]