23-Year-Old Man Stuck in the Body of a 13-Year-Old Boy Due to Rare Condition
A lot of people look younger than their age, but 23-year-old Tomislav Jurčec, from Zagreb, Croatia, is an extreme case. Due to a fault in his pituitary gland, which controls growth and ageing, he remains stuck in the body of a 13-year-old kid. Tomislav admits that looking 10 years younger than his actual age does have […]
Chinese Woman Faints After Accidentally Breaking $26,500 Jade Bracelet at Jewelry Market
A woman visiting a jewelry market in China’s Yunnan Province passed out after accidentally dropping a jade bracelet worth 180,000 yuan ($26,500) and splitting it in half. The unwritten rule of “you break it, you buy it” is usually ignored by business owners when customers accidentally break beverage bottles, clothing items or other mundane products, but when […]
The Sleeping Beauty Diet – Probably the Dumbest Weight-Loss Diet in History
If you’re sleeping, you’re not eating. That’s basically the main idea behind the Sleeping Beauty Diet, an increasingly popular weight loss method that encourages people to take sedatives in order to sleep for up to 20 hours a day and skip meals. It’s hard to even consider the Sleeping Beauty Diet an actual diet, because it doesn’t […]
New App Lets You Date People Who Look Like Your Favorite Celebrities
Let’s face it, you’ll probably never get to go on a date with your celebrity crush, but, with Dating AI, a new dating app that uses advanced facial recognition technology, you can now find celebrity doppelgangers and ask them out on a date. The Dating.ai app works by analyzing a reference a photo you upload or select […]
Aging Wine on the Bottom of the Sea Could Become a Thing in France
Two years ago, a winemakers’ association in France dropped 120 bottles of red, white and rosé wine at an undisclosed location in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of an experiment to see if sea bed aging yields better results than traditional cellar aging. Members of “Les vins de Bandol” winemakers association said that they were […]
California Man Has Been Going to Disneyland Every Day for the Last 2,000 Days
Lots of people love going to Disneyland, but few enjoy the experience as much as Jeff Reitz, a 44-year-old Air Force Veteran from Huntington Beach, California, who has been visiting Disney resorts every day, for the last 2,000 days. It has become sort of a daily ritual, and after over five years, he still can’t […]
Designer Spends 9 Years Building the World’s Most Elaborate Paper Plane
Paper planes usually take about a minute to make, but one artist spent a whopping 9 years working on one, and he’s not even done yet. But, then again, this isn’t your usual paper plane, but a perfect 1:60 scale replica of an Air India Boeing 777. 25-year-old Luca Iaconi-Stewart, a young designer from San Francisco, describes […]
Commercially-Available “Wonder Coating” Can Make Any Object Virtually Indestructible
Line-X is an ultra-durable line of spray-on coatings that is mainly marketed for use on truck beds, to make them tougher and provide protection against the elements. But this wonder spray can do so much more, including protecting a wall from an explosive blast, preventing an egg from shattering on impact when dropped from a tower, […]
67-Year-Old Man Has the World’s Largest Collection of Hello Kitty Memorabilia
Hello Kitty was designed to appeal to young girls, but its biggest fan may just be an adult Japanese man. 67-year-old Masao Gunji has been collecting Hello Kitty memorabilia for the last 30 years, and he was recently acknowledged by Guinness Records as the owner of the largest Hello Kitty collection in the world. Gunji, a […]
Woman with Two Skin Tones, Two Immune Systems Is a Living, Breathing Medical Oddity
Taylor Muhl, a model and singer from California, often says that she is her own twin, and as strange as that sounds, she means it quite literally. The 33-year-old was diagnosed with genetic Chimerism, an extremely rare condition explained as “an organism composed of cells from different zygotes”. As a child, Taylor was obsessed with twins, constantly […]
Thai Woman Who Has Dated 5,000 Men Launches Online Course on How to Seduce Rich Foreigners
Thai women looking to date a walking ATM machine, but with no clue on how to catch one, can now rely on the services of “Madam Raya”, a seduction expert who claims to have dated 5,000 wealthy men. She is offering online course to help like-minded women bag the rich foreigner of their dreams. 24-year-old Praiya Suriya […]
Brazilian “Traffic Waiter” Is Probably the World’s Most Elegant Street Vendor
Aílton Manuel da Silva is not your usual waiter. He dresses as one, carries himself as one and even sports a tray full of cold drinks and snacks, but instead of a restaurant or a cafe, he works in the streets, braving the hot sun and incoming traffic to provide for his family. He is […]
Breatharian Couple Claim They Haven’t Had a Proper Meal in 9 Years, Survive on Cosmic Energy
Scientific evidence shows that fasting for brief periods of time can have positive effects on our health, but one California couple say they haven’t eaten any real food in 9 years, as they live off “the universe’s energy” instead. 36-year-old Akahy Ricardo and his wife, Camilla Costello, 34, had their last real meal in 2008, […]
Alarm Clock Stuck in Wall Has Been Ringing Every Day for the Last 13 Years
Every day, a homeowner in Pennsylvania is reminded of a mistake he made 13 years ago. At around 8 in the evening, his otherwise peaceful house comes alive with the beeping of an alarm clock he accidentally dropped down a vent over a decade ago. It’s been stuck in the wall ever since. 13 years ago, […]
Italian Man Lives Life of Luxury, Brushes Shoulders with Celebrities for Years by Posing as “Prince of Montenegro”
A 57-year-old Italian conman was recently arrested and charged with fraud and document forgery, after its was revealed that he had been posing as a member of the Montenegro Royal Family for years. His con was so elaborate that he had even managed to fool many real royals and celebrities. The man, whose real identity […]