Archive for July 2024

A seagull became a viral star after he was captured on video performing his favorite activity: stealing potato chips from a convenience store.

The owner of what might be Europe’s largest collection of bedpans is trying to find them a new home after they failed to sell at auction.

A Chinese man needed to have his left eyeball surgically removed to prevent a bacterial infection from reaching his brain after swatting a drain fly on his face. Flies can be very annoying during the summer months. They fly around our sweaty bodies, landing on our heads and faces, but while the first instinct is…

A Chinese woman is asking 40,000 yuan ($5,500) from a work colleague and accusing them of slapping her on the back using a kung fu technique that left her unable to work for 12 months. The woman, surnamed Zheng, recently told a television network in her native city of Hangzhou, China’s Zhejiang province, that she…

Japanese police recently arrested a group of unlikely criminals, three grandpas in their late sixties, seventies, and eighties accused of breaking into at least two homes and suspected of ten other burglaries. Hideo Umino, 88, Hidemi Matsuda, 70, and Kenichi Watanabe, 69 allegedly met behind bars and decided to team up after being released in…

A Wayne County man and his wife are celebrating a major windfall after winning a share of a $697,974 Fantasy 5 jackpot from the Michigan Lottery.

Sergeant Giralde of Arizona’s Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was working a road construction detail on July 11 when a large bird was spotted under his patrol vehicle.

Natalie Dau has set a new record for the fastest crossing of Peninsular Malaysia on foot. Dau covered over 700 kilometers from Kelantan in the north to Johor Bahru in the south in eight days and 46 minutes.

Goldin Finance 117, an unfinished 597-meter-tall skyscraper on the outskirts of Tianjin, China’s seventh largest city, is currently the world’s tallest abandoned building. Originally designed to be the centerpiece of a luxurious real-estate project in Tianjin, Goldin Finance 117, aka China 117 Tower, is famous for being the world’s tallest unfinished and unoccupied building. Construction…

An Indian man who had wrongfully been pronounced dead by the government turned to crime as a desperate way of proving that he was very much alive. Baburam Bhil a 40-year-old man from Rajasthan’s Mithora village, had long been trying to convince authorities that he was still alive after they issued a death certificate in…