Archive for August 2025

Mercari, Japan’s leading online flea market, decided to prevent the sale of ultrasound photos on its platform to prevent people from using them to commit pregnancy fraud. Selling ultrasound photos of unborn babies on a flea market app is strange, but Mercari never even considered taking action against the practice until one person noticed the…

A forgetful Maryland man bought two identical tickets for the same Powerball Double Play drawing and scored two $500,000 prizes, for a total of $1 million.

A Connecticut man known as the “Croc King” earned a Guinness World Record when his collection of Crocs was tallied at 3,569 pairs — a total he’s now surpassed.

A Colorado county is distributing free ears of corn to local residents after a semi truck loaded up with the vegetables overturned on the highway and spilled.

A 35-year-old Florida woman was recently arrested for allegedly performing unlicensed dental procedures, including attaching veneers with store-bought super glue. According to prosecutors, Emely Martinez, who posed as a “smile makeover expert” on social media, lured customers with promises of extremely cheap full-mouth veneer treatments. Her prices were so attractive compared to licensed dental clinics…

A Chinese teenager suffered the fright of his life when he woke up one day with no feeling in his body due to a habit that is becoming more and more common. Like many youths his age, Xiao Dong, a 19-year-old third-year student at a university in Quanzhou, China’s Fujian province, spent a lot of…

A man fishing in waters off the coast of Costa Rica reeled in an orange nurse shark that scientists said was the first documented case of such an unusual fish.

A married man is considering suing a pharmacy after it contacted his wife over a failed e-payment for contraceptive medicine and ended up revealing his extramarital affair. The scorned man, whose name has not been revealed by the media, visited the Pinggang branch of Dashenlin Pharmacy in Yangjiang, Guangdong province, where he attempted to pay…

An Idaho man took 96 hits to the face from airborne wet sponges in a single minute, recapturing an unusual Guinness World Records title in the process.

A North Carolina man scored a $1 million prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket just under four years after he won $2 million from another scratch-off game.