The Mexican party scene has fully embraced ridiculously long pointy boots. Known as “botas picudas,” the Mexican fashion of pointy boots has started with the tribal music. In the beginning, people were using regular boots. Then they started making them pointier and pointier, until it got out of control.
Students in Karasjok, north in Norway don`t get to stay home from school until…
Students in Karasjok, north in Norway don`t get to stay home from school until it`s -50°C (-58°F). The school bus stops driving when it`s -38°C (-36°F).
A former Khmer Rouge member in Cambodia named Aki Ra has been spending…
A former Khmer Rouge member in Cambodia named Aki Ra has been spending the last 20+ years disarming landmines all over the country, with no pay, and no armor.
If you’re selling a property in California and within the past 3 years someone…
If you’re selling a property in California and within the past 3 years someone’s died on it, it’s considered a material defect and must be disclosed by the seller, unless the death was due to AIDS because that’s discrimination.
The most complex character in the Chinese language takes 57…
The most complex character in the Chinese language takes 57 strokes to write. It is a noodle dish.
Couples that cuddle can become addicted to one another. Symptoms of withdraw…
Couples that cuddle can become addicted to one another. Symptoms of withdraw can occur when apart as a result of the hormone oxytocin, “the cuddling drug.”
According the recent study, guys who posted lots of selfies, but didn’t really…
According a recent study, men who posted lots of selfies, but didn’t really spend time editing them, showed signs of above average psychopathy.
In 1954 a fifteen year old told his parents he was going to school, but then…
In 1954 a fifteen year old told his parents he was going to school, but then rode his bike 700 miles in a week from D.C. to Atlanta because he was “homesick for Dixie and his grandmother’s fried chicken”.
Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000…
Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.
Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust…
Polish doctor Eugene Lazowski saved 8,000 Jews during the Holocaust by injecting dead typhus cells into them, allowing them to test positive for typhus despite being healthy. Germans were afraid of the highly contagious disease and refused to deport them to concentration camps.