December 2024
Using a Smart Mouthpiece, You Can Play Music on Your Smartphone
Photo Credit (Gettyimages) By connecting to your smartphone’s USB-C connector, the Zefiro, a clever little MIDI controller, effectively transforms it into a playable musical instrument. One of the most inventive devices we’ve seen in a long time is the Zefiro, created by the Italian startup ARTinoise. Although the tiny, vibrant mouthpiece appears to be a […]
Million-dollar treasure chests are buried by a cryptocurrency investor, who challenges anyone to locate them.
Photo Credit (Freepik) After becoming wealthy from early Bitcoin investments, Jon Collins-Black, who once dreamed of discovering priceless treasure, has been organizing an incredible treasure hunt for fellow treasure seekers for the past five years. The cryptocurrency investor began collecting expensive stuff to fill five distinct treasure chests during the COVID-19 outbreak, then buried them […]
A Pomeranian Dog Amazingly Avoids Injuries After Surviving a Nine-Storey Fall
Photo Credit (Gettyimages) When a Colombian family discovered their pet Pomeranian was missing from their 12th-floor apartment in the city of Cali on November 19, they had moments of panic. When it became evident that he was not in the house, they searched everywhere for him. When they checked the windows, they discovered a little […]
The Pentagon is surpassed by the largest office building in the new world.
Photo Credit (Freepik) In Gujarat, India, the recently constructed Surat Diamond Bourse is a huge office complex consisting of nine rectangular buildings joined by a central “spine.” The Surat Diamond Bourse, a huge diamond-cutting and trading hub, just overtook the Pentagon as the largest building in the world, surpassing its 66,73,624 square feet by about […]
For six years, a former motorbike racing star has been traveling the world barefoot.
Photo Credit (Gettyimges) Axel Pons, a former Moto2 World Championship racer, made a significant lifestyle change six years ago when he made the decision to go barefoot around the world. Early in his motorcycle racing career, Axel Pons had a lot to live up to as the son of the renowned Sito Pons, a two-time […]
A man who purposefully gained weight in order to evade military service was sentenced to prison.
Photo Credit (Freepik) For purposefully binge eating to gain weight and be deemed unfit for mandatory military service, a 26-year-old South Korean man was recently given a one-year prison sentence. In South Korea, serving in the military is a serious matter. You must serve in the army for at least 21 months if you are […]
The Fastest Humanoid Robot in the World, Star1
Photo Credit (Gettyimages) Last month, images and videos of a robot running over the Gobi Desert while wearing sneakers went viral on Chinese social media, eliciting a variety of amusing remarks from users. However, few people were aware that they were witnessing the fastest humanoid robot in the world. STAR1, created by the Chinese robotics […]
When police mistake talcum powder for drugs, a man is imprisoned for 21 days.
Photo Credit (Freepik) After authorities mistaken 18 canisters of talcum powder for cocaine and took three weeks to determine the true nature of the drug, an Argentinean man was unfairly imprisoned. Maximiliano Acosta boarded a bus in Mendoza, the town, in early October to travel to Buenos Aires, the city. Soon after, a group of […]
A revered Italian nun was arrested for collaborating with a well-known mafia family.
Photo Credit (Gettyimages) A well-known nurse from northern Italy named Sister Anna Donelli was recently taken into custody on accusations of conspiring with a strong clan of the “Ndragheta mafia family.” It shocked the entire Italian community when 57-year-old Anna Donelli, a revered nun and recent recipient of the Golden Panettone, an annual Milanese civic […]
A man who does not speak Spanish wins the Spanish-Language Scrabble World Championship.
Photo Credit (Freepik) Nigel Richards, a 57-year-old scrabble superstar from New Zealand, just won the 2024 Spanish-Language Scrabble World Championship despite not knowing any Spanish. It’s been nearly a decade since we last reported about the talented Mr. Nigel Richards, who had just won the 2015 French-Language Scrabble Championship despite his inability to communicate in […]