The native Brazilian woman, Maria Lucimar Pereira, turns 121 years old on September 3rd. Till this day, she’s presumed to be the oldest person on the planet. Pereira belongs to the Kaxinawa-tribe that resides in the Western Brazilian Amazon region. Her birth certificate states that she was born in 1890 but it wasn’t until 1985 that they officially recognized it. According to Maria, she never lived in the city and has her healthy lifestyle to [...]
This is just as funny as shocking. Earlier today at a funeral in Greece, a Bulgarian bakery was in charge of baking cookies for this funeral. It seems like they aren’t just baking cookies, but running a drug operation as well. Instead of sending cookies dusted with sugar to the funeral, they send cookies dusted with cocaine! Yes cocaine! Apparently people started acting strange at the funeral after ingesting the cookies. They notified the cops [...]
He is best known as ’24′ in his Cuban town of Guantánamo. Yoandri Hernandez Garrido’s nickname comes from his 12 flawless fingers and 12 flawless toes. ’24′ is very proud of his extra fingers and toes, so much he calls them a blessing because it enables him to climb trees easily to cut coconuts for tourists. He is even a celebrity as he poses in pictures with the tourists. Tourists pay as much as $10 US [...]
1256 freshmen students of the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU / e), the Netherlands broke the world-record for planking simultaneously at the Phillips Stadium. . The students lied face down with their arms by their sides, their heads to the others’ toe for almost half an hour. However for about 2 long minutes 1256 participated entirely in setting the world record for ‘Most People Planking Simultaneously’ under one roof. Before (TU / e) broke the [...]
Mr. Peter Thiel (43), best known as the Paypal founder is known for his brain full of innovative ideas. He’s currently interested in building countries in open oceans and i working with the Seasteading Institute to build sovereign nations in international waters, free from the laws of any country. The self-made billionaire explained that these ‘islands’ may be used for “experimenting with new ideas for government.” They will implement multiple Libertarian political ideologies on each [...]
I remember in high-school I read a book named “I never promised you a rose garden“, it’s about a teenage girl’s three-year battle with schizophrenia. I couldn’t help thinking about this book as I was listening to Michele Bachmann speak at some event. Michele Bachmann reminded me of the girl with schizophrenia because God was speaking to her too. According to Bachmann, she didn’t want marry her husband, but God told her to. She didn’t [...]
With great power follows even greater problems. Google agreed to a $500 million settlement in order to avoid criminal prosecution for making profit for publishing online adverts from Canadian pharmacies selling illegal drugs to US customers. Google made a statement that it shouldn’t not have allowed the adverts at all. They also said that they banned the advertisements quite some time ago and that the fact remains that they shouldn’t have allowed these ads on [...]
It’s no surprise that I dislike Fox News so much but I like Andy Levy. Chris Brown tweeted that he won’t be planking unless it’s on a beautiful woman and Andy replied tweeting hat he spelled punching wrong! I thought it was funny and I am one of those people that’s still in shock of what this guy did. Yes, it’s true, people deserve second chances but I as a person can’t no longer buy [...]
Since I was about 12 years old, I remember asking my mother why baseball players earn so much money (millions) and a physician earns so little in comparison. She didn’t have an answer and till this day she doesn’t. People adore these players (I’m not saying you shouldn’t), but they don’t stand still and think about the ridiculous amount of money they are paid to hit a ball with a stick. Football players, American football [...]
Who cares about having a real relationship these days? It’s so yesterday! As the virtual social-life is detaching us from the real world, it found a way to kinda re-connect us. A dating application called LocalSin, with the use of GPS technology will find the nearest matches in your approximate area. LocalSin provides its services to all men and women regardless of their sexual preferences. It also gives the users access to ‘the passion map’ [...]
Why wear a vest that can only protect your upper torso while you can a layer of bulletproof skin? Imagine that! A bullet stopped entirely with an extra layer of skin. The Dutch scientists responsible for this movie-like science-fiction invention, engineered goats to produce milk that contains proteins from extra-strong spider silk. With the use of this goat milk, they created a bulletproof substance and then a layer of real human skin is grown around [...]
Eleven people died and another 120 became ill after a communal Ramadan meal in Peking, China. Investigators believe that the vinegar was tainted with antifreeze is the cause of the unfortunate tragedy.Children as young as 6 years old were among the dead. According to the authorities, the vinegar was put in two plastic jars that had previously been used to store antifreeze, a highly toxic substance. This incident occurred on Saturday in Xinjiang which borders [...]
JAPAN – This is an amazing story! Yosuke, a parrot flew away and unfortunately got lost. The cops who found him took him to a veterinary and it was there that he told them his name and home address. The bird told the veterinarian that his name is Mr. Yosuke Nakamura and he also provided his full home address. After the police took him back home, the Nakamura family told them that they have been [...]