What would you do if you were at your grandmother’s house looking for a fork and all of a sudden you find one with a swastika on it? Yeah, I’d be surprised too. However unlikely that sounds, it’s exactly what happened to one Reddit user. According to him, his grandmother and her family, who is Polish […]
A boy in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China went to extreme lengths earlier this week to avoid having to do his homework and getting a tongue-lashing from his mother. The boy, Xiao Kai (not his real name) allegedly hid on a ledge under his apartment window, 11 stories above the ground. Kai was missing for two hours before his […]
We all know how hard it is to say goodbye, but what many forget is that saying hello isn’t all that easy, either. (Especially if there is a handshake involved.) If you’re a world traveler, then you know that people even have to worry about offending someone by not using the correct greeting. That’s right: there are […]
No one wants to end up prison. In fact, going to prison is usually the last thing on people’s lists. That being said, if you do end up having to go to prison, please make sure that it’s none of these places. Just getting a glimpse of these nine toughest prisons on the planet will […]
When in the middle of an emergency, sometimes people come up with ingenious solutions to resolve the situation. These can be split second decisions, or a sudden moment of revelation as if the answer to the problem was there all along as clear as day. On reddit, a police dispatcher named Keith Weisinger posted about a time he […]
Ever look up from your own phone while walking and realize that you can’t move any faster because another oblivious person in front of you is trying to balance looking at their phone and walking, too? Well, the city of Chongqing, China may have the solution to this problem — if you’re willing to put […]
Jillian Owens knows you don’t have to spend a lot of money to dress well and she has no interest in keeping that bit of information to herself. On her website, ReFashionista, Owens shows her readers how to take the relatively inexpensive, unfashionable clothes you might find in a thrift store and turn them into […]
Take a minute. What’s the scariest job that you can possibly imagine yourself having? If you’re like a majority of Americans, the scary job you thought of was being a politician. Yep, that’s right, Americans are afraid of being politicians. This is according to a survey of 56,857 Americans conducted by the jobs website CareerBuilder.com. […]
This traditional Chinese house on the secluded Lingshan Island (off the eastern coast of China) recently had an interesting makeover. Owner Xiao Yongsheng initially wanted to renovate it using modern designers and architects. However, Yongsheng was put off by the high cost of the construction due to the location. What he did instead is pretty […]
What’s the best excuse you’ve ever been given? What’s an acceptable reason for not completing a project, showing up for work or meeting your date? Well, this postman in Canada discovered exactly what the best excuse is that anyone could ever use. It doesn’t matter what the situation is. You’d be forgiven if you had this […]
