10 Alien-Looking Places on Earth Dry Valleys (Antartica) Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, with their barren gravel-strewn floors, are said to be the most similar place on Earth to Mars. Its fascinating landscape, located within Victoria Land west of McMurdo Sound, get almost no snowfall, and except for a few steep rocks they are the only continental [...]
10 Strangest Japanese Toys Japanese Pregnant Doll In the 18th and 19th centuries, sideshow carnivals known as misemono were a popular form of entertainment for the sophisticated residents of Edo (present-day Tokyo). The sideshows featured a myriad of educational and entertaining attractions designed to evoke a sense of wonder and to satisfy a deep curiosity [...]
10 Most Controversial Music Videos Closer – Nine Inch Nails (1994) In spite of the blunt and profane sexual content contained in the song’s lyrics (the chorus infamously begins with the couplet “I wanna fuck you like an animal/ I wanna feel you from the inside”), “Closer” became Nine Inch Nails’ biggest hit of that [...]
12 Strangest Ties Soft Serve Shaped Tie ($29.95) Pouring Beer Tie ($15.99) Hot Dog Tie ($14.95) Space Invaders Tie ($24.95) Crossword Tie ($14.95) New York Taxi Cab Shaped Tie ($29.95) Pong Tie ($24.95) Eye Chart Tie ($14.95) Tetris Tie ($24.95) Keyboard Tie ($16.95) Crime Scene Tie ($24.95) 8-Bit Tie ($14.99)
One of the most successful rock bands of all time staged a record setting concert performance in The Woodlands Friday night. Creed set the Guinness Book of World Records for most cameras used during a live concert recording. The band shared the show with more than just the crowd at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. [...]
Stuart Ridley does nothing by halves. The 32-year-old Lower Hutt man is so passionate about tattoos he has plastered most of his body with 36 dragons. Now “Tattoo Stu”, as he calls himself, is trying to break the world record for the longest stint of tenpin bowling with more than 100 hours of sleepless action. [...]
Chegg.com, whose transformative concept of money-saving, rental access to textbooks has made it one of the Internet’s fastest growing new companies and the leading online textbook rental company, set a new Guinness World Record for the world’s largest cardboard box. The event took place at the UCLA versus Kansas State football game on Saturday, September [...]
Colin Furze, 29, spent two months creating the incredible 46ft motorbike, which can travel at speeds of up to 30mph. He used two 50cc Honda Sky mopeds which he extended using pieces of aluminium. “You can ride it like a normal motorbike but steering is a bit of a problem as it has just a [...]
It is an evening odyssey that offers a distinctive spectacle to tourists and a mesmerising destination for travellers. For nearly a century, the illumination at the imposing Mysore Palace has treated innumerable visitors to enchanting evenings in the sprawling palace precincts. This magnificent Indo-Sarcenic style edifice unfailingly captivates the visitors when 96,200 bulbs fixed in [...]
20 Worst Engrish ever Engrish refers to grammatically incorrect variations of English, often found in East Asian countries. From poorly translated signs, menus, and instruction manuals to bizarrely worded advertisements and strange t-shirt slogans, here are the top 20 engrish pictures. Deformed person??? “Eliminate horniness” “A time sex thing”??.. a horrible translation for what it [...]
Peugeot BB1 concept at Frankfurt Motor Show // // Peugeot has unveiled its tiny BB1 concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show. At 2550mm long the unconventionally styled car is shares similar proportions to that of a smart fortwo but is capable of carrying four adults. The near vertical windscreen allows maximum use of the small [...]
Another 15 Awful Photoshop Mistakes Oooops they did it again! After last year’s article on photoshop mistakes, we revisit the subject with the latest cases, including some of the best of the classic site Photoshop Disasters and other sources we’ve found around the web. Maybe a shark was swimming around and ate her other leg. [...]
10 of the World’s Tallest Women Yao Defen ( 7ft 8in – 233 cm) Yao Defen claims to be the tallest woman in the world, with 7′ 8″ (233 cm). She weighs 200 kg (440 lbs) and has size 26 (UK) / 78 (EU) feet. Her gigantism is due to a tumor in her pituitary [...]
