Chinese Jigsaw Made of Thousands of Rotting Bank Notes
President Andrew Jackson never trusted banks and kept his “assets” hidden at home. Despite historical problems of fluctuating interest rates and tales of occasional bank fraud and robbery, sometimes there is no place like a bank when it comes to providing a safe place for money.
Just ask poor Ban Jing, whose father back in the 1980s, stashed some £20,000 (about $40,000) in the garden of the family home in Jiekeng, eastern China.
Now he is faced with the arduous task…
Giant Chinese Baby Boy Weighs 44 Pounds — Dubbed the Michelin Baby
Meet Lei Lei, a 44-pound, 10-year-old Chinese baby boy who’s been dubbed the ‘Michelin baby’ because he resembles the mascot for tire-producer Michelin.
Lei Lei wasn’t always a huge baby. In fact, he weighed only slightly le…
Introducing R2-D2′s Cousin, the Intelligent Toilet
Japanese techno-gurus have engineered an intelligent toilet that swallows up poop and pee, provides a free drug test without a probation officer standing over your shoulder, and measures blood measure, to name a few.
Designed by toi…
China
Chinese Jigsaw Made of Thousands of Rotting Bank Notes
President Andrew Jackson never trusted banks and kept his “assets” hidden at home. Despite historical problems of fluctuating interest rates and tales of occasional ban…
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Porn: Take It All Off In 3-D
If porn is art (and that is a stretch) then the new porn flick, 3-D Sex & Zen: Extreme Ecstasy is a new pathway to a different kind of shall we say, landscape. The wo…
India
Only in India: Audience Members Help Woman Choose a Husband
Audience members at a traditional swayamvar ceremony helped Bhanumati Vyas select a husband by voting for Rajendra Rawal.
Swayamvar is an ancient Hindu pract…
Japan
Introducing R2-D2′s Cousin, the Intelligent Toilet
Japanese techno-gurus have engineered an intelligent toilet that swallows up poop and pee, provides a free drug test without a probation officer standing over your shoulder…
North Korea
North Korea Touts Mind-Expanding Liquid Brain Juice
The government of North Korea claims it has fashioned a mind-expanding, liquid brain juice dubbed the ‘Super Drink’ that can supposedly multiply brain hells and halt sk…
Rest of Asia
Carpenter Ants and Fossilized Mind Control
This is the unlikely story of a fungus in Thailand that has seemingly magical powers. Far away from their origins in Haitian folklore, zombies live again in the world of …
South Korea
Korean Kia Cars: The POP Concept
The Korean carmaker, Kia, already has a positive reputation within the auto cosmos as producers of small gasoline-run cars that get good mileage due to their diminutive sta…
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