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A Rainbow Gathering
Body Painted Art Over 300 scantily people gathered together at the Camden Hotel in Cork, Ireland to participate in a unique assembly. Keira O’Connell hosts bi-monthly body-painting events in Cork. She loves her unusual art and just wants to inspire more people to participate. She hosted her largest gathering to ...
33 lbs Tumor Removed from 2 year old boy!
Wednesday, July 25, 2012 · 4 Comments
Ever carried a heavy backpack on a hike or to school? Now imagine you could never take it off! Jesus Rodriguez, from the northern state of Durango, Mexico, was born with a benign lump, which grew to take over the right side of his body, stretching from his armpit to ...
World’s Longest Burp – an impressive 18.1 seconds
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 · 2 Comments
The World Burping Federation – Ok, let me stop right there…Yes. There’s actually a World Burping Federation – who according to them, aim to promote “belching best practices.” Just recently, they annouced at a Major League Eating sponsored event, that 36 year old Tim Janus has broken quite possibly one ...
A Real-Life Rapunzel: Hair only an inch shorter than own height
Monday, July 9, 2012 · 4 Comments
What do you think would happen to YOUR hair if you never cut it? For Brazilian 12-year old Natasha Moraes De Andrade it meant 5 feet 2 inches of a whole lot of brushing and washing. Natasha, who lives in a shanty town in Rio de Janeiro, had the longest ...
OOPS! There’s a Spear In my Head…
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 · 4 Comments
In a surprising turn of events, young 16 year old Yasser Lopez miraculously survived one hell of a blow to the head. On June 7th Lopez and his 15 year old friend were hanging out when the friend loaded a spear gun that accidentally deployed, according to a statement from ...
3 feet, 5 inches of Unbelievable Upper Body Strength
Monday, April 30, 2012 · 3 Comments
Joby Mathew, 33, is a World Champion athlete from Kerala, India who suffers with proximal femoral focal deficiency which left him with deformed hips and stunted legs, and a height of 3 1/2 feet. The wrestler, is proving that you can still achieve a lot despite being disabled – crushing ...
The Three “Werewolf” Sisters
Friday, February 10, 2012 · 9 Comments
Only one in a billion people are affected by an extremely rare condition termed Hypertrichosis Universalis or better known as Werewolf Syndrome. As fate would have it, 3 of 6 sisters Savita, 23, Monisha, 18, and 16-year-old Savitri Sangli, who live in a small village near Pune, central India, inherited ...
Til Death Do Us Part, Now Cut Your Finger Off
Thursday, January 5, 2012 · 3 Comments
The indigenous tribe of the Danis inhabit the fertile lands of the Baliem Valley in West Papua, New Guinea. As one of the most decorative and well-known tribes in West Papua, they’re also given credit for an unusual and gruesome ritual involving amputation. As a way of displaying their grief ...
Two headed baby born healthy in Brazil
Thursday, December 22, 2011 · 9 Comments
The baby has a single heart but two functioning brains. Doctors in Brazil are unsure whether they can safely operate on a baby born with two heads. “When doctors scanned her they realized that the baby had two heads and that a normal birth would be a great risk both ...
How Can Some People Hear Their Own Eyeballs Move?
Thursday, November 17, 2011 · 4 Comments
A disorder of the inner ear called superior canal dehiscence syndrome causes every sound within the body to be amplified, even the movement of one’s eyeballs, all the time. Sounds strange, but it is true (and treatable) … Believe It or Not! A CACOPHONY OF BODILY FUNCTIONS: Superior canal dehiscence ...
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