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Girl Has Tongue Lengthened So She Can Speak Korean
Thursday, November 10, 2011 · 8 Comments
Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones has had surgery to lengthen her tongue so she can speak Korean like a native. Rhiannon, 19, who hopes to live in Korea after university, found she had difficulties pronouncing some words. Her dentist said it was because her tongue was shorter than average, which meant she ...
Two Headed Milk Snake
Wednesday, November 2, 2011 · 14 Comments
A University of Central Florida biologist says a rare, two-headed albino milk snake was recently born. Most two-headed snakes have typical coloration. Albino snakes don’t have dark pigmentation in their skin. Albino milk snakes appear in bright shades of red, orange and white. The biologist says two-headed snakes have been ...
The Mexican Vampire Woman Gets Immortalized at Ripley’s
Friday, September 16, 2011 · 49 Comments
I met Maria Cristina yesterday for the first time. She is here from Mexico to have her body casted at Ripley’s Art Department. It is the first step in the process to create a life-size replica of her. Every detail, in her body, every tattoo, every piercing … a journey ...
Can you spot Waldo?
Wednesday, August 31, 2011 · 5 Comments
Can you spot Waldo? John Mosley can after sitting for 24 hours while tattooist Rytch Soddy created a scene featuring 150 characters including Waldo hiding among them. ‘I still have not seen the finished result so I don’t actually know where Wally is on my back. Everyone says he is ...
Steer a wheelchair with a tongue piercing?
Monday, August 8, 2011 · 2 Comments
Researchers have tested a tongue piercing that will allow paralyzed people to steer their wheelchairs in any direction just by moving their tongue towards a specific direction (the chair will follow the direction of the tongue). The initiative is being run by the Northwestern University School of Medicine. Thus far ...
Amazing Medical Procedure
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 · 4 Comments
Check out this amazing story about 10 year old Dugan Smith. Dugan, when faced with a rare form of cancer, decided to beat all the odds to continue his love of baseball. Dugan had a procedure called a rotationplasty in which his lower leg was detached, turned 180 degrees, and reattached higher, allowing ...
Building Shoes out of Hair
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 · 1 Comment
54-year-old Taiwanese hairdresser Shiou-ying Tsai uses human hair to make high heels and accessories. She says that only real hair is tough enough to withstand the process involving dyes, glues, and heat. After winning various awards and prizes for her hair-cutting skills, the 54-year-old hairdresser decided to explore her artistic ...
Tentacle Cup Implants
Monday, July 18, 2011 · 5 Comments
Check out these tentacle suction-cup implants done by Dark Freak at Luck All in Sao Paulo, Brasil. Sadly they’re just plastic saucers implanted under the skin and don’t actually stick to anything, although they look reasonably like the real thing. The dude should have gotten them all along the insides of ...
Most Pierced Woman Gets Hitched
Saturday, June 18, 2011 · 8 Comments
The “world’s most pierced woman,” Elaine Davidson married Douglas Watson, who dresses conservatively and is piercing free, at a wedding ceremony in Scotland. The Brazilian-born Davidson, 46, wore a flowing white dress and floral tiara, but then painted her face along with her 192 facial piercings. At the last count ...
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