1Olive Riley (108-year-old): World’s Oldest Blogger Believed to have been the world’s oldest blogger, australian woman Olive Rileybegan her blog The Life of Riley in February 2007 at the age of 107 and made her final post on 26 June 2008 from a nursing home in Woy Woy, New South Wales, complaining of a cough …
These hockey fans in Sweden threw dildos to the field Hopefully her teacher doesn’t read Oddee This fan tried to commit suicide after his soccer team –Brazil’s Vasco da Gama– lost the game This couple couldn’t miss a game, even on their wedding night
From the man with the world’s biggest biceps, to the bodybuilder behind the Incredible Hulk, meet some of the most extreme bodybuilders out there. 1Gregg Valentino: World’s Biggest Biceps Gregg Valentino is one of the most controversial yet popular bodybuilding icons, considered by some as the biggest bodybuilder ever. He started bodybuilding at the age …
1Rick: The Zombie Boy Meet Rick. He’s turning himself into a zombie. So far, more than 24 hours of tattoos –costing over $4,075 Canadian dollars– have got him halfway there and made him a minor celebrity on the internet, where people can’t decide if he’s a body modification visionary or mentally ill sicko. 2Dennis Avner: …
1Victor Lustig: the Man who sold the Eiffel Tower Known as “the man who sold the Eiffel Tower”, Victor Lustig was one of the most talented confidence tricksters who ever lived.Born in 1890 in Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, he was a glib and charming conman, fluent in multiple languages. He established himself by working scams on the …
1Pope Stephen VI: had his predecessor exhumed, tried, de-fingered, and thrown to the river Stephen VI was Pope from 896 to 897. Fueled by his anger with Pope Formosus, his predecessor, he exhumed Formosus’s rotting corpse and put “him” on trial, in the so-called “Cadaver Synod” in January, 897. With the corpse propped up on …
1Tu Jin-Sheng: Pulls a Truck with his Penis As Kung Fu magazine puts it: “When a man can tow a truck with his genitals, that’s all anyone ever really remembers about him.” Tu Jin-Sheng, a 50-year-old man from Taiwan, is a martial arts grandmaster of Iron Crotch, a branch of Qigong said to have 60,000 …
1Vesna Vulovic: The Stewardess Who Survived a terrorist attack at 33,000 feet On January 26, 1972, a Yugoslav Airlines DC-9 departed from Copenhagen for Belgrade (via Zagreb) with 28 passengers and crew. At an altitude of 33,000 feet, a bomb in the cargo section, planted by the Ustashe Croatian separatist group, exploded. The plane disintegrated …
1Mitsuo Matayoshi (Japan)The self-proclaimed Jesus Christ Mitsuo Matayoshi is an eccentric Japanese politician, self-styled as “The only God Mitsuo Matayoshi Jesus Christ”. After a life of preacher he has developed a particular concepts of Christianity, strongly influenced by Eschatology. In 1997 He established the World Economic Community Party based on his conviction that he is …
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1Saparmurat “Turkmenbashi” Niyazov (Turkmenistan):Renamed a month after him; banned recorded music, video games and beards! In 1991, after the fall of Communism and the USSR, Turkmenistan found itself independent for the first time in a hundred years. The new president, Saparmurat Niyazov, was the obvious successor – he’d been the Communist Party’s puppet governor since …