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 …
By nature or personal choice, they are rich and famous and yet… ugly as hell! Michael Jackson Did you really expect anyone else? Michael Jackson used to be a successful black singer, but took it upon himself to destroy his face and reputation. He now looks like an albino alien whose nose appears to change …
And you thought superheroes existed only in fiction?Inspired by fiction superheroes such as Batman and Superman, these people wear masks and capes in order to fight real crime on the strets.Here’s a list with 10 of the most famous real-life superheroes. 1Superbarrio (Mexico) He’s faster than a speeding turtle, able to leap small speed bumps …
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A look-alike is a person who bears a close physical resemblance to a celebrity, politician or member of royalty. Many look-alikes earn a living by making guest appearances at public events or performing on television and film, playing the person they resemble.Today, we have a list of the very best look-alikes around. 1Clifton James, a …