In the world of healthy eating, eating one food and one food alone usually is not a path to success. This is especially the case if the one food you eat is a particularly unhealthy food, like chicken nuggets. Yet, that is just what Stacey Irvine has done for the last 15 years of her 17-year-old life. She also eats an occasional helping of potato chips to help with her   Read More ...

Stealing the title from Philippino Junrey Balawing who stood at 60cm (23.5 inches) at the age of 18 last year, Chandra Bahadur Dangi measured in at 54.6cm (21.5inches) when he was sized-up by the Guinness World Records team. ‘The good news is that Chandra Bahadur Dangi is the world’s shortest living man,’ Guiness Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday declared. ‘If he is really 72 years old he is the oldest person   Read More ...

In Bakersville, California, police have jailed a man for decapitating, cooking, and eating cats. No pets had been reported missing, so the victims of this man were presumably stray cats. What led to his strange animal cruelty investigation and the eventual downfall of the 35-year-old Jason Wilmert was that he forgot to take one important step before trying to kill the cats for food. Namely, that he forgot to sedate   Read More ...

At first glance, this may seem like a fictional dream come true. Humanity actually launching an intelligent robot to clean up dangerous space debris. However, the real story is much less glorious and the robots don’t look anywhere near as cute. Earth is surrounded by hundreds of thousands of pieces of random “space junk” that we have put into orbit since the beginning of the space age. Each of these   Read More ...

It isn’t exactly food fit for a queen, but it’s good enough for 33-year-old Claire Simmons. Claire loves cheese and tomato pizza so much that she’s been eating nothing else for 31 years. Which means she’s been eating the stuff since she was about 2 years old. That does sound too young to be eating pizza in the first place. But it’s not that she doesn’t want to eat anything   Read More ...

We are often told to not tempt fate because sooner or later it will catch up with us. Perhaps a certain 40-year-old man should have listened to such advice before he scarfed down a triple-bypass-burger at the joint call the “heart attack grill”. Unfortunately for the man, he happened to have a heart attack as he was trying to chew and scarf down the legendary 3-patty burger with tons of   Read More ...