World’s Strangest

I remember seeing videos of sky lanterns released during the Taiwan Lantern Festival and thinking how beautiful, how amazing, how dangerous! The sky lanterns are made of paper, illuminated by candles, and released into the air to float as long as they will. This is something I’d like to try myself, if it weren’t for [...]

Hello Kitty may be a little bit of a trend in America, but in Asia, it’s a lifestyle. There have been Hello Kitty weddings and hotels before, but did you know kitty-obsessed mothers can even give birth in Taiwan’s Hello Kitty maternity hospital? The three million dollar venture has been officially sanctioned by the character’s parent [...]

China’s hairiest man Yu Zhenhuan undertakes laser hair removal treatment Hair covers 96 percent of Yu’s body. He may be surpassed only by a pair of Mexican brothers: Victor “Larry” and Gabriel “Danny” Ramos Gomez, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as having 98 percent hair cover. The 26-year-old Yu is candid and unembarrassed [...]

Looks like America is not the only country that needs to be weary of fast food. While not many outside the US can see the appeal of a Big Mac, people in Morocco just love the McArabia. This new sneaky tactic of adapting global fast food chains to the local palette is happening all over the world [...]