Author: Elsa
The German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea. On the picturesque sandy beaches, an enormous building can be seen. Dominant on the landscape, it’s the world’s biggest hotel. With more than 10,000 rooms, you can imagine that the amount of people coming in and out must be ridiculous, right? Well, yes. But not in the way you might think. It turns out that this hotel and beach resort known as ‘Proha’ have never had even a single guest… Why? Well, because of the Nazis. Proha was built on instruction from Adolf Hitler. Building started in 1936 and it was just about…
10 year-old Toby Lee is a bit of a guitar whizz. Well, actually, ‘a bit of a guitar whizz’ is to do him a disservice. For a young boy of his age to be able to play the blues in the way he does is just crazy. We’re used to seeing the blues coming from wizened ol’ black dudes in beat-up hats, chain-smoking and drinking rye whisky in bars. Not pre-teens in toger onesies! Toby’s talent knows no age boundaries, though. In this video, we see him giving a very personal tribute to the late BB King with an instrumental…
Cats and dogs. Republicans and Democrats. Red Sox and Knicks fans. Sometimes in life, two warring factions from either side of something will hate each other with such verve and passion that reconciliation just isn’t possible. And we put cyclists and drivers very much in that bracket. Their mutual hatred accounts for so much angry road rage. The video we’ve got for you here appears to come from England and shows footage caught on a camera mounted on top of a cyclist’s helmet. Now you might have seen videos like these before. Like that one where the guy gets out…
Montreal, Canada. It’s August 1st 2015. A day like any other. 17 year-old kid Malyk Bonnet is waiting for a bus, much like he does on any other day. He notices something on the other side of the street. It’s a man and a woman having a blazing argument – a big one. It raises a bit of a red flag to Malyk. Sure, he’s seen scenes like this before, but there was something off about this couple, he thought to himself. “The guy was screaming at her, the girl,” Bonnet told local news outfit CBC News. “He wasn’t really gentle…
Ricardo Azevedo, a Brazilian civil servant, has invented his own motorcycle. Not all that exciting, huh? Well, it is when you consider that his new two-wheeled vehicle doesn’t run on gas like every single other motorbike in the world. Oh no. His ‘T Power H20’ runs on… you guessed it – water. His new bike can run 310 miles (or 500 kilometers) on just a liter of the stuff. In a recent demonstration to media, Azevedo can be seen swigging on the ‘fuel’ before filling up the bike and riding off into the sunset. But, the water that the T…
Most of us love cats, don’t we? Okay, sure – some of you out there might prefer dogs… But it takes a real heart of stone not to at least find felines cute and cuddly. But if you think having a cuddle with a little pussycat on your lap is adorable, just imagine if the cat was as big as you! Hugging a cheetah might sound like one of the most dangerous things you can do, but if you know what you’re doing and you’ve built up a rapport with the animal, it’s perfectly safe. Just ask Cheetah Experience volunteer…
We all know that Hollywood stars have a lot of money, don’t we? Even those that aren’t exactly at the height of their power and earning potential. Like John Travolta, for example. The famous Scientologist isn’t really A List anymore, is he? Sure, he’s still a big name, but when was the last time you saw him on TV? When he did that weird awkward kiss with Scarlett Johannsson probably. Unless you’re counting that re-run of Broken Arrow you watched on cable TV recently… But A List or not – he’s been a big deal in acting circles for decades. Which…
Parkour is a French training discipline which evolved from the classic military obstacle course. Its aim is to get a person from one point to another – usually in a complex, obstacle-filled environment (sometimes urban) – in as quick and efficient way as possible. You’re running, vaulting, jumping, landing, hanging, rolling, skipping, pacing up walls, all sorts. It’s a risky pasttime best only attempted by professionals… Oh, and Japanese schoolgirls, apparently. You see, the girl in the video below is late for school. But instead of facing the potential trouble she’d get in were she to stroll through the front…
The Westboro Baptist Church are one of the most loathed organizations in America. Their fundamental Christian beliefs are zealous and aggressive. You’ll know them as the people with the huge neon signs who picket every event going from rallies to military funerals. Often with an extremely homophobic bent to their point. Their latest target? A Foo Fighters concert in Kansas City. But this protest saw a protest back… By the actual Foo Fighters themselves! The band jumped aboard the back of a pick-up truck and drive slowly passed the congregation shouting, waving their own signs and even Rickrolling them! That’s…
It’s long been suggested that cannabis may have untold health benefits. And that’s a rumor that turned out to be true when GPs and doctors began being able to prescribe what became known as ‘medical marijuana’ to people – mainly as pain relief. But campaigners have long insisted that weed can go even further and actually help in the fight against cancer. And now the US Government agrees. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has just released a report which states that the cannabinoids found in cannabis can kill cancer cells and even shrink one of the most serious types…