Bizarre

North Korea has claimed that Kim Jong-un's father invented burritos. The propaganda mouthpiece for the dictator's regime claimed that Kim Jong-il dreamed up the Mexican dish prior to his death in ...

Twins born just 15 minutes apart ended up having different birthdays in different years. Alfredo Antonio Trujillo was born at 11.45pm on New Year’s Eve (31.12.21) at Natividad Medical ...

The world's oldest person has celebrated her 119th birthday in Japan. Kane Tanaka marked the milestone on Sunday (02.01.22) at the nursing home she resides in the Fukuoka prefecture in the ...

A woman who tested positive for COVID-19 on a transatlantic flight self-isolated for five hours on the plane's toilet. Marisa Fotieo was travelling from Chicago to the Icelandic capital Reykjavik last ...

Cats have started more than 100 house fires in South Korea for the past three years. Officials from the Seoul Metropolitan Fire and Disaster Department have revealed that felines caused a ...

Humans living on Mars could become space cannibals. Scientists have warned that humans may be forced to eat each other if farming plans for the red planet fail to materialise. Elon Musk ...

Police in Cyprus are investigating after a statue of a giant potato was found vandalised. The sculpture in the village of Xylophagou was cut down in the early hours of New ...

One of the world's deadliest snakes survived a 4,000-mile trip from Pakistan to Britain. A forklift driver in Manchester spotted a saw-scaled viper in a shipment of bricks that had arrived ...

A "wonky donkey" has been gifted a prosthetic leg for Christmas. Tommy had always struggled to walk after being born with a leg much weaker than its others and his back ...

A school dedicated to preparing people to play Santa Claus has been honoured with a Guinness World Record. The Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in the US state of Michigan ...

Venus could have alien lifeforms in its clouds, scientists have suggested. Experts from Cardiff University, MIT and Cambridge University have claimed that the planet could have the colourless gas ammonia in ...

A man with 278 piercings on his penis claims that he has a great sex life. Rolf Buchholz holds the Guinness World Record for having 453 piercings all over his body ...

A university is launching a one-year degree in pantomime. Staffordshire University is offering a masters course aimed at people working both inside and outside of the industry. The course will begin ...

A former model claims that he has been able to maintain his six-pack by drinking his own urine. Troy Casey has maintained an impressive physique into his fifties and he puts ...

The discovery of an extinct reptile species has shed light on the origins of human teeth. Researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered the Shashajaia – one of the most ...

A British scientist is hoping to prove that life exists on Mars. Dr. Christian Schroder will pilot a rover on the red planet for 230 days next year and believes the ...

A large spider interrupted a press conference from Australian health officials. Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath was speaking at an outdoor news conference to discuss the need for businesses to follow ...

A family's Rudolph decoration keeps getting attacked by real deer. Arlene Chmelyk - from Fort Nelson in British Columbia - has explained how her family have discovered that aggressive local deer ...

A woman who married a tree has revealed her boyfriend doesn't mind the competition. Kate Cunningham changed her surname to Elder in 2019 after tying the knot with a tree that ...

Human muscle cells will be launched into space as part of a new experiment. The MicroAge study will take off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre ...

An album made up of tweets and squawks from endangered birds has debuted in Australia's music charts. 'Songs of Disappearance' features the birdsongs from 53 of Australia's most threatened bird species ...

A man was kicked off a flight in the United States for wearing women's underwear as a face mask. In footage that has been shared widely online, Adam Jenne is seen ...

A painting pig's latest piece of art has sold for £20,000. The porky painter, which has been nicknamed Pigcasso, has created a piece of artwork on a canvas using her snout. Within ...

Brits will spend more than seven hours online on Christmas Day. A study of 2,000 adults has found that many will be going overboard to spend time with their family and ...