People & Celebrities

La Tomatina On the last Wednesday of August every year in the town of Buñol in the Valencia region of Spain, 9,000 locals and 20,000 – 40,000 foreigners descend on the town to throw tomatoes at each other in honor of the Virgin Mary and St. Louis Bertrand. This tradition has been around since the 1940s, though it was briefly suppressed under the reign of Franco. The festival starts with a person attempting to scale a greased pole to capture a cooked ham. Once the ham is taken down from the...

Junrey Balawing, the man who is about to become "the world’s shortest man." Although he is now 17 years old, his height is as same as a 3-year-old child. Because of this, June 18, after his 18th birthday, with the height of 22 inches (55.88 cm) he will officially become the shortest man in the world. As a man of only half a meter, in fact, life to him means hardship. Walking is difficult and can not even standing long time. To set a world record, he’s really happy. He said that’s pretty cool....

Indian man Ziona Chana has 39 wives and also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren. Photo of family group There’re total of 181 members of this largest family and all live in a 4 storey, 100 rooms building in Baktwang village, the state of Mizoram in Northeast India. 67 years old Ziona Chana is not only the head of the family, but also a local religious leader. "To expand my family, I am willing to go even to the America to marry.” Ziona Chana said proudly. His wives were...

The burning of a 40 foot wooden man in the middle of the Black Rock Desert is only a small part of the eight day Burning Man Festival. The most important part of the festival, say organisers is being part of the event, which involves living in a temporary purpose built city community and testing your self expression and self reliance. This can be in the form of participating in art projects and community life or just letting yourself go a bit crazy to the beat of your own drum. More than...

We`ve all heard of the drivers like Jim Clark, Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio etc. There are many things connecting these guys, but the most important (having in mind theme of this article) is the fact that they are all men! Take a look what happens when girls try to take over world of wheels… Of course, this is just a joke, I hope that there will be no hard feelings. :)

Daredevil activities are on the rise in Asia -- and we don’t only mean snowboarding or skydiving. For the truly hardcore, there’s yak skiing in India. Or rolling down the Cambodian hillside in a giant sphere. Here are 10 thrills that will get the most jaded heart thumping. 1. Pakistan: Crossing a barely-there suspension bridge Often hailed as "the most dangerous bridge in the world", the Hussaini-Borit Lake bridge in Northern Pakistan looks like a set from an Indiana Jones film. The...

Mystery Castle was built by Boyce Luther Gulley over a 15 year period. The mystery in Mystery Castle, is what compelled Gulley to abandon his job, wife, and his one year old daughter and set off to build the castle. Gully disappeared altogether for three years before turning up in Phoenix and beginning work on the castle. The Castle is said to be held together by a combination of mortar, cement and goats milk, and built from a wide range of materials including stone, adobe, automobile parts,...

It seems that locks aren’t just simply used to keep property secure from theft and vandalism any more. For decades now a custom has slowly been creeping across the world whereby loving, romantic, and sometimes superstitious couples have decided to write messages on padlocks, attach them to certain landmarks in specific areas - more often than not railings and fences - and then throw away the key. The practice, as well as symbolising a couple’s unending love for each other, is in some...

Kevin Richardson is engaged by the white lions in a park in South Africa. Since normally the lions come to him while he was still cubs, then between them and a man having a very warm feeling. As an adult lions are always happy appearance of Kevin, played with him. And if one of the lions suddenly for something ryknet to Kevin, he will be immediately on the head from the rest of the pack.

A guitar for a hairdo, wow! This unique hair style was seen at a hair show in Budapest. ( Link ) A tattoo combined with hair might be something, especially when you wear something like this. Blue and red checker board. Pink and black swirl. Boom! Headshot. Static is cool! 50/50. ( Link ) This old guy must have a great personality. It is actually pretty awesome. ( Link ) Hair lip. Punk. ( Link ) Justice league in hair. Crazy hair day. ( Link ) Tetris inspired hair.

From the fruity pina colada to the manly Jack and coke, cocktails have come quite a long way since they became popular in the roaring twenties. Unfortunately, some flavors just don't go together and when a disgusting cocktail gets an even grosser name, the result can be enough to send anyone to Alcoholics Anonymous. A hearty bottoms up should go out to anyone who can keep these drinks down. Bloody Tampon Sometimes the ingredients in a drink just make you ask “why?” and in this case, the...

Hundred-year-old woman grows horn in forehead. The horn began growing on the left side of the forehead of Zhang Ruifang last year. Now it measures 5-6 centimeters long but the elderly woman feels no pain in the horn.

Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched. The teenager has had to undergo transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet. The teenager’s condition developed when she was 12 when she suddenly started bleeding between five and 20 times a day. Sometimes her condition is so bad she wakes up with her entire body covered in dried blood. “When I bleed from the head, my head...

Mirror, mirror, on the wall... what if you were made of wood? Interactive artist, Danny Rozen, has done just this, creating a mirror out of 830 wood blocks - but would you put one on your wall? Photo: The concept is simple but formidably clever: a tiny camera gathers light and shape data, before sending it to a computer that processes it and uses hundreds of tiny electric motors to shift the wood blocks into the image in front of the device. Subtle gradations of shade are achieved by both the natural grain of the wood and the angle at which they are displayed, casting shadow if necessary. ...