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Posted by King Tirto on May 19, 2012

Virgin: The World’s Best Passenger Complaint Letter?

A six-page rant to Virgin Atlantic’s Sir Richard Branson about a woeful in-flight meal attracted so much attention on the Internet that it was rumored to be a clever marketing stunt. The author was reported to be Oliver Beale, a 29 year old art director who works at a London advertising agency. Both he and Virgin have insisted the letter, described as possibly “the world’s best...

Posted by King Tirto on Mar 16, 2012

Pricasso – The Penile Artist

Australian artist and also former Brisbane builder by the name of Tim Patch alias “Pricasso” is indeed blessed with a rare unusual talent and is the only penile artist in the world. He graduated from Bristol University in 1969 and was finding it difficult to penetrate the art market until he started using his penis to paint portraits of famous global figures, landscapes, and female nudes. When the...

Posted by King Tirto on Mar 9, 2012

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Men

Arthur S. Mole (born 1889 in England – died 1983 in the United States) was an English commercial artist who worked as a photographer in Zion, Illinois, north of Chicago. He became famous for a series of “living photographs” made during World War I. He traveled to various Army, Marine and Navy camps to execute his massive compositions in which tens of thousands of soldiers, reservists and...

Posted by King Tirto on Jan 31, 2012

Goldfish Salvation by Riusuke Fukahori

Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori’s work could best be described as a a combination between painting and sculpture. His unique style of painting creates incredible three-dimensional artwork by applying acrylic paint on multiple layers of transparent liquid resin. The resin is mixed with a hardener or catalyst, allowing him to paint each successive layer (similar to a 3D printer), eventually creating a...

Posted by King Tirto on Jan 28, 2012

3D Movie Made Woman Pregnant – HOAX!

This image of an apparent newspaper clipping telling the tale of a woman who claimed a 3D pornographic movie made her pregnant has slowly been gaining popularity on social network site Facebook. The story actually started back in May 2010 when a satirical website – named Sensacionalista – from Brazil, wrote the completely fictional story as a joke. However the story began being passed around as...

Posted by King Tirto on Jan 25, 2012

Beautiful Girl – Physiological Illusions

An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed in the brain to give a perception that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types: literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make...

Posted by King Tirto on Jan 15, 2012

Blind Woman Sees Again With Her Eye Tooth

“When they told me I was like, ‘Do What? You’re going to put it where?’” If you read my previous post about a British man, Martin Jones who had been blind for 12 years caused by an accident at work and recovered his sight by tooth implant, here’s a similar story that happened in September 2009 in the United States to a blind woman, Sharron “Kay”...

Posted by King Tirto on Jan 3, 2012

Crocodile Eats Golfer – Hoax!

This tale of reptilian horor began circulating via e-mail in mid July 1998. The story was about an American crocodile (crocodylus acutus) called “Ole Mose” which ate a golfer on a hotel golf course in Palm Beach, Florida. The photograph attached to the e-mail clearly showing a human arm being pulled from the stomach of a very large crocodile. This story is a hoax! Email contributed by Erin...

Posted by King Tirto on Jan 3, 2012

Anenchephaly: Frog-like Baby

Anenchephaly (ænənˈsefəli) is a cephalic disorder that results from a neural tube defect that occurs when the cephalic (head) end of the neural tube fails to close, usually between the 23rd and 26th day of pregnancy, resulting in the absence of a major portion of the brain, skull, and scalp. Strictly speaking, the translation of the Greek term to English is “no brain” (that is,...

Posted by King Tirto on Dec 11, 2011

Lina Medina: The Youngest Mother in Medical History

Lina Medina was born on September 27, 1933, in Ticrapo, Huancavelica Region, Peru. Lina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of 5 years because of increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, prior to the surgery to have other specialists confirm that...

Posted by King Tirto on Nov 16, 2011

Lizzie Velasquez – The Girl Who Can’t Gain Weight

For many people, the idea of eating whatever you want without gaining weight sounds like a dream. But it’s a life long battle for Lizzie Velasquez, a skeletally thin 21-year-old from Austin, Texas who is unable to put on weight even though she consumes 5,000 to 8,000 calories a day, according to the English paper the Telegraph. Velasquez was born prematurely, weighing only 2 pounds, 10 ounces....

Posted by King Tirto on Nov 13, 2011

Li Ching Yuen – A Man Who Lived 256 Years

LI CHING-YUEN DEAD; GAVE HIS AGE AS 197; ‘ Keep Quiet Heart, Sit Like a Tortoise, Sleep Like a Dog,’ His Advice for Long Life. INQUIRY PUT AGE AT 256. Reported to Have Buried 23 Wives and Had 180 Descendants; Sold Herbs for First 100 Years. When the Chinese herbalist Li Ching-Yuen died in 1933, newspapers around the world reported the news of his passing. According to his own testimony,...

Posted by King Tirto on Oct 30, 2011

Vietnam Burning Monk – The Self Immolation (1963)

On the evening of June 10, 1963 Malcolm Browne, a 30-year-old photographer from New York who was employed by Associated Press to cover the war, received a call telling him to be at a particular intersection in Saigon the next morning as something important was going to happen. He was there waiting the following morning, along with David Halberstam, a reporter from The New York Times, when a car pulled up...

Posted by King Tirto on Oct 16, 2011

Trepanation: Hole in the Head

BEWARNED… This post is not for the faint-hearted! Trepanning is one of the oldest forms of surgery and, frankly, one of the most bizarre. It’s essentially the boring of a hole into a person’s skull. The hows and whys differ depending on time and culture, but the fact remains that people have been drilling holes into their skulls for thousands and thousands of years. The founder of modern...

Posted by King Tirto on Oct 10, 2011

The Saigon Execution

South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, Vietnam on Feb 1, 1968. The prisoner had reportedly just murdered eight South Vietnamese. In 1969 Eddie Adams won the Pulitzer for spot news photography. Most of the iconic images of the 20th and 21st century have owned their photographers Pulitzer prizes for...

Posted by King Tirto on Oct 8, 2011

Napalm Strike, Vietnam

This photo of a naked and terrified young girl running towards Pulitzer prize-winning photographer Nick Ut has entered popular culture as a symbol of the horror of the Vietnam War. It was taken during the American bombing of the village of Trang Bang, Vietnam. However there has been much controversy over the events depicted in the photo. It is suggested that American bombers had nothing to do with this...