Oddity
Nepalese Family Loses Four Members to the Same Wild Elephant Over 12 Years
In 2012, when Shanichara Bote lost his mother and father in a brutal elephant attack at the Baruwa ...View More
The World’s Largest Paper Plane Is 7 Meters Long and Weighs 63 Pounds
Paper planes are among the simplest things anyone can make, but the world’s largest paper plane is ...View More
Superstitious Man Slaps Twitching Eye to Ward Off Bad Omen, Suffers Detached Retina
In many cultures, a twitching eye is considered a bad omen, but we have various ways of dealing wi ...View More
A Growing Number of Russian Women Are Selling Their Used Breast Implants Online
The popularity of breast implants has been steadily dropping in Russia, with plastic surgeons repo ...View More
China’s “Rooftop Rain” Urban Cooling System Goes Viral
For decades, air-conditioning has been the answer to increasingly hotter summers in developed coun ...View More
Mexican Mayor Accused of Staging Her Own Kidnapping to Cover Up Embezzlement Scheme
On May 31st, Nancy Nápoles and her sister were the victims of a kidnapping right in front of the m ...View More
Chinese Company Unveils World’s First Full-Size Mass-Produced Ultra-Bionic Humanoid Robot
China has been at the forefront of the humanoid robot revolution for a very long time, but now a C ...View More
Bank Manager Embezzles $45,000 by Replacing Banknotes with Cartoonish Play Money
We’ve featured a variety of complex and clever embezzlement cases on Oddity Central over the years ...View More
The World’s Most Expensive Letter Is Surprisingly Boring
The so-called “Bordeaux Letter,” held by an anonymous collector from Singapore, has fascinated phi ...View More
Scientists Develop Cockroach Diving Suits for the Benefit of Mankind
Most people would rather watch a cockroach drown or kill it with fire, but a team of scientists fr ...View More
