In a clinic in Jakarta, Indonesia, tobacco is considered a cure for cancer. In the past ten years, Dr. Gretha Zahar, who is the founder of the clinic, has treated some 60 thousand people with tobacco smoke. No word on his success rate.
There are so many items in our everyday life that are called by their popular brand names instead of their actual names. But we use them all the time which makes it normal and if we start calling them by their generic terms, it would sound really weird and stupid.
Jacuzzi
What it's actually called: Whirlpool Bath
If you want a laugh type in just about anything in a search engine and see the outrageous results. Here are a few that made us giggle and snort.
Therapistfinder
The world already has, bacon calendars, baconaise, chocolate flavored bacon along with a ton more bacon items so why not add perfume.
Brian Eisch is a Staff Sergeant in the Army who has two sons, Joey and Isaac. Brian had to go to Afghanistan to fight in the war. Because the two boy’s mother isn’t around, when Brian deployed for a year the two boys left their home in upstate New York and went to live with their uncle in Wautoma, Wisconsin. Only having one parent, the two boys had to get used to a new school and a new environment while they were waiting for their father to return home safely.
If you like extraordinary tricks, this one will surely glue your attention. These people used a huge helicopter to open a bottle!
Would you like to fly through the air as if you were a superman? Raymond Li, engineer from Canada, spent about 10 years to design the most unusual water-powered machine that can speed your way across the water. You’ll be hovered up to 30 meters in the air. Your speed will be up to 22 miles per hour.
What would a sunrise on another planet look like?
Take a min and go back to your childhood with these skates, that are more than just a fun way to spend the afternoon.
It is amazing how much civil servants and bureaucrats make in different countries. Some of them make as little as $11 per month. Usually, these people have extremely large families.
Some people have incredible imaginations, and then some people just have a lot of time on their hands. Toilet bikes, ten-foot tall bikes, lawn chair bikes and even a bike that folds up into a backpack are all featured in this strange collection.
Apparently flooding can turn people to drinking beer, or they are all alcoholics and can’t even ride out a storm without some liquid courage. These men and women, mostly men, prove that a little set back like a flood does not stop them from pursuing their drunken stupors.
Comparative pictures of Chernobyl from 30 years ago and nowadays.
During a York University class in Toronto, an invited guest, a police officer, let the class know his feelings on women dressing “like whores.” He felt that if you dress provocatively, or like a slut, you are essentially asking to be raped. Needless to say, the 1,500 protestors did not agree, as their “Proud to be a slut” signs indicated.
Apprentice lineman J.D. Thompson is breathing life into the mouth of another apprentice lineman, R.G
Daredevil and certifiable crazy man Freddy Nock casually walked down a single cable suspended 10,000 feet over the ground. With a long balance stick in hand and his life literally in the balance, he trusted his tightrope walking skills to make it down the Swiss mountain safely.
These cars all had some sort off wierd body modifications to them. It was a way of proving it can be done, even if it looks wild or crazy someone loved it.
Instruments
Honk if you like music! This car is named the Pico de Gallo aka the Spicy Salsa. It is a Volkswagen Beetle covered in working musical instruments.
These poor people had to endure a river of sludge after their settlement was burned down. Many of them scavenged through the river of filth to try and salvage any personal belongings they could find.
Amazingly this dress is created from the discarded pages of little Golden Books.
It is difficult to imagine how anyone could work is such an unkept work space. You would think that a person would have time to clean up a little. Maybe the person is just so busy that they don’t have time. Business must be good.
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