The Prices Of Vices Around The World
How much coffee, marijuana, cigarettes, cocaine, heroin, and booze can you buy for $20 around the world?
How much coffee, marijuana, cigarettes, cocaine, heroin, and booze can you buy for $20 around the world?
Get your comfort food ready.
Kind of just the end of the world as we know it, NBD.
Shanghai Style File spotted a Chinese toddler smoking cigarettes in Shanghai’s Fuxing Park on Easter Sunday.
Would you spend $80 a night to stay in a panda hotel? Yes, the answer is yes. Of course, you would.
Oppa! (via nbcnews.com)
It’s called “Panty Face” and involves schoolgirls wearing women’s underwear on their faces. That’s it really. (via en.rocketnews24.com)
The 10-ton meteor that struck the Russian city of Chelyabinsk Friday set off a shockwave that caused untold damage to the area and injured nearly 1,000 people.
They’re called pearls, Yakuza beads, or speed bumps, and it’s unclear exactly why young Australian prisoners are doing it.
Xianxiang can lift about four and a half pounds with each eyelid. Obviously, don’t click on this post if you’re squeamish about how eyes are supposed to work. (via behindthewall.nbcnews.com)
The Vevchani Carnival in Vevchani, Macedonia is a 1,400 year-old annual party that’s kind of like a dirty, raucous mix of our Halloween and New Year’s, but way weirder.
Luckily no one inside the apartment building was hurt. It’s still unclear what the thief was attempting to do with the stolen train.
A look at how some outlets abroad have covered the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Women currently make up only 9% of Afghan police recruits, and many male officers say working alongside them makes them uncomfortable. That hasn’t stopped women from joining, though.
They are walking in an upside down water world, right??
Redditor The310Investigator made this awesome map by painstakingly superimposing images of the world’s currencies onto the countries in which they’re used. (via reddit.com)
By making everything much cuter.
The bride wore lots and lots and lots of white. Susanne Eman is an 800-pound Arizona woman who hopes to eventually be the world’s fattest, at 1,600 pounds.
Meet Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India, dubbed today by Guinness as The World’s Shortest Woman at 2-feet 6-inches tall. Jyoti is 18-years-old and has a form of dwarfism called achondroplasia. She hopes to be a Bollywood star, and I have no doubt she’ll succeed.
Insert Katie Perry line here. Fireworks are exciting, no matter what the occasion and with New Years coming up in a couple months we thought we’d get you pumped early.
Today is World Sight Day. Yay, vision! Did you know that 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide? All of a sudden, 20/20 feels like a damn luxury to me.
Granted, with the addition of South Sudan, this is no longer accurate. Did anyone else notice that they listed Palestine as a nation? [Ed. note- For those of you now back in school, this may come in handy. This is how us old people learned our countries.] Watch Video ›
The Americas claimed more than 60 percent of cocaine users in 2009. The region still dominates the market in both number of users per capita and amount of cocaine consumed, but the drug is gaining traction in Europe and across the globe. Click to enlarge. View Image ›
Anders Behring Breivik is probably having a nice laugh about the fact that he’ll be serving his time in one of the cushiest penal systems in the world. (via newser.com) View List ›
Our friends in the Middle East have utilized the internet to help spread ideas about democracy. In the US, we tweet things like this. (via thehighdefinite.com) View Image ›
Interesting infographic breaking down the nationalities of villains in military-themed video games. China is quickly becoming the global boogeyman of choice. And apparently developers don’t find New Zealand very threatening. View Image ›
Aaron “Wheelz” Fotheringham landed the world’s first double backflip in a wheelchair. It started off with many painful attempts and ended with Skittles rain. Watch Video ›
In a perfect world, all of those annoying little things that go wrong would always just go right. And you know what? You probably wouldn’t even notice. View List ›
Not everyone can dig a hole to China — you might actually end up in the middle of some ocean if you made it all the way through… Here’s a fun tool that’ll tell you exactly where you’d end up if you made it to the other side of the world.