Culture Buzz 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.
Culture Buzz 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.
Culture Buzz 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.]
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.
Culture Buzz 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)
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)
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.
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.
Culture Buzz 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.
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.