Author: The Averagebeing

You know that saying, “some chase greatness, others have it thrust upon them”? Yeah, Venezuela’s María Corina Machado got a Nobel Peace Prize, while Donald Trump got… really loud about not getting one. Hidden somewhere in Venezuela, dodging persecution from Nicolás Maduro’s regime, María Corina Machado picked up a call that changed her life. On the other end was Kristian Berg Harpviken from the Norwegian Nobel Institute, politely asking her to keep a tiny secret: She’d just won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. “Oh my God… I have no words,” she said, choking up. “I don’t deserve it. This is…

Okay, this might be the first time in history someone robbed a supermarket for family values. Not from greed, but because of love. In Guadeloupe, a 60-year-old former firefighter with zero criminal record, calmly walked into a supermarket, pointed a rifle at the cashier, and demanded the money. Oh, and while he was at it, he grabbed a piece of Emmental cheese and a bottle of wine. Then he walked out slowly, and even waited on the sideline to be arrested. Turns out, that was his plan all along. The man wasn’t trying to get rich or hurt someone, he…

You know how influencers will stream anything these days? Well, Twitch streamer Fandy just raised the bar or, uh, the contractions… So, Texas-based gaming influencer Fandy (real name not disclosed because the internet doesn’t need to know everything, ironically) went full viral on October 8 by livestreaming the birth of her second child on Twitch. Yep, not a gaming session, not a Q&A, but an actual home birth, live, with thousands watching. View this post on Instagram A post shared by ғᴀɴᴅʏ (@fandybtw) The stream showed the full process. No filters, no cutaways, and after the internet collectively gasped, Fandy…

You know your relationship’s gone downhill when an argument doesn’t just end in blocked numbers, it ends with the SWAT team outside your house. So, Derrick Groves, a 28-year-old inmate who literally ripped a toilet off a jail wall to escape New Orleans’ Orleans Parish Justice Center back in May, has finally been caught after five months on the run. His Hollywood-level hideout ended, ironically, because of a fight with his girlfriend in Atlanta. According to a few reports and also the neighbors, the couple was screaming early that morning hours before police rolled up with gas canisters, flash bangs,…

Brazil has opened the world’s largest mosquito factory, a 1,300-square-meter mega-lab in Campinas that breeds up to 190 million mosquitoes a week. No, this is not some prank, and don’t start swatting yet. These aren’t your regular bloodsuckers. They’re part of a carefully engineered army carrying Wolbachia, a harmless bacteria that blocks diseases like dengue, Zika, and chikungunya from spreading. The project, a partnership between Oxitec, the World Mosquito Program, and Brazil’s Ministry of Health, aims to protect 140 million people. I mean we could see trucks literally driving through dengue hotspots, releasing clouds of bacteria-infected mosquitoes to breed with…

Okay, either Dr. Max Rempel is a genius ahead of his time, or this is how all those sci-fi movies start right before humanity collectively screams, “Wait, he was serious?” So, a geneticist, Dr. Max Rempel, claims that millions of us might have alien DNA. Yeah, not metaphorically, he literally thinks extraterrestrials have been “editing” our genes over the years, possibly through abductions. His study, which hasn’t yet been peer-reviewed (because, of course), analyzed 581 families from the 1,000 Genomes Project and found 11 families with chunks of DNA that didn’t match either parent. Translation: someone’s been sneaking into our…

They were so confident in their bad work that they posted it online and then had to delete it because the Internet said, “Nah, chief.” The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Mumbai’s government body, tried flexing its “problem solved” muscles by posting photos of a repaired road in Mumbai’s Kunchi Korve Nagar. But instead of applause, they got memes, mockery, and probably a lifetime supply of shame. An activist, Er Ataul Khan, flagged the pothole back in June, saying it caused “huge jerks” to vehicles. Four months later, BMC proudly announced “Issue resolved” with photos that would make anyone think twice…

Sometimes the stories you read make you wonder if humanity’s moral compass is broken. A 35-year-old Florida nurse, Alexis Von Yates, is behind bars after admitting she abused her 15-year-old stepson, a crime her own husband discovered when he walked in on the scene. Von Yates took a plea deal that dropped her original sexual battery charge to a lesser felony of lewd and lascivious battery. She’ll serve two years in state prison, followed by community control and ten years’ probation as a registered sex offender. The judge has now added fines and victim-support payments to her sentence. The victim’s…

64-year-old Jeff Geraci thought he was just driving home from a workout in Virginia when his body decided to quit on him. A massive “widow maker” heart attack hit, his heart stopped, and he blacked out behind the wheel. His car veered across lanes, smashed into a sign, and came to a stop—right outside a cardiologist’s office. And not just any cardiologist. Dr. Deepak Talreja, chief of cardiology at Sentara Health, happened to be inside, phone in hand, with 911. He sprinted out, found Geraci surrounded by airbags, unresponsive, and without a pulse. “You weren’t breathing, and you didn’t have…

The hell? Did this guy think he was in some taxi and could just “hop off” mid-ride? A Ryanair flight from London to Alicante had to make an emergency landing in Toulouse after a British passenger, Daniel Ashley-Laws, tried to open the emergency exit while the plane was cruising. According to reports, the man had downed massive amounts of duty-free booze before boarding, so much that he could barely stand. Once on board, things got messy. Ashley-Laws, who also goes by “Dan Rizz” online, was spotted fiddling with the exit, which freaked out everyone around him. The man refused to…

Have you ever noticed how some battles in life feel harder than they should be? Like, curing a common cold seems easier than getting your rental deposit back, right? But in Bengaluru, India, one tenant just did the impossible. He got all his Rs 2.6 lakh ($2,927) back from his landlord as claimed in a now deleted Reddit post (My story how I recovered 2.6 L security deposit by u/Best_Taste_7704 in LegalAdviceIndia). Yes, miracles do happen, apparently. So during COVID, the guy rented a 3.5 BHK for ₹55,000 ($619.31) a month. Post-pandemic, the landlord hiked rent to ₹78,000 ($878.29). Since…

Okay…how do I explain this one? You’re an entrepreneur in China, successful, filthy rich, and then one day, you fall head over heels for your younger employee. He’s hardworking, handsome, and understands you like no one else. Except there’s one tiny catch: he’s married. But don’t worry, you’ve got money to throw at the problem. So what do you do? Write a fat check. That’s exactly what Zhu, a businesswoman in Chongqing, did. She handed over 3 million yuan (about $420,000) to her lover He, so he could divorce his wife, Chen, and sweeten the deal with compensation for her…

Man, if you ever wanted proof that life doesn’t follow a neat LinkedIn trajectory, meet Zhao Dian. On paper, he’s a dream candidate with three master’s degrees in finance, globe-trotting education from Sydney to Paris to New York, and fluency in elite academia overseas. But instead of cashing in on Wall Street or sipping lattes in Shanghai’s financial district, the 32-year-old is living on the streets of Dali, Yunnan, surviving on just US$14 a month. And he chose to do this. Three fancy diplomas later, Zhao wakes up at 7 a.m., packs up by 9 p.m., showers at hostels, eats…

At 11 pm in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, a man rolled up in his car near some street vendors late at night, parked, and decided the world was his bathroom. Naturally, the cart family selling food nearby objected. I mean, imagine buying or even eating something there, and the family also has a daughter, too, and this guy’s just relieving himself a few feet away. Gross, right? But instead of apologizing like any sane person, the guy snapped. He hurled insults, even telling the vendor’s wife to keep her daughter indoors, and then pulled out a freaking pistol. Witnesses say…

So here’s a story I never thought I’d type out. A 98-year-old grandma in Shanghai, China, looked in the mirror, saw a horn growing from her forehead, and decided, nah, no doctors, scissors will fix it. Yep, she literally gave herself DIY surgery at almost 100. In Chinese folklore, these hornlike growths are seen as a symbol of long life. Sure enough, Granny Gu had been carrying hers for years. I mean, it grew to about finger length, but during a hospital stay for another issue, she got fed up. Instead of calling the nurse, she whipped out a pair…