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· Laura Dang
Late fighting legend Muhammad Ali’s teenage grandson is a football star who just signed his first modeling contract. Seventeen-year-old Biaggio Ali Walsh, a high school senior, has signed on with Wilhelmina Models, a Dallas-based talent management agency that also represents…
· Editorial Staff
A 34-year-old man has accused a strip club of making him spend thousands of dollars while he was intoxicated. According to reports, he was surrounded by strippers for five hours. Meet Gil David, a business manager from Ireland who, one night in August 2013, ended up at the…
· Editorial Staff
The debate over whether dogs were domesticated in Europe or Asia may finally be resolved after all these years. Researchers recently found the remains of a 5,000-year-old dog in Ireland, suggesting dogs could have been domesticated twice, including once in Asia and another time…
· Editorial Staff
Remember how your grandparents might have told you unbelievable stories to highlight how easy kids have it these days? This group of children in China can probably brag that they have it harder than anyone.
· Ryan General
Star linebacker Patrick Willis shocked football fans when he left the NFL last year at the peak of his career. After eight fruitful years, the then 30-year-old linebacker ended his run in the league with an accumulated 950 tackles, 20.5 sacks, eight passes deflected and 16…
· Editorial Staff
Macau, the extremely rich city famous for being one of the most major gambling centers in the world, has one man to thank for its opulence — Stanley Ho. Ho is Macau’s richest billionaire who single-handedly built Macau’s gambling-based economy when he secured a…
· Laura Dang
There are plenty of stories about pro athletes blowing their fortunes on guilty pleasures and flashy toys, but even the most financially wise aren’t guaranteed a life of financial security.
· Editorial Staff
Diora Usmanova, 27, is the niece of Uzbekistan Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the niece-in-law of Arsenal tycoon Alisher Usmanov. Usmanova is a widow and heiress after her husband Babur Usmanov, 30, died in a horrific car accident in Tashkent in May 2013. He was believed…
· Laura Dang
Ryan Broyles knows the value of a dollar as he chooses to live frugally though he makes around half a million dollars a year playing for the NFL. Broyles, a wide receiver for the Detroit Lions from 2012 to 2014, allots himself a $5,000 monthly budget and drives a U-Haul when he…
· Editorial Staff
Bill Stanton, popularly known as “Wild Bill,” is a New York City-based private investigator and safety expert who has dedicated his life to teaching others survival techniques for mass shootings, child abductions, and theft, among other things. Stanton’s career started when he…
· Laura Dang
One man who worked the 50th Super Bowl this past Sunday as a concession stand worker lived to tell the tale. Gabriel Thompson, “a freelance journalist in need of money,” described his experience as a concession worker at one of the biggest sporting events on Earth with…
· Editorial Staff
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· Editorial Staff
Meet Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll, or as most people know him, Kygo. The now-24-year-old Norwegian is easily one of the most popular DJs today to have launched his career online. Kygo began in music at the age of six with piano lessons. By the age of 16, he began to compose his own music.
· Editorial Staff
According to a new book, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Psychological scientists Adam Galinksy and Maurice Schweitzer go over the research on cooperation and competition in their new book, “Friend and Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to…
· Laura Dang
With Halloween around the corner, many people are considering getting “cosmetic” contact lenses to accessorize their costumes. One unfortunate incident involving such contact lenses, however, left a teenager partially blind in her right eye. Hoping to jazz up her zombie costume…
· Max Chang
Petra László, the infamous Hungarian camerawoman who was fired after videos of her tripping refugees went viral, is now planning to sue Facebook and one of the refugees she tripped. László was fired from her job at news company N1TV after videos showed her kicking children and…
· Laura Dang
Brazilian soccer star Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, 23, has accomplished much for someone his age. Beloved in his home country and with adoring fans all around the world, Neymar also has 32 million Instagram followers who he keeps updated on his life, hairstyles and…
· Laura Dang
Seventeen-year-old Paul Houle is lucky to be alive thanks to his Apple Watch. The high school student from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, knew something was wrong when his Apple Watch said his resting heart beat was 145 beats per minutes.
· Sebastian Dillon
One Apple co-founder took ridiculous fake-bombs-in-school threats to the next level back in the day. When young evil genius Steve Wozniak was in high school, he purposefully built and programmed a fake bomb which ended up scaring the crap out of his school principal. His stunt…
· Editorial Staff
An organization in the UK called Hubub has come up with a brilliant way to encourage people not to litter by encouraging them to vote with their butts. Their initiative to clean up the streets involved installing voting ashtrays where smokers can vote on different sports…
Konami sits on a vault of iconic IP — Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Metal Gear, Silent Hill — plus a huge trading-card and mobile business.
Konami sits on a vault of iconic IP — Yu-Gi-Oh cards, Metal Gear, Silent Hill — plus a huge trading-card and mobile business.