Mao Mao, a two-year-old British Shorthair from Chongqing, China, works as a professional cat model and earns between 5,000 yuan...
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Every April, the people of Kairuppala, a village in Andhra Pradesh state, Southern India, engage in an epic cow dung...
Many do not know that there was a time when almost every rural British family who kept bees followed a...
Spring gets nearer, and a symbol of the season is the Pussy Willow. Salix discolor is its botanical name, and...
It wasn't just any clam. Ming the Clam was 507 years old. For his whole life, he lived on the...
Jacu Bird Coffee is one of the world’s rarest (and most expensive) coffee varieties. It is made from coffee cherries...
Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog which is...
We are in Beddgelert, North Wales, just south of Snowdon. Meaning literally the grave of Gelert, Beddgelert was once described...
Groundhog Day, on February 2, claim that if a groundhog emerging from its burrow on this day sees its shadow...
In ancient times, it was common to track the changing seasons by following the lunar month rather than the solar...
It’s hard to believe that elephant dung could be the main ingredient of a booze, but that's absolutely true: South...
The island of Kauai, in the Hawaiian archipelago, is home to thousands of feral chicken that have developed a real...
Chả rươi, or simply "sand worm omelet", is a seasonal Vietnamese dish made with (unsightly) sea worms that some say...
The small Indian village of Gummatapura is famous all over the world for its unique way of ending the annual...
In Sweden there is a town that every year celebrates the start of the Christmas season by putting up a...
Animals play a prominent role a Christmas, regardless of whether or not religious beliefs are behind it. The story of...
Ettore was abandoned in a cardboard box along the pier in Viareggio, Italy. It was 1997, and from that moment...
The little red-breasted, cheerful robins, often called also the Christmas robins, indicate the season of sun and spring. This rather...
Two men lurking over the pen. Meanwhile a large, male turkey walked in a circle, readying his mating dance, waiting...
In warm weather, the beautiful rolling hills of Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido burst with flowers while, in cold weather,...
If you are lucky enough to own a castle you want to enjoy the fine views on your lands from...
On this day, October 5, 1996, a beautiful bride wore a pink satin dress and arrived by helicopter. And the...
As you probably know cats in Rome are very popular and they have always found shelter amongst the ancient city...
Surrounded by lush vegetation and dotted with ponds and pools of water, the Chinese village of Ding Wuling should be...
Singaporean media recently reported the bizarre divorce case of a couple whose separation was largely caused by the wife’s obsession...
You know what 2020 is missing? An invasion of trillions of screaming cicadas after 17 years underground! Yes, seriously. 2020...
Strange but true, "A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony" seems to be one...
Early polar exploration was a lonely adventure, where sailors would be stuck on their ships for months, subsisting on barely...
Eggs, rabbits...we already know what these symbols mean. Also the lamb is one of the most prominent symbols of Easter....
All the fun things about Easter have pagan roots, and It is not a coincidence if the most widely-practiced customs...
