What is a kibbutz? A short answer would be a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based around agriculture. Nowadays they have since expanded into other areas. It was famously extremely popular as working holiday. But, of course it was much more than this. Israel and the Kibbutz Few people realize, but in the…
Neutral …what? What was the only country in the world to have Esperanto as the national language? Neutral Moresnet. Now that the pub trivia is out of the way, let’s get down and dirty with one of the most pointless countries ever to grace God’s green earth. Ever heard of Neutral Moresnet? Probably not, but…
Introduction Is it true that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war? No it is not true, in fact quite a few countries with a McDonalds have gone to war. Where did this theory come from? The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization is a 1999 book by Thomas L….
It is not all that often when you can largely sum up a story in the opening gambit, but a UK male has been jailed for 3 years for banging chickens to death ,whilst his wife filmed it. Yep, that is what happened! Murder most fowl AKA banging chickens to death The convict has been…
So, I imagine most of you know who Saddam was. Back before America was screeching angrily about north Korea’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, it was the Republic of Iraq stuck firmly in their crosshairs. There was a whole bunch of different wars, with the Gulf War officially marking Iraq as one of America’s hot post…
Before we get to Ethiopia’s very ‘Julian Assange’ style story, first some context. The Cold War was an interesting time for Africa. With many of the nations being victims of European colonialism, their sudden independence throughout the 50s and 60s led to many rapidly aligning themselves with the east. Some would go on to become…
A Chinese Tibetan social media star has died after her ex-husband doused her in petrol and set her on fire while she was recording a live-streaming show on Tiktok, or known as Douyin in China. The man broke into the star’s home armed with a cleaver and a tank petrol before attacking her in front…
A 58-year-old Chinese father and his 18-year-old teenage son in China’s southern Guizhou province have seven silicone sex dolls and are big fans of the “beautiful female figures”. The father has encouraged his son to use the the dolls “to satisfy his biological needs” and treat them like family. Read why you should never bad…