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Indian Man Has Been Walking Backwards for 25 Years to Achieve World Peace

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 04:04 AM PDT

For the past 25 years, Mani Manithan has been walking backwards in a bizarre bid to achieve world peace. He started in 1989, after a string of violent incidents in his home country India shocked him. Now he says that he's gotten so used to it that he couldn't walk straight even if he wanted to!

Manithan sells mobile phones for a living in Agraharam village, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Since June 14, 1989, he has been breaking various records in walking backwards – all in an effort to achieve world peace. One of his very first acts after taking his vow was to walk backwards 300 miles,  naked, all the way from his village to Chennai city.

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Would You Let This Incredibly Talented Tattoo Artist Permanently Ink You Freehand?

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 02:27 AM PDT

Jay Freestyle, a South African tattoo artist based in Amsterdam, creates incredible, ethereal tattoos. And here's the surprising bit – he works without a plan. It's impossible to tell by looking at his work, but the 29-year-old inks freehand, making it all up as he goes. He works with only one motto: "Give me a piece of your skin and I'll give you a piece of my soul."

It doesn't matter how many ideas you have in your head about your tattoo before you visit Jay. Once you speak to him and realize what he can do, you're just going to turn around and say 'Go for it, I trust you blindly'. So far, he has never disappointed a single client.

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80-Year-Old Woman Dedicates Her Life to Swatting Flies, Kills Up to 1,000 Per Day

Posted: 09 Jun 2014 01:04 AM PDT

When 80-year-old Ruan Tang had retired, around 14 years ago, she wanted to spend her time doing something useful for her community. And when she realized how much the flies were bothering people during the summer, she decided to do something about it. Tang is now a woman on a mission – to swat as many pesky flies as possible.

"I decided that killing flies was the best way for me to be useful – and I've been doing it now every day since," she said. Tang, who belongs to the Changmingsixiang Community in eastern China's Hangzhou City, has made it her full-time hobby – for the past 14 years she has spent eight hours a day, seven days a week, killing flies.

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