#Italy

  • 99-year-old man divorcing his 96-year-old wife after finding out about affair…from 60 years ago

    This story is equal parts sad and strange, especially when you consider that there are a minuscule amount of couples who have been married for 77 years in this day and age.  Not too many make it that long, and unfortunately you can deduct one more from that extremely...
  • saraghina

    Sexism fail: Italian firm pink-slips women so they can “stay at home”

    Though it’s a rough time to be a business anywhere in the world, one Italian firm has found itself in a PR fiasco after laying off fifteen of its eighteen female employees.  The justification?  “We are firing the women so they can stay at home and look after the...
  • And for their next trick, Italy brings us cold fusion!

    They’ve brought us pizza (they still do!), they’ve invented the road, and marble, they’ve perfected pasta and made real football unwatchable, now for their next trick; Cold fusion. It’s the holy grail of energy making processes, basically it’s a controversial (but patented) process by which very little mass is...
  • sneeze

    Man shot in head, sneezes out bullet

    You might’ve seen a magician ‘catch’ a bullet between their teeth, but you probably haven’t seen one do the same with their nose. That’s exactly what Darco Sangermano accomplished on New Years Eve in Naples, Italy.  The stray .22 caliber round entered his right temple and lodged in his...
  • Italian mushroom pickers drop like flies

    At least 18 people have died while mushroom picking in Italy this year – not one of them from accidental poisoning. In their quest for delicious fungi, the hapless ‘shroomers all fell victim to dangerous terrain. They fell down crevasses, gorges and rocky slopes. The Lombardy region claimed 7,...