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Giant Car Cows
Thursday, December 22, 2011 · 3 Comments
The Finnish sculptor Miina Äkkijyrkkä purchases dozens of used vehicles from dealers around Finland and uses them to create enormous cow sculptures! About the Artist As an uncompromising, artistic individual Akkijyrkka has managed to combine in her output elements often seen as contradictory, such as agriculture and “high” culture, the ...
Lost class ring returned after 72 years
Thursday, December 22, 2011 · 1 Comment
This is the story of a long lost school ring, and the person who found it and returned it. 90-year-old Jesse Matos recently received a call he says he’ll never forget. Jesse said, “He called me up and told me, ‘I found your ring.’ What ring?” The caller told Jesse ...
The world’s deepest bedroom
Welcome to the Sala Silvermine Hotel You can sleep 508 feet underground in an underground suite in historic Sala Silvermine, one of the world’s best preserved mine settings. Here you will see dark winding galleries, vast caverns and magic lakes. Even to those not familiar with mining, the underground setting ...
Plutonium Powered Pacemakers
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 · 5 Comments
What da? … A Nuclear Pacemaker?? Pacemakers are used to stimulate a regular heartbeat when the body’s natural electrical pacing system is irregular or not transmitting properly. Over the years, various power sources have been used for pacemakers, including thermoelectric batteries containing 2 to 4 curies of plutonium-238 (88 year half-life). ...
Shin Kicking Championship?
Thursday, November 17, 2011 · 5 Comments
Thousands of fans gather to watch an annual shin-kicking championships which date back to the 17th Century. 16 competitors battled it out in the vicious contest in Gloucestershire where they grasp each others shoulders and quack at their rivals shins. The sport dates back to 1636 when it formed part ...
How Can Some People Hear Their Own Eyeballs Move?
Thursday, November 17, 2011 · 4 Comments
A disorder of the inner ear called superior canal dehiscence syndrome causes every sound within the body to be amplified, even the movement of one’s eyeballs, all the time. Sounds strange, but it is true (and treatable) … Believe It or Not! A CACOPHONY OF BODILY FUNCTIONS: Superior canal dehiscence ...
Tipu’s Tiger – Ancient Mechanical Wonder
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 · 4 Comments
Who Was Tipu? Tipu Sultan, was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in India, and was commonly known as the Tiger of Mysore and adopted this animal as the symbol of his rule. It is said that Tipu Sultan was hunting in the forest with a French ...
Driving Mr. Bailey the Buffalo
Thursday, November 10, 2011 · 6 Comments
At almost six feet tall at the hump, eight feet long and weighing 1800 pounds, Bailey junior is quite possibly the world’s largest domestic pet. Owned by Jim and Linda Sautner at their Spruce Grove property in Canada’s Alberta province, the three year old brute is a local and international ...
South Korean scientists create glowing dog
Thursday, November 10, 2011 · 9 Comments
South Korean scientists have created a beagle that glows green in certain types of light, adding yet another animal to the growing list of genetically modified dogs and cats produced in recent years. Tegon, the glowing, two-year-old beagle, glows with a bright, fluorescent green hue under ultraviolet light when a ...
Girl Has Tongue Lengthened So She Can Speak Korean
Thursday, November 10, 2011 · 8 Comments
Student Rhiannon Brooksbank-Jones has had surgery to lengthen her tongue so she can speak Korean like a native. Rhiannon, 19, who hopes to live in Korea after university, found she had difficulties pronouncing some words. Her dentist said it was because her tongue was shorter than average, which meant she ...
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