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• 10 Of The Most Legendary And Mysterious Creatures Of Modern Times

  

  image credit There are creatures that lurk out there in the dark, that haunt the isolated forests of the world, that hide in the icy depths of the deepest lakes. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 RANDOM

• The Oldest Surviving Aerial Photograph

  

  image credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art Aerial photography was first practiced by the French photographer and balloonist Gaspard-FĂŠlix Tournachon,... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY

• 2,747 Toothpicks In My Beard

  Not my beard, I don't have one. But Beardpick does. He attempted to put 3,000 toothpicks in his beard. He came close. He unboxed 2,750 and put them in... but 3... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Drinking Of Absinthe: Dancing With The Green Fairy

  

  image credit: Eric Litton cc Absinthiana are the trappings and accessories associated with the drinking of absinthe. This anise-flavoured spirit is made from th... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Sidewall Skiing Is The Dumbest New Trend In Saudi Arabia

  

  Two-wheel driving, known as 'skiing' or 'sidewall skiing,' is the latest viral craze to hit Saudi Arabia. Only men can take part in these stunts as Saudi... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Google's April Fools' Day Pranks

  

  Every year Google has a lot of April Fools' Day pranks. This year they had Google Nose, Google Gmail Blue, Google Maps Treasure Mode, YouTube closing down,... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• BionicOpter

  German company Festo made the BionicOpter. The BionicOpter has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• World Autism Awareness Day

  

  image credit: United Nations Today is World Autism Awareness Day. The day has been held every year since 1989. It was designated by the United Nations General... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGY

• 5 Beekman Street: Manhattan's Financial District's Hidden History

  

  image credit: Rob Boudon cc When it was built in 1881-1883, 5 Beekman Street was the first high rise building in New York. Things have changed on the street... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 CULTURE

• The Balloonists Of Pere Lachaise Cemetery

  

  image credit: joshuagarr cc Resting eternally hand-in-hand in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France are two balloonists who tried to fly higher than... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Thermoses, Thermoses, Thermoses! Everywhere You Look, More Thermoses!

  

  image credit: Denae Bedard cc Kyle Bitters, a retired air traffic controller from Cleveland, Ohio, has been collecting thermoses since the early 90′s. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Messing With Time

  

  image credit: Isabelle Grosjean cc Last Sunday morning it was Daylight saving time here and we had to advance our clocks by 1 hour. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Why Do 'Single' Birds Dance?

  

  image credit: fveronesi1 cc The graceful leaping, bowing, running, spinning and grass-tossing of dancing cranes is mesmerising and mysterious. Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Meenakshi Amman Temple - India's Dazzling Shrine Saturated With Statues

  

  image credit: muvare cc The city of Madurai in the South Eastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world and... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Magnetic Putty Time-Lapse

  as it absorbs a rare-earth magnet. Taken over 1.5 hours at 3fps, played back at 24fps. The magnetic putty will eventually arrange itself so that the outer... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Mary Toft And Her Extraordinary Delivery Of Rabbits

  

  image credit: John Laguerre In late 1726 much of Britain was caught up in the curious case of Mary Toft, a woman from Godalming, Surrey who claimed that she... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• The Story Of New York's Sidewalk Clock

  

  In lower Manhattan, blocks from where the World Trade Center once stood, embedded deep into the sidewalk, is a clock. It's a simple clock, the hours and... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• To Sea, And Not To See

  

  image credit: jurvetson cc What does it take to not get noticed? A few years ago a biologist named Bill Saidel took a new look at some old fish, asked himself... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• 15 Spectacular Hidden Beaches

  

  image credit: wallyg cc A hidden beach is a landform along the shoreline of an ocean, sea, lake or river that is difficult to access because of its remoteness o... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM

• Worst Burglar Ever

  The Police in Redding, California, USA, released this surveillance video of a bumbling and oddly dressed burglary suspect who threw a rock earlier in March... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 HUMOR, RANDOM