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This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago.
A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around kind of strangely in a nearby pond and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child’s basketball which became stuck in its mouth!! See the pictures here: |
A modern monowheel built by Kerry McLean. For a nice collection of monowheel pictures, see: Link |
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Hidden Mickeys started out as an inside joke by Walt Disney workers – they subtly "hide" Mickey Mouse’s signature ear silhouettes in plain sight.
Where? everywhere! Hidden Mickeys have been found on park rides, hotel decors, and even in Disney movies! See if you can find some of your own. Link |
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Terry Duty enjoys bending steel bars. He’s worked out the proper techniques of bending steel (yes, apparently there are proper techniques) that he called Slim the Hammer Man style and so forth. |
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The RIOT Wheel is a 1,100 lb motorized single-wheel vehicle first built for the Burning Man festival (where else?) Link |
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Yes, it’s a real hamlet in Austria and it’s pronounced "fooking". The hamlet is named after the man who founded the village in the 6th century – his name is Focko. Link If you can’t go to Austria, you can go to this village instead. It’s in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Link
If you like those two, chances are you’d like this List of Interesting or Unusual Place Names found in Wikipedia. My favorites are: Assawoman, Virginia and Buttahatchee River, Alabama. |
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