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The Savage Young Beatles has a lot of rare photos of the band from 1950 to 1963. Link (via Linkfilter) |
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Never, ever look directly at the sun. Not even for a few seconds. This video clip explains why. Link (via Cynical-C Blog) |
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Samuel Dinsmoor, a retired school teacher and Civil War vet, began building his Garden of Eden and Cabin Home in Kansas in 1907 from cement and limestone.
He ultimately everything from concrete, including an American flag and a stone mausoleum with a glass-topped concrete coffin. Link (via Metafilter) |
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Thai fishermen caught this grizzly bear-sized, 656-pound, 9-feet long Mekong Giant Catfish. They had hoped to sell it to environmentalists to be bred, but it died too soon. So, they chopped it up and ate it instead. Link |
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Frank Ames’ coworkers encouraged him to call Guiness world records because he has the world’s longest eyebrow (more than 3 inches long!) Link |
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When you die, you can have Dean VandenBiesen of LifeGem turn your body (or your pet’s) into a diamond. He uses a super-hot oven to turn the carbon in the ashes into graphite, then press it into blue and yellow diamonds (retail value $2,700 to $20,000!).
Now, when someone approach you saying "why, that’s a beautiful diamond ring you’re wearing", you can reply "thank you, it’s my mother!"… Link to LifeGem | Link to news article (thanks Nina!) |
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So, looters will be shot, then smacked with a claw hammer, bit by a big dog, and made to sleep with an ugly woman. Sign seen during Katrina’s aftermath. |
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David McCarthy took this Vision of Science 2005 winning image of a grain of salt and a single peppercorn using a scanning electron microscope.
For more great images of science see: Link |
