Japanese jewelry designer Ginza Tanaka created a rocking horse made from 24-karat gold, worth $1.28 million!

Despite the heavy gold, it is easy to rock on the horse, the company said.

"Made after a normal wooden rocking horse, its seat is very smooth and easy to sit on. The child can sit on it for long hours without getting tired," the company said in a statement.

For $1.28 million, the kid better be rocking on it, in complete and contented silence, for weeks! … Link – via BornRich

The world’s biggest burger is the Big Bob’s Texas Belt Buster, made by Bob’s BBQ & Grill in Pattaya, Thailand. It weighed in at 35.6 kg (78.5 lb). Link – via Spluch

The Mothership has a nice gallery of vintage Apple advertising and brochures. This one above is from 1979, which advertises the Apple II.

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Members of the Chinese Disabled Persons’ Art Performing Troupe perform their best know work ‘Bodhisattva with 1,000 hands’ dance to celebrate the first anniversary of Aichi Expo opening in Nagoya, central Japan

See the larger photo: Link – via Random Citations

If the world’s population were reduced to just 100 people, keeping the same proportion we have today, then it would look like this: Link [Flash] – via Core77

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden, Germany, have invented the world’s tiniest projection system (about the size of a sugar cube!)

Link – via mentalfloss