If you have the extra cash to get on a journey for a year, would you ever want to live on a cruise ship? Well, for those interested in such a lavish and interesting lifestyle, Life at Sea Cruises might just be for you! 

The company is currently planning to operate a three-year cruise around the world. Prices start at $30,000 per person, which includes a one-year stay on a 130-square-foot interior stateroom on the ship. Those interested in staying for the whole three years of the journey will have to pay $90,000 per head. 

Travelers will be onboard MV Gemini, a 30-year-old cruise ship. The vessel will start its journey in Istanbul on November 1, and slowly pick up guests along the way. The ship can accommodate up to 1,074 travelers with its 400 cabins. The company states that the cruise will have travelers reach all seven continents. They can also visit several popular destinations such as Half Moon Island, Antarctica; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Seoul, South Korea.

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Dustin Ballard, known on the Internet as There I Ruined It (previously at Neatorama), occasionally comes up with something sublime and improved instead of ruined. He scraped the word "Yeah" out of a bunch of different songs you will recognized and strung them together in a really catchy tune. I saw this elsewhere a few days ago, but it was not in an embeddable format. Now it's hit YouTube, and there's a bonus song! He also collected a bunch of "No" clips (or "Nein" in the case of Rammstein) and made another song, although that's more of a comedy than a symphony. I think you will like it. -via reddit

Gustav Hogan became enthralled with Star Wars as a 6-year-old kid in the Netherlands watching Return of the Jedi. His fascination with the production of Star Wars movies stayed with him and inspired his life's work. Hogan grew up to excel in animatronics, and as creative director at Biomimic Studio in London, he has spent 30 years designing and giving life to Star Wars characters like Admiral Ackbar, Maz Kanata, the Crystal Foxes, and Babu Frik. Hogan has a long portfolio of creatures for other movies, too, from cute animated animals to horrific monsters. In this video from Great Big Story, you can see the enthusiasm and perfectionism he puts into his work. -via Laughing Squid  

It's Peeps season! And in addition to jousting, making dioramas, and even possibly eating them, you can now pay homage to ancient art with them. Art collective MSCHF is offering Peeps in the shape of the Paleolithic sculpture the Venus of Willendorf.

These Peeps come in yellow, purple, and pink, and while they aren't quite as detailed as the original, they are completely edible. Or, as edible as regular Peeps, anyway. But who would want to even think about consuming a work of art?

You can buy a 4-pack of each color, 12 peeps in all, for $75. -via Everlasting Blort

A total of 3,888 identified casualties are buried in the British Commonwealth’s Ramleh War Cemetery. But one grave attracts a disproportionate share of visitors. It belongs to Private Harry Potter, number 5251351 in the Worcestershire Regiment. pic.twitter.com/NLcYk9Vqgj

— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) August 6, 2018

I've read only the first novel in J.K. Rowling's generation-defining story, but I take it that Harry dies at the end. Otherwise, why would this grave exist?

A better interpretation is that a real person also named Harry Potter died. The Commonwealth military cemetery at Ramlah, Israel contains 3,888 interments, including Private Harry Potter. This Harry Potter joined the British Army at the age of 16 according to the official webpage of the Worcester Regiment, in which Potter served. He was deployed to British Palestine, where he drove trucks and earned the nickname "Crash Harry." In 1939, Arab guerillas ambushed a convoy that Potter was in. He was killed in action and buried nearby.

Private Potter's grave has become a tourist attraction since news reports about his grave in 2010. But he's actually one of at least thirteen Harry Potters buried in located war graves around the world.

-via Amusing Planet

It's true, Ze Frank published his Animal Awards in December, leaving us to think that it would be an annual end of the year event. But since then, he's come up with more categories. Why wait when you have the facts? In this video, he shows us the champions of the Best Worst Jumping, Best Animal Call, Nature Photographer I Want to Party With, Most Unforgettable Sage Grouse, Fun Fashion on a Budget, Most Likely to Have Splashback in the Urinal, and Most Creative Home Security System. I suspect that this came about because he had some great facts about these critters, but not enough material for each species to make a five- to ten-minute True Facts video about each one. That's fine with me, because these are quite funny. Warning: there's a lot of poop in the Fun Fashion on a Budget category. There's also a one-minute ad at the four minute mark.

Mount Athos, a hilly peninsula in Greece, is famous for its 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and its prohibition against women. No human women are allowed in the territory, nor are female domestic animals- with the exception of cats, because their utility as mousers vastly outranks the value of dairy cows and egg-laying chickens. Or maybe the monks were unwilling to give up the pleasure of playing with kittens.

In 1938, the story came out that one man had lived in one of the monasteries since infancy, and had never left Mount Athos during his life, which ended in 1938. This puts Mihailo Tolotos in the position of being the the only man in history who lived a full life without ever seeing a woman. Newspaper accounts also said that Tolotos had also never seen a car, a plane, or a movie. Since he died in 1938, it is very possible that he never even saw a photograph of a woman ...if the story is true in the first place. Read what we known about Mihailo Tolotos at Rare Historical Photos. Which is odd in itself, because Tolotos was never identified in a photograph, and we do not know which monastery he belonged to. Still, there are pictures. -via Damn Interesting 

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I was all set for this to be an over-the-top trailer for a fake movie, along the lines of Cocaine Shark or Attack of the Giant Bubbles. There are two things you need to know before watching this trailer: 1. it's extremely gory and bloody, which fulfills the over-the-top part, but 2. Ninja vs. Shark is a real movie. The actors are well-known in Japan, and IMDb has a plot summary.

In the Edo period, at the remote village of Okitsu, the evil cult leader Koushirou uses ninjutsu to ensorcel sharks and forces them to attack local pearl divers so the cult can steal the pearls from their mangled corpses. Desperate for help, the village chief hires Kotaro Shiozaki, a guard at a nearby temple, but Kotaro soon finds his path blocked by lady ninja Kikuma, and a gigantic shark that doesn't seem like something from this world.

Besides ninjas and sharks, the movie has zombies and/or vampires. And tons of CGI blood. Ninja vs. Shark will open on April 14th in Japan. No release date has been set for the US. You'll learn more at the film's official site, if you can read Japanese. -via Geeks Are Sexy

When acclaimed playwright Tennessee Williams died on February 25, 1983, the medical examiner couldn't determine the cause of death immediately. It was later discovered that he had died from a bad reaction to Seconal, which he took as a sleep aid. But the publicity surrounding his death was important. Williams' assistant insisted that a cause of death be published or else speculation would lead to false rumors and who knows what that would lead to? So the medical examiner agreed to state that Williams had choked on a bottle cap. And that's what many of his fans believe to this day.

That's just one of 13 stories of strange deaths among authors. Others are truly bizarre, like the falling turtle, although the further back you go, the less likely it is that we have all the facts. Some had plausible causes of death that were nonetheless brought about by bizarre circumstances. Read all 13 stories of weird deaths among authors at Mental Floss. 

In the modern era, bars are where people often go specifically to meet people of the opposite sex. Once upon a time, it was anything but that. Pubs and saloons were thought of as places where men went to get away from their wives, and women who went in could be risking their reputations. Many bars completely barred women from entering! Others restricted women from entering without an escort, who was expected to order for her while she stayed in her place. Some pubs saw that business is business, and went out of their way to make it possible for ladies to discreetly come in for a drink.

One way they did this was with ladies entrances, which were hidden in an alley or otherwise shielded from crowds on the street. Another was to offer "snugs," or private rooms. Men-only drinking establishments, and misogynistic restrictions on women in bars, only died out during the second-wave feminism of the 1960s and '70s. Read about the way bars once were, and how that revolution came about at Atlas Obscura.

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If you want to add a subversive touch to your home that will get people talking, the bathroom is the place to do it, because it's small, private, and a great place for a laugh. You can get away with odd colors or a style that would cause objection in the family if it were anywhere else. If you don't have a cabinet over your toilet, it's the perfect place for artwork or a sign that you wouldn't put anywhere else. Everyone who goes in there will see it.

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It doesn't have to be fancy; it can even be homemade as long as it's clever and something you wouldn't see in anyone else's home. The framed review above was found in an Airbnb. The word "ply" had to explained to quite a few commenters.



There are more bathroom signs, but the actual list at Bored Panda covers 50 clever and funny home decorating hacks that include all rooms, holiday decorations, artworks, and pranks that will make you laugh. Don't miss the duck and the Christmas angles.  

Jake Carlini is an inventor attuned with the needs of the modern world. When 21st Century challenges emerge, he develops practical solutions for them.

In the past, he's made a reliable snorkel apparatus that allows him to run a mile underwater, a functional sword out of gym socks, and a jet-powered longboard. These are necessary technologies for modern life, but we can and shall, thanks to Carlini, achieve even greater heights.

Carlini has, through painstaking labor and experimentation, made functional roller skates out of four tiny bicycles. They're skatecycles and they're amazing. In this video, we see how he ushered in a new dawn of transportation.

-via The Awesomer

Well, what a surprise! But how did he survive? 

Zhuo Kangluo was initially believed to be dead and cremated after fleeing a care home in China. His relatives made the mistake of identifying a man killed in a car accident in 2014 as the man himself. 

For nearly 10 years, no one knew of his survival until Chongqing authorities received reports of a man acting strangely and proceeded to identify a man with a DNA test. This was done after seeing that the mysterious person was refusing to answer questions. The test matched him with Zhuo’s brother. 

The identity of Zhuo was also confirmed by his grandson, who recognized him when he visited the elder man. Authorities are now working to identify the man cremated back in 2014.

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She’s not so evil after all!

A viral TikTok video posted by MagicWithThomas shared how the Evil Queen Maleficent actor in Disneyland acts kindly towards Thomas, a teen with special needs, who was visiting the theme park. We can see that the matriarch was being herself with a dash of kindness and understanding, which was a bit out of character. We're not mad at that bit of change!

The actor began the interaction by greeting Thomas gently, but still upholding her regality as a monarch. She then gently took his hand and invited him on a stroll. The queen took good care of him, his dad wrote in the caption of the video. “Thomas is safe and understood [at Disneyland]. Cast members take good care of him and they show a genuine happiness/excitement to see him,” he wrote. 

Internet users applauded the Disneyland actor for understanding that Thomas likes to touch and feel things, and ensuring that the teen is safe while not stepping out of character. 

Image screenshot via MagicWithThomas

The deadliest animal in the world is the mosquito. They don't kill on their own, but spread diseases that causes hundreds of thousands of human deaths each year. So maybe we should wipe them out! Well, we know what could go wrong. Pesticides end up killing other species. And sometimes an animal goes extinct before we realize what useful ecological function it filled. With mosquitos, modern science has found a way to make just the most dangerous species die out without affecting other species. So should we do it? So far, research shows that if disease-carrying mosquito species were eliminated, there would still be plenty of benign mosquitos to, say, feed the bats. But would it be the right thing to do? Funny how no one asked that about wiping out smallpox. Since this scheme involves genetic engineering, there are still ethical questions about mosquitos and the future of such technology. -via Geeks Are Sexy