The Marigold, or ‘the ring of prosperity’, is a circular band with a floral design. What’s special about the Marigold is that it holds 12,638 diamonds with a total weight of more than 38 carats. Created by Harshit Bansal from Renani Jewels in India, the jewelry breaks the Guinness World Record for highest number of diamonds in a ring, as CNN details: 

The previous record -- 7,801 diamonds in a ring -- was also set in India by the Hyderabad-based jeweler Hallmark Jewellers.

Bansal told Guinness that he was first was inspired to break the diamond-studded record in 2018, while studying jewelry design in Surat, India. Two years later, his company completed the ring design on November 30, 2020.

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Sorry guys, no photo-ops on this one. Meet the Denmark Strait cataract, the largest waterfall in the world. The gigantic waterfall is located between Greenland and Iceland, stretching over 100 miles (160 kilometers) wide and plunging 11,500 feet (3,505 meters) down from the Greenland Sea into the Irminger Sea, as How Stuff Works details: 

The most astonishing thing about the Denmark Strait cataract isn't, perhaps, how it got to be so tall and mighty, but that an undersea waterfall can exist at all. It's easy to picture an ocean as a giant bathtub that sloshes around with the tides, but seawater is actually very dynamic; waters of different temperatures and salinities — and, therefore, densities — are always interacting on large and small scales.

The Denmark Strait cataract is formed by the difference in temperature between the ultra-cold Arctic waters of the Greenland Sea meeting those of the slightly warmer Irminger Sea. Since the molecules in the cold water are less active and take up less space than in warm water, they are packed together more tightly, making colder water denser. That means that when water from the Greenland Sea meets the Irminger Sea water, it slides right down through it to the bottom of the ocean.

Image via How Stuff Works 

Magic Castle was a rejected game created by a small team of Japanese developers in 1998. The game never went anywhere after being rejected by seven major publishers, including Sony. Well, two decades later, Magic Castle can now be played thanks to the magic of emulators and one of the original members of the developer team: 

One of the team members, PIROWO, recently found the source code for the project—created on Net Yaroze—and decided to tie up its loose ends and release it to the public. This game looks cool as hell, not just for its isometric style, but for a number of very modern touches like a customisable UI and dynamic music.

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The 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption was not a hit in theaters, most likely because of the incomprehensible title and the lack of explosions. In the years since, it's become a favorite drama for the male half of the internet generation. Finally, Screen Junkies did an Honest Trailer for the movie by popular demand, although they had to reach to find anything bad to say about The Shawshank Redemption. They gave it their best shot anyway.

The aquarium becomes the goldfish's new home and new football field! A man from Guangdong, China, was able to train his five Ranchu goldfish to shoot a ball into a goal. Wow! Yang Tianxin trained his goldfish for a long time, and the results are worth his efforts. Now I will be waiting for the annual goldfish soccer event at sporting events, thank you very much. 

When we think of a coat of arms, we think of nobility, wealth, and power, passed along through generations. A family coat of arms should be a symbol to be proud of, at least until we learn that there were far more of these symbols than we ever realized, and someone had to make them up to begin with. And through modern eyes, they didn't put enough thought into some of them.

It seems that the immortal symbols of nobility don't all hold up to the same aesthetic scrutiny. The above heraldry is taken from the pages of Konrad Grunenberg's Wappenbuch (Book of Arms), a comprehensive collection of coats of arms commissioned as a gift to the Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick III, in 1480. The book is a real Who's Who of the HRE, listing the arms of its nobles, important burghers but also foreign kings. It's also a collection of who could think up the goofiest symbols, like a fish with a trumpet for a nose ...

There is some speculation that Grunenberg's index is not altogether accurate, and many of the entries could have been made up of whole cloth, for political or comedic reasons. Who knows? It appears that his depictions all contain the same helmet, as if he had a medieval version of copy-paste and just drew pictures around them from someone's description. You can flip through the Wappenbuch yourself here. Or see the highlights, meaning the weirdest examples of coats of arms from the book at Cracked.

At a site near the Brazilian border, Uruguayan miners discovered this geode shaped like a heart. It's an inspiring find by Uruguay Minerals, a company which appears to specialize in decorative crystals. My Modern Met talked to a representative of the company:

“We were opening the mine to work normally,” Marcos Lorenzelli of Uruguay Minerals tells My Modern Met, “but the land was difficult to work and our employees said, ‘We have to find something really nice due to the hard work we are doing.’” Their patience was rewarded with this once-in-a-lifetime find.

Photo: Uruguay Minerals

The Incas ground peanuts into paste thousands of years ago, but who invented the modern incarnation of peanut butter? If you had to guess, you'd probably say George Washington Carver, but it was John Harvey Kellogg who filed the patent in 1895. Yes, the same guy who developed modern breakfast cereal at his sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan.  

A Seventh-Day Adventist, Kellogg endorsed a plant-based diet and promoted peanut butter as a healthy alternative to meat, which he saw as a digestive irritant and, worse, a sinful sexual stimulant. His efforts and his elite clientele, which included Amelia Earhart, Sojourner Truth and Henry Ford, helped establish peanut butter as a delicacy. As early as 1896, Good Housekeeping encouraged women to make their own with a meat grinder, and suggested pairing the spread with bread. “The active brains of American inventors have found new economic uses for the peanut,” the Chicago Tribune rhapsodized in July 1897.

Kellogg's peanut butter had its problems, though, and the product went through changes as it became tastier and more amenable to mass production. Throughout the 20th century, peanut butter gained popularity as a protein alternative to expensive meat. Read the history of peanut butter, plus a look at the work George Washington Carver did to promote peanut crops at Smithsonian.

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If you’re a gamer who spends a lot of time playing video games, then it’s a must that you sit on something that’s comfortable and really supports your body. In other words, a gaming chair.

But even if you’re not a gamer, you might also consider buying a gaming chair, as gaming chairs today have excellent ergonomic design. They are pretty expensive, however.

The Inventory asked various gamers what the best gaming chairs out there are. Check out their answers over at the site.

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In this rather solemn video, Ozzy Man decides to wrap up 2020 by reviewing nothing and just “let the fabric of life” unfurl itself and reveal to us the magical, the weird, and the amazing things that we can see in this lifetime.

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Lake Baringo in western Kenya has been the home of eight Rothschild’s giraffe for years. They lived on a peninsula that reached out into the lake, but rising waters turned it into an island. The giraffes needed to be moved to a new home in the 44,000-acre Ruko Conservancy. That's a big project, involving a custom-built barge, but how do you get the animals onto the boat? David O’Connor of the organization Save Giraffes Now tells us of the hurdles they faced.

The initial hope, O’Connor said, was that they’d be able to coax the giraffes onto the barge by putting mangoes and other treats there. But because of the rainy season, there’s been an abundance of food on the island. The treats would not be enough.

That meant the giraffes would have to be hit with a tranquilizer dart — and that is an especially dangerous proposition because of their anatomy. O’Connor said that when giraffes go down on the ground, they can choke on their own saliva, or their brains can be damaged by the changes in blood pressure. So it’s important that once the giraffe falls, a vet is there to immediately counteract the drug with a reversal drug.

“It's not like an elephant or a rhino where you just dart it, it flops over and it's fine,” he said. “The giraffes, they're kind of like a Formula One car. You can't mess with their innards too much or they really have problems.”  

So far, two giraffes have been moved to the sanctuary. Follow the delicate and grueling process in plenty of pictures at CNN. -via Nag on the Lake

Surely you’ve seen these multi-colored flowers in shirts, art pieces, and other accessories. These flowers, brimming with joy and happiness, were created by Takashi Murakami. How did Murakami’s flower designs reach the mainstream? Watch Hypebeast’s video explaining how the iconic flower design has made it in fine art, high fashion, and streetwear. Also, the next time you see these flower designs, remember they’re originally by Murakami.

Last month, a truck driver in British Columbia witnessed an oncoming vehicle run over a cat in the road. The truck driver stopped and found that the small cat was not only injured, but was frozen to the road! He took her to the nearest veterinary clinic, and she is now in the custody of the SPCA.

It’s believed the female cat had been wandering and became hypothermic before collapsing in the middle of the road, where she became frozen to the pavement.

Once in the care of BC SPCA in Fort St. John, where the cat was given fluids and placed in a warming tent, she gradually became bright and alert, allowing the staff to continue their assessment of her other serious injuries which include a severely fractured knee, skin wounds and road rash. The estimated cost for ongoing care is $2,500.

The cat, which doesn’t have a name yet, is “extremely friendly and was purring and kneading the vet’s smocks as soon as she began to recover from her hypothermia,” the BC SPCA said.

A public request for funding the cat's care has far exceeded its goal by raising $15,000. For now, the SPCA is calling her the Ice Road Kitten, and asked the public to suggest a name. The finalists are "Elsa" and "Miracle." You can read the story of the ice road cat rescue at the Aldergrove Star. -via Fark

Joselyn Anderson, a wildlife photographer in Michigan, is exceptionally skilled at luring wild birds to feed from her hand. Her slow motion videos reveal in detail the movements and behaviors of these birds. Of the above Red-Bellied Woodpecker, she writes "the tongue connects around the right nostril. Watch closely at 30 sec. to see the flexing around the nostril as he uses his tongue."

-via My Modern Met

Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear first performed the song "Movin' Right Along" in the 1979 film The Muppet Movie. Now, 42 years later, they've reprised it with a socially-distanced video to welcome in 2021. Kermit plays banjo while Fozzie illustrates the places they would go if they were really going somewhere. Meanwhile, they keep breaking...  well, not the fourth wall, but the one between them.  -via Laughing Squid