I honestly didn't know this was a thing. That is, until I stumbled on this video discussing the lost McDonald’s DS Game. At first I thought that the video title was just clickbait. I was proven wrong! In 2010, McDonald’s Japan collaborated with Nintendo to create a brand new software program to train part-time McDonald’s employees. Watch to learn more about this odd collaboration that turns out to be one of the rarest Nintendo DS games of all time.
Such a caring companion! A soldier at the Indianapolis airport decided to get some quick shut-eye, and one of the dogs in the group of soldiers he was with quickly protected him as he slept. As you can see in the photo, it’s both admirable and just downright adorable at the same time:
However, it’s not always easy to nap in the airport. It’s bright, loud, and there’s always the fear that someone will steal our luggage. However, this soldier definitely did have to worry about that last point! One of the dogs in their group was quick to protect him while he slept.
The little battle buddy took their duties very seriously and went above and beyond to make sure that their friend was safe. That’s all that anyone can ask from a bodyguard. These dogs are trained to protect their humans at all times, at all costs, and this is very evident when you see the photo.
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Don’t worry, it’s not a literal galaxy made up of fossils. Researchers from Liverpool John Moores University have discovered a fossil galaxy within the Milky Way. The galaxy, called Heracles, collided and merged with the Milky Way 10 billion years ago. If you’re not familiar with fossil galaxies, they are the remnants of a galaxy merging with another. New Atlas has the details:
Heracles was discovered using near-infrared data gathered by APOGEE, which has recorded readings from over 500,000 stars in our galaxy. According to the LJMU team, the infrared band of the spectrum was necessary because the center of the Milky Way is loaded with dust, which obscures visible light. By looking at the chemical composition and velocities of the stars, the scientists were able to separate the native stars from the ones that made up Heracles when the two galaxies collided.
"To find a fossil galaxy like this one, we had to look at the detailed chemical makeup and motions of tens of thousands of stars," says Ricardo Schiavon. "That is especially hard to do for stars in the center of the Milky Way, because they are hidden from view by clouds of interstellar dust. APOGEE lets us pierce through that dust and see deeper into the heart of the Milky Way than ever before."
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Ordinary heated gloves on the market can warm you up in certain conditions, but can they regulate the heat depending on the outside temperature? Can they distribute the heat equally to the fingers and joints? No? These smart-heated gloves by Quanta Vici prove what ordinary heated gloves on the market cannot. Vici’s smart app-controlled gloves and socks have a real-time thermostat:
The smart app-controlled gloves and socks have a real-time heat regulation algorithm; generating a maximum heat of 131 Degrees Fahrenheit (depending on your preferred settings) for over 6.5 hours of operation on a single charge. The compression socks are designed to keep the feet from swelling and they also have an anti-blister cushion which is a good addition for long-duration use. Both these accessories are designed to be breathable, especially the gloves boasting thin and light material (anti-slippery grip texture) for dexterous tasks like operating your touchscreen phone or maybe playing the guitar. Yes, you can do that with the voice-controlled smart Quanta Vici gloves on!
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You don’t need to hire a babysitter at this rate if all cats are like this one! Joey Mansalugan’s cat Keanu took care of her 3-month-old baby Nyx! When she and her partner were out to buy supplies, her mother and 12-year-old daughter were tasked with looking after baby Nyx. Her eldest daughter shared photos of Keanu taking care of their baby when they arrived home. Honestly, the photos are just adorable!
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CORRECTION 11/25/20: Arthur C. Clarke wrote the screenplay and the novel more or less simultaneously.
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The Stanley Kubrick film 2001 (and the Arthur C. Clark novels on which it was based) has a scene in which early hominids encounter an alien artifact dubbed a monolith. This encounter induces a leap forward in human evolution.
We are now at the cusp of a similar revolution. The crew of a helicopter for the Utah Department of Public Safety spotted a metallic monolith in a rural area. They landed to investigate. KSL TV News reports:
“One of the biologists is the one who spotted it and we just happened to fly directly over the top of it,” said pilot Bret Hutchings. “He was like, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, turn around, turn around!’ And I was like, ‘what.’ And he’s like, ‘There’s this thing back there – we’ve got to go look at it!’” [...]
“I’d say it’s probably between 10 and 12 feet-high,” Hutchings said. “We were kind of joking around that if one of us suddenly disappears, then the rest of us make a run for it.”
Hutchings said it didn’t look like it was dropped into the ground from above. It was firmly planted there.
The DPS employees took several photos and videos of this haunting encounter.
-via Gizmodo
Sad and Useless calls its gallery the World's Greatest Gallery of Dogs Standing on Mushrooms, but I think that Laesa Baby and the other puppies are actually standing on polypores. They're remarkably sturdy and cute (the shelf fungi and the dogs, respectively).
-via Design You Trust | Photo: unknown
How much influence does plastic have over the world? Perhaps you would be unsurprised if I said that it has a great influence. But how great is it? Well, great enough to show up in the unlikeliest of places, like in the deepest depths of the ocean, in the Arctic ice, in our guts, and even on the tallest mountain on the face of the earth — Mount Everest.
Plastic plays an increasingly large role in our lifestyles: Globally, the use of plastics has shot up from around 5 million metric tons in the 1950s to more than 330 million metric tons in 2020. As they’re used and cast away, these plastic products shed tiny particles. The broken-down bits of bags, bottles and other consumer plastics, each smaller than 5 millimeters, can harm animals, such as marine crabs that get plastics stuck in their gills … They may also mess with ecosystems...
Learn more details about this over at Science News.
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Bakery products distributor Hostess Brands knows that we can’t get enough of their regular-sized Twinkies. To address that, the company released the “Hostess Party Size Twinkies Baking Kit”, which allows one to create a gigantic version of the sponge cake.
Available from Walmart for $15, the kit includes a yellow cake mix, creme filling mix, baking pan, and instructions. You just need to provide vegetable oil, eggs, water, and heavy cream, and you’ll have yourself a 2,600-calorie Twinkie in no time! I can already feel my pants tightening.
Well, what do you think?
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Some products are made for many purposes, while others are made for just one. And for the latter, it is only right to use them for their only intended purpose, because it honors both the product and the creator.
Well, what do you think? Should we really just use this sponge with body shampoo?
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This is pretty funny in my opinion. Unique comedy that cannot go unnoticed. I'm sure you'll love this episode.
Lol!
This is kinda cute. They asked 100 children who the most famous person in the world is. First, the kids had to come to grips with what the word "famous" means. Some of them have a tenuous grasp of the words "is" and "person" as well. Then you get a taste of what kind of pop culture kids of different ages are getting into these days. -via Tastefully Offensive
تصوير حركة نباتات خلال "٢٤" ساعة.
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Houseplants are far from static. Oh sure, they grow, and you might notice how a plant wilts and then perks back up when it's watered. But you can't sit around and watch those things happen, because they are very slow. Still, you might be surprised how much a healthy plant moves around in its daily life! The only way we can really see them do it is in a time-lapse video. This example is one of six such videos that will give you a new perspective on your plants at Moss and Fog. -via Nag on the Lake
At the beginning of the 20th century, wild turkeys were on their way to extinction, but efforts by Teddy Roosevelt and other conservationists ensured that they are thriving today. In fact, flocks of wild turkeys can encroach upon human territory, and sometimes they act in ways that make the news. It may seem funny when turkeys attack, but like geese and swans, these big birds can develop a bad temper. It isn't all that funny when you are the victim.
In 2009, the turkeys of Grand Haven, Michigan, started targeting one human in particular: the mail carrier, Doug Cody. “We can’t figure it out because anybody else can walk pretty close to them and they’ll just stay there and look at you, but even when he comes down in his truck—he’ll back his truck around and they’ll peck at the truck,” one resident told WWMT. Once, when a few menacing turkeys had cornered Cody on a resident’s porch, he called the postmaster for help. “She laughed so hard I think she just dropped the phone,” Cody said. Other postal workers treated the ongoing issue with similar levity, filling Cody’s office mailbox with turkey feathers and hanging “Wanted” signs for the fiendish fowl. Eventually, Cody took to bringing a thin plank of wood on his route to keep the birds at a distance.
Read five other stories of bizarre bird behavior at Mental Floss.
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You might enjoy playing Scrabble with your family and friends, but when you get outside your social bubble and run into a serious or even tournament-grade Scrabble player, well, that's a whole different world.
When the top players gathered in Torquay, England, last year for the World Scrabble Tournament (this year’s contest should have been this week, but has been cancelled thanks to you-know-what), it was to use ‘words’ like these in their games: dzo, ch, foyned, ghi…
Yep, that’s right; a whole lot of words that, let’s be frank about this, are not words. That’s why my spell-checker underlines them in red. The top players, you see, don’t win tournaments by being cleverer than the rest of us. They do it by memorizing a long list of non-words so they can avoid the problems ordinary players encounter.
Those words can be handy, but they're fairly incomprehensible. World-class Scrabble players don't have to know what they mean; they just have to know they are in the Scrabble dictionary. But that's not the only way elite Scrabble culture is different from that of us everyday players. Read more about top-level Scrabble culture in an article from The Spectator. Here's a non-paywalled link. -Thanks, WTM!
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