I wouldn’t be able to handle this much food, or spend a huge amount of money for a lot of sushi. But the Internet always gives us an opportunity to experience eating a lot of good food without paying, so watch as this woman eats one hundred servings of sushi. Get some snacks too, so you won’t be that hungry watching her!
Paris-based artist Jean Jullien created a cast of playful and colorful sculptures that are scattered around Nantes’s Jardin des Plantes. Part of a new exhibition called ‘Filili Viridi’, each sculpture spans more than eight meters and they can be found around the park floating in a fountain, raking the grass, or joining hands to hug a tree.
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Ellie Lewis, a makeup artist in the United Kingdom, has been experimenting with large-scale bodypainting lately. She's been composing herself as figures from pop culture, such as Rick Sanchez's brief time as a living pickle in Ricky and Morty.
The 2005 movie Wedding Crashers was a comedy, but there really are people who make a game out of going to weddings where they don't know anyone, eating the food, sipping cocktails, and bringing no gift. It's not common, but it happens. Orly Minazad went to many strangers' weddings in Iran, where the crowds are big and no one minded. Fred Karger is the “World’s Greatest Party Crasher,” although he doesn't do weddings. And then there's Sean, who exemplifies the dudes from the movie.
Sean, a miner stationed in Juneau, Alaska, is one such man. Though he’s pushing 50 now, he was a prolific crasher back in the day, cutting his teeth at the fancy weddings that took place in the airy ballrooms of Anchorage’s finest hotels. He fell into crashing somewhat naturally after he and his buddies — who worked as bellmen — started noticing that the extravagant weddings that took place inside their hotel were often full of “free booze” and “babes,” both of which were often bragged about by the drunk men who stumbled down the carpeted hallways in undone ties.
Sean and his friends knew they couldn’t get away with crashing weddings at their hotel, so they developed a habit of inserting themselves into weddings at some of the fancier ones around town. Their bellmen background came in handy; as hospitality professionals, they had the “gift of gab,” and were accustomed to dressing up, striking up chipper conversations and moving around hotels like they knew where they were going.
Read about real-life wedding crashers and how they do it at Mel magazine.
If you know a little about genetics, you might be baffled by DNA tests that purport to tell us where our ancestors come from. For one thing, you don't get an equal number of genes from each ancestor, outside of our two parents. For another thing, what makes genes from, say, France, different from genes from Spain? This TED-Ed lesson from Prosanta Chakrabarty explains the limitations of genetic tests. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Oxford University is getting close to being a thousand years old. Here's a post that drives home how old the school is. So it stands to reason that some wild drinking was going on from time to time during that long history, as college students are prone to do. One such memorable occasion was a pub brawl that got completely out of hand.
On 10 February 1355, the entire town was celebrating the feast day of Saint Scholastica. Some students were drinking at Swindlestock Tavern, when two of them complained about the quality of the wine served. The landlord and the tavern’s owner, who also happened to be Mayor of Oxford at the time, allegedly responded to their complaint with “stubborn and saucy language”; whereupon a student threw his drink on the owner’s face, followed by the empty wine jug that landed straight on the tavern owner’s head.
A fight erupted and other customers present in the tavern, both locals and students, joined in and soon the fight spilled out of the tavern and onto the streets. Somebody rang the bell at the town's church to summon assistance, and the students rang the bells of the University Church in response. When the Chancellor of the University tried to intervene, arrows were fired at him and he had to retreat.
The trouble continued the next day, as townspeople sought revenge on the students. Before the fight was over several days later, 90 people were dead. Read about the St. Scholastica Day Riot and a few other deadly university incidents at Amusing Planet.
The 1950 Disney film Cinderella was produced at a time when Disney was struggling financially after World War II, so they cut corners every way they could. They had used reference films for earlier movies, but every scene in Cinderella was filmed with actors in costume for reference, which the animators copied and were told not to stray from. You can see some footage in this video, starting at 1:45. Still images from the original production are more numerous.
Learn some of the behind-the-scenes trivia about the production of Cinderella in a pictofacts list at Cracked.
Sam Griner's mother took a picture of him at the beach when he was a baby. She posted it, and found out what can happen when you post family photos on the internet. Luckily, the viral photo did not ruin Sam's life, as so many other viral memes do. Now a teenager, Sam is a budding artist. -via the A.V. Club
Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna has offered his help to poor Indians facing hunger for more than three months. Khanna has served 20 million meals through his campaign called ‘Feed India.’ The campaign provides ready-made meals and dry rations to people in at least 125 Indian cities, as Al Jazeera detailed:
For more than three months, Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna has helped serve 20 million meals to poor Indians facing hunger, from thousands of miles away in the United States.
The Indian-born Khanna, who moved to the US in 2000, started the 'Feed India' campaign in April, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a strict coronavirus lockdown, which forced millions out of work, many of them facing hunger.
"It all began after a spam email with the picture of an old-age home," Khanna says, "where people were left to fend for themselves with little food". The moment "crushed him" and made him realise that India was about to embark on a major hunger crisis.
The campaign has distributed food at leprosy centres, on railway tracks, elderly care homes, highways and orphanages, to name a few.
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“Master Jenga stacker” Tai Star Valianti was able to pile 485 blocks on top of each other! The Arizona master stacker created an inverted-pyramid shaped structure from the huge number of Jenga blocks. His tower was built in two hours and stood for almost nine minutes.
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Lego is launching a new Lego set based on Nintendo’s gaming console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The NES Lego set is a collaboration between Nintendo and Lego, along with the interactive Super Mario-themed sets that were previously launched. The new set contains a whopping 2,646 pieces, as The Verge details:
Designed for adult builders, this new set contains 2,646 pieces that combine to create Nintendo’s first home console as well as an NES controller, a game cartridge that can fit into the console, and a miniature retro TV. The TV displays Mario traversing through a stage from the 1985 classic, and a crank located on the left side of the TV lets you move the mustached plumber up and down between platforms.
Like the earlier Super Mario sets, the Nintendo Entertainment System kit will combine traditional building with digital technology. Placing the Bluetooth-enabled Mario figurine from the Adventures with Mario Starter Course set on top of the TV will produce sounds as if you were actually playing the original 1985 classic.
The Nintendo Entertainment System Lego set will launch on August 1st — the same day as the Super Mario Lego sets — for $230. The Super Mario kits incorporate different characters and obstacles for Mario to tackle, including an expansion that lets him square off against his arch-nemesis, Bowser.
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If you’re one of those people who type the same sentences as replies to other people’s emails, you might be getting tired of writing the same combination of sentences over and over again. I know the feeling. Did you know there’s a great way to send out the same email messages without the copy paste trick? Check out FastCompany’s full list of tips and tricks you can do in Gmail to optimize your emails!
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The Internet is a scary place. It’s scary to search through the web for medical advice, because the most likely diagnosis that will be given is worse than what you’re actually afflicted with. But even so, a new study found that the majority of the people from the younger generation (Millennials and Gen Z) rely on social media for health information, as Forbes details:
The information from Healthline.com was gathered in a two-wave, online qualitative study in late April and early June 2020 with people living with chronic health problems. The sources represented mix of genders, ages and ethnicities, and come from 39 different states in the U.S.
The research focused first on people living with chronic health conditions and how they are impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak. Its primary data point makes it clear that health-centric web pages such as its home site and WebMD are the most popular general resource for those living with health conditions as 76% of those surveyed go to them first.
However, amongst those younger adults questioned, social media platforms become the first source of medical information. Millennials (62%) and Generation Z (52%) go to the likes of influencers on Twitter, Facebook and other apps with medical concerns. Generation X ranked third behind its younger peers at 44%.
As for the individual platforms, YouTube and Twitter are most popular for health condition information among Millennials. Instagram tied with Facebook as the top platform among Generation Z.
Other results made it clear that so-called health influencers have an effect on the lives of all age groups with 44% of people with a preexisting health condition valuing their opinion or advice.
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Recent fave. She yawns like the monster she is. pic.twitter.com/FhV6avwj4B
— Hannah Bernstein (@hannahbern2) July 8, 2020
Your cat or dog or hamster might be the cutest thing ever, but we all take a bad picture occasionally. And since we take a lot of pictures of our wonderful pets, they all have at least one that's embarrassingly bad. Gina Zwicky challenged Twitter users to submit ugly pictures of otherwise wonderful pets, and got a ton of responses. See all the replies in the Twitter thread, or a ranked list of the funniest at Bored Panda.
Kochi, Japan — Found directly across from the ticket gates of the Kochi Station, right beside a bakery/ coffee shop, is this naked mascot, with swirly eyes, holding two sake cups (called o-choko in Japanese) on each of his fingerless hands, and balancing a sake flask (called tokkuri) on his head. Just one glance and the person would know that this mascot is clearly drunk. But make no mistake. He is not just a mascot. He is Berobero no Kamisama, the God of Drunkards, and he watches over the Japanese prefecture of Kochi, which is a place known for its sake.
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