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This is Top Thrill Dragster roller coaster in Cedar Point, Ohio. It has a top speed of 120 mph, and a vertical drop of 400 feet (about 42 stories).

This one website said: " Last picture says it all... " You'll see: Link

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From the book:

Harris reports several cases of bearded women, inmates of the Coton Hill Lunatic Asylum. One of the patients was eighty-three years of age and had been insane forty-four years following a puerperal period. She would not permit the hair on her face to be cut, and the curly white hairs had attained a length of from eight to ten inches on the chin, while on the upper lip the hairs were scarcely an inch.

University of Virginia Electronic Text Center has a set of marvelous scans of George Gould and Walter Pyle's Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, first published in 1901.

This particular image is one of the mildest, folks - there are many, many much more interesting images and text of strange diseases and medical conditions here: Link (Highly recommended - if you click on only one link today, this should be it! Let me know your favorites ...)

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From the website:

Leon Wright and his wife took home a 14.75kg lump of ambergris, found in the innards of sperm whales and used in perfumes after it has been vomited up.
Sought after because of its rarity, ambergris can float on the ocean for years before washing ashore.
Worth up to $20 a gram, Mr Wright's find on a South Australian beach could net his family US$295,000 (£165,300).

Gold, on the other hand, is only about $18 per gram! Link

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For the entire map, see: http://www.geist.com/map/map.php?id=8 (Don't miss Geist's other maps of Canada, including The Doughnut Map of Canada, The Menstrual Map of Canada and many, many more.)

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Did Google Earth uncover a secret Australian flying car? You can't fool The Register:

Which leaves just one possible explantion: the Aussies have developed a gravity-busting hyperdrive, have bolted it into a second-hand Holden, and are seen here in the split second before their X-Motor made the transdimensional leap to hyper light speed.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/23/flying_car/

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For more of Scott's whimsical animal paintings, see: http://www.scottmusgrove.com/modelcitizen/Content/Paintings/html/Paintings.htm

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From the website:

Everyone loves their pet dog - but can your dog walk on water? Mine can. This photo was taken on December 31, 2002. The Rideau was experiencing some unseasonably warm weather and a layer of water had formed on top of the ice covered lake, resulting in a mirror-like surface. In this photo, doggie is on high alert since a ball is about to be tossed.

See more of Ken's cool photos of Rideau Canal Waterway: Link

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Vincenzo Balzani, J. Fraser Stoddart and colleagues at the University of Bologna in Italy and UCLA have created a tiny four-stroke engines that can run on sunlight and emits no pollutant.

The molecule, called rotaxane, forms naturally. It’s also autonomous, meaning that it will continue operating as long as energy is available.
It can work with others, or function all by itself. It can be driven at high frequency, and in mild environmental conditions it is quite durable, staying stable for at least 1,000 cycles.

Link

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Amy spent a year and a half and used about 75,000 lego bricks to build this awesome lego church for 1,372 lego minifigs (those lego people). http://www.amyhughes.org/lego/church/index.html

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You'd never guess what Angel used to paint those cute bees:

In December 1995, I was looking for creative Christmas gifts for my friends. One day I was watching my sister Lyn use sponges to paint on canvas. I thought, "I wonder if my breasts could work like sponges?" Inspiration struck! So I bought some non-toxic paint and canvas, locked myself in the bathroom, and figured out a technique to paint with my breasts. Wouldn't you know it? Breast Pals was born!

Angel said: 100% of the sales profit will go toward breast cancer charities.

Link - SFW (Thanks Tony Cabral!)

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Heiner Linke found that liquid droplets can be made to "walk" across a horizontal surface or even uphill under their own steam!

Linke Lab (watch the climbing water droplets movie)

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This is how Robert Cole escaped from his prison cell:

Cole, 36, also known as Andrew David Robertson, starved himself to drop his weight by about a fifth in a matter of weeks. He entered jail a 70 kilogram prisoner and left a 56 kilogram escapee.

Prison authorities seem not to have noticed that Cole had been starving himself. Nor did they see he had been chipping away at the brickwork outside his cell window to make enough room to squeeze between the edge of the window and its external bars.

Link

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