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10-year old Christopher Warner of West Friendship, Maryland loves the rock band Maroon 5. He absolutely adores their work, especially that of frontman Adam Levine. His teacher, Avery Stanert, made a video of Christopher raving about Maroon 5. That video went viral and eventually came to Adam Levine's attention.

Maroon 5 invited Christopher, his mother, and his teachers to attend one of their concerts. They got backstage passes and the chance to meet the band.

When it came time to meet them, Christopher had a panic attack. He lay down on the floor and wouldn't get up. That wasn't a problem for Levine and his bandmates, who lay down on the floor with Christopher. 

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Redditor LutzTrain explains, "My brother really wanted to swim with his turtle." Here they are high-fiving underwater, as Nature intended. They're best buds.

Some redditors doubt that the photo is real, so LutzTrain offers further proof.

Michael Weiss is a woodworker who builds useful and decorative furnishings out of wood reclaimed from the winemaking materials of California Wine Country. That’s why he calls himself the Wine Country Craftsman. This beautiful bookcase is a fine demonstration of his skill. It’s 5 feet tall and features some of the original brands burned into the wood, as well as wine stains.

Other works are a bit less practical, but more fun. Weiss made these KISS figures by welding together wine barrel rings.

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The iconic Tonka dump truck is a classic toy that has graced the homes of many boys and girls for two generations. Ford made this full-size model on an F-750 chassis to promote its line of commercial work trucks. This one can haul 17,000 pounds in its articulated bed, which is a bit more than the toy model of your youth might have managed—not that we all didn’t try at some point!

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The toothpaste brand Aquafresh is noted for its colorful presentation that comes out with every squirt. How does it work? To find out, freeze a tube, then cut it open. The colors run smoothly from one end to the other. So, to answer your question: magic.

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When entertaining visitors at home, it’s helpful to have a low table near the main seating area in order to serve coffee and tea. This helps create a welcoming atmosphere that builds warm relationships. For that purpose, the prop shop Slaughter FX built this custom coffee table that looks like the ruptured crypt of Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th horror movie franchise.

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If you’re a movie character and you want for your film to end quickly, just make good decisions.

Doghouse Diaries comments, “I’d pay to see 100 of these packed into a single movie.” That sounds like a project for the always entertaining 5-Second Films.

Question: what would the world’s shortest Western consist of?

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This ingenious vehicle is a railroad car with a little cabin inside. You can even see its resident inside strumming on a ukulele. More importantly, it's a portable skateboarding half-pipe.

The railroad half-pipe is the centerpiece of SKATE HEADS, a new video by the Vancouver-based film making team Zenga Bros. It shows skateboarding enthusiasts and their clever, multipurpose ramps.

For example, you can flip over this functional rowboat . . .  

The passion . . . the lust . . . the cellulite. These romance novel covers are a bit more realistic. Charles Manning, Lauren Ahn, and Kathleen Kamphausen recreated for Cosmpolitan the cover images for 10 bodice-rippers using ordinary people. The couples look very much in love, but we might not want to witness the continuation of their intimate congress.

Content warning: implied nudity that you probably don't want to think about.

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For more than 30 years, Jean-Claude Van Damme has been a compelling action movie star. He's made thrilling scenes of danger and violence. This path inevitably led him to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. YouTube user TechPony digitally added him to the grisly combat scene at the climax of the episode "A Canterlot Wedding." Now the action team Mane 6 has all of the firepower needed to overwhelm Queen Chrysalis's changeling invaders.

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6-month old Rosie doesn’t want One Direction or Meghan Trainor. Only Taylor Swift will do! When she’s crying, it’s because she wants to hear Swift’s “Blank Space.”

Taylor Swift approves of her youngest fan:

THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN. http://t.co/4bNzbBdcsX

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) March 2, 2015

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Elski Felson wants to work for Snapchat, the company that makes the image instant messaging phone app of the same name. He faces a challenge familiar to most job seekers: being sufficiently interesting that a hiring manager will actually read his résumé instead of tossing it into the trash.

He could send in a paper résumé. But that won’t stand out from the dozens or hundreds of similar résumés sent in by his competitors. He has to be unique. To do so, Felson made a video résumé with the Snapchat app.

It’s a funny video, but Felson also takes the job application process somewhat seriously. He goes through the job description line by line and illustrates his ability to fulfill it.

He hasn’t heard back from Snapchat. I suspect that the video will open some doors for Felson somewhere. Some prospective employers may be put off by his style, but he probably wouldn’t want to work for them anyway.

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In 1998, The Simpsons episode “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace” depicted lovable dunce Homer Simpson as a failed inventor. At one point, he writes a mathematical equation on a chalkboard. Simon Singh, the author of The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets says that this equation describes the mass of the Higgs boson subatomic particle . . . more than a decade before scientists discovered it! The Daily Telegraph reports:

Simon Singh, author of The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, told a literary festival audience that the series is staffed by writers with an interest in maths.

The Simpsons is the most mathematical TV show on prime-time television in history. A lot of the writers on The Simpsons are mathematicians," he said.

"That equation predicts the mass of the Higgs boson. If you work it out, you get the mass of a Higgs boson that's only a bit larger than the nano-mass of a Higgs boson actually is.

"It's kind of amazing as Homer makes this prediction 14 years before it was discovered."

When I encountered this story, it struck me as suspiciously too good to be true. It may turn out false as many astonishing science news stories do. But note that Simon Singh has a doctorate in particle physics, so presumably he knows what he’s talking about.

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In a surprising turn of events, the jar in question was inaccurately labeled!

Police in Lincoln, Nebraska arrested a man for suspicion of drunk driving. While searching his car, they found under the passenger seat a 16-ounce container. It was marked “Not Weed.” To their shock, there were 11.4 grams of marijuana inside.

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While developing his vaccine for polio, Dr. Jonas Salk bravely injected himself with an early prototype. He survived and eventually gave to humanity the life-saving fruits of his genius.

In that same pattern of self-experimentation, this Japanese language video shows a man taping Mentos candies onto his own body, then jumping into a bathtub filled with Coca-Cola.

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That the reaction of Mentos and Coke is known to scientists makes the effort all the more intrepid. Skip to the 4:31 mark to see this researcher’s brave leap into danger.

-via BuzzFeed