It's hard to predict what people will do when they spot money on the ground, and even though we're quick to think people will just snatch it up for themselves as soon as they spot it social experiments have shown otherwise.

Artist Jamahl McMurran and his guest Lana Mesic decided to use the 15,000 2p coins he had left over from a previous art installation to conduct their own social experiment, so they poured the pile of coins out by the canal and film the results.

There were a few coin snatchers as expected, and one little kid filled his bag and struggled to drag his loot home like he was doing a Little Rascals bit.

But the really funny reactions include a guy who set an umbrella on the pile and shot a pic, the kids who played in it like a sandbox, and the magical dude who made coins rain on himself

This guy is awesome.... looking for some magic #coinsbythecanal pic.twitter.com/Dj4Dvojawn

— Jamahl (@JHM_UK) May 17, 2017

But like all fun public projects some jerks showed up and shut the experiment down by snatching up the entire pile, their greed ruining the fun for everyone else.

These guys decide to spoil everyone's fun #coinsbythecanal pic.twitter.com/Syo0C9Ug2j

— Jamahl (@JHM_UK) May 17, 2017

Still, I'd say the experiment went better than expected, considering how much fun people had with the coins before they were snatched up.

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Dogs are obedient by nature, born and raised to follow their pack leader and remain loyal to the pack, and if you want to see the true extent of a dog's obedient nature you have to see a dog trainer work their magic.

The trainer in this video trained her dogs to wait at the gate until their name is called, demonstrating how well dogs can tune out distractions and follow commands even when they'd rather be playing with their pals. However, there's one rebel in every pack, and in this pack rebellion is named Nacho.

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Social media networks made it possible to share a whole new world of funny pics with your friends and family, and then Tumblr came along and allowed you to share your magic internet kingdom with the world.

So what's the most popular stuff being posted to Tumblr pages now and seemingly forever? Memes, of course, and Disney memes are clearly one of the most popular with the peoples on Tumblr.

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I think they're popular because everybody gets Disney memes, they get the references and laugh at the jokes whether they love or hate Disney flicks.

Plus people can chime in and add to the chain of LOLs, which means the joke is almost always taken too far!

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See The Best Disney Tumblr Posts Of All Time here (NSFW language)

Cats have been known to roll in stuff that helps repel pests or masks their scent from their prey, but they roll around in, and eat, catnip primarily because it makes them feel good.

But do cats instinctively know that nepetalactone, one of the chemical components found in catnip, also kills aphids and repels other pests?

We may never know for sure, but this Speaking Of Chemistry video from Reactions explains how nepetalactone both attracts cats and acts as a deadly trap for aphids, so grow a patch in your garden today!

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Turning your entire home into a work of art is a project that can take a lifetime to complete, which is why many artists who start converting their houses never finish the job.

But artist and teacher Lauri Svedberg worked hard to turn her home in NE Minneapolis into the den of her dreams, and 35 years later the Wolf House was complete.

Lauri's home was nicknamed Wolf House because of the wolf she painted on the garage door, but rather than just painting murals inside the house Lauri also created rock mosaics that gave the place an uniquely stone-y vibe.

Often armed with nothing but a glue gun, some stones she'd collected and a seemingly unending supply of self discipline, Lauri kept at it for decades, transforming her already cool old house into a den for nature lovers.

See more from Artist Spends 35 Years Decorating Her House With Rocks And A Glue Gun here

Boxers are more than just musclebound brutes who learn how to pound people into the ground with their fists- they're skilled fighters who train hard in order to learn how to best use their fists as weapons.

They train to hit faster, strike harder and punch with precision, as well as learning how to avoid or block as many of their opponent's  blows as they can, but above all they learn to master the art of hand-eye coordination.

Watch this Behind The Gloves video featuring Vasyl Lomachenko and you'll see how impressive a boxer's hand-eye coordination can be!

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The people who choose to live in hotels are typically seen as eccentric, transient or just plain nuts, but back in the day it wasn't that uncommon for hotels to take on long term guests, especially when the hotel needed money.

And while some people pay upwards of a thousand bucks a night to stay in the Plaza Hotel in NYC Fannie Lowenstein was able to live in a three-room suite paying only $500 a month for 35 years.

Fannie moved in to the Plaza with her husband Leo while the Plaza was struggling financially back in 1958, and when Leo died three years later Fannie decided to stay on and make the Plaza hell for the hotel staff.

Nicknamed "the Eloise from hell", Fannie was able to hang on to her rent controlled suite at the Plaza by sheer force of will:

Plaza employees remember her as a firebrand, a scourge who exploited every wrinkle in rent-control law with the subtlety and skill of a top-tier real estate attorney.

She was a terror when dealing with hotel management, too. "Part of what the law required is that you were entitled to the same services that you got when the unit was first under rent control," Lyman explains. "In those days, they did a 'high dusting,' I think they called it, once a month. It was a whole scheduled cleaning. Painting was required every couple of years; she knew her rights extremely well. And she would push."

In the early 1980s, according to a Newsday article, she had dragged the Westin Corporation—then the Plaza's owner—to court over defective carpeting. After this suit was thrown out, Lyman says, she immediately began to claim that Westin was trying to kill her with toxic paint. The hotel hired experts to take spore samples. She called in the New York City Health Department, who found nothing amiss.

As her health began to fail, Lowenstein convinced herself that her room was irredeemably contaminated by the "toxic" paint. She moved to the Park Lane—paying the full nightly price—and died there on April 28, 1992, the final rent-controlled holdout to live in the Plaza. She was 85 years old.

Read The Little Old Lady Who Terrorized New York's Famed Plaza Hotel here

Some of the stuff that goes viral online is so silly it's hard to understand why anybody thought to post it in the first place. But it's pretty obvious why people are sharing selfies taken while wearing bubble face masks- because the pictures are refreshingly funny.

A post shared by Devin Gaudet (@devingaudet) on Jan 17, 2017 at 6:24am PST

Somehow these bubble masks make the wearer look a bit psycho, which is an improvement over the old avocado mask swamp creature look- plus bubbles!

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See These Korean Bubble Face Masks Can Get Hilariously Out Of Control here

Pigeons aren't exactly seen as classy animals, but they're very cosmopolitan and they have beautiful plumage when their feathers haven't been wrecked by life in the big city.

So I can see how someone would be inspired by the pigeon's coloration when designing clothing, especially winter wear, but I never saw high heels shaped liked pigeons coming- and neither did these real live pigeons.

And that's really the point of Japanese shoe designer Kyoto Ohata's ridiculously cool pigeon shoes- they're designed by a bird lover so pigeons won't be scared of her shoes while she walks around town.

Now the pigeons don't run away when Kyoto Ohata comes around- they sit and stare, wondering how they can free their fellow pigeons from that evil woman walking on their back!

-Via Metro

It's not uncommon for people to sit around their houses in nothing but their underwear, and if they have mirrors hung up around the house then they know what they look like while they do stuff in the nude.

That makes nudity a normal thing for people when they're at home, but it's also something nobody talks about because it used to be taboo, which German photographer Sophia Vogel wants to help change.

Sophia's literally revealing series "With and Without" shoots people doing everyday activities while clothed then she reshoots the scene while they're unclothed, showing how mundane nudity can be:

"Over the last couple of years, nudity has emerged from being one of society's taboos," she told Vice. "I love to present nudity in an aesthetic manner without any sexual context."

"We are observed and judged every day, and the fashion industry lavishes beauty ideals and criticism on us. We set high standards for ourselves," she said. "By presenting all kinds of different body shapes and natural postures, I would love to show that everybody is beautiful in their own way."

See German Artist Sophia Vogel Photographs Real People Doing Everyday Things Without Clothes here

Anybody who commits an armed robbery is either desperate, strung out or crazy, or a combination of the three, so they're usually not thinking straight when they move in with their guns drawn.

But the two men who tried to rob a McDonald's restaurant in Besançon, France had their head on straighter than most, and they would have walked away with over $2k from the till had luck been on their side.

But, unbeknownst to them as they fired warning shots into the air and took the till for all it had, 11 of the 40 people in the restaurant were French special forces officers, from the "Groupe d’Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale, or GIGN - the Gallic equivalent of the SAS".

Needless to say these special forces officers weren't about to let those two punks get away with their brazen crime, so they waited for their chance to spring into action:

Edwige Roux-Morizot, the local prosecutor, said: “During the hold-up, the gendarmes didn’t do anything. It was out of the question to use their weapons, as this would have created difficulties and could have placed many people’s lives in danger.”

The highly trained and battle-hardened officers were able to pounce on the first of the two robbers when he tripped on his way of the outlet without firing a shot.

However, they were forced to shoot the other in the abdomen when he pointed a gun at them as he sought to make his getaway with the cash, ignoring their orders to drop his weapon. 

The two robbers, both in their early 20s and from the local Mombéliard area, were taken to Besancon hospital for treatment.

-Via The Telegraph

Relationship-oriented comics weren't my cup of tea before I discovered the joy of reading a Sarah Andersen comic, and since then many more great relationship comics have been created.

The comics Fishball creates are all about two nerds in love, so on the surface they're just like many of the other comics out there, but Fishball incorporates cartoony gags into her strips and her art style is easy on the eyes.

Fishball and her really tall boyfriend are keeping it real as far as relationships go, which means they're willing to admit when their love is starting to stink.

See more from What It's Like To Date A Giant Nerd here

What is it about color coordination that is so satisfying to both our brains and our eyeballs?

The odd one in a million will claim mismatched colors and clashing patterns are cooler, but we know better than to believe that madness.

And when we see photos with perfect color coordination the visual appeal is impossible to ignore.

Photographer Kelsey McClellan teamed up with set and prop stylist Michelle Maguire to create what is probably the most visually satisfying series of photos ever created- Wardrobe Snacks.

See more Strangely Satisfying Photos Of Food Coordinated With Monochromatic Clothing here

There's a common misconception that hunters who work in the whaling industry are coldhearted killers who derive a sadistic pleasure from taking down those giants of the sea.

But they must have felt guilty about their actions at some point in their lives, since it's so very human to care despite our desire to drown our emotions .

Some go a bit mad, others quit the biz or take out their anger and frustration on the whales, but the guy in this animated has a sinister way of dealing with his emotions- he keeps his heart in a box.

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Whale Heart was created by 3rd year animation students from The Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, and I really dig both the morbid theme and stop motion/practical look of the CGI textures.