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When Hugh Hefner dies, his body will be put into the crypt space directly to the left of Marilyn Monroe
Weird News: The Living Bridges of India
Some of the greatest engineering feats ever accomplished date back to the ancient world. The enigmatic pyramids can certainly make their point, but so can these incredible bridges of northeastern India depicted below.
It is estimated that planning for these bridges took 10-15 years in…
The rumbling sound caused by the movement of gas in your stomach and intestines is called borborygmus
The Milky Way Galaxy is one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe. Every star that the eye can distinguish in the night sky is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. It is estimated to contain at least 200 billion to 400 billion stars, and stretches approximately 100,000 light years (587862537318360800 Miles) in diameter.
Chris Harrison, a Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon, created an infographic of how “he” and “she” are used in Google’s digital books archive, which contains 200 years worth of published material. The graph shows the 120 most common words used after “he” and “she,” ordered in decreasing frequency.
(Source: ilovecharts)
The glasswing butterfly is just one of the 11 intriguing transparent animals we found.
This great website compares some basic statistics of the US (or other countries) to other countries. It is really interesting.
North Korea is roughly the size of Mississippi
I just watched a National Geographic special on solitary confinement. Shit… These guys spend upwards of five years completely alone. How has the Supreme Court not addressed the constitutionality of it? I don’t understand. The United States is one of the few countries who still implements solitary confinement; most countries have abandoned it. Over 80,000 criminals are currently in this system. The people who institute this type of punishment are either severely mislead or bigger sociopaths than the ones they house.
Bas Jan Ader was a dutch artist. He became famous after his ‘I’m too sad to tell you’, ’fall I’ and ‘fall II’ 16mm videos. In 1975 Ader embarked on what he called “a very long sailing trip”, a daring attempt to cross the Atlantic in a 12½ foot sailboat. He claimed it would take him 60 days to make the trip, or 90 if he chose not to use the sail. Six months after his departure, his boat was found, half-submerged off the coast of Ireland, but Bas Jan had vanished.
