When he was 15, Steven Ortiz traded his old cellphone for a newer one. Then, he traded that for an iPod Touch.
A WOMAN FOUND HER RING 16 YEARS LATER, GROWING ON A CARROT
A Swedish woman got the surprise of a lifetime when she pulled a small carrot out of her garden at home.
WORLD'S TALLEST MOHAWK: 3 FEET, 8.6 INCHES HIGH
It took three cans of hairspray, one large bottle of gel -- and, of course, 15 years to grow it out -- but Kazuhiro Watanabe has made hist...
OLDEST SHOE documented was preserved in Sheep Dung
The world's oldest known leather shoe (pictured) was found in an Armenian cave. Stuffed with grass, perhaps as an insulator or an earl...
DOLPHINS GANG-RAPES THEIR FEMALES
We humans love to get close to these clever, cute and cuddly sea-creatures, but do you know how they treat their women in the world of dol...
The Forget Me Knot Gold Ring
The Forget Me Knot gold ring created by Icelandic fashion designer Sruli Recht is not your usual piece of luxury jewelry.
Metal Storm - Deadly Weapon
Futuristic artillery gun is cited as the world's fastest firearm. With the ability to fire 16,000 rounds of ammunition each second, th...
The Virtuous of Mr. Bai Fang Li
Peddling a trishaw to finance poor students: Mr. Bai Fang Li touched the people of China
Earth: The Pale Blue Dot - The Pingualuit Crater
Approximately 1.4 million years ago, a meteorite crashed into the surface of Earth, leaving behind a huge crater that has a diameter of 2....
Meet Hachikō of JAPAN
In 1924, Professor Hidesaburō Ueno took in the Akita puppy, Hachiko as a pet. Over the next year or so pet and master developed a very clo...
World's Biggest Hotel
Stretching for over three miles along the white sandy beach on Germany's Baltic Sea island of Ruegen, lies the world’s biggest hotel w...
Employee of the Century
Arthur Winston (100-year-old): Worked for 72 years at the same company and only took one day off A Los Angeles Metro employee for 72 yea...
Enchanted River - Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur, PHILIPPINES
Why Enchanted? "Cause no one ever reach its bottom." Enchanted River is found in Barangay Talisay, Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. I...
CRAIG LEWIS: THE FIRST HEARTLESS MAN WHO IS ABLE TO LIVE WITHOUT A PULSE
Heartless: Craig Lewis, 55, was the first man to have a 'continuous flow' pump to replace his entire heart - and now has no pulse ...
THE APPIAN WAY WAS BUILT IN 312 BC WHICH CONNECTED ROME TO BRINDISI, APULIA AND IT'S STILL IN USE TODAY
The Appian Way (Latin and Italian: Via Appia) was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic...
THE PENTAGRAM
Pentagrams were used as an important religious symbol by the Babylonians and by the Pythagoreans in ancient Greece.
Velella Velella
Velella is a cosmopolitan genus of free-floating hydrozoans that live on the surface of the open ocean.
THE GRETA OTO (ALSO KNOWN AS THE GLASS WINGED BUTTERFLY)
Greta oto is a beautiful brush-footed butterfly and is a member of the: subfamily Danainae, tribe Ithomiini, subtribe Godyridina.
Electronic Tattoo' to Track Patients? Vital Signs
An "electronic tattoo" could revolutionize medical sensing, computer gaming and even render the super slick James Bond movie gad...
AN ISLAND COUNTRY NAMED NIUE, HAD PICTURE OF POKEMON'S PIKACHU ON THEIR CURRENCY IN 2001
As all the world falls before the Pokemon phenomenon, the idyllic South Pacific Island of Niue has acknowledged the unbelievable popularit...
LIFESTRAW
LifeStraw is a water filter designed to be used by one person to filter water so that they may safely drink it. It filters a maximum of 1...
A WOMAN GAVE BIRTH TO TWINS AT THE SAME TIME WITH TWO DIFFERENT FATHERS
In 2004, Charlotte Kallehauge divorced her husband and began dating another man. On New Years, she slept with her ex-husband, and two days...
Top 5 Cancer Causing Foods
Cancer is a disease that can be caused by hereditary and environmental factors. While some people develop cancer regardless of steps take...
Tang Jiangshan: the Reincarnated Chinese Man
There was a boy named Tang Jiangshan. He lived in Gancheng Town of Dongfang City, Hainan Province.
How Much Does Amazon, Google and Facebook Make?
Amazon – $34,204,000,000 $1,084 per second Founded in 1994 and currently employing 33,700 people, Amazon.com remains the world’s largest o...
ALARMING UNHEALTHY SNACKS TO AVOID
1. Popcorn Popcorn should be a great snack. It is a whole grain, naturally low in calories, and recent research has found that popped kern...
The Mayan Temple Water Slide
Atlantis Bahamas has 15 million dollar marina, lagoons, waterfalls and the underwater ruins of Atlantis itself.
21 WAYS HOW RICH PEOPLE THINK
Steve Seibold, the author of "How Rich People Think," spent nearly 3 decades in interviewing millionaires and studying their tho...
10 MAIN CLOUD TYPES
HIGH clouds above 10,000 feet: (Ci) Cirrus - Thin and wispy, usually transparent white in color but can display magnificent colors when t...
FLOWER OF LIPS
With a scientific name of Psychotria Elata, this species also goes by the fitting names of the Hot Lips Plant, Flower of Lips or even Hook...
THERE'S A PLACE IN HONDURAS WHERE IT RAINS FISH
Since 1998, and once a year, locals from Yoro, Honduras hold an annual festival called Festival de Lluvia de Peces.
LIFE AFTER DEATH EXPERIENCED BY A NEUROSCIENTIST
A Harvard neurosurgeon describes what he says was a near-death experience in his latest book -- and there are skeptics. Eben Alexander...
Japanese Company Designs Air-Conditioned Clothing
with Japan facing power shortages and energy restrictions in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami the demand for the air-conditioned...
The Quietest Place on Earth Will Drive You Insane Within 45 Minutes
There's a small room in Minnesota that blocks out 99% of all external sound. That's an impressive number! Also impressive: nobody ...
A MAN OUTSOURCED HIS OWN JOB TO CHINA
If you’re a programmer who can work from home all the time, wouldn’t you want to find ways to make your job easier and more efficient?
ROCK BALANCING PHILIPPINES
Rock Balancing Philippines was founded in September 2010 at Tanay, Rizal by Leandro Tamayo Inocencio and Ildefonso Bandoma Vista who were ...
INCREDIBLE ROCK SCULPTURES MADE WITHOUT ANY GLUE
Colorado artist Mike Grab creates astonishing towers of balanced stones using nothing but gravity, and his uncanny ability to find the nat...
King Leonidas of Sparta (reigned c. 490 – 480 B.C.)
Leonidas was a 5th century B.C. Spartan military king who bravely led a small force of Greeks -- mostly Spartan (the famous 300),
SWEDEN RUN OUTS OF GARBAGE, FORCED TO IMPORT FROM NORWAY
Sweden, a recycling-happy land where a quarter of a million homes are powered by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: Th...
THOMAS EDISON'S LAST BREATH IS SAVED IN A TEST TUBE
Here's why... You may have heard of Thomas Edison, or at least a few small things he invented. You know, like the first movie camera, ...
MOURNING DOG BECOME A REGULAR AT MASS AFTER OWNER'S DEATH
When the bells ring for the start of a service, German shepherd Tommy runs to the church his owner Maria Margherita Lochi used to attend b...
Scientists uncover massive river on Mars
In 2012, the European Space Agency discovered a huge 1,500 kilometer river in the upper Reull Vallis region of Mars.
Kim Phuc: ‘The girl in the picture’ forty years later
On the 40th Anniversary of the famous photograph of 9-year-old Kim Phuc Phan Thị, taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Nick Ut,
Astronomers Find Largest, Oldest Mass of Water in Universe
Astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe — a gigantic, 12-billion-year-old cloud har...
THE 9 MOST DANGEROUS HEALTH FOODS
➨Protein Bars “Protein bars are basically vitamin and protein-infused candy bars,” says Moskovitz. “They seem like a healthy snack replace...
Silent disco craze spreads
A surprising new musical craze is taking the nation's dance floors by storm - the sound of silence.
ONE OF THE DEPRESSION-ERA GANGSTERS IS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FIGURES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd was a bank robber who peaked during the depression. He initially became famous for his excessively vi...
The Lion Whisperer
Kevin Richardson is sometimes known as the 'lion whisperer'. The South African is a self-taught expert on animal behaviour who ha...
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