"Remove all the space within the atoms making up the human body, and every person that’s ever lived would fit inside a baseball."
- Brian Greene (via parislemon)
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Commuter train in Bohn’s ‘Visions of the Future’ Ads, 1940s
Giant dog! People From a Long Time Ago, with Dogs
North Korea Has Found a Secret Unicorn Lair, Apparently
“Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom,” reports the — wait. Stop. UNICORNS? That’s an actual snippet from a report from the Korean Central News Agency, the state news agency of North Korea.
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Homeowners Luo Baogen and his wife refused to allow the government to demolish their home in Wenling, Zhejiang province, China, claiming the relocation compensation offered would not be enough to cover the cost of rebuilding. So, adjacent neighboring homes were dismantled, and, bizarrely, the road was built around the intact home, leaving it as an island in a river of new asphalt.
The World’s Tallest Treehouse - 10 stories, 6 oak trees
Why Is Waffle House Such A News Magnet? - The Consumerist
With 1,600 chains, Waffle House is seemingly everywhere, especially in the South. It is so strongly rooted down there, that federal emergency officials have been known to use something called the Waffle House Index when measuring the severity of natural disasters. If one is closed, that means the recover process will take longer.
Austrian Man Wins Right To Wear Pasta Strainer In License Photo — NPR
In Austria one of the strangest fights for religious freedom has come to an end: Niko Alm, a self-described “Pastafarian,” fought for three years for the right to wear a pasta strainer on his head in his driver’s license photo.
His argument? Alm claimed he belonged to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and wearing the strainer was part of his religion.
Xeroxed Village: Chinese Secretly Copy Austrian UNESCO Town
This isn’t the first time a Chinese firm has used a European place as inspiration. The Chinese city of Anting, some 30 kilometers from Shanghai, created a district designed to accommodate 20,000 residents called “German Town Anting.” Modelled after a typical mid-size German city by architecture firm Albert Speer & Partner, it includes Bauhaus style architecture and a fountain with statues of Goethe and Schiller.
Also near Shanghai are mini versions of Barcelona, Venice and the Scandinavian-inspired Nordic Town. The architectural plagiarisms are popular destinations among middle-class Chinese, even serving as backdrops for wedding photos.
