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The Takabisha roller-coaster is set to open at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park in Japan. This is the 14th Guinness world record-breaking ride at this amusement park.
Melting ice at the North and South Poles is adding to the Earth’s girth
The Earth had been ‘slimming down’ by just under a millimetre a year following the Ice Age, but global warming is reversing this process.
Is global warming to blame for the Earth putting on ‘weight’ around its ‘midriff’? According to scientists, melting ice in Antarctica and Greenland due to global warming is adding volume to the oceans and this extra water is being pulled towards the Equator, adding to the girth at the widest part of our planet.
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Top 10 ticketed cars in America
Does what we drive affect how we drive?
Quality Planning , an analytics company that works with auto insurers asked the question: Does what we drive affect how we drive? They ranked vehicles most likely to get a ticket based on the number of moving violations issued for each 100,000 miles driven. There are a few predictable entries in the top 10 list but the list is not totally comprised of flashy red sports cars.
World’s first 3D chocolate printer
3D chocolate printer
The world’s first 3D chocolate printer has just been unveiled in the U.K., . A 3D printer creates objects by gradually stacking layers of material into a desired shape. That is also how the chocolate version operates. It is also known as additive manufacturing in which the process has mostly been used for plastic and metal production but is not quite as tasty. (Video)
Amazing 5-story house filled with hammocks
The FLEDERHAUS
This amazing structure is an urban oasis situated in Vienna Austria designed by architects Heri & Salli. Visitors can hang out, quite literally. (Pics)
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This boy has a magnetic personality
Paulo David Amorim’s friends call him “Magnet Boy”. This 11-year-old Brazilian boy’s abdomen, chest and back attract metal! The boy’s doctor, Doctor Dix-Sept Rosado Sobrinho, says he’s never seen anything like it but is not concerned about the boy’s health…
Odd Day
Something is certainly odd about this date.
Today is Odd Day. Three consecutive odd numbers make up the date only six times in a century. After 7/9/11, only two days remain in this parade of Odd Days which began with 1/3/5. The previous stretch of dates like this started with 1/3/1905. Odd Day was founded by Californian teacher Ron Gordon…
Can’t decide on a tattoo? Get a QR Code inked on your chest!
As part of whisky brand Ballantine’s “Leave an Impression” campaign, Paris-based tattoo artist Karl Marc seared a QR code onto his friend Marco’s chest.
Marc says the whisky company approached him and asked if he would be interested in executing the tattoo — a QR code that unlocked an animation when scanned — via a live stream on the brand’s Facebook Page. The brand is doing similar events with other artists, from ice sculptors to graffiti artists…
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15 suspected Anonymous members arrested in Italy
Anonymous may be slightly less anonymous shortly.
The Italian government capped off a long investigation yesterday with a series of 32 raids across Italy and one in Switzerland. Authorities arrested 15 alleged members of Anonymous and accused them with conducting denial of service attacks against government web sites and the web sites of private and state-owned media organizations…
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Massive Mayan Gravesite found in the State of Tabasco
One of many relics found at the site.
Mexican archaeologists have discovered a Prehispanic grave site they believe to be Mayan in the state of Tabasco. Estimated to be around 1200 years old and containing 116 bodies, this is the largest group of skeletons found in the region. The area was thought to have been used as a cemetery, with the elite buried in a separate area from their companions, and skeletons found with dental inlays, cranial deformation and other body modifications…
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World’s first man-made organ transplant carried out in Sweden
An image released by Karolinska University Hospital shows part of the operation.
The world’s first transplant of a fully synthetic organ has been carried out by surgeons – a windpipe created using the patient’s stem cells and an artificial “scaffold”. A month ago a 36-year-old cancer patient received the organ at the Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm.
Women drivers are more dangerous behind the wheel
Women have a tough time negotiating crossroads, T-junctions and slip roads, according to researchers.
According to scientists, women drivers are more likely to be involved in an accident.
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