Showing posts with label Weird. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Weird. Show all posts

Siberia’s Cold Storage Ice Tunnels


The Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia stays covered in permafrost all throughout the year, and while the winters are chilly, summers are comparatively warm, at least by Siberian standards. So when a fish processing plant was built here in the mid 20th century, what was urgently needed was a cold storage facility where fish caught in the Arctic waters could be stored before they are processed, packed and exported to western Europe.
The processing plant was located in the village of Novy Port on the mouth of the Ob River. The village was founded in the 1920s as an interim coal bunkering port where vessels traversing the Northern Sea Route would stop and refuel. Once the fish processing plant was established, fishery became Novy Port’s main industry.
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Mail Delivery By Rockets


The history of the postal system is inextricably tied to the history of transport. Advances in transportation technology have not only allowed people to travel farther and explore more territory, it also allowed the postal system to expand their influence over a larger area. As new inventions and discoveries shortened the time of travel, messages and letters began to reach distant recipients in lesser time, and the postal system became more efficient. By the time the first trans-pacific airmail was delivered, the postal service had tried every mode of transport available to man, including rockets.
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The cover of a rocket mail delivered in the state of Sikkim, India, on 28 September, 1935. Photo credit: regencystamps.com

George Parrot: The Man Skin Became A Pair Of Shoes


George Parrott, who was also known as Big Nose George, was a small time cattle rustler and highwayman in the American Wild West in the late 19th century. He was reputed to have a large nose, hence the nickname.
Big Nose and his gang enjoyed a successful career robbing freight wagons and stage coaches. In those days, all business transactions were done in cash, and coaches often carried large amounts of paper money especially during paydays.
One day back in 1878, Big Nose’s gang decided to try their luck on a Union Pacific train that was carrying payrolls for its employees. They found a lonely stretch of tracks near Medicine Bow River, in Wyoming, loosened a spike in the rails and waited for the train to arrive. But a sharp-eyed railroad employee spotted the tampered rail, repaired the damage and alerted lawmen before the train could arrive.
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This innocuous-looking pair of shoes hides a macabre secret. Photo credit: Scott Burgan/Flickr
Real Zombie Costume Ideas

Real Zombie Costume Ideas

I am sure you must be going crazy of thinking of some out of the world costume ideas for your Halloween this year! Only once your costumes are decided will you be able to move further with decoration and food! With this day just around the corner, you must be thinking of costume ideas that you can use to create your unique Halloween costumes for those parties and trick n’ treat escapades. These  real zombie costume ideas will give an edge of your friends on Halloween. And remember being a zombie is all about getting the makeup and expression right. Let me show you how.



People Are Coming Up With New Slogans For United Airlines

In case you had your phone on airplane mode and didn't see the news 10 April 2017, a passenger was removed by force from a United Airlines flight after the carrier overbooked their seats. The good people of the Twitter sphere clapped back in the most hilarious way possible - by coming up with new slogans for them.

Fly the Friendly Skies, the company's current motto, didn't seem to apply to one man flying from Chicago to Louisville. The airline had overbooked the flight, a common practice used to ensure all seats are sold, and was forced to deplane him. When he refused, aviation security officers dragged him out of the aircraft, bloodying his face in the process.

Videos of the incident taken by other passengers have since gone viral, and this latest Twitter trend is set to create an even bigger PR migraine for United. Check out the best new slogans below, and throw us your own in the comments.

Historic Buildings in The UK Have Bricked Up Windows

Why Do Many Historic Buildings in The UK Have Bricked Up Windows?
There was a time in Great Britain when having windows in homes and buildings were prohibitively expensive.
That time began in 1696 with the introduction of the much-despised window tax, that levied tax on property owners based on the number of windows or window-like openings the property had. The details of the tax kept changing with time, but the basic premise was that the more windows the house had, the more tax the owner had to pay.
In the eyes of the legislature the window tax was a brilliant way to put the burden of tax on the shoulder of the upper class. The rich usually had larger houses with more windows, and so were liable to pay more taxes. Poor people, on the other hand, lived in smaller houses and so paid less. To make the system even more attractive to the poorer class, those houses with fewer than ten windows were exempted from the window tax altogether.
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The Festival of Exploding Sledgehammers


Every February, residents of the tiny town of San Juan de la Vega in Mexico perform the re-enactment of a four hundred year-old battle that took place between the local farmers and the wealthy landowners. According to legends, the farmers were sided by a local miner and rancher, and the town’s namesake, Juan aquino de la Vega, who was a Robin Hood type of person who robbed from the rich and gave it to the poor.
Unlike historic re-enactments where revelers dress in full costume and rage a mock war against each other, the feature of this re-enactment or festival is the detonation of handmade firecrackers by ramming them with sledgehammers. Explosive packets of fertilizers and sulfur are tied to the business end of sledgehammers and detonated by smashing them against rocks and metal plates. The firecrackers explode in a cloud of smoke and dust accompanied by flying shrapnel that tears through the flesh of onlookers.
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Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real

Agloe: A Fake Town That Became Real


In the 1930s, a small town named Agloe suddenly began appearing on the maps of New York. It was positioned near an unmarked dirt road that led from Roscoe to Rockland, and near to Beaverkill. That road was neither visited by anyone nor was it popularly known, and very few people, if any, outside of the mapmakers’ company, knew that the town of Agloe didn’t even exist.

Agloe was a copyright trap—a century old trick mapmakers and dictionary makers have been using to catch copycats. When companies create a map, they perform all the hard work on it, including examining the right spellings, placing the cities in the right spot on the map, etc., and they need to protect their work. So they add small traps to the map—a fake street, a fantasy town. When another company steals their map, the original creators are able to take their competitors to court by pointing out the fake places that shouldn’t be on the map.
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The Basement Shops Bulgarian capital of Sofia


Street vendors are a common sight in cities across the world. The inability to pay high rent, or the unavailability of cheap commercial space, have pushed these small merchants on to streets, and in some cases, on to basements, as in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.
Known as klek shops, these basement shops are unique to the city of Sofia. The shops are set in the basement of the buildings containing a small window that opens in the sidewalk, usually below the knee level. This is why they are known as “klek shops”—klek means knee. Products are displayed outside on the sidewalk, but to order something, customers need to squat and peer into the window and into the dimly lit face of the trader inside the basement.
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The 4-Ton Steel Ball That Produces Artificial Earthquakes


In the wooded hillside of Hainberg, near Göttingen, Germany, stands an old seismological station. The Wiechert Earthquake Station was built in 1902 by the noted German physicist and geophysicist, Emil Wiechert, to carry out research in the emerging field of geophysics. Wiechert built several seismographs there to record tremors. These instruments have been recording data uninterruptedly since then, becoming the world’s oldest, still functioning seismograph.
Emil Wiechert was interested in learning about the structure of the earth. A few years prior, he had published the first verifiable model of the Earth's interior as a series of shells. He argued that since the density of the Earth's surface rocks was different from the mean density of the Earth, the earth must be made of different layers of rocks of different densities. He concluded, correctly, that the earth has a heavy iron core.
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The Mintrop ball readying for a drop.
Hilariously Oversized Objects That Will Make You Feel Small

Hilariously Oversized Objects That Will Make You Feel Small


Megalophobia or the fear of large objects is one of many phobias people suffer from. Still, humankind has always been fascinated by huge objects around us and these man-made oversized things will certainly prove that they’re not only mindblowing but can come in handy, as well.
Sometimes a regular version of things just isn’t enough and only enlarged alternatives can save the day.
We have stumbled upon 25 giant objects that are not only hilarious, but they may actually come in handy at one point or another.

The Japanese Hotel Staffed By Robots


In the last few weeks, we have been hearing a lot about how robots have been replacing human workers across industries in developed countries. According to a recent study conducted jointly by economists from M.I.T. and Boston University, for every robot that was added to the workforce up to six workers have lost their job, and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent. The study also found that up to 670,000 Americans have lost jobs to industrial robots between 1990 and 2007. Another study made an even more foreboding report —more than 10 million UK workers could be replaced by robots within the next 15 years.

While mechanization in industries is “necessary” to increase efficiency and reduce costs, robots in Japan are more of a novelty. Take Henn-na hotel near Nagasaki, for example. It has been billed as “the first robot-staffed hotel” in the world. From the receptionist to the bellhop to the concierge —all are robots.
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Must Have Ninja Themed Products.

Must Have Ninja Themed Products.

Every one of us has a little ninja in us, do you agree with us on this? For those who have difficulty in finding their little ninja in them, these cool ninja themed products are here to give a little needed nudge……..
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Weird Museums From Around the World

Weird Museums From Around the World


Some museums feature things that would never normally become an exhibition item, yet people enjoy visiting them. There’s a museum of funeral culture in Russia, a museum of women’s hair in Turkey, and a museum of love in South Korea. When traveling abroad, we all want to have unforgettable experiences, so visiting one of the museums below may be a good idea.
We  decided to show you 15 weird museums around the world that are worth putting on a bucket list.
28 Hilarious Accidents That Will Be Remembered for a Long Time

28 Hilarious Accidents That Will Be Remembered for a Long Time

28 Hilarious Accidents That Will Be Remembered for a Long Time
Photographers sometimes wait for that special moment to take a unique shot. Athletes work out to reach their goals and get their titles and medals. On the other hand, this world is inhabited by some people who never want to do anything outstanding (or even take a picture of something cool). But sometimes fortune smiles on these people. Nevertheless, there’s no reason to envy these people. And sometimes what happened to them can be very instructive.
WE collected 28 hilarious and weird accidents from internet users.

Decorating Fences With Trash, The New Zealander Way


New Zealanders have a unique way of discarding their trash—they hang them on fences. Bras, boots, toothbrushes, bicycles, everything that has had their useful life over gets hung en masse on roadside fences.
Perhaps, the most famous of them is the Cardrona Bra Fence in Central Otago. The fence began one morning in 1999 when four women’s bras were found attached to the wire fence alongside the road and fluttering in the breeze. Rumor is that a group of women were celebrating the new year at the Cardrona Hotel and after leaving the pub late at night, they decided to take off their bras and hang them on the fence. Over the next few weeks, the number of bras on the fence steadily increased until there were sixty more by the end of February 2000. As news about the fence spread, even more bras started appearing. In the following years the bra population multiplied to thousands and the fence became a unique tourist attraction gaining worldwide attention.
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The Cardrona Bra Fence in 2016. Photo credit: Kathrin & Stefan Marks/Flickr

The Hairy Secret Behind Indian Temples


Where do hairs for fashion wigs and hair extensions come from? The answer is: everywhere, but the majority of them come from China and India, where human hair is a lucrative business.
In India, China, and eastern Europe, small agents tour villages coaxing poverty-stricken women to part with their hair for a small payment. Sometimes, husbands would force wives into selling their hair and slum children would be tricked into having their heads shaved in exchange for toys. There was one incident in India where a group of men held down a women, cut off her locks and took off with it.
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A woman gets her head shaved at the Thiruthani Murugan Temple in Tamil Nadu. Photo credit: Allison Joyce

The Floating Fish Farms of China


In the sheltered coastal waters of the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, there are large fish farms where marine crustaceans such as shrimps, and molluscs such as oysters, are raised in artificial enclosures. These farms are created by floating netted enclosures from a sprawling network of interconnected wooden pathways and platforms. Over these, fishermen have built wooden houses and huts where entire families live.
These pictures were taken in south-eastern China's Fujian province, where there are numerous floating farms that cultivate the sought-after shellfish, a delicacy that is eaten in Asia at banquets and even exchanged as gifts. The marciulture industry—the specialized branch of aquaculture where marine organisms are cultivated in the open ocean—is so large here that it has attracted its own tourist industry.
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The fish farms of China’s Luoyuan Bay, Fujian Province, China. Photo credit: Edward Burtynsky
China is the world’ largest producer and consumer of fish, accounting for one-third of the world's entire fish production and two-thirds of the world’s aquaculture production. Aquaculture, which is the farming of fish in ponds, lakes and tanks, alone accounts for two-thirds of China's total fish output.
China has a very long history of fish farming, going back by more than 3,000 years, but it really took off as an industry in the 1990s.
In recent years, however, production has fallen due to overfishing, pollution and poor practices as the biodiversity is being irreparably damaged. Every year there is a three-month ban on fishing in order to give fish stocks a chance to breed and recover, but it has done little to balance out the numbers
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Seafood farms cover the surface of Luoyuan Bay in the Fujian province of China. For a sense of scale, this Overview shows approximately 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles). Photo credit: DigitalGlobe/Daily Overview
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Sources: Wikipedia / NOAA / Daily Mail

Japanese Milk Delivery Boxes


For many western countries, doorstep milk delivery is a thing of the past, but in Japan, millions of people still rely on the milkman for fresh milk everyday. Many traditional Japanese homes have milk delivery boxes, which are wooden boxes nailed outside the house where the milkman can drop bottles or cartons of milk—just like postmen drop mails in the mailbox. Some of the newer boxes are made of plastic and has Styrofoam insulation on the inside. Some milk shops even include a recyclable coolant pack with each delivery to keep the milk cold.
“Home delivery of dairy products, such as milk and yogurt, is a service that surprisingly is still available even these days thanks to the marketing efforts of the milk companies to combat lack of consumer interest which had been dwindling throughout the 1980s,” states an article on Phantom River Stone.
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Photo credit: presentandcorrect.com
According to news report from the Japan Times published in 2003, one of the large dairy companies at that time, Meiji Dairies, had succeeded in reversing the trend and managed to double deliveries made over the prior ten-year period.
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The Earth Pyramids of South Tyrol


At many places across South Tyrol, in northern Italy, one can see a peculiar geological formation called “earth pyramids”. They consist of tall cone-shaped pillars made of clay, with a boulder resting on top.
These unusual structures started forming from moraine clay soil left behind after the last Ice Age when the glaciers melted away. In dry condition the soil is hard as stone, but as soon as it rains, it turns into a soft muddy mass, starts sliding, and forms large slopes 10 to 15 meters steep. When the rainy season starts, these slopes erode away. But when there are rocks in the mud, the clay soil underneath these rocks stays protected from the rain. So, while the surrounding material is continually carried off with the rain, the protected pillars rise out of the ground to form majestic earth pyramids. It can take hundreds to thousands of years for these pyramids to form.
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Photo credit: xv15tau/Flickr
The pillars continue to erode, but more slowly then the rest of the terrain. At some point in the future, the columns will lose the strength to hold the large rock overhead. Once the boulder falls from the peak, the column will erode away rapidly.
Earth pyramids are unique to South Tyrol, but fairly widespread. The best ones are located on the Ritten, a plateau not far from Bozen in northern Italy. Earth pyramids are also found at Platten near Percha in the Puster Valley.
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Photo credit: Ritten_Renon/Flickr
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Sources: www.ritten.com / Wikipedia