German police save stuffed toy penguin
Pity the poor officers working at Heidelberg police headquarters. Rushing to save a stranded penguin floating down the Neckar river, it was only after a full-scale rescue operation had been mounted that they realised the terrible truth…
It was a stuffed penguin. On a piece of ice. Bobbing down the river.
Presuming it was an animal who’d escaped from a nearby zoo, several passers-by called in to let them know a penguin was stranded in the river – despite it being pretty obvious it wasn’t the real deal.
After all, how many penguins have you seen standing stock still for hours at a time?
“It was someone’s idea of a joke about the freezing weather,” explained one officer. Quite what the joke is, we’re not sure, but there you go.
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If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time.
If you look at the sun RIGHT NOW, you are technically looking back in time. It takes eight minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth.
Therefore, the image of the sun in the sky outside your window at this moment is actually what the sun looked like about eight minutes ago.
Australia is the safest country for zombie attacks
That’s according to the staff of LiveScience who conducted a global survey of the best “Safe Zones” in case of zombie outbreak and Australia topped the list. The USA, Canada, Kazakhstan and Russia rounded up the top five. The countries were graded according to their global location, topography, weapon access, population and “military preparedness.”
A Romanian model, Ioana Spangenberg, 30, has a tiny 50cm waist, 81cm hips and weighs 38kg
Ioana Spangenberg, 30, tips the scales at a minuscule 38kg, but claims her diet is consistent with a woman twice her size.
She says that nobody believes her , but every day she eats three big meals and snacks on chocolate and crisps all the time.
With a 50cm waist and 81cm hips, Ioana’s hourglass figure – which she says she’s had since a teen – causes a lot of controversy. The Romanian model claims that when she was 13 her waist was around 38 cm! This means that if someone put their hands around it, their fingers would touch and they would still have extra room.
In 2006 she met her german husband who encoured her to become a model and to make money from her figure. Altough she become very popular for her tiny waist, she still wants to gain some weight, so her figure becomes less shocking.
Paul Hunn is the guy who officially holds a Guinness record for the loudest ever burp- 107.10 db! Motorcycles are quieter than that!
According to the official Guinness World Records website, the burp was 107.10 db loud.
If Websites Were Countries, Facebook would have been the Third Largest country in the entire world, even bigger than the USA!
In 2009 Facebook reached the status of the fastest developing social network. It had more than 200 million active users, which in that case (if Facebook was a real country) would have made it the third largest in the WORLD!
However, that statistics is already out of date. Nowadays, Facebook has more than 800 million users, which is 4 times as much as last year! All this means that there are more Facebook users than the amount of people living in the USA and Indonesia combined. The only countries with bigger populations than Facebook are India and of course China.
A man known as Snake Manu, from India
A man known as Snake Manu, from India, swallowed 200 earthworms each at least 10 centimetres (4 inches) long in 30 seconds in 2003.
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation
In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.
A 12-year-old student showed the world that toilet water is way cleaner than Fast Food ice!
12-year-old Jasmine Roberts tested how clean the ice at 5 different fast food restaurants in the USA was. She then proceeded to comparing the results with the toilet water in the exact same restaurants. Amazingly, 70% of the ice samples were dirtier than the toilet water ones. E. Coli was discovered in some of the ice samples!
So, is this possible or is it just another anti PR campaign focused on fast food restaurants? Well, toilet water comes from the same place the water we drink comes from-sanitized city water. The ice, however, oftentimes is made by ice machines which haven’t been cleaned for a LONG time and water is the perfect environment for bacteria and germs.
12 Popular Movie Poster Cliches
- A Loner Viewed From Behind
- Big Heads over Tiny People on a Beach
- Back To Back, Viewed From the Side
- The Between-the-Legs Shot
- In Bed
- Big Eye
40 Gargoyles and Grotesques Around the World
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the…
In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque, usually made of granite, with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building thereby preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls and eroding the mortar between. Architects often used multiple gargoyles on buildings to divide the flow of rainwater off the roof to minimize the potential damage from a rainstorm. Gargoyles are usually an elongated fantastic animal because the length of the gargoyle determines how far water is thrown from the wall. [Source]
A grotesque is a sculpture that does not work as a waterspout and serves only an ornamental or artistic function. Both gargoyles and grotesques are said to frighten off and protect those it guards from any evil or harmful spirits.
As an architectural sculpture I find gargoyles and grotesques fascinating. Whether ornamental or functional, their symbolism and ability to stir the emotions of those that gaze upon them is intriguing. Below you will find a collection of gargoyles and grotesques around the world. You can find many more examples on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons.
1. Oakland Cemetery – Atlanta, Georgia
Photograph by Kevin Trotman (The Rocketeet on Flickr)
2. San Juan de los Reyes Monastery – Toledo, Spain
Photograph by yoglassberg on Flickr
3. Natural History Museum – London, England
Photograph by Jon Sullivan
4. Notre Dame Cathedral – Paris, France
Photograph by J. M. Molinelli on Flickr
5. Cologne Cathedral – Cologne, Germany
Photograph by Shannon Ross-Albers on Flickr
6. Cathedral of Quito – Quito, Ecuador
Photograph by Delphine Ménard
7. Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain
Photograph by Bernard Gagnon
8. Forbidden City – Beijing, China
Photograph by Robert Kendall on Flickr
9. Mont Saint-Michel – Normandy, France
Photograph by Regina on Flickr
10. Washington National Cathedral – Washington D.C., USA
Photograph by Victoria Pickering on Flickr
11. St. Nicholas Church – Lüneburg, Germany
Photograph by DerHexer on Wikimedia Commons
12. Peace Tower on Parliament Hill – Ottawa, Canada
Photograph by D. Gordon E. Robertson
13. Marble Church, Bodelwyddan – Clwyd, Wales
Photograph by Kev Bailey on Flickr
14. Cologne Cathedral – Cologne, Germany
Photograph by Frank Vincentz
15. Notre Dame Cathedral – Paris, France
Photograph by Krzysztof Mizera
16. Reims Cathedral – Reims, France
Photograph by Ad Meskens
17. University of Washington – Seattle, Washington
Photograph by Allan Armstrong on Flickr
18. University of Sydney – Sydney, Australia
Photograph by David Morgan-Mar (dmmaus on Flickr)
19. Château d’Amboise – Amboise, France
Photograph by Ben Aveling
20. Alcobaça Monastery – Alcobaça, Portugal
Photograph by Júlio Reis
21. Washington National Cathedral – Washington D.C., USA
Photograph by Victoria Pickering on Flickr
22. Princeton University – New Jersey, USA
Photograph by David Goehring
23. Winchester Cathedral – Winchester, England
Photograph by Tony Hisgett
24. Biltmore Estate – North Carolina, USA
Photograph by Angela Wagner on Flickr
25. Nidaros Cathedral – Trondheim, Norway
Photograph by Endre Opsal on Flickr
26. Cathedral of Santa Eulalia – Barcelona, Spain
Photograph by Bernard Gagnon
27. Palma Cathedral – Palam, Mallorca, Spain
Photograph by Singdrossel
28. Magdalen College – Oxford, England
Photograph by Chris Creagh
29. Zagreb Cathedral – Zagreb, Croatia
Photograph by Bizutage
30. Washington National Cathedral – Washington D.C., USA
Photograph by Michael ‘Bodhi’ Rogers on Flickr
31. Hospital de Sant Pau – Barcelona, Spain
Photograph by Selbymay
32. Westminster Abbey – London, England
Photograph by Keith Clark (Train Fan on Flickr)
33. Château d’Amboise – Amboise, France
Photograph by Ben Aveling
34. Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain
Photograph by Bernard Gagnon
35. St Mary’s Cathedral – Edinburgh, Scotland
Photograph by David Ross (davydubbit on Flickr)
36. Notre Dame Cathedral – Paris, France
Photograph by Anthony Gelot (A.G. Photographe)
37. Notre Dame de l’Épine – Marne, France
Photograph by Mattana
38. Plummer Building – Rochester, Minnesota
Photograph by Chad Johnson on Flickr
39. Cheshire, England
Photograph by Gillie (lovestruck on Flickr)
40. Notre Dame Cathedral – Paris, France
Photograph by Roger Wollstadt
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