I love learning new things or just discovering things I never knew existed. It may result in a deep dive or just a burst of pleasure at a small fact.
Don't you ever look at something and wonder what it is or how it came to be where it is?
I love learning new things or just discovering things I never knew existed. It may result in a deep dive or just a burst of pleasure at a small fact.
Don't you ever look at something and wonder what it is or how it came to be where it is?
It can be found in Newburgh, NY, and is the work of an artist called Dasic. Since it spans up the sides and across the bridge's underside, it creates a really neat optical illusion.
While a perfect identification of the source is probably impossible, the pattern on the top points toward an herbivore, such as a cow or moose. Since it was found in Texas, the best guess is a bison.
But that's only half right. The sculpture is being destroyed after five years of work, but not before a master mold was made out of silicon.
It's a common method, allowing sculptors to use softer materials to work and then cast the final version in a harder stone.
Which is cool on its own, but savvy Redditors noted the lack of a "sound post" and identified it as a contrabass instead.
"Cashew apples" can be made into jams, juices, and even alcohol, but they are very fragile. They rot very quickly and they stain everything the juice touches.
But whoever donated to have this bench placed had a really great sense of humor! The plaque simply reads "Wet Paint."
The original post thought that they were meant for wheelchairs or strollers, but people noted that they seemed a bit steep for that.
It turns out that they are very common in Europe and help bicyclists traverse stairways with their bike.
Visitors would enter the Gajumaru Treehouse Diner via a spiral staircase and look out over the Naha Harbor. Sadly, the diner closed and was demolished in 2015.
This is the city hall in Madrid, Spain. It's a really cool idea and definitely easier on the eyes than a whole bunch of scaffolding.
It probably costs a lot more than basic tarps, though.
Opinions seem to differ on how this came about. Some commenters on Reddit thought that maybe it wasn't clad with nickel when minted, others thought that maybe the cladding had been removed, and others hypothesized that someone plated it in copper.
These pants, which are by the brand Huffer, have a cheeky warning inside the fly.
It says, "Be careful. You've only got one."
California condors are the largest bird in North America, with a wingspan of over 9 feet.
They almost went extinct, with only 22 known to exist. Conservation efforts began in sanctuaries, and they started to be reintroduced to the wild in the '90s.
From what I can tell, it seems to be a cocoon, possibly of a bagworm moth. They are known for building cocoons that look like they're built of sticks, often referred to as "log houses."
It landed on the car windshield, and the photographer happened to have a macro attachment for their phone lens.
I need to get one of those!
Which is both really cool and really creepy. I imagine most of the old attractions are gone, but the old rollercoaster still stands.
It's the Crescent Dunes Energy Project located in Nevada. It began operations in 2015. The central tower stores excess energy in molten salt, which is just plain awesome.
I'm not 100% positive, but it looks like those are sheep in the photo. What really speaks to me is how they all squish together to enjoy the one bit of shade available.
According to the post, the photographer's neighbors had a party the night before. This was in their recycling the next morning.
What was all the Nutella for?!
President Obama sat at this table at a restaurant in Vietnam, so they encased the whole thing in glass.
Seated with Obama was Anthony Bourdain. They were filming a segment for Bourdain's show Parts Unknown.
When a camera takes a picture, the shutter inside opens and closes super quickly. Most of the time, it's too fast to make a difference, but sometimes the action is too fast.
In this case, the flash of light from the strike was too quick, and only part of the sky remained lit up in the photo.
The mystery wasn't solved for more than a decade when researchers found the culprit: pufferfish.
Females will choose a suitable circle then lay their eggs in the center.
Even though the fish grow to only about 5 inches long, the circles stretch as large as 7 feet in diameter.