With 79 sets and 20,000 props, The Boxtrolls may be the most ambitious and large-scale stop-motion film ever made. Animation studio Laika, who also imagined the worlds of Coraline and Paranorman, ups the ante for The Boxtrolls by marrying stop-motion, …
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This Kitchen Hasn’t Been Touched Since The 1950s
Pink rules the day. Maybe those people decided not to live there after they saw the kitchen?
Read More »A new hotel in Australia lets you dine with lions and take a bath next
The brand-new hotel for thrill seekers, located in the National Zoo and Aquarium in Canberra, Australia, lets you stay as close to the zoo’s numerous animals as possible. At the lodge, guests will almost be directly sharing a room with …
Read More »Mummified Monk Found Inside Buddha Statue
When Buddha said “Peace comes from within,” he probably didn’t mean inside an actual Buddha statue. But Netherlands-based Drents Museum recently discovered that one of their Buddhas was hiding a secret: crouched inside was a monk who had died around …
Read More »The Very First Air Force One Is Just Wasting Away In Arizona
The very first Air Force one now resides at the Marana Regional Airport in a field in Arizona. Named Columbine II it became the official presidential aircraft in 1953 before being replaced in 1954 and then eventually retired in 1968. …
Read More »This Frog Does Something Frightening To Protect Itself
This rare frog is sometimes called the “horror frog” and with good reason. When it feels threatened, it breaks its own bones to release claws that puncture its skin as a way to attack its enemies. If that isn’t scary …
Read More »Game of Thrones Characters: In the Books vs. On the Show
Tywin Lannister This is actually how characters are described in the books.
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New York Fashion Week’s First Male Amputee Model
This is Jack Eyers, a 25-year-old personal trainer and model from Bournemouth, England who had his leg amputated at the age of 16.
Read More »By Using This Strange, Blue Blood On Humans, Scientists Could Be Saving Lives
When you think of horseshoe crabs, you don’t usually think of medical breakthroughs. For many of us, horseshoe crabs are just those scary looking things on the beach that we try and stay away from. However, over the last several …
Read More »Scientists Discovered Something Incredible About Remains Found Around The World
The interesting thing about these 5,000-year-old lovers is that they were found in Verona, the setting of Shakespeare’s famous love play, Romeo and Juliet.
Read More »What People Pay To Do In This Abandoned Salt Mine Is Beyond Odd
The air in the caves has a low bacteria content, and some pools in the mine are said to be saltier than the Dead Sea.
Read More »People Cut Down A Seemingly Normal Tree, But Discovered Something So Bizarre
The Bloodwood Tree gets its name from its dark red sap. When you cut one down, the red sap flows out of the severed trunk and looks a lot like blood.
Read More »Exploring Egypt’s Abandoned 5 Star Hotel
This 5 star hotel in Egypt was abandoned in what looks like a hurry. There’s no one there but every item that belonged to the hotel is still intact and still on the property. One has to wonder what happened …
Read More »Dog Runs 20 Blocks From Home To Be By Owner’s Side In The Hospital
Dogs are known for being loyal, but Iowan Nancy Franck had no idea just how loyal her miniature schnauzer was until she was hospitalized.
Read More »The 82th Lemon Festival in France
Over 20,000 hours work for teams to set up the festival and some 145 metric tons of lemons and oranges are used to make displays during the 82th festival, which is themed “Tribulations of a lemon in China”, and runs …
Read More »The Dealer Wanted $4400 But He Found A Cheap Fix For His Toyota Hybrid
This is proof that you can’t always trust what the dealer says. Sometimes it’s better to do your own research when it comes to car maintenance.
Read More »Badass People in History
There are far more badass individuals in history for me to cover but here is a short list of a few, fill free to point out some of your favorites I missed in the comments.
Read More »This Is What Gridlock At The Biggest Port In America Looks Like
You’ve probably already heard about the dispute that’s virtually frozen the flow of cargo into the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, leaving cargo ships and trucks without anywhere to go. But seeing it from the air is something …
Read More »Mammoth Ice Breaker Frees Australian Vessel Trapped In The Frozen Ocean
Despite all our advanced shipbuilding and navigation tech, sailing through Arctic or Antarctic waters can still treacherous — as an Australian fishing boat discovered after it got stuck in in the ice this week. Today, the US Coastal Guard’s icebreaker, …
Read More »A Look Inside The Porsche Factory In Leipzig
Do you know what it takes to put a Porsche together? Because you’re about to find out.
Read More »Chemical Plant Explosion Creates Toxic Orange Cloud
65,000 citizens living in Catalonia have been ordered to stay inside due to a giant, toxic, orange cloud caused by a nitric acid explosion. The cloud has shut down transportation in five different cities and trapped thousands inside.
Read More »Parents Pose With Their Babies For The Last Time
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep is an organization that trains photographers “to provide beautiful heirloom portraits to families facing the untimely death of an infant.“ It was founded by Cheryl Haggard and photographer Sandy Puc. The photos they’ve …
Read More »Australia’s Oldest Man Knits Tiny Sweaters For Injured Penguins
How long does it take to master a craft? How about 80 years? Because 109-year-old Australian Alfred Date has been knitting since the 1930s and his latest/most famous endeavor was making mini sweaters… for endangered penguins! Back in 2013, Victoria’s …
Read More »You Can Play With Sheep As You Sip Your Coffee At This Café
Thanks Nature Cafe is a little shop in Seoul, South Korea that offers more than just coffees and cakes.
Read More »The Golden Land – Myanmar
Tattooed Face Chin Tribe Lady As photography has spread all over the world in recent years, so has the number of outstanding amateur images. It’s no surprise that Myanmar is one of the most photographed places, and the pictures of …
Read More »Gorgeous Panoramic Maps Drawn Long Before Satellites Even Existed
It’s hard for us Google Earth-dependent modern-day humans to conceive of, but there was once a time when we had to imagine what our towns and cities looked like from the sky. In fact, there were famous artists who specialised …
Read More »Trips With Kenyan Fishermen
Teo Gregas spent a month in a fishermen village in Kenya, Kipini. He became friends with some local fishermen and they went fishing a couple of times. You can see how the trips went through the pictures. The barracuda was …
Read More »‘Spot’ Is A Smaller (More Kickable) Version Of Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog
We haven’t seen much of Boston Dynamic’s four-legged self-balancing Big Dog robot since it was last spotted hurling cinder blocks in a lab. And that’s maybe because the company’s robotic geniuses have been hard at work building a smaller more …
Read More »Famous Photographers Pose Behind Their Iconic Images
Unless you’re a photography buff, you probably have no idea what the people behind some of the most famous photos in the world actuall look like. US photographer Tim Mantoani, however, aims to fix all that with his epic “Behind …
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