When property manager Ryan Froerer got a call from a realtor to check on a townhouse, he knew something was up. “It was the sickest thing I’ve ever seen. Just unimaginable that someone could live in that.” He couldn’t even open the front door. It was blocked from inside.As he finally entered the house, he …
For years consumers struggled to fit the large round fruit in their refrigerators.And then there was the problem of trying to cut the fruit when it kept rolling around. But 20 years ago a forward-thinking farmer on Japan’s south-western island of Shikoku solved the problem. The farmer, from Zentsuji in Kagawa prefecture, came up with …
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Cosmopolitan (1942)Future President Gerald Ford, in his younger days as a male model Time (May 7 – 1945)Cover on Hitler’s death Scientific American (1906)“Panama Canal Plan approved by Pres. Roosevelt” Radio Electronics (1949)Featuring the “Radio Hat”, a two tube battery operated radio. Modern Mechanix (1936)Featuring what could be the first Jet ski Life (1959)To get …
1The Basket Building (United States) What started out as a dream by Dave Longaberger, Founder of The Longaberger Company, has been built Home Office into a giant basket to house the entire corporate offices of the company. Dave believed the idea was one of his best and would draw attention to the company, while simultaneously …
Cave Paintings are paintings on cave walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. The earliest known European cave paintings date to 32,000 years ago. Join us to discover the top twenty most fascinating prehistoric cave paintings. 1Lascaux Cave Paintings: the prehistoric Sistine Chapel Known as “the prehistoric Sistine Chapel,” the Lascaux Caves, a cave …
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94046 1World’s Smallest Baby: 21 weeks and six days On October 24th 2006, Amillia Taylor was born at 21 weeks and six days. No baby born at less than 23 weeks gestation had ever survived, but 10 ounce Amillia was able to pull through (and even was trying to breath and cry on her own …
94046 1Tiger’s Nest Monastery (Bhutan) Taktshang is the most famous of monasteries in Bhutan. It hangs on a cliff at 3,120 metres (10,200 feet), some 700 meters (2,300 feet) above the bottom of Paro valley. Famous visitors include Ngawang Namgyal in the 17th century and Milarepa. The name means “Tiger’s nest”, the legend being that …
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Marketers do a great job of convincing us to buy stuff (often stuff we don’t need) – but through the annals of history they have occasionally gotten things wrong. This is a list of the ten most unfortunately funny car names. 1Mazda LaPuta (in spanish: “the whore”) The car’s name actually derivates from the book …
