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Advertising – 389,485 views “I’m Lance! Let’s go out!” says this huge billboard. Being the only single on its office, Lance’s co-workers made him a website and huge billboard. “My intrests are Islam,reading,fiqh,Jihad and fighting i the cause of Allah” (found on this islamic forum) Pieter DeHond, a 41-year-old divorced father of two, planted this [...]

Places – 484,389 views In front of the Ernst & Young building (Los Angeles) Optimus Prime (Southern China) The “Magic tap” (found in “Aqualand” of Cadiz, Spain), which appears to float in the sky with an endless supply of water. Actually, there is a pipe hidden in the stream of water that holds the whole [...]

Places – 485,627 views TAGS: ghost towns, best ghost towns KOLMANSKOP (Namibia): Buried in sand Kolmanskop is a ghost town in southern Namibia, a few kilometres inland from the port of Lüderitz. In 1908, Luederitz was plunged into diamond fever and people rushed into the Namib desert hoping to make an easy fortune. Within two [...]

Signs – 561,897 views TAGS: engrish, engrish signs Engrish refers to grammatically incorrect variations of English, often found in East Asian countries. From poorly translated signs, menus, and instruction manuals to bizarrely worded advertisements and strange t-shirt slogans, here are the top 20 engrish pictures. Deformed person??? “Eliminate horniness” “A time sex thing”??.. a horrible [...]

Medicine – 652,756 views Frog-like Baby (unidentified baby – Nepal) On 2006, this bizarre-looking baby was born in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district, attracting a huge number of onlookers to witness the astonishing sight. The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the body and with extraordinarily large [...]

People – 1,200,472 views Ngoc: three decades without sleep Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights. “I don’t know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. [...]

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Tech – 137,828 views TAGS: strange vending machines Vending machines are everywhere, delivering just about anything you can think of, from eggs to lobster. In Japan they are as commonplace as temples, bicycles, and karaoke booths; there are over 5.6 million vending machines, 1 for every 20 people. Meet some of the strangest we’ve found [...]

Propaganda, presented graphically as posters, pamphlets and pictorial artwork, aims to influence the attitudes of people to serve the purposes of the propagandists. Governmental guerrilla marketing in a sense, propaganda also has its good side: it can inspire and unite people behind a worthy cause. Here are 13 examples of propaganda showing it at its [...]

The origin of lily feet is not very certain. It is often said that it appeared during the Five Dynasties (907–960). According to legend, a king asked a lady-in-waiting named Ruiniang to bind her feet and dance on a golden lotus flower, so it was called three-cun lily feet. After that, the custom of foot-binding [...]

All cultures around the world eat canned meat because it is an easy and safe way to preserve it. But their contents, which can often be seen on can labels may be very strange. © admin for , 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: canned meat, chicken, food, meat, [...]