21 Surprisingly Common Misconceptions

1. There’s No Evidence That Vikings Had Horns On Their Helmets

Historical vikings, I mean. The ones from Minnesota we definitely have no evidence of horns…

Super Mario Piranha Plant Earrings

Super awesome accessory for any Mario Nintendo fan! This Piranha Plant earring set made of polymer clay will sure put a bite in your day! Wear these anywhere and your sure to get a second look! Piramha Plant earrings have the appearance of having quite the grip on the ear. That’s a scary thought but don’t worry these adorable earrings will cause you no pain, maybe tears of joy though!

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World’s Largest Digging Machine

This is the largest digging machine (or trencher or rotating shovel) in the world. It was built by Krupp and is shown here crossing a road in Germany on the way to its destination, an open air coal mine. Although at the mine the treads are unnecessary, it was cheaper to make the machine self-propelled than to try and move it with conventional hauling equipment. Some factoids:

• The machine is 95 meters high and 215 meters long (almost 2.5 football fields in length)
• Weight is 45,500 tons (that’s equivalent to a bumper to bumper line of jeeps 80 miles long)
• It took 5 years to design and manufacture at a cost of $100 million
• Maximum digging speed is 10 meters per minute
• Can move more than 76,000 cubic meters of coal, rock, and earth per day

6 Mind-Blowing Scientific Facts Straight Out of a B-Movie

Photo: NASAThe Evil Scientist’s Dream Come True: A Laser Beam Strong Enough to Blow Up the Sun

Austin Power’s Dr. Evil would be excited to learn that only a few years into the new millennium we have invented a laser beam one million times brighter than our sun!

Well, technically, it is a particle accelerator and it was built to simulate nuclear explosions and generate supercomputer data. Still, in 10 years of life, the “Z machine” has produced temperatures of up to 2 billion degrees Kelvin, which according to Popular Mechanics, is actually hotter than the inside of our sun.

The Z machine even generated enough pressure to melt a diamond! We can all be thankful this machine is safely stored at Brookhaven National Laboratory rather than some evil genius’s lair. For now, anyway!

Books Of Micro-world

A very unusual hobby, he is looking for texts and prepares them in such miniaturized format.

The Weirdest Body Modification- Switch in the Head

It is one of the weirdest body modifications I’ve ever seen. An on/off switch was attached to Dominic Wilcox’s head in 1996. Here what he says: ‘The switch was worn day and night for close to a month. I remember after leaving the place where it was done I had to overtake some people on the path. I knew they would see it, so that was a big moment, then after that I relaxed a little. I went into a pub once and ordered a drink. It felt like the music and pool balls came to a stop for a second or so. Then started up again.

5 Most Fabulous Rock Formations Everyone Should Visit

People talk about the wonders of the world, and wanting to see them, but rarely do they mean those wonders which nature effortlessly provides for us to gaze at in awe.  Just because a rock formation is anything but man-made does not make it less worthy of our respect and admiration. Some of the most spectacular sights on earth are there for all to see, if only they take the trouble to really look.

1. The Crystal caves of Mexico

Possibly the most stunning sight  for any tourist will be the the crystal cave, located in the Naica Mine of Chihuahua, Mexico. This is a working mine, famous for the gigantic crystals of selenite, also known as gypsum, which have developed there over millions of years. Some of these incredible monoliths are 4 feet in diameter and 50 feet long, which means that they dwarf anyone standing near them.  The Crystal Cave of Giants is approximately 1000ft below ground. The mine has been known since 1794, when Tarahumara Indians found it. Silver and gold were mined originally, until zinc and lead became valuable enough to be extracted at the end of the 19^th century It was April 2000 when  brothers Juan and Pedro Sanchez found the two caverns filled with the Earth’s largest crystals, a magical kingdom of intense natural beauty. A large magma chamber below the mountain ensures that the Cave of the Crystals is uncomfortably warm, and if not well ventilated, would be impossible to explore. Named after the Greek goddess of the moon, Selenite, is said to have many healing benefits, this crystal assisting with mental focus, growth, luck, immunity, and helping tosoothe the emotions.

Ransom Riggs Extreme Weirdness: Antarctica’s “Blood Falls”

There is a glacier in Antarctica that seems to be weeping a river of blood. It’s one of the continent’s strangest features, and it’s located in one of the continent’s strangest places — the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a huge, ice-free zone and one of the world’s harshest deserts. So imagine you’re hiking through this –

– which has been kept ice-less since God was a child because of something called the katabatic winds, which sweep over the valleys at up to 200 mph and suck all the moisture out of them. Anyway, you’re hiking along, passing dessicated penguin carcasses and such, and you come to this.

Nikes Air made out of computer waste

Gabriel Dishaw has made Nike shoes out of parts from inside a computer. From a distance it looks like real Nikes with a bling bling theme, and that explains how precisely Dishaw has made them.

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