All posts with 'Weird & Odd' tag
Antique adding machines
This amazing website has a lot of photos of Aaron Adding Machines portable calculators made around 1953. All calculators are small enough (for mid 50’s of cause) and equipped with cold-cathode tubes for displaying results of calculations. It’s pretty advanced for those days.
Read More..>>Tokyo flood tunnels – G-Cans project
G-Cans project widely known as Tokyo underground flood tunnels is the networks of tunnels 6.4 kilometers (four miles) long built deep under the ground in the Tokyo suburbs. All this infrastructure is dedicated to prevent flooding when Tokyo metropolitan area rivers are overfilling during the rain seasons or in case of typhoons.
Read More..>>Tokyo Summerland wave pool
Michael Keferl at Trends in Japan blog has posted this stunning picture
and this even more stunning video
Read More..>>Balancing one wheel bike above the desert
This image isn’t photoshopped. This brave guy is really balancing on his one wheel bike on the rock hanging high above the desert in America’s heartlands. You can call him crazy but a lot of people think that he rocks.
Read More..>>Breaking the laws
Perhaps everyone heard of stupid laws in some American cities. You are not permitted to hunt whales in Utah; you are not allowed to walk across the street on your hands in Hartford, Connecticut; you can’t drink some beer from a bucket in St. Louis and so on…
Two guys from England decided to break all […]
Read More..>>Weirdest chutes ever seen
This metal children chute looks so mad so it could blow your mind. Can you figure out how to use the stairs to climb it?
Read More..>>Top medical mysteries
10. Lymes disease - this infectious disease is derives from Borrelia tick bite. Symptoms are skin changes, headaches, mild fever, joint and muscle pains. Very easy to be misdiagnosed and get wrong cure. Only House, M.D. will help you but he is on TV not your local hospital.
9. Morgellons Disease is not recognized by most […]
Biggest carp ever was caught
World Record Academy reported the biggest carp ever was caught in Thailand. Fisherman Kik from the local travel company Jean-Francois Helias’ Fishing Adventures has caught the 265 pounds (120kg) sweet-water fish on a specially developed rod in the Bung Sam Lan lake.
Siamese Giant Carp is one of the biggest sweet-water fish in the world along […]
Boy found $90G in eBay parcel
While Japanese dump workers waiting for their $55 Grands in gold the 16 years old boy from Norfolk, UK found $90 Grands in the box with PlayStation 2 gaming console he has ordered on eBay.
Two games in the parcel package were missing but I doubt the boy was really upset because instead of games there […]
Object 825 GTS - Balaclava
After the WW2 Soviets have decided to strengthen their submarine fleet. Hundreds of submarines (diesel and later atomic) were in need for bases on the all USSR shores. So in the mid 50’s the construction of these bases have been started in the Severodvinsk (Arctic ocean), Vladivostok (Pacific) and Balaclava (Black Sea).
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