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Titanium
Found in some non-dairy creamers, icing and white salad dressing.
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Beetles
Carmine is actually ground up red beetle shells, used to dye red some of your favorite red-colored foods.
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Beaver…Stuff
Vanilla ice cream and some raspberry-flavored foods are really yummy…thanks to the anal gland secretions and urine coming from beavers. Yup.
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Bones
Charred animal bones is used in white sugar to filter it of any color impurities.
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Jell-o
What makes jell-o stick? Collagen made from the connective tissue that holds animal bones together.
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Fish Bladders
What gives some of your favorite beer its golden yellow color? You guessed it right – fish bladders.
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Sheep’s Oily Secretions
You’ve already chewed on this – it’s listed as lanolin in your chewing gum label.
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Duck Feathers and Human Hair
If you have a thing for big-label bagged bread, then you’ve already eaten some of these in the form of a cooked down amino acid.
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Sand
You like fast food? Then most likely you’ve eaten sad, or silicon dioxide as they call it.
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Sawdust
The next time you buy shredded cheese, read the label for an ingredient called cellulose. That’s sawdust, used to prevent the shreds from sticking together.
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Calf Stomach
Without processed calf stomach called rennet, milk won’t turn into cheese. So there.
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Phosphoric Acid
You know that stuff used by gangsters in movies to dissolve bodies? Well manufacturers also use it in soda, that’s what gives your drink its acidity.
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Borax
Yes, that’s your typical household cleaner…and caviar preservative.
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Coal Tar
Listed among the “dangerous goods” identified by the UN, this is commonly used to dye candy, soda and other food products red.
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Pink Slime
This yummy looking candy stuff is what a lot processed fast food meat is made of, like your chicken nuggets and hamburgers.
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Do you have a thing for architecture? How about weird architecture? Well you’re in luck!
Finding weird, bizarre and unusual stuff online is quite easy. Just look at Strangebuildings.com. They have a collection of the world’s most unusual architecture, ranging from weird to weirder.
Bored of the usual touristy stuff when you travel? Maybe you can try visiting these unique architectural feats next time.
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1. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)
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2. Forest Spiral (Darmstadt, Germany)
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3. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)
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4. Eden Project (United Kingdom)
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5. The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland
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6. Ideal Palace (France)
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7. House Attack (Vienna, Austria)
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8. Conch Shell House, Isla Mujeres, Mexico
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9. National Theatre (Beijing, China)
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10. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)
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11. Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico)
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12. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Canada)
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13. Casa da musica (Porto, Portugal)
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14. Museum of Contemporary Art (Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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15. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)
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16. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)
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17. Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)
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18. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)
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19. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)
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20. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
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21. Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA)
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22. Atomium (Brussels, Belgium)
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23. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)
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24. Cubic Houses (Kubus woningen) (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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25. The Museum of Play (Rochester, USA)
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Want to be like a Lilliputian for a day? If you have read Gulliver’s Travels, you will know what I’m talking about.
Some of these overdone outdoor objects are not just impressive to look at, but some serves practical purposes as well. Below is a list of 15 ridiculously oversized every day objects that will make you feel little, literally!
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The World’s Largest Deckchair by Stuart Murdoch, located on Bournemouth beach in Great Britain. This giant deckchair is 8.5 meters tall and 5.5 meters wide! | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Giant Light Bulb by Sarah Olaerts is a giant dimmable LED lamp that is shaped like an incandescent light bulb. It is 4.5 feet long and made of polyethylene. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Step Inside a Creative Mind by Prodigium, which is located in Croatia. This dome is designed to look like the head of a person wearing Ray Ban-inspired glasses. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Giant Comb Bike Rack by Knowho w Shop LA is shaped like a giant comb, but works as a bike rack. It weighs more than 400 pounds, and is made of Mangaris and powder-coated steel. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
“Bad Dog” by Richard Jackson is located just outside the Orange County Museum of Art and standing 24 feet tall. This giant urinating dog statue is sure to attract the attention of any passer-by. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Giant Yellow Teddy Bear by Urs Fischer is a giant teddy bear that was on display in New York back in 2011. It was made of bronze, weighed 35,000 pounds, and stood 23 feet tall. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Spiral of the Galaxy by Marc Quinn is a giant sea shell sculpture that was displayed in the vicinity of Chatsworth House, England as part of the Sotheby’s Beyond Limit’s sculpture exhibition on September 5, 2013. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Guns by David Černý. The Czech artist came up with this installation in an effort to convey the message that violence frequently leads into a deadlock and brings no benefit to anyone. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
“Remind” Giant Message in a Bottle by Vibeke Nørgaard Rønsbo. Selected to be part of the “Sculpture by the Sea” exhibition, this is a really romantic and movie-esque sculpture of a bottle containing a beautifully written message. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Large LEGO Sculptures by Access Agency. This huge R2D2 sculpture-cum-gateway is just one of the several large LEGO sculptures created by Access Agency. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Planet by Marc Quinn. Quinn designed this huge sculpture of his then 7 month-old son. Located in Singapore, this sculpture measures more than 10 meters in length and weighs 7 tons. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Pentateuque by Fabien Mérelle. The 5-meter-tall artwork ‘Pentateuque’ brings to life the fantastical and seemingly impossible act of an average man (a cast of the artist himself) balancing a gigantic elephant. It is found in Statue Square, Hong Kong. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Metalmorphosis by David Černý. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this is a really cool and unique sculpture as it’s made of sliced steel plate layers that can rotate in different directions. It stands 30 feet tall and weighs 14 tons. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Marilyn Monroe Sculpture by J. Seward Johnson. This is a 26 foot-tall statue of Marilyn Monroe in her iconic pose from a 1955 movie, The Seven Year Itch. Originally located in Chicago, it was later moved to southern California in summer 2012. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
Big Rig Jig by Mike Ross. This gravity-defying sculpture came from the idea of turning discarded objects into works of art. It stands 50 feet tall, weighs 25 tons, and most importantly, is made using a couple of repurposed 18-wheeler tanker trucks. | Photo Credit: hongkiat.com
31-year-old Luminita Perijoc told a Romaninan court that she was under the influence of a strong medication when she forced a cabbie to have sex with her twice and stabbed him six times when he wouldn’t perform again.
Mirror reports that the victim, Nicolae Stan, was dragged at knifepoint to Perijoc’s home in Tulcea, Eastern Romania, where he was only supposed to deliver wine. Stan further relates that he was threatened by a 4-inch blade as Perijoc undressed him, demanding intercourse and oral sex right after. He managed to escape to her bathroom later on, allowing him to call for help.
The gruesome attack happened in 2012.
The New York Daily News reported that Perijoc claimed she was the victim of the whole incident. But she was later arrested and sentenced to five years in jail.
In a further report from The Mirror, Stan tried to explain why he did not fight Perijoc, whom he could have easily overpowered.
“I was worried that people would think I raped her, so I tried to escape without hurting her.” He states.
Stan later said that he has been handed a “life sentence” of teasing for refusing to have sex with an Angelina Jolie-lookalike. But he says that people will never understand the ordeal he has to go through. Others will never know what it’s like to have a knife pointed at your throat by a yelling mad woman and that it is impossible to perform in that kind of scenario even if she was Miss Romania herself.
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Fact: Valeria Lukyanova is real as it she can be, from her large breasts, waist-length blond hair and wide doll eyes. She is no figment of imagination, as proven by GQ’s Michael Idov who travelled all the way to Ukraine to interview this famously known “Human “Barbie.”
To keep her appearance, Idov found out that Lukyanova consumes nothing but carrot juice with chutney. She has also expressed her want to be a breatharian, meaning she would not consume anything and that she would try to survive simply on air and light.
Further into the interview, the Human Barbie later reveals some shocking thoughts. First, she goes ahead and says that there is an apparent degeneration of beauty due to ethnicities mixing. She also reiterates her love for the Nordic image and continues on by saying that she is a Nordic type, with a little Eastern Baltic.
Also in the interview, she goes on saying that the thought of having children revolts her. She believes that the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle, and goes on by saying that she would rather be tortured to death than have children.
In 2013, she was featured in a documentary called “Space Barbie” after she claims she is from the planet Venus. Lukyanova also calls herself Amatue in her Youtube videos, all focusing on transcendental thought and self-help.
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Because of Khek Chanthalavong’s use of a blowtorch to burn off the fur of a squirrel he was preparing for a meal, he ended up putting the apartment complex where he and then-girlfriend lives on fire, causing $2 in damages.
In a later interview, it was learned that Chanthalavong left the blowtorch he used to burn off the squirrel’s fur on the balcony of their Holland Township apartment in Michigan. MLive was able to talk to his then-girlfriend Barbara Pellow who said that she only woke up suddenly to find Chanthalavong screaming and trying to fight a fire on their deck that started with the unattended blowtorch.
The fire displaced 29 tenants from the same apartment complex, causing serious damage as well, although none of the residents were injured.
Two insurance companies are now after the couple. First is ClearView Apartments insurer Travelers Indemnity Company who is seeking a reimbursement for $2 million in damages from Pellow. The second is the Auto Owners Insurance Co. who is seeking $57,000 from the couple to cover the costs of some of the affected tenants’ damaged property.
Source: The Huffington Post
