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Clear-cut
Industrial forestry degrading public lands, Willamette National Forest in Oregon.
Photograph: Daniel Dancer
Source: The Guardian
Trash Wave
Indonesian surfer Dede Surinaya catches a wave in a remote but garbage-covered bay
on Java, Indonesia, the world’s most populated island.
Photograph: Zak Noyle
Source: The Guirdian
The world’s first underwater photographs taken by Louis Boutan.
Diminish and Ascend is a sculptural installation by artist David McCracken that, from certain angles, looks like a never-ending staircase.
It’s because of all that hydrogen sulphide floating around — the same smell rotten eggs give off. (Source)
Space smells like burned almond cookies?
Space tourist and engineer Anousheh Ansari wrote about it on her blog:
They said it is a very unique smell. As they pulled the hatch open on the Soyuz side, I smelled “SPACE.” It was strange… kind of like burned almond cookie.
You are not alone
Legend
A man who lives alone has always felt like he was being watched in his own home. He later finds out a stranger has been living in his attic.
True Story
In 2008, a Japanese man started noticing missing food and displaced items in his home. He set up a camera and discovered a homeless woman had been living in his cupboard for an entire year. She would steal food and even take showers.
Source: RantLifestyle
Sewer Gators
This story tells the tale of how several alligators were brought up from Florida to be kept as pets in New York City. After they got too big and violent they escaped into the sewers where they now live freely. Dating back to the 1930s and spread by sensationalist newspapers the story is completely untrue yet continues to be circulated to this day.
