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26 ways life in Australia is badass -images
When you live on a barely hospitable desert island that was once a continent-sized penal colony, your life tends to be a little more badass than the average person’s.
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I love all the police reports on the link, they are very funny.
http://www.b...
The 25 Hardest Parts About Living In New Zealand - images
Life is hard in NZ then there is this .... A great series of images about life in NZ and how hard it is....
http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/hardest-parts-about-living-in-new-zealand
You understand how devastatingly accurate this map is:
Man has runny nose for 18 months - turns out to be brain fluid
Here is something to think about next time you get a cold.
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A man who thought the runny nose he’d suffered for a year and a half was the result of allergies, has discovered the problem was in fact caused by leaking brain fluid. After working his ...
Russian Father Gives Driving Advice To His Daughter Dash Cam Style with live example - video
A Russian father gives driving advice to his daughter while recorded on a dash cam during which an accident happens.
http://www.youtube.com/v/gXtkPEV8hkw
The painful reality of a computer widow - image
Its sad how many wives are neglected owing to programming ...
Harlem Shake goes terribly wrong - video
Wouldn\'t it be funny to make a Harlem shake video and have a pretend explosion from a petrol container?
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The video is now more famous because of the accident than it would have been before ....
http://www.youtube.com/v/4R...
Sir! I think the drop zone is over therrrrreeeeeeeeee! - video
An army paratrooper from 5th SFG accidentally deploys his reserve parachute inside the plane. The solider sustained no serious injuries, but landed 30 miles from the intended drop zone. In the video he\'s looking over the side to spot.....
Russian car cams of positive encounters - video
We have all seen crazy Russian car cams of accidents, fights and general disorder, here is the opposite, a great compilation of pro social activities of usual Russian folk. Helping little old ladies across the street, rescuing ducks and cats, helping...
Lockheed Martin just bought a new computer that is 500,000 times faster than its old one
VANCOUVER — When the world’s largest defense contractor reportedly paid $10 million for a superfast quantum computer, the Burnaby, B.C., company that built it earned a huge vote of confidence.
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Two years after Lockheed Martin acquired the first co...
The Great Gatsby got the Flappers wrong - they were radical feminists
When knees and elbows were shocking ... This interesting article about the 1920\'s shows that the Flapper craze was not about music, dance or clothing, but a form of radical feminism rebelling against the constraints of the Victorian period.
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Navy SEALS undergoing underwater training and Obstacle training - image and video
Think you\'re fit? Look at what these Navy SEALS can do, its amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/v/7XJu-2E7RT4
http://www.youtube.com/v/b614bld3V78
Video lesson on Sonic Booms the last one is awesome - video
Sound travels at about 760 miles per hour, or 340 meters per second and about 661 knots on an average day at sea level. And sometimes, you can almost see it. Going close to that speed through air can cause some unusual visual effects. This compiled.....
Australian woman clotheslined by petrol hose while stealing petrol - video
Surveillance video shows a woman thrown in the air and petrol gushing from a broken bowser after a bungled drive off from Mt Warren Park Caltex on April 23.
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The driver panicked and drove off, leaving his female companion literally hanging, after ...
5yr old shoots 2yr old sister with birthday gift of "My first rifle" Guess the country
Crickett Rifles, the brand of .22-calibre rifles marketed to children as young as four, has virtually disappeared from the web after a five-year-old boy in Kentucky accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister with his gun. The grandmother.....
Egyptian Airborne get thrown from the plane during Brightstar 2005 - funny video
Warning on the language that follows .... Egyptian military airborne pushed out of the plane during the inter country exercises. Someone who was there notes that : I was actually there for this. Not in those sticks, but yeah - I was there for...
Open-pit copper mine has a catastrophic landslide - images
Bingham is an open-pit mine and the landslide was the collapse of one of the pit walls. (For scale, the pit is a bit less than three miles wide and a bit more than three-quarters of a mile deep, and as you can see, the collapse stretches halfway...
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All you need to know about charging Lithium Ion batteries for your phone
If you have ever wondered about how to charge your battery this comprehensive list of facts is good to know. #7 was interesting as the car only charged the phone at 1 an 1.5 amps. So it good to know that more is not better.
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However if you are ab...
SAM's over Bagdad - F16's evading SAM missile attacks in 1991 - video
Heart stopping video footage from the Head Up Display of an American F-16, as it uses evasive maneuvers to dodge Surface-to-air missiles over Baghdad in the 1991 Gulf War.
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Did they lose someone in that encounter? Hard to tell, but real hair rais...
WW2 footage of captured Zero fighter and other planes - video
Fascinating video of the allies with a captured Japanese Zero fighter. Also other wrecked fighters and allied planes. Unique video, I have never seen it before.
http://www.youtube.com/v/doysYtwMgrY
What does a yellow light mean? - Scene from Taxi - video
Wonderful scene from Taxi with Christopher Lloyd (Jim Ignatowski) trying to get a taxi license
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From the sitcom \"Taxi,\" Reverend Jim (Christopher Lloyd) takes a test for his driver\'s license. Also starring Judd Hirsch, Jeff Conaway, Tony Danza,...
The AC130 gunner lonely hearts club - image
I can just relate to someone who hates losing their high value targets when manning such a huge gun. It just ruins your day.
Mangled language
Heh, I really like this...
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New York Magazine ran a competition in which contestants were asked to take a well-known expression in another language, change a single letter and provide a definition for the new expression.
Here are the resp...
Student mistook two unproved theorems in statistics for a homework assignment. He solved both within a few days
George Dantzig recounted his feat in a 1986 interview for the College Mathematics Journal
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It happened because during my first year at Berkeley I arrived late one day at one of Neyman\'s classes. On the blackboard there were two problems t...
Someone actually beats the Snake game - video gif
Now this is unique, a Gif of someone actually beating the snake game. What can you take from it? Someone must have wasted a large part of their life mastering it. Mesmerizing
http://i.imgur.com/vjl2Ao9.gif
Groove is in the heart - Deee-Lite - music video
What a great throwback to the 90\'s, taken from this list of the top 22 ecstatic pop songs that you need right now.
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http://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/ecstatic-pop-songs-that-you-need-right-now
http://www.youtube.com/v/etviGf1uWlg...
Race car explodes into flames after being rear ended on the starting grid - dramatic video
A race-car driver forced to flee for his life when his V8 Supercar exploded in flames, has somehow escaped serious injury. Karl Reindler had been competing in an event in Australia when he was rear-ended at an estimated speed of 150km/h.
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This cau...
Meanwhile in New Zealand - 33 medical staff diciplined for looking at an X-ray of a man with an eel stuck up his bottom
Thirty-three staff at Auckland City Hospital have been punished for looking at X-rays and information on a man who had an eel stuck up his bottom. Staff were sacked, given verbal warnings, written warnings and final written warnings after an...
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What people did before the Internet - Cockroach racing - image
Fun for all the family, and you get to stomp on the losers!
From: http://boingboing.net/2013/04/16/vintage-ad-for-cockroach-racin.html
UN Peacekeepers in Haiti introduce cholera kill 6000 +
The upside being that Haitians suddenly had move to worry about than fighting among themselves thus the peacekeepers succeeded in their role.
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A new study has yielded the most solid evidence yet that U.N. peace-keeping forces from Nepal inadverten...
Man buys helicopter, can't wait for lessons so flies it anyway - expected result happens - video
A Hughes 269b went out of control and collided with the ground during a t/o to a hover. The pilot had purchased the aircraft recently and was learning to fly it. He was scheduled for his first flight lesson on the day of the accident.
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The CFI re...
Meanwhile in New Zealand - Minister worried that 3D printers will be used to manufacture drugs
Technological illiteracy rears its head when the Customs Minister fears that 3D printers will be used to make illegal products such as drugs. Next the Immigration minister will be worried that they might be used to make illegal immigrants, or the...
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Someone stole 20,000 M-16 assault rifles and ammunition in Kuwait from an unguarded warehouse
Well this looks like an inside job. Kuwait has reported the theft of a massive amount of U.S. weapons. The Interior Ministry said thieves broke into a warehouse and stole a huge amount of firearms and ammunition. The ministry said 20,000 U.S.-origin...
Raccoon uses telephone lines like a 2 wire bridge - the very clever raccoon - video
This very clever raccoon navigating his way across a makeshift two-rope bridge like a furry James Bond. Next trick, using the power lines.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Kk-0kcOU00E
New toys for the military at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition -A rail gun - image
This is a railgun. General Atomics spent years working on this. It shoots projectiles at a flat trajectory up to 200 nautical miles at tremendous speed, guaranteeing a bad day for someone very far away. Displays nearby highlighted its defensive...
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New toys for the military at the Sea-Air-Space Exposition -the Sharc - image
Silent stealthy and slow. Benjamin, the autonomous underwater robot pictured here, has a Guinness World Record for crossing the Pacific Ocean. Starting from San Francisco in November 2011, it arrived in Australia in November 2012, and it did that...
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Most frequently highlighted phrases on Kindle books
Apparently Amazon can record which passages have been highlighted in their Kindle books, and have produced a list of the most highlighted passages.
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It seems that people like to highlight passages out of the Hunger Games and Catching fire, which ...
Focke-Wulf 190 comes back from the deep - images
In November 2006 a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-3 was recovered from under 180 feet of water near Bergen Norway. The German Pilot made an emergency landing in 1943, but his plane sunk to the bottom of the sea where it stayed for almost 60 years.
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Men are ultimately doomed, the Y chromosome is turning into junk
The Y chromosome is slowly getting mutated and as it doesn\'t have a pair to repair with, like the X does in women, it is slowly degrading and will disappear. Mind you 5 million years is a long time away, humanity has plenty of time to do some gene.....
New Russian flamethrower tank destroys everything within 200 meters of target - video
The Buratino (TOS-1) heavy flamethrower system has been used in military exercises for the first time, at a site in Russia\'s Eastern Military District. The military announced that the Buratino had successfully destroyed all targets.
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In late Marc...
Guy goes headless at a drivethru - great prank - video
Now this is a classic, a prankster has a costume that makes him look headless scares the heck out of every drivethru he visits.
http://www.youtube.com/v/-NzRMPsnC3s