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You might like to look at this photograph before filling in your lottery numbers.
It's what £100 million looks like in cold, hard cash.
The money pile is even bigger because it is in US dollars, currently worth about two to the pound. But it serves the same purpose when you're daydreaming about winning the jackpot.
However, nobody is going to be spending this $207 million in $100 bills very soon. The US government yesterday called the windfall "the largest single drug cash seizure the world has ever seen."
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Land of Odd: So That's What $100m Looks Like
Land of Odd: Show House Cubed
What If You Had A Gun To Your Head And Had To Make $1000 In 48 Hours Or...
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In Gurgaon, India, a fast-growing suburb of Delhi, an unusual house has just been erected. Designed by architect Ganesh Ganapathy, the building is a glass cube seemingly balanced on one vertex. Its uniqueness is admired by neighbors and passers-by, but working out the details of fitting a functional, stable house into such a form proved a formidable challenge.
The owners, the Mahatta family, participated in, and indeed insisted on, the challenges of such an attention-grabbing form. They own the locally prominent construction firm, Mahatta Towers Pvt. Ltd., and they wanted the structure to boost the visibility of their company's capabilities.
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Land of Odd: WTF Is Zorbing ?
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From the folks who brought you bungee jumping (sort of) and glow worm cave tubing, not to mention Kiwi fruit and the knock your socks of scenery of the Lord of the Rings, now comes Zorbing.
Huh? What's that you say? Zorbing? WTF is that? Well, imagine yourself taking momentary leave of both your senses and the little cubicle you call your office, and harnessing yourself into a VW-sized, transparent ball of plastic. Then imagine someone rolling you down a steep hill at 25 mph. You are the boy in the plastic bubble, on steroids.
Well, the whole Zorbing thing started in New Zealand, but it has now rolled its way to the United States, and like any good fad, has attracted a legion of Zorbing fans…call them Zorbians, like some race of mega-cranium aliens from Star Trek. The fun begins this December in Boulder City, NV where the first official Zorbing park will be set up. Knowing my fellow Americans, I can only imagine where the Zorbing trend will head. Zorbing meets, Zorbing marathons, crash Zorbing where teams of Zorbians roll into each other on the field of battle, perhaps with knives affixed to their Zorbs. Perhaps even a Zorbing Olympic event someday.
Hail hail human ingenuity and, well, human weirdness.
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Land of Odd: The 10 All Time Best
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Americans use enough toilet paper in one day to wrap around the world nine times. If it were on one giant roll, we would be unrolling it at the rate of 7,600 miles per hour - roughly mach. 10, ten times the speed of sound.
Try to say the alphabet without moving your lips or your tongue. Every letter will sound exactly the same.
The world's largest flower is also one of the worst smelling flowers. Rafflesia Arnoldii is often over 3 feet wide and its petals are almost an inch thick. You wouldn't want it in your garden, however, because it smells like a rotting animal. The flower is attempting to attract flies for pollination.
Approximately one out of every ten people who ever lived are alive today.
Nine out of every 10 scientists who ever lived are alive today.
There is a bird in Antarctica that repels threatening animals in unique ways. The bird throws up in the enemy's face. If that doesn't work, it blows snot at them with enough force to bowl a human over.
The FDA considers chocolate acceptable for public consumption as long as there are less than 60 microscopic insect fragments per 100 grams (four ounces, or approximately one candy bar).
A Japanese priest set a kimono on fire in Tokyo because it carried bad luck. The flames spread until over 10,000 buildings were destroyed and 100,000 people died. (Year: 1657)
Some dinosaurs had two brains! Since nerve signals move from one part of the body to another relatively slowly - it takes 1/50 of second to notice a pain in your foot - and since these beasts were so large, a second brain was at the base of the tail to maintain control of the creature's backs. Interestingly, the rear brain was bigger than the one in their heads.
The Largest dinosaur, Brachiosaurus, weighed as much as 800 people, was taller than a four-story hotel, and was as long as two of the longest school buses.
Land of Odd: Odd Facts
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Just Think of it...
- There is a chemical waste dump in the Soviet Union that is twice as big as the whole state of Vermont.
- More than half-a-million trees are used every Sunday to produce America's Sunday newspapers.
- Two to four million tons of oil leak into the Soviet water table every year from the Siberian pipeline.
- Americans use eight times more fuel than people anywhere else in the world.
- Over seven percent of adult Americans are alcoholics.
- The screaming of an upset baby can damage your hearing. Kids can scream at levels up to 90 decibels, and permanent damage can be caused at 85 dB. One dB is the minimum amount of sound detectable by the human ear.
- Last year 81 million Americans got sick from food poisoning and 9,000 of them died.
- Sixty-six people per day are killed by drunk drivers. This is down from 70 per day as it was a couple of years ago.
- Every day in America, the average office worker goes through 2.5 pounds of paper. This is more than before computers were common. Computers were originally expected to bring about a condition known as the "paperless office."
- Americans throw 694 plastic bottles into the trash every second.
- The rain in New York carries so much acid from pollution that it has killed all the fish in 200 lakes in the Adirondack State Park.
- The world's smog is so thick that astronomers are complaining.
- We grow more tobacco than wheat in America.
- 11,000 cigarettes are lighted every second, just in America.
- There are three million new cigarette smokers in America each year.
- You can accidentally kill yourself by drinking over 40 cups of coffee in one day. The amount of caffeine is sufficient to cause respiratory failure.
Land of Odd: Strange Cars
Sort of like a convertible ?
A very unique concept car from Volvo
High Heel Shoe
It looks just about as comfortable as a pair of high heels, too. Is it a car, a shoe, or a motorcycle? Yes
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