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• Batman’s Camper Trailer
• Bees Know Odd and Even Numbers
• Wife Finds Late Husband’s Wedding Ring After 35 Years
• Teen Rickrolls School By Hacking Its Computer System
• Male Emu Hatches Barnyard Eggs
• True Facts About the Beaver
• Monkeypox is Not New
• The Battle Of Verdun in LEGO
• Death is Not What We See in the Movies
• The Famous Dutch Flower Auction Clock
• The World's First Solar Powered Car Available to Consumers
• The World’s Oldest Amusement Park

Batman’s Camper Trailer Posted: 29 Jun 2022 05:48 AM PDT If you don't have enough funds to build yourself a genuine bat cave in the middle of nowhere, worry not as you can still feel like the rich justice-driven vigilante of Gotham with a mobile version!  Australian company Bruder has produced a camper trailer inspired by the bat cave featured in popular media. Called the Bruder EXP-4, it can be attached to a vehicle and can handle off-road terrain. It certainly isn't as big as Batman's cave, but it can definitely do its job!  Read more about the camper trailer here.  Image credit: Bruder

Bees Know Odd and Even Numbers Posted: 29 Jun 2022 05:46 AM PDT Next thing we know, these insects will solve algebraic expressions or something.  Experts have successfully trained bees to actually determine if a number is odd or even, although it's not as straightforward as you think it will be. The act of identifying these numerals is under the concept of parity classification. Experts have taught these insects to actually associate odd numbers with sugar water until they learned how to categorize properly.  Learn more about the bee-autiful experiment here!  Image credit: Pixabay

Wife Finds Late Husband’s Wedding Ring After 35 Years Posted: 29 Jun 2022 05:43 AM PDT Decades later after her late husband lost his ring, Ann Kendrick finally found the piece of jewelry while clearing the garden. The 90-year-old Cornwall resident shared that the piece of metal "popped out of the ground" as she pulled some grass. "It didn't look at all like a wedding ring - it looked like a dirty piece of bent metal," she said. "I looked at it and thought 'no, it couldn't be'."  Her late husband, who died 22 years ago, was working in the same garden back in 1987 when he lost the ring. Happy about her discovery, Mrs. Kendrick will get the ring repaired and wear it as a necklace in remembrance of her late husband.  Image credit: Bob Kendrick

Teen Rickrolls School By Hacking Its Computer System Posted: 29 Jun 2022 05:41 AM PDT We went from rickrolling a town to actual schools. While the scope definitely got smaller, we can all commend the effort done by a single teenager in hacking a school system. The 14-year-old white-hat hacker caused all schools in the Township Highschool District 214 to play Rick Astley's 1980s hit "Never Gonna Give You Up." Every school projector played the music video. In addition, every speaker in the schools blasted the popular song. The hacker, who goes by the name WhiteHoodHacker explained in a post on their website how they managed to pull the prank.  Check out more about what he did here! Image credit:​​ Tom Tran

Male Emu Hatches Barnyard Eggs Posted: 28 Jun 2022 07:13 PM PDT Two weeks later, our emu is still carefully sitting atop his nest of adopted goose, duck, and chicken eggs.. he may actually hatch something. In emus, only the males incubate eggs and care for babies, the females lay eggs and bounce; that's the end of parenting for them. pic.twitter.com/hQsgnn03SZ — Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) May 27, 2022 Foxfeather Zenkova is a wildlife rehabilitator and educator, and has a coop. In this coop are chickens, geese, turkeys, ducks, and now an emu. The male emu is just doing what comes natural, as emu females lay eggs and then take off, leaving the male to warm the eggs and then raise the young. This guy takes his responsibilities seriously, even though they aren't his eggs, or even his species. On June 23rd, the eggs began to hatch! The best dad and his tiny child. pic.twitter.com/teggWmFwxq — Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) June 24, 2022 He seems to be quite a patient and caring father. The chicks that have hatched so far are chickens; the other species will take longer. Before this is all over, this one emu dad could have his own menagerie! Good morning from BB-8 and too many tiny emus! You can hear him hissing and growling, the babies hiding behind him because the dogs were with me as I was doing morning chores. Any dog could be a dingo and is not to be trusted (if you're a new emu dad, anyway). pic.twitter.com/RrxzGcTIaj — Foxfeather Zenkova (@foxfeather) June 28, 2022 There are more pictures of this family you can see in the Twitter thread.  -via Metafilter

True Facts About the Beaver Posted: 28 Jun 2022 06:51 PM PDT Considering this True Facts video is about beavers, Ze Frank plows through it with an astonishing lack of sexual innuendo. Maybe he wants to be sure it will be picked up by external sites. Works for me. That said, it's quite interesting. Beavers are rodents, but you'd never know it by their behavior. They swim, eat trees, and build dams. Here we find out why and how they do those things, which includes taking a deep dive into the structure and composition of teeth. I now know more about horses' teeth because I watched a video about beavers. Yeah, there are jokes, but even without them, this would be interesting. There is a one-minute ad in the middle.

Monkeypox is Not New Posted: 28 Jun 2022 06:50 PM PDT You most likely never heard about monkeypox until last month when an outbreak was reported in Europe and America, but the disease has been around a long time. It was first identified as a distinct disease in 1958, when a band of monkeys in Copenhagen, Denmark, were found to have it. The first human ascertained to suffer from monkeypox was a baby in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1970. The disease is believed to be endemic in some nations of Africa, and has probably been around for thousands of years. It's not even particular to monkeys. The first person in the US to be infected was a three-year-old who was bitten by her pet prairie dog in 2003, and the virus has been found in a variety of animals.   Monkeypox is somewhat similar to smallpox, although not as deadly. There is some evidence that a smallpox vaccine will give some protection against the virus that causes monkeypox. And that's caused a run on smallpox vaccine in the northern countries, leaving Africa with fewer reserves. In fact, some experts relate the current fuss about monkeypox to the AIDS scare or the smallpox eradication program. Read what we need to know about monkeypox in a short history here. (Image credit: NIAID)

The Battle Of Verdun in LEGO Posted: 27 Jun 2022 07:02 PM PDT Jordan Durrenberger brings us a brutally epic LEGO stop-motion animation illustrating the Battle of Verdun. That battle between the French and the Germans lasted for almost ten months in 1916, and was the longest of World War I, leaving the two nations with more than 300,000 soldiers dead and even more injured. The LEGO fight is about 6:40 long, then we get a short lesson about the historical battle. The animation is spectacular in its scope and action, from the opening artillery shelling to the hand-to-hand combat in the trenches. While the fight itself is a horror, the stop-motion recreation is a masterpiece, with as much detailed accuracy as is possible with LEGO minifigs. -via Boing Boing

Death is Not What We See in the Movies Posted: 27 Jun 2022 10:35 AM PDT We go to the movies to escape real life. Films make us feel a wide range of emotions, from joy to fear to sentimentality to awe to a satisfying sense of justice. While death and destruction often give us a cathartic thrill on screen, moviegoers don't want to see it the way it happens in real life. Movies give us spectacular, quick, and clean scenes of death, when the reality is much more difficult. For one thing, it is often very hard to murder someone, unless you just shoot them, and that's, sadly, not visually dramatic enough for all films. The good news is that you are not likely to be present at the number of murders or disasters you see on film, or even medical deaths. But that's how the general public gets a mistaken view on how death works. In real life, death is prolonged and rather gross, two things that filmmakers tend to avoid. Read about five mistaken ideas we've gotten used to by watching movie deaths at Cracked.

The Famous Dutch Flower Auction Clock Posted: 27 Jun 2022 10:32 AM PDT Remember reading about tulip mania? The Netherlands is still a hub for flower sales hundreds of years later, and the biggest flower market is the Royal FloraHolland auction in Aalsmeer. The flower business in Aalsmeer happens at an insanely large scale. The auction itself was known for using a unique clock system, where bidders timed their offers to a clock that counted down the price. So the "clock" actually measured money instead of time. Tom Scott visits the flower auction to explain what happened to the Dutch auction clock, which once drew so many tourists, and is now defunct. The story takes only six minutes; the rest is an ad.

The World's First Solar Powered Car Available to Consumers Posted: 26 Jun 2022 09:00 PM PDT An electric car ready to hit the market this fall has something even better than electric power. Lightyear 0 is the world's first solar powered car! Instead of a battery, the car features a solar array across the roof and hood, collecting power from sunlight. This gives it a range of around 70 kilometers (43 miles) per day in optimal conditions. Don't park it in the garage or under a tree! If you live in a sunny area, you could go months without having to charge the vehicle. But if you do need to charge it up, you can just plug it into an outlet at home instead of driving to a charging station. So what's the catch? The first model, to be sold in Europe, will be quite expensive, at about €250,000. The company hopes to generate enough interest to expand production and eventually bring the price down to around €30,000. That will take a few years. Read more about Lightyear 0 at My Modern Met. -via Damn Interesting

The World’s Oldest Amusement Park Posted: 26 Jun 2022 06:26 PM PDT The problem with crowning anything as "the world's oldest" is that first you have to settle on a definition of the thing you're talking about, and there will always be disagreement about those definitions. What, exactly, is the difference between a "park" and an "amusement park"? And when does a space cross over from one to the other? Dyrehavsbakken, an amusement park north of Copenhagen in Denmark, is called the world's oldest amusement park. The history of the park began when a natural spring was discovered in 1583, more than 400 years ago. People began to congregate around the spring, which offered better quality water than Copenhagen. Crowds meant an opportunity for vendors, and those vendors knew they would sell more if there was entertainment available, so that was arranged. The history of the park was boosted when the king established an animal park, but it was later made private for royalty, and then opened to the public again. Any of these events could interrupt a historical timeline that enshrined Dyrehavsbakken as the world's oldest amusement park. But no one is going to argue about the title, unless they have a better case for another park. As it is, the history of Dyrehavsbakken is quite interesting, and shows how some businesses just naturally evolve over time instead of springing up from whole cloth. You can read the story of Dyrehavsbakken at Amusing Planet. (Image credit: Flickr user Insights Unspoken)

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