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Ripley’s Believe It or Not bulldozed his $350,000. Moscow, Ohio, home 4,200 CLOCKS - The Pentagon, headquarters
when a bank claimed it as collateral for for the U.S.Department of Defense, has 4,200
POOP LIGHT - In 2010, a park in Cambridge, outstanding debts. wall clocks. Over 200,000 telephone calls are
Massachusetts, had a street light that was made from the Pentagon every day through
powered by dog poop. Created by artist WHISTLE BLOWERS - Officials in Alor phones connected by 100,000 miles of cable,
Matthew Mazzotta, the “Park Spark” project Setar, Malaysia, blow whistles loudly at and although there are17.5 miles of corridors, it
encouraged dog walkers to dump their pet’s litterbugs in the hope of shaming them into only takes seen minutes to walk between any
poop in biodegradable bags and drop it into one never littering again. two points in the building.
of two 500-gal steel tanks. Microbes in the
waste gave off methane gas, which was fed ROTATING HOUSE - A rotating house north PUB CRAWL - Rather than demolish the 124-
through a second tank to the lamp and burned of Sydney, Australia, guarantees Luke year-old Birdcage Tavern to make way for a
off. Everingham and his family a different view new road tunnel in Auckland, New Zealand, the
every time they wake up. The Octagonal-shaped country’s transport authority decided to move
MECCA CLOCK - The Royal Meca Clock, house sits on a turntable powered by a small the landmark hostelry 130 feet up a hill.After
located on a skyscraper in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, electric motor and controlled by a computer, the walls were reinforced by inserting carbon-
has four amazing faces each measuring 151 feet which allows it to move on demand, completing fiber rods, the three-storey building was jacked
in diameter - that’s more than six times the faces a full rotation in half an hour. onto concrete tains lubricated with Teflon and
of London’s Big Ben clock. More than 90 liquid silicon, then painstakingly pushed up the
pieces of coloured glass mosaic decorate the VAST COLLECTION - The British Museum hill by hydraulic ramps. The move took two
side of the clock, which is visible from every in London has 80,000 objects on display - but days.
part of the city. On special occasions, 16 bands that si only 1 percent of its total collection.
of vertical lights shoot from the clock 6 miles BEER CRATE HOUSE - Architect Jorn
into the sky. RAILROAD ROOM - The Washington Hotel Bihain used 43,000 plastic beer crates to create
in Tokyo, Japan, has created a special room for what he named the “Pavillion of Temporary
LOST LANGUAGE - The writing on the back model railway enthusiasts to sleep in. It Happiness,” in the grounds of the Aromium
fo a letter discovered in 2008 by archaeologists includes a grand model of the local area, building in Brussels, Belgium, in 2008. The vast
at a 17th-century dig site reveals a previously complete with working railroads. Train lovers temporary structure commemorated 50 years
unknown language spoken by indigenous can bring their own models or, alternatively, the since the Atomium was erected at the 1958
peoples in northern Peru. The letter, found hotel will happily provide some. Brussels World Fair.
under a pile of clay bricks in a collapsed church
near Trujillo, shows a column of numbers SCHOOL MASCOT - The mascot of Yuma GLADIATOR SCHOOL - The University of
written in Spanish and translated in a Union High School in Yuma, Arizona, is a Regensburg, Germany, has a summer camp in
mysterious language that has been extinct for at criminal dressed in a prison uniform. It was which students live and train like Roman
least 400 years. adopted nearly a century classes were held in a gladiators.
prison building when the original school burned
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