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You wanna control your dream? Try the Lucid Dream Machine. As this video is claiming, with under 6 dollars you can create a Lucid dream machine and be able to remember and/or control your dreams. Pretty cool, but I would rather have a nice and sound sleep wearing one of this.



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How would you like to see yourself in one of this stunning nature pictures. Truly, the world is a beautiful place to live in.









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If you are wondering where the world's largest river, the Amazon River, originates, it's right here at the Nevado Mismi. It is located about 700 km southeast of Lima, Peru and is one of the highest points of Colca Canyon. It's amazing that despite it's historic significance, this site is just marked with a wooden cross.

Nevado Mismi is a 5,597 m (18,363 ft) mountain peak of volcanic origin located in the Andes mountain range of Peru. A glacial stream on the Mismi was firmly identified as the most distant source of the Amazon River in 1996, 2001 and 2007. The waters from Nevado Mismi flow into the Quebradas Carhuasanta and Apacheta, which flow into the Río Apurímac which is a tributary of the Ucayali which later joins the Marañón to form the Amazon proper.

In 1982 Jean-Michel Cousteau led a large scale scientific exploration of the Amazon from its mouth to its origin. The “Cousteau Amazon Expedition”[4] cost eleven million dollars and culminated in a six-hour television documentary titled “Cousteau’s Amazon” released in 1983. It offered study information to last years and gave insights into the biology and geology of the largest river system on earth. This expedition was broken into three separate groups and the upper Amazon section was covered by “The Flying Expedition” tasked with exploring the upper third to Aracipa from the river's origin.

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This is an amazing view from the top of Burj Dubai. Still under construction, Burj Dubai will be the world's tallest building when completed.



In this picture, you can see the turn of the earth (top corners).


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1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

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This hilarious Japanese marshmallow eating game show gives a very funny meaning to marshmallow eating. You got to watch this video, it's very funny.



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This is a graphic video of dolphin and whale massacre in Faroe Islands, Denmark. I can't believe these people are doing this to these gentle giants of the sea.



Here's another video. Watch how they trap the dolphins to make them go to shallow water where people are waiting to slaughter these mammals.

You know how to play a guitar? This man certainly knows how to play a guitar with both feet



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If you happen to visit, why not eat at MYASS, I mean, at Mcdonalds in Yass

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This Thai Temple named “Wat Lan Kuad” or “Temple of Million Bottles” is literally made from more than one million recycled bottles. It is estimated that the whole structure is made from 1.5 million recycled bottles - most of them are donated.

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This naked panda is not dressed up for the Halloween. He was involved in a fight, broke his leg and the vet needs to shaved off his fur to do the operation. Result? A naked panda/ :)



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Meet Brad Sciullo, a.k.a the Burger King. In 4 hours and 39 minutes, this chef at a western Pennsylvania Italian restaurant ate a 15-pound burger with 5.2 pounds of toppings. He is the first person to successfully eat the huge burger at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pittsburgh.

For completing the challenge in under five hours, Brad won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate and a burger hangover.




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40-year-old nicknamed AJ is a woman who can't forget. She was also called as the "Human Calendar" because she can remember everything that happened to her. You can pick any random dates and she can elaborately tell verifiable details about what happened to her for the past 25 years of her life even any significant news events on topics that interested her. She usually also recalls what day of the week it was and what the weather was like.

She says that from 1980 at the age of 14 onward, her recall became automatic. Her parents didn't notice her superior memory until she was in her 20s.

"I have studied learning and memory for over 50 years, and I had never read of or even heard about a person who has a comparable ability to remember," McGaugh said. "However, we do not know whether she is unique or whether there may be others with comparable remembering ability who have not as yet been identified."

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Who says babies only needs milk? This store knows more. :)


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Iran is just one step closer to claim the world record for longest sandwich when the crowd couldn't wait before the three Guinness representatives could measure it and began devouring the 1,500 meter long Ostrich sandwich.

On May this year, a record was set by Italy for the longest sandwich measuring up to 1,378 meters. Iranian organizers hope to break that record by showing the video footage of their Ostrich sandwich to the Guinness World Records, since the evidence was eaten by hungry crowds.

Chaotic scenes ensued as the sandwich was rapidly gobbled up, leaving three Guinness representatives present bewildered and unsure if a new standard had been set.

See the video of the world record Ostrich sandwich attempt by Iran.



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In the Saturday Night Live show, vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin had a guest appearance and did the show's welcome speech. Tina Fey's impersonation of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has become popular specially that the US election day is coming.



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Dana Kunze is not insane to to dive from a 172 foot platform. He's in for the high dive competition.



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Gas prices shouldn't hinder you from riding in your most odd vehicles, like this guys does.







And the winner is...

It's official. The record for most t-shirt worn at once made by Matt McAllister last 2006 was beaten last September 19, 2008 by Swedish T-Shirt Store. The official t-shirt count was 237, the previous record was 155.



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At 14 years old, Jack Moule is UK's youngest national jet-ski freestyle champion. Weighing only at 8.5 stone with a height of 5'4", he wowed judges with his top-class flips, spins and rolls on his 22 stone jet-ski. His signature moves include the nose stab and the incredible barrel-roll.

Jack said: 'I love jet-skiing - it's just an absolutely brilliant sport and even the training is good fun.

'What I really want to do is go all the way and become world champion.

'Sport is all about football for most of my friends at school but I wanted to try something different and more extreme.'

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