A collection of interesting articles from Amusing Planets archives.
Gestures pre-dates any language in the world, in fact, human communication evolved from gestures.
The rats have an acute sense of smell and are small enough not to detonate the mines.
Rats trained under the scheme have already helped clear large swathes of land in mine-infested Mozambique.
They honor their dead with brightly colored coffins that celebrate the way they lived.
The temperature of the water is -5 Celsius, but it’s so salty that it doesn’t freeze.
The Spree itself is far too polluted to permit safe bathing.
But tucked away in a corner of the model is a little figurine of a defecating Catalan peasant.
Its called the Caganer, which means shitter in Catalan.
