This American architect beat his own world record for the world’s largest card house which is a replica of the Venetian Macau. He spent 44 days on this beast.
Via Daily Mail
So that was a ridiculously big earthquake.
The earthquake—which so far has resulted in more than 700 dead people— was the equivalent of the explosion of 15.8 gigatons of TNT. That’s 316 Soviet Tsar nuclear bombs—at 50 megatons, the most powerful ever created—dropping at the same time in the same place.
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Estimated value of $35 billion for all the decommissioned and out of date planes of the United States Air Force.
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This dog look remarkable like my sisters dog, except 100 pounds heavier.
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Another impressive stat shot about the stimulus and our recovery.
Via Obama
Great article in the New York Times showing and discussing the impact of the stimulus bill.
Imagine if, one year ago, Congress had passed a stimulus bill that really worked.
Let’s say this bill had started spending money within a matter of weeks and had rapidly helped the economy. Let’s also imagine it was large enough to [...]
Pretty solid top 10 list put together by Letterman, with help from the always professional radio man Casey Kasem.
Via YesButNoButYes
Did you do your part by trimming your pubic hair?
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Some of these facts are actually quite surprising, especially the one about Natty Light being the 5th best selling beer in the country, see chart for details.
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As we all know, the Super Bowl is approaching and it might interest you to take a look back at some of the worst Super Bowl QBs in history.
Via BleacherReport
France is somehow rated as the best place to live in the world by International Living, and the ranking takes into account a multitude of factors such as cost of living, economy, and freedom. Clearly they did not realize that to take advantage of these factors you have to either live in France, or [...]
It seems that this should be fake because there can’t be a reportere this freaking stupid, but then again, they would have to build that thing out of Jenga blocks just to set up this ridiculous video, and we all know how frustrating playing even a game of Jenga is…
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Don’t know why I didn’t post this sooner because when I first heard about this statistic I was indubitably stoked. Also, Duncan Birch FTW.
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The award of course goes to UNC.
Via Kiplinger
Let this graphic try to explain.
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