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Fact Brazilian Billionaire Buries His Bentley

62-year-old Count Scarpa, a quirky millionaire from Sao Paolo, Brazil, announced he has decided to do like the pharaohs and entomb his $500,000 Bentley Continental Flying Spur in his back garden, on Monday, via Facebook.

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12 Mar 2015 08:33:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Animal Architects Bowerbirds Design

Turkeys strut, peacocks preen, and bowerbirds design. Of all the strange things that male birds do to attract a mate, the bowerbird's ritual is the only one that could make it into the MoMA. They use two distinct types of "architecture" and have a keen eye for color as well.

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05 Mar 2014 12:45:00,post received 0 comments

Funny Squash-Faced Cats Dressed as Super Heroes Is the Viral Blockbuster of the Summer

When the city is in need, these superhero cats will do everything they can to help (i.e. look on indifferently then passive-aggressively poop on the bed).

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29 Jul 2012 10:08:00,post received 0 comments

Fact The Day in Photos – February 27, 2021

A demonstration of Extinction Rebellion in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has been dissolved by the local triangle (police, judiciary and mayor), February 26, 2021. About eighty activists, some of whom scantily dressed, blocked the Overtoom in Amsterdam-West. About twenty of them do not want to leave, they are taken away elsewhere. (Photo by Koen van Weel/EPA/EFE)

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27 Feb 2021 10:06:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Some Photos: Children

Filipino children play as they are doing caroling activities on the street near an airport, days before Christmas in Manila, Philippines, 20 December 2017. Filipinos celebrate the longest Christmas in the world which starts as early as September every year. (Photo by Francis R. Malasig/EPA/EFE)

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29 Dec 2017 07:46:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Playful Kittens by Seth Casteel

Fuzzbucket. “Not only did we keep our jobs, but because of the pictures, all the kittens were adopted within hours!”. (Photo by Seth Casteel/Hachette Australia)

California-based photographer Seth Casteel made his name taking photographs of dogs underwater, but before that, he was snapping cats on land. In fact, they were his first animal subjects. Casteel’s new book, Pounce – a follow-up to his bestselling Underwater Dogs and Underwater Puppies – features more than 80 photographs of playful cats doing what they do best. Here: Fuzzbucket. (Photo by Seth Casteel/Hachette Australia)

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18 Nov 2016 11:21:00,post received 0 comments

Fact After the Flames Subside

Pine trees are seen after a forest fire near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal August 14, 2016. (Photo by Rafael Marchante/Reuters)

Pine trees are seen after a forest fire near Sao Pedro do Sul, Portugal August 14, 2016. Deadly wildfires raging for two weeks in Portugal have destroyed a wooded area the size of 100,000 soccer fields, and the small Iberian nation alone accounts for half of all forests burned in the European Union this year. (Photo by Rafael Marchante/Reuters)

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17 Aug 2016 11:07:00,post received 0 comments

Fact David Bowie (1947 – 2016) through the Years

David Bowie wears an eyepatch in red suit and guitar on blue background at Top Pop television studios in Holland while doing playback to his hit song Rebel Rebel in 1974. (Photo by Barry Schultz/Sunshine/REX Shutterstock)

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11 Jan 2016 09:41:00,post received 0 comments