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Educative The Archerfish

The archerfish (spinner fish or archer fish) are a family (Toxotidae) of fish known for their habit of preying on land based insects and other small animals by literally shooting them down with water droplets from their specialized mouths. The family is small, consisting of seven species in the genus Toxotes; which typically inhabit brackish waters of estuaries and mangroves, but can also be found in the open ocean as well as far upstream in fresh water They can be found from India to the Philippines, Australia, and Polynesia.

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21 Nov 2012 12:54:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Geeky Contact Lenses

The Batman logo displayed in your eyes? Geeky contact lenses: Batman, the Eye of Sauron, Zombie, Saw, Naruto, X-Men, Terminator, Twilight, Blade, Exorcist… Some kitsch gadgets, but I’m curious to try!

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06 Dec 2012 11:35:00,post received 0 comments

Fact CHIP House Powered by Solar Energy

CHIP is a prefab, net-zero solar-powered house designed and built by a student-run team from two Southern California schools: Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The house is the team's entry for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 competition.

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13 Dec 2012 11:35:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Batmobile Replica Spotted in Sweden

A Swedish guy built it from a 1973 Lincoln Continental. It took him over $1 million USD and 3.5 years to complete, or some 20.000 hours of work.
It features a lot of gadgets like satellite navigation, voice recognition, reversing cameras, a DVD player, a plasma TV...

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21 Dec 2012 13:27:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Dresses this Week, Part 2/2

After model Giulia Salemi attended the Venice Film Festival in a dress that looked like she had forgotten her underwear The Sun adapted a dress and Anita Kaushik 24 from Southfields went out on the London streets to share her experience on September 5, 2016. (Photo by Stewart Williams/The Sun)

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11 Sep 2016 10:10:00,post received 0 comments

Sad Malaysian Orangutans: Before and Now

This picture taken on August 4, 2016 shows three orphaned orangutan babies hanging in a tree whilst attending “jungle school” at the International Animal Rescue centre outside the city of Ketapang in West Kalimantan. (Photo by Bay Ismoyo/AFP Photo)

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01 Sep 2016 11:11:00,post received 0 comments

Fact China this Week

Monks take pictures with their mobile phones of the mummified body of a monk at Puzhao temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, January 10, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Monks take pictures with their mobile phones of the mummified body of a monk at Puzhao temple in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China, January 10, 2016. According to local media, the monk named Fuhou died three years ago at the age of 94 and his remains was placed in a vat and turned into a mummy as a sign of respect. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

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14 Jan 2016 08:01:00,post received 0 comments

Educative Macropinna Microstoma

Macropinna microstoma is the only species of fish in the genus Macropinna, belonging to Opisthoproctidae, the barreleye family. It is recognized for a highly unusual transparent, fluid-filled dome on its head, through which the lenses of its eyes can be seen. The eyes have a barrel shape and can be rotated to point either forward or straight up, looking through the fish's transparent dome. M. microstoma has a tiny mouth and most of its body is covered with large scales.

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08 Jan 2013 17:42:00,post received 0 comments