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Fun facts about 130 countries – and 9 fun fakes (part 2)

As the title suggests, this is part two of the list of fun facts about 130 countries. (Here’s part one.) This one is a bit more difficult: There are only three fake facts in this post. Can you find them without resorting to Google? Thirty percent of the residents of…

Fun facts about 130 countries – and 9 fun fakes (part 1)

Lists of weird/fun facts about the countries of the world are always a good time, because hey, they’re weird! And fun! But there’s a twist – I slipped in nine fake facts among the real ones. Without resorting to Google (you can resort to Google a little), can you pick…

New company aims to provide facilities for luxury pooping in NYC

NYC visitors! Once you’ve sorted out the shameful state of the airports (and airport-city transfers) and found a place to sleep that isn’t an outright violation of the Geneva Convention, you’ll probably want to spend a few minutes thinking about dignified colon voiding options. Well, help has arrived! Posh Stow…

See historic San Francisco four days before the 1906 earthquake

Get a load of this old timey scene of historic San Francisco, shot on the Market Street streetcar on April 14, 1906, just four days before the earthquake and fire that destroyed about 80% of the city. One thing that immediately stands out is that driving at the time, whether…

Fascinating London video simultaneously shows in 1927 and 2013

This London video is Grade A travel/history/urban geek porn. Simon Smith got his hands on cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene’s restored color film footage from his UK tour in the 1920s, notably swinging past London’s top sites, and set to work reshooting identical scenes in 2013 using “modern equivalents of his camera…

European word translator rendered in map form is literally minutes of fun

Have you ever had the sudden need to know how to say “barf” in 17 languages RIGHT NOW? (I know I have.) What you need, my friend, is a word translator that renders the results in a handy map! I’m sure some bright and creative individual will find a productive…

London hopes to build incredible 135-mile network of elevated bike paths

So, I guess travel by jetpacks and tubes is being put on the backburner, but in the meantime this outstanding amazingness will do. SkyCycle is a proposed 135-mile network of three-story high bike paths that would be built above existing rail lines and accessed by over 200 ramps in an…

Uruguay legalizes pot, projects 18,284% increase in tourism

The streets of Amsterdam are about to get awfully quiet. Showing infinitely more sense than most “First World” nations’ doomed approach, Uruguay has legalized marijuana in an effort to combat drug trafficking. Also relevant, as anyone who’s ever read a legitimate medical study on cannabis knows, compared to perfectly legal…

Canada moves to claim the North Pole, aka ‘New Toronto’ come 2125

Canada’s economic zone is gonna get a whole lot bigger if their UN request for expanding its continental shelf in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans is approved. The key issue/interest being that as global warming advances north, that area will become viable for new shipping lanes and mineral extraction. Not…

Someone reinvented the wheel and, no joke, it may change cycling forever

Yeah, it’s fair to say they kind of reinvented the wheel. MIT has developed a self-charging, electric hybrid wheel capable of producing up to 250 watts of power which, when added to the 75 watts an average cyclist generates, means mountains become virtual molehills. Dubbed the Copenhagen Wheel, after years…

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