Taiwanese Family Only Enters Kitchen With Rubber Boots for Fear of Getting Electrocuted
For the past seven years, a family from Taiwan’s Chiayi county had only been able to access their kitchen with rubber boots on or risk getting electrocuted. Even turning on the faucet with their bare hands was a risky affair as current could be running through it. The man of the house, known only as […]
Artist Leaves 100,000 Pennies in Abandoned Fountain to See How People React to It
English artist Anna Brownsted left 100,000 pennies in an abandoned public fountain in Cambridge, over the weekend, in a bid to explore human nature. The money was all stolen in just one day. The coins worth £1,000 were placed in the fountain at Quayside, in Cambridge, at 8 am on Saturday, and were supposed to be left […]
The Rare Rainforest Tree That Bleeds Metal
Pycnandra acuminata is a rare tree native to the shrinking rainforests of New Caledonia that has the rare ability to collect large quantities of nickel from the ground. Its blue-green sap reportedly contains up to 25% nickel. Trees, or plants in general for that matter, and heavy metals like nickel and zinc don’t really go […]