You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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Originally Posted by big gear head

What kind of wheels are on the front of the Don Nicholson car above?

Here's a better photo which is also in color:

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Gibbon Experience: Sleep inside the world's tallest treehouses

Here's the best part. To get to your treehouse you use . . . . . . a zip line!

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Keep your feet cozy and the floor clean with these Selric Microfiber Washable Mop Slippers ($13).

[big gear head]

Howard wheels? I don't think I've ever seen those before.

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In the early 1900s, it wasn’t easy to tell a Coca-Cola bottle apart from copycat competitors like Koka-Kola and Celery-Cola, so the company gave glass companies a challenge in 1915: Design a “bottle so distinct that you would recognize it by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground.” A slimmed-down version of the winner, which came out a year later, became the iconic Coke bottle, and it’s now the most recognized bottle in the world.

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Eggplants are fruits and classified as berries

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Forget caviar and expensive truffles, bird’s saliva is the food of the well-heeled, at least in China anyway. Bird’s nest soup, is an expensive delicacy made from rare bird’s nests created from the saliva of small swiftlets. The nests, which have been used in Chinese cooking for over four centuries, are dissolved in water to make a soup which is believed to have exquisite flavour and be of benefit to health. These bird nests are considered to be one of the most expensive animal food products consumed by humans.

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Vending machines were developed in the United Kingdom in the 1880s and were used to sell gum at train stations in New York. By 1926, there was one vending machine for every 100 people in America.

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The most popular cookie in America is the chocolate chip cookie, which is attributed to Ruth Wakefield circa 1933.

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More than $2 billion of candy is sold for Halloween, more than any other holiday