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- Indonesian Woman Puts House on the Market, Offers to Marry the Buyer
- Chinese Company Builds 57-Storey Skyscraper in Record 19 Days
- 30 Days of Bugs – Student Goes on Insect Diet for a Whole Month
| Indonesian Woman Puts House on the Market, Offers to Marry the Buyer Posted: 12 Mar 2015 06:13 AM PDT Indonesian homeowner Wina Lia has come up with an innovative strategy to find matrimonial bliss – she's put up her house for sale and has offered to marry the buyer! 40-year-old Lia owns a two-bedroom home in Sleman, a sleepy little district near the Javanese city of Yogyakarta. The lovely house comes with a small fish pond, a spacious backyard, and of course, the chance to gain Lia's hand in marriage. The online ad featuring Lia's home listed the asking price at $76,500 but also mentioned a unique bonus: "Buyers who don't negotiate the price can ask the owner to marry (terms and conditions apply)." The ad promptly went viral, with local news agencies tracking Lia down to check if the claim was genuine. Turns out that it was. |
| Chinese Company Builds 57-Storey Skyscraper in Record 19 Days Posted: 12 Mar 2015 05:54 AM PDT Chinese construction company Broad Sustainable Building recently released an online video showing how they managed to build a 57-storey building in a record time of 19 days. 'Sky City', located in Changsha city, comprises 800 homes and office space to accommodate a total of 4,000 people. The company's original proposal for the site was actually a 97-storey building that would have been the world's largest skyscraper. But just after 20 stories were completed, construction work was stopped for one year because local officials wanted to review the plans. Ultimately, they had to reduce the plan to 57 stories due to the building's close proximity to the airport. In spite of the major delay, the entire construction from start to finish was completed in less than three weeks of work. The 4-minute clip shows employees building each storey offsite and delivering it to the location. A timelapse sequence shows the assembling of the mammoth building which require a total of 19 days to complete – that's exactly three floors per day! |
| 30 Days of Bugs – Student Goes on Insect Diet for a Whole Month Posted: 12 Mar 2015 04:04 AM PDT We've heard people going on all sorts of crazy diets, but this one is a first – an American student recently went a 30-day bug fest! Throughout the month of February, Alabama student Camren Brantley-Rios ate insect-laced meals three times a day. The 21-year-old, who documented his bug-eating experience on a blog called '30 Days of Bugs', believes that traditional meats such as pork and beef are unsustainable as sources of protein. He considers insects to be the diet of the future, so he's experimenting with creepy crawly ingredients to make delicious dishes. There was a time when Camren himself was repulsed by the idea of consuming insects. But now that he's actually done it, he says it hasn't been too difficult to get used to. "I'm mainly sticking to three species," he said. "Mealworms, waxworms and crickets. Those are definitely the bulk of my diet. But I'm trying here and there to incorporate things a little bit more exotic."
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