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- World’s Most Expensive Cheese Costs $1,000 a Pound, Is Made from Donkey Milk
- In Some Parts of the World Ant Heads Were Once Used as Stitches
- Chinese Millionaire Builds Company Headquarters to Look Like the Starship Enterprise
| World’s Most Expensive Cheese Costs $1,000 a Pound, Is Made from Donkey Milk Posted: 01 Jun 2015 03:09 AM PDT Believe it or not, the world's most expensive cheese doesn’t come from either cows nor goats, but from donkeys. Made on a farm in Serbia, 'Pule Cheese' is made from Balkan donkey milk and costs a hefty $1,000 per pound! It is a crumbly white cheese, apparently popular for its intense flavor and natural saltiness. The world's supply of pule comes from a single herd of Balkan donkeys that live on a farm in the Zasavica Special Nature Preserve, Serbia. Part of the reason this cheese is so expensive is that donkeys don’t yield too much milk, and they all have to be milked by hand, three times a day. Apparently, 15 donkeys yield about a gallon of milk, and it takes 3.5 gallons to make a pound of pule cheese. The donkeys of the Zasavica Special Nature Preserve only produce enough milk to make around 200 pounds of pule cheese a year, which makes it very hard to come by.
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| In Some Parts of the World Ant Heads Were Once Used as Stitches Posted: 01 Jun 2015 02:21 AM PDT As it turns out, the gut wrenching scene from Apocalypto, where Jaguar Paw's wife uses ants’ pincers as sutures on her young son, was inspired by a real medical treatment used in part of Asia, Africa and South America. According to survival expert Cody Lundin, who starred on the Discovery reality show Dual Survival, army ants – soldiers that guard the rest of the colony – are known for their whopper mandibles. "I know that in ancient China, they were used as sutures by a lot of native peoples," he explained on the show. "Take it on both sides of your wound and it's going to clamp down on your flesh, and when you pinch off the body, it will hold that wound shut. Once they bite on, they don't let go. You can physically pull their body away from their head, and they will stay embedded in the flesh."
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| Chinese Millionaire Builds Company Headquarters to Look Like the Starship Enterprise Posted: 01 Jun 2015 01:49 AM PDT The headquarters of NetDragon Websoft – China's most popular internet provider – look quite conventional from the ground, but aerial footage shows that the building is actually a replica of the iconic Starship Enterprise! NetDragon chairman Liu Dejian, a huge Star Trek fan and self-described 'Uber Trekkie', reportedly spent $150 million over a span of six years to construct the USS Enterprise-shaped office. When it was finally ready in 2014, he chose to remain rather low-key about it. But when a fan spotted a satellite image of the badass building – about the size of three football pitches – it eventually stirred up a social media frenzy. Drone footage was soon released online, making Star Trek fans all over the world drool with delight.
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