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- Africa’s Honey Fences – Using Beehives to Keep Elephants at Bay
- These Delicate Anatomically-Correct Dolls Take Up to 350 Hours to Create
- Austrian Boy Fishes 100,000 Euros Out of the River Danube
| Africa’s Honey Fences – Using Beehives to Keep Elephants at Bay Posted: 09 Dec 2015 05:09 AM PST Thanks to zoologist Dr Lucy King, farmers in rural Africa no longer need to worry about elephants wrecking their fields. Through 'The Elephants and Bees Project', she introduced the concept of honey fences – a low cost, organic solution that employs beehives suspended several meters apart to keep pachyderms away. The fences are essentially gifts that keep on giving, because the farmers are also able to make an additional income from the honey. |
| These Delicate Anatomically-Correct Dolls Take Up to 350 Hours to Create Posted: 09 Dec 2015 04:14 AM PST Russian-Canadian dollmaker Marina Bychkova is famous for sculpting highly realistic porcelain dolls. Her creations are not only anatomically correct, they're also soul-stirringly ethereal enough to make the viewer curious about their stories. It's no wonder they're so sought after by doll connoisseurs across the world. Bychkova’s dolls sell for tens of thousands of dollars each, with the most expensive one fetching a whopping $76,500 on eBay. |
| Austrian Boy Fishes 100,000 Euros Out of the River Danube Posted: 09 Dec 2015 03:00 AM PST In a bizarre stroke of luck, a boy from Vienna, Austria managed to fish out a sizable treasure from the River Danube: €100 and €500 banknotes totaling a whopping €100,000! |
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