Bagger 288
The Bagger 288 (Excavator 288) is a bucket-wheel excavator, the largest in the world.
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory is a neutrino observatory located in Ontario, Canada.
Varya Akulova
Varya Akulova is a strong Ukrainian woman. She holds two Guinness records and is able to lift up to four times her own body weight.
Pykrete
Pykrete is a composite material made of approximately 14 percent sawdust or some other form of wood pulp and 86 percent ice by weight. Its use was proposed during World War II by Geoffrey Pyke to the British Royal Navy as a candidate material for making a huge, unsinkable aircraft carriers.
Laser harp
A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds.
Bezoar
A bezoar is a mass found trapped in the gastrointestinal system.
Jesús Malverde
Jesús Malverde is a folklore hero in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. He is celebrated as a folk saint by some in Mexico and the United States, particularly among those involved in drug trafficking, but he is not officially recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Maledicta Journal
Maledicta, The International Journal of Verbal Aggression, is an academic journal dedicated to the study of offensive and negatively-valued words and expressions. Its main areas of interest are the origin, etymology, meaning, use, and influence of vulgar, obscene, aggressive, abusive, and blasphemous language.
London Necropolis railway station
The London Necropolis railway station was a special railway station constructed by the London Necropolis Company for funeral trains, specifically to serve their Brookwood Cemetery. The station opened on 13 November 1854 just outside London's Waterloo station. Three-carriage trains took coffins and mourners from the station directly to platforms within the cemetery.
Toynbee tiles
The Toynbee tiles are messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in about two dozen major cities in the United States and three South American capitals. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered.