A 2,5 tonne sponge cake!

The facebook page of Seiersberg town, Austria presents something big. A 2,5 tonne sponge cake!

The cake was created by some chefs in Seiersberg. They used 3000 eggs, 200 kilos of blackberries and 300 kilos of pineapple and strawberries.

Customs police officers in China are taught how to smile

The customs office in Dalian, Liaoning Province in China introduced a new method for practicing the perfect smile. 

Specifically, customs police officers in Dalian are taught a ''smiling course'', with the use of chopsticks. How do they do it? They hold the chopsticks between their teeth and try to smile!

Sheepdog sold at auction for £8,400

A 18-month-old black and white sheepdog called Midge, was sold for a record £8,400 at an auction which took place in Yorkshire last Friday. The buyer was Suffolk shepherd, Eddie Thornalley, Worlington.

 Midge showed great skills at the auction site, even though she has been trained for just three months.

According to the auctioneer, the previous record price was £6,000 at a sale in 2010.

The top ten weirdest mobile phone insurance claims

MobileInsurance.co.uk created a list of the top ten unusual mobile phone insurance claims:

 1. Lost inside a cow

  2. Baked into a cake

          3. Flushed down a lavatory

        4. Snatched by a seagull

     5. Blasted by fireworks

    6. Stolen by monkeys

     7. Dropped from a tree

       8. Thrown at a boyfriend

               9. Worn out by ‘intimate’ use

     10. Dropped overboard

John Lamerton, mobileinsurance.co.uk managing director said: ''Judging by these claims, you really never know what you might need to claim for. My advice would be to just use the phone as a phone.''

Wine glass handling world record

British Philip Osenton, a 43-year-old wine consultant based in Beijing, broke the world record for the number of wine glasses held in one hand, handling 51 glasses. 

                    
The previous record of 39 glasses was made five years ago by Reymond Adina from the Philippines.

Incredible: Shark falls from the sky!

Golfers at San Juan Hills Golf Club in California were stunned when a two-pound leopard shark fell from the sky in front of them.

 It appears that the shark was snagged from the Pacific Ocean by a bird, and then dropped on Golf Club.

The shark was bleeding but still alive, while a golf club employee rescued the fish driving it to a nearby beach.

A Trampoline Bridge

The Paris architectural firm Atelier Zundel Cristea came up with a novel idea.  The architects of the firm have proposed a trampoline bridge to stretch across the Seine River, for a competition called ‘A Bridge in Paris’.

The bridge is formed of inflatable modules, 30 meters in diameter and filled with 3,700 cubic meters of air. In the central part of each ring a trampoline mesh is stretched. 

Why Some People See Sound

Some people may actually see sounds, say researchers who found this odd ability is possible when the parts of the brain devoted to vision are small.

These findings points to a clever strategy the brain might use when vision is unreliable, investigators added.

Scientists took a closer look at the sound-induced flash illusion. When a single flash is followed by two bleeps, people sometimes also see two illusory consecutive flashes.

                           


Read more:  http://www.livescience.com/24191-why-some-people-see-sound.html

White whale imitates human speech

After a thorough examination of the recordings of the voice of a Beluga whale, scientists claim that the White whale produces sounds similar to that of human speech. According to the scientists' findings that are reported in the Journal of current Biology, the whale was deliberately imitating humans and trying to communicate with them.

                        

Dr. Sam Ridgway, the President of the National Marine Mammal Foundation where the whale lived said: "Whale voice prints were similar to the human voice and unlike the whale's usual sounds. The sounds we heard were clearly an example of vocal learning by the white whale."

New advert for LG: ''So real it's scary''

A new TV advert for the South Korean company LG, called ''So real it's scary'', shows a fake lift where the floor appears to fall away. As the floor collapses lift passengers are shocked, but then they realize that they have been tricked.

LG created this advert in order to attract attention on the quality of their new screens.

All players sent off in football match in Paraguay after mass brawl

Thirty-six players were sent off during a junior league soccer match in Paraguay last Sunday.  Five minutes before the end of the match, two players, one from each team, started fighting and the referee showed them red cards. However, they continued fighting on the field, leading to a mass brawl, with the involvement of the rest players and substitutes.

Henan Martinez, the president of the home club said: " The referees ran off the field in fear, but in their report  they expelled all 36 players."