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A penny sells for $1.38 million at a Florida auction.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/sto ... 52440226/1

Beyond wrote:A penny sells for $1.38 million at a Florida auction.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/sto ... 52440226/1

A penny saved is a penny earned; or 1.38 million big bucks!

That's one golden copper!

Ann

Let me add something on my own...

Ordinary house in Malmö is a "palace" on the inside

Click on "Starta bildspel" to see the deceptively normal house that looks like a castle when you come inside. I guess I should add that this isn't a common thing at all here in Sweden!

Ann

It looks more like a museum. Does anyone actually live there??

The owners are selling it. But a lot of people want to buy it - to live in it!

Ann

If I gave you a penny, would you give me over a million dollars

The smallest vertebrate in the world is a frog. Isn't it cute?

http://bowshooter.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... earth.html

Ann

Wait, I found something perhaps even better. What about this?

The Predictor Who Got It Right (Mostly)

Ann

Ann wrote:The smallest vertebrate in the world is a frog. Isn't it cute?

http://bowshooter.blogspot.com/2012/01/ ... earth.html

Ann

Shouldn't it still be the fish? The frog may contain a smaller maximum dimension but it seems more massive than the fish.

Robots are getting more human like all the time. Watch this one for a little over a minute.
Alpha Dog robot is right below the human one.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/b ... its-spooky

A Plantimal
According to Zoologger, this unique life form is half plant and half animal.
Read all about it.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2 ... nimal.html

There are a few more 'strange' things listed below this story.

I'm surprised the Venus Flytrap isn't in there.

Did you know that pneumonosuperultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary?

TNT wrote:I'm surprised the Venus Flytrap isn't in there.

All animals are motile in at least some phase of their life cycle. Venus Flytraps are not.

I'm still surprised, because they, unlike many other plants, "eat" insects and the like for nutrition, while other plants depend on nutrients in the ground. Kinda animal-like, if you ask me.

So do pitcher plants and sundews, but it's a lot harder to think of them as being animal like because of the lack of "teeth." The mechanism is very similar, though. If you consider a venus fly-trap as being animal-like then you must also consider the others.

The Alien wrote:Did you know that pneumonosuperultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word in the English dictionary?

Methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutaminylserylleucylphenylalanylalanyl...sylalanylalanylthreonylarginylserine is the largest printed English word with a whopping 1,909 letters. It is the term for the formula C1289H2051N343O375S8, a Tryptophan synthetase A protein, an enzyme that has 267 amino acids. I got this from my dictionary.

TNT, you must have one-hellava-big-dictionary

It's a lot smaller than you may think, Beyond.

bystander wrote:Fotoshop, the world’s best beauty product

Maybe, but it's only good in cyberspace

bystander wrote:Fotoshop, the world’s best beauty product

Might be a great beauty maker; but could be an ugly maker also!

Sometimes accidents can be good for you.

http://www.khq.com/story/16582813/man-a ... 3m-lottery

Chinese boy can see in the dark and eyes glow like cats.
Story is mostly video.
http://www.emirates247.com/videos/chine ... 7-1.439824