“The red team was up by 16 points at the time the shot was made.” — gljuggler

“The days of spending are at an end for hard up Brits – so take a leaf out of Cat Fletcher’s book and furnish your entire home for FREE. The mother-of-three has kitted her three-bed semi-detached home without barely spending a penny. Using unwanted item sharing websites such as Freegle and Freecycle, and scouring skips, tips and charity stores, Cat has turned her empty shell of a house into a comfy home in Newhaven, East Sussex. The keen environmentalist spent five years meticulously adding items – which include a range cooker, two sofas, a treadmill, cutlery, cushions and curtains. The former personal assistant estimates that she has saved upwards of $26,000.”

“You can force water out of a bottle as fast as you want. Draining upside with gravity requires displacement of air which is why it is so slow, because the air bubbles force themselves up through the same opening as the water and therefore cut off the flow. This isn’t an issue if you’re crunching a bottle together as the water ejects. There’s no need for air displacement because the volume of the bottle decreases at the same rate as the water. Could be fake, but it’s definitely possible to do.” — Dan428

“Stretching more than 200 miles from its headwaters toward a large and mysterious sea, this river probably looks very familiar. But it is not the Nile. It is an as-yet-unnamed river on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This picture marks the first time scientists have seen a river system that is so vast, and in such high resolution, anywhere other than our own planet. It’s an incredible image–it has Earth-like meanders, oxbows, and general curvature, indicating it follows the trace of a fault line. This doesn’t necessarily mean Titan has plate tectonics like Earth does, but there are enough fractures in its bedrock to help form large basins — and maybe even huge seas. The real Nile, which flows about 4,100 miles, also follows fault lines in some places.” w/ photos

“If you’re looking for some motivation, stories don’t get much more inspirational than that of Dasrath Manjhi. 53 years ago, he set out to carve a 1mk-long path through a rocky hillside, all by himself, in order to make it easier for his fellow villagers to access schools, markets and neighboring villagers. ‘This hill had given us trouble and grief for centuries. The people had asked the government many times to make a proper road through the hill, but nobody paid any attention. So I just decided I would do it all by myself,’ Manjhi told Indian newspaper Tehelka, in 2007, a shortly before succumbing to the cancer that was plaguing him. With just his chisel, hammer and shovel, this legendary man turned what was once a precarious one-foot-wide passage into a 360ft-long, 30ft-wide road accessible by bicycle and motorcycle. The hill kept the region’s villages in isolation, forcing people to trek through dangerous terrain for hours just to reach their lands or the nearest market town. Children had to walk eight kilometers to reach school, but thanks to Dasrath Manjhi’s handmade road, that distance has been reduced to three kilometers, and people from over 60 villages now use it every day.” w/ photos

“Too many white kids.” — undertoes

“Termite mounds. They may look like just a big pile of well-structured dirt but they are actually marvels of architecture and fill an unexpectedly important function in the ecosystems in which they appear. In fact, the areas around termite mounds can be some of the most biologically diverse in an entire habitat. From the functions they serve for termites to the functions they serve for other animal and plant life, termite mounds are mind-blowing!” w/ photos + videos

“The Korowai people live in tree houses ranging in height from 19ft to 37ft, but some are as high as 112ft above the ground. Usually the houses are built on a single tree but frequently the base of the house consists of several living trees, and additional support is derived from wooden poles. These tree houses protect families not only against swarms of mosquitoes below, but also ward off annoying neighbours and evil spirits. To build a tree house, a sturdy Banyan tree is selected to function as the central pole. The top of the tree is then removed. The floor frame, made of branches, is constructed first and then covered with sago palm. The walls and roof is made with the same leaves the frame of the house consists of branches fastened with rattan bindings. The flooring must be quite strong as the tree houses often accommodate as many as a dozen people. A dry tree trunk with notches is hung from the bottom of the tree house in order to get up to the house. This ladder shakes with each step and warns the inhabitants that a visitor is on his way up.” w/ photos

“I thought my computer was about to get blue screen’d…” — dontBugly

“Could he be any sloppier?” — James Hartman