After Disney’s “Princess and the Frog” movie came out, over 50 children were hospitalized with salmonella from kissing frogs

The Disney film ‘The Princess and the Frog’ is about the really important things in life. However some kids learned another lesson after watching the movie…

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There’s a Town in Italy that doesn’t get sunlight for 84 days a year.

There’s a Town in Italy that doesn’t get sunlight for 84 days a year. They’ve solved this problem with a giant mirror:

Call it the reverse Montgomery Burns scheme. The little town of
Viganella is located amidst the Italian side of the Alps. During the
winter time, the shift in the sun’s pattern makes it so that it never
clears the 1600 feet tall mountain that’s close to the town. This means
that for 84 days, they do not get any
sunlight. The townspeople end up suffering from Seasonal Affective
Disorder, a type of mild depression.

To solve this, the
government installed a massive mirror on the side of the mountain. It
measure 26×16 feet and is computer controlled to follow the trajectory
of the Sun. The result is that starting in 2006, the town was able to
celebrate the first winter sun in 600 years!

There’s a Town in Italy that doesn’t get sunlight for 84 days a year.

There’s a Town in Italy that doesn’t get sunlight for 84 days a year. They’ve solved this problem with a giant mirror:

Call it the reverse Montgomery Burns scheme. The little town of
Viganella is located amidst the Italian side of the Alps. During the
winter time, the shift in the sun’s pattern makes it so that it never
clears the 1600 feet tall mountain that’s close to the town. This means
that for 84 days, they do not get any
sunlight. The townspeople end up suffering from Seasonal Affective
Disorder, a type of mild depression.

To solve this, the
government installed a massive mirror on the side of the mountain. It
measure 26×16 feet and is computer controlled to follow the trajectory
of the Sun. The result is that starting in 2006, the town was able to
celebrate the first winter sun in 600 years!

A FAKE neighborhood was built in SEATTLE during WORLD WAR II

The destruction of a lesser-known Seattle pseudo-suburb is underway.
This series of a dozen square blocks was lofted forty feet in the air
but, despite looking picture-perfect (a series of pristine streets,
homes, yards and trees) it was never intended for human habitation.

A little anomaly dates back to World War II, this whole fake
neighborhood built atop a Boeing factory south of downtown Seattle,
meant to hide the presence of airplane production facilities below … the
cumulative size of eight football fields.

 Houses, streets and plants were assembled like stage props out of
plywood, clapboard, chicken wire and burlap, covering the plant’s roof
during World War II. If any Japanese bombers made it this far east, the
hope was that their pilots would mistake this for a quiet residential
neighborhood.
 Despite the proximity of faux overhead homes, workers from the plane
plant took an entirely opposite route to get out, heading down instead
of up. Secret underground tunnels to reach nearby and
likewise-camouflaged cafeterias, classrooms and restrooms – images of
people on top were merely staged for a post-construction photo and film
shoot.
 But these would-have-been houses will not go to waste – the reclamation
of remaining materials is in progress. The Duluth Timber Company is
salvaging scraps as well as heavy timber beams from the site before it
is leveled.
 As for the plant itself: it became increasingly outdated (and
structurally dangerous) as decades past, despite being the original home
of many famous Boeing aircraft including the original B-52 bomber and
737 jetliner.

A FAKE neighborhood was built in SEATTLE during WORLD WAR II

The destruction of a lesser-known Seattle pseudo-suburb is underway.
This series of a dozen square blocks was lofted forty feet in the air
but, despite looking picture-perfect (a series of pristine streets,
homes, yards and trees) it was never intended for human habitation.

A little anomaly dates back to World War II, this whole fake
neighborhood built atop a Boeing factory south of downtown Seattle,
meant to hide the presence of airplane production facilities below … the
cumulative size of eight football fields.

 Houses, streets and plants were assembled like stage props out of
plywood, clapboard, chicken wire and burlap, covering the plant’s roof
during World War II. If any Japanese bombers made it this far east, the
hope was that their pilots would mistake this for a quiet residential
neighborhood.
 Despite the proximity of faux overhead homes, workers from the plane
plant took an entirely opposite route to get out, heading down instead
of up. Secret underground tunnels to reach nearby and
likewise-camouflaged cafeterias, classrooms and restrooms – images of
people on top were merely staged for a post-construction photo and film
shoot.
 But these would-have-been houses will not go to waste – the reclamation
of remaining materials is in progress. The Duluth Timber Company is
salvaging scraps as well as heavy timber beams from the site before it
is leveled.
 As for the plant itself: it became increasingly outdated (and
structurally dangerous) as decades past, despite being the original home
of many famous Boeing aircraft including the original B-52 bomber and
737 jetliner.