Man
accidentally shoots himself with 50. Caliber gun
The
strange story behind Galileo’s lost tooth.
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A lot of people have enjoyed the satisfaction of shooting a beer
can off of a fence, or watching a watermelon get ripped apart
after several well placed shotgun blasts.
And every one knows that the bigger the gun the more fun it
is to shoot. But safety is always the first rule of any marksmanship.
In this video you can see that a well prepared and experienced
marksman getting ready to fire off a round of a 50. Caliber rifle.
Even though he has taken careful preparations, he has not taken
in consideration the distance of his target, which is an iron
plate. Watch as the 50. Caliber round ricochets back at him, skips
off the ground in front of him, and hits him in the head.
368 years after the death of one of the most important scientific
minds in the world; Galileo Galilei, a small tooth goes on display
at the Galileo museum in Florence Italy along with a thumb, finger,
and other small body parts.
How did Galileo lose his tooth you might ask, and why is it important?
Well here is the strange story behind Galileo’s lost tooth.
Galileo was born on February 15th 1564 in Pisa Italy and spent
most of his life in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. He has
been credited with the discovery of 4 of the largest moons around
Jupiter, the observation of sunspots, practical improvements to
the telescope, inventing a improved military compass, and confirming
Copernicus theory that the earth orbited the sun and was not at
the center of the universe.
However during the pinnacle of his scientific achievements Galileo
found him self to be in trouble with other philosophers, and the
church. After 1610 when he began publicly supporting the heliocentric
view, which placed the sun not the earth at the center of the
universe, he was denounced and brought before the Roman Inquisition.
After Galileo promised to abandon his support for the heliocentric
view, the Catholic Church cleared him of any offence. Later Galileo
reneged on his promise, and published a book defending his views.
He was then brought back before the roman inquisition, and found
“vehemently suspect of heresy,” forced to recant,
and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
Galileo died of old age on January 8th 1642, but that was not
the last time his body would be seen. 95 years later a group of
laymen and masons attended a burial ceremony for Galileo and thought
that having a piece of the man would have been homage to his tradition.
So they cut off some fingers, took a vertebrae, and a tooth from
the dead scientist.
More than 300 years later a art collector unknowingly bought a
finger, thumb, and the tooth along with other historical relics.
When they found out what they had they contacted the Galileo museum.
The remains, along with two telescopes, a compass and a wealth
of other instruments are the main attraction at the refurbished,
and renamed Galileo Museum, which reopened on June 10th after
two years of renovation work.
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Making money with old pennies.
World’s biggest hamburger
The value of the materials used to make pennies
(97.5% zinc, and only 2.5% copper) often fluctuate. The cost of
zinc went up, so the cost to produce a penny went up from .97
cents in 2005 to 1.7 cents in 2007. Since the materials in pennies
cost more than pennies themselves, you might want to try melting
your pennies down and selling the metal for a profit. Of course
this is against the law, if you do this, you could find yourself
in big trouble, and spending 5 years in prison.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian cafe is claiming
a world record after cooking a giant hamburger with an 81 kg (178
lb) patty that took 12 hours to cook and four men to flip.
The monster burger cooked up by Sydney cafe owners,
Joe and Iman El-Ajouz, weighed in at 90 kg in total, eclipsing
the previous record of 84 kg, set in Michigan in the United States.
"Just flipping the patty was the main challenge
for us, but it all went well," Iman El-Ajouz told Reuters.
"My husband had to prepare special metal holders
and a metal plate, he had one at the bottom one at the top, locked
them together and they flipped the burger with that," she
added.
The giant burger contained the giant beef patty,
120 eggs, 150 slices of cheese, 1.5 kg of beetroot, 2.5 kg of
tomatoes and almost 2 kg of lettuce all topped off with a special
sauce on a giant sesame seed bun. It was eaten by employees at
the cafe.
The variety of burger will be on the menu at the
cafe for the next year in order to meet the conditions for a Guinness
world record, but will set hungry patrons back around A$1,500
($1,220).
