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Sofie Tate, aged 18, was born with a birth defect that means she has just one leg. So after she graduated high school she thought her cheerleading career was over — until she was talent spotted by a university coach. Terry Lange, Nebraska…
#1. For the happy camper: BioLite CampStove. The BioLite Camp Stove uses the heat from your campfire to generate electricity, which means you can charge your gadgets in the great outdoors. How else can you live tweet your hunter-gatherer experience?…
If you consider yourself a foodie, here are 20 great films to fuel your fire. #1. Chef. By the end, this movie will give you high hopes of starting your own food truck. #2. Hundred Foot Journey. Guys, it’s Helen Mirren…
In a bid to encourage people to appreciate art — instead of just taking pictures of it for Facebook — Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum museum has implemented a “ban” on cameras and phones, instead urging visitors to sketch artwork at the museum. “In today’s world…
If you’re still baking regular round cookies, you need to up your game: Etsy store Copypastry is 3D-printing cookie cutters allowing bakers to eat their own faces (finally!). Budding bakers can simply upload a photo of choice and enjoy custom cookie…
Forget Kim Kardashian — Android’s latest advert is quite literally breaking the internet with its insanely adorable clips of unlikely animal friends. Set to Roger Miller’s ‘Oo-De-Lolly’ (Disney fans will remember it from Robin Hood), “Friends Furever” is a tale…
Our lives have previously been enriched with flower beard and, last Christmas, men attached baubles to their beards to introduce festivity to their facial fuzz. So what’s the latest fabulous trend in beard world? Introducing… Glitter beards! They come in a range…
Following the Paris attacks, officials conducting anti-terror raids around Belgium asked for “social media silence” to keep potential suspects in the dark. Witty Belgians rose to the challenge purr-fectly, swamping the hashtag #BrusselsLockdown with — what else? — pictures of…
Rescuing retired battery hens and giving them a new home is one thing, but Nicola Congdon, aged 25, from Cornwall, UK, has found a unique way of offering her feathered friends a little extra comfort. Nicola found that her ex-battery…
An exasperated Vietnamese-Australian man called Phuc Dat Bich has shared a photo of his passport on Facebook after being banned from the site several times. Phuc Dat Bich, 23, told Facebook followers that he finds it “highly irritating” that “nobody seems to believe…
When Jeanean Thomas took her 6-year-old daughter Peyton to the skate park, both were nervous of the group of young boys swearing and smoking there. But one boy approached Peyton and, to Jeanean’s amazement, started teaching her young daughter how to…
Instead of expecting expensive wedding gifts like many brides, Leigh Clark asked friends and family to spread a little love around the local community. And the results were incredible. Leigh told the Huffington Post: “The world had given us something we both spent a lifetime…
November 19th was World Toilet Day, raising awareness of the 2.4 billion people who still don’t have access to proper sanitation and clean water. It’s a fundamental human right, but around the world people suffer disease as a result of poor quality (or…
Archeologists digging on the Menemonee Reservation in Wisconsin, US, unearthed this clay pot — which was carbon dated to around 1165AD — jam-packed with seeds. Archaeologists get pretty excited about pots. But pots with things in?! Jackpot. The pot had been buried containing ancient…
What happens when Snapchat meets classic art at the Louvre? Well, some pretty hilarious captions appropriate to the modern age. Hands off, wench. They’re the work of a BoredPanda user who recently visited the famous Louvre museum in Paris, France. Famous French cuisine. Where, oh where did they…
Calling himself “the world’s first and most famous ‘Snow Artist’”, Simon Beck spends 5-12 hours walking with nothing but snow shoes and ski poles to create his incredible geometric snow art. Simon made his first artwork in 2004. After a…