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Nostalgic Video: Whatever happened to the rotary dial telephone?

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Today’s youngsters will never know what it was like to place a phone call before the invention of push button phones and smartphones with touchscreens.

If you’re old enough to remember using a rotary dial telephone you probably remember what it was like to dial each number manually and then have to wait for the dial to return to its original position before you could dial the next number.  [Read more…]

Video: Man builds the thinnest street-legal car

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Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. I can’t even conceive of some of the creations people can come up with, let alone build them myself.

I really enjoy seeing someone take a normal, everyday object and transform it into something completely different.

Watch the short video below and you’ll see a man take a normal full-sized car and turn it into a vehicle that he can barely fit inside of. It’s different, it’s cute and it’s apparently street-legal! Check it out.  [Read more…]

Video: DIY Weed-Free Driveways and Sidewalks

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Do you have an asphalt or concrete driveway or sidewalk that has unsightly weeds growing in the cracks and expansion joints?

If you do I’m guessing that you find them quite irritating. I have that very situation going on right now in my own driveway so I recently went looking for an inexpensive solution.  [Read more…]

Video: The world’s most colorful birds

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My dad and mom used to love to sit and watch the little birds dine at the feeders they had placed outside their home. And truth be told, I sort of enjoy watching them myself.

Our world is blessed with countless species of colorful creatures, and our feathered friends are surely leading the way.

If you also enjoy watching birds you’ll probably love the short 20 minute video below because it showcases some of the most colorful birds on the entire planet. They won’t all live in your neck of the woods, but they are all quite beautiful and extremely intriguing.  [Read more…]

Did you know Florida’s highest ‘peak’ is just 345 feet above sea level?

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As you probably know, Florida is a pretty large state in terms of land area.

In fact, at 65,758 square miles, the Sunshine State is actually larger than over half of the other 49 US states.

But truth be told, as large as it is, the entire land mass of Florida is just barely sticking its “head” above the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

Yes, I know that’s an exaggeration, but just just barely. Consider this…  [Read more…]