INTERESTING


BUG ARTS
Los Angeles Artist Steven Kutcher uses insects as living paint brushes. He takes flies, cockroaches, and beetles in his hand and adds paint onto each leg, one leg at a time. He then releases them onto a prepared canvas, allowing them to create a trial of color. To ensure his insects come to no harm, he always uses water based, nontoxic paints that wash off easily. 

SHELL SHOCK
An elderly lady in England used a live German World War 1 artillery shell, which could have exploded at any time, as a doorstep for 20 years. The 7 in long (18 cm) device had been collected by Thelma Bonnett's grandfather in 1918 while he served with the Merchant Navy. Thelma had used it as an ornament for decades in her home in Paignton, Devon. However, a neighbor sounded the alarm in 2007, after which bomb disposal experts were called in to the home to deal with the shell, which was packed with explosives and had its mechanism primed to fire. 


SNAKE'S TEE
When a python was taken to a wildlife sanctuary near Brisbane, Australia, with four bumps in its belly, veterinarians were amazed to see four golf balls show up on an x ray. The snake had swallowed the balls after apparently mistaking them for chicken eggs. Unable to pass the golf balls naturally, the snake underwent a successful operation to remove them and was later released back into the wild. 


BOWLING ALLEY
Italian archaeologists working in Egypt have found an indoor bowling alley that is nearly 2000 year old. A large room, with a shallow lane running into a pit and two heavy stone balls lying nearby, was found at an ancient site that lies 55 mi (88 km)  south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo. 

CANNED FISH
A fish caught off the coast of Iceland in 2007 was wearing a tin can that had grown into its flesh. The fish must have looked into the can and become partly trapped. When fishermen first spotted the hailbut, they thought it was wearing tribal jewelry. 

WRAPPED UP
A Kenyan air passenger flying home from China in 2007 was found to be wearing more than 100 items of men's and women's clothing. He told officials that he had been worried about being charged for carrying excess luggage. 

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