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Braille is on of the most important ways that visually impaired individuals acquire their information. The problem is that it is hard to find braille books due to the high costs involved to published them compared to common books. But now technology is improving day by day and many of the innovations are being planned [...]

With just some Red Food Color, you can make your friends go mad..

via : Funlok

Macro photography is close-up photography; the classical definition is that the image projected on the “film plane” (i.e., film or a digital sensor) is close to the same size as the subject. Generally, that kind of close-up picture will reveal details that can’t be seen with our naked eye. Photo via FoodMate Photo via Wired [...]

Here are the shots of some moments in sports when you simply get caught in an awkward position on camera. via : The 7 Wonders, Funtasticus and Bling It

Four guys were at deer camp. They had to bunk two to a room. No one wanted to room with Daryl because he snored so badly. They decided it wasn’t fair to make one of them stay with him the whole time, so they voted to take turns. The first guy slept with Daryl and [...]

Born in 1860, Fanny Mills was the daughter of English immigrants who settled near Sandusky, Ohio. She had a condition called Milroy disease, which restricts development of the lymph vessels in the legs and causes fluid build-up. Fanny was a petite woman who weighed but 115 pounds, yet she wore size 30 shoes, each pair [...]

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Twinkle Dwivedi, 13, has a disorder which means she loses blood through her skin without being cut or scratched. The teenager has had to undergo transfusions after pints of it seeped through her eyes, nose, hairline, neck and the soles of her feet. The teenager’s condition developed when she was 12 when she suddenly started [...]