Amazing Artwork

Over at missourah.com I noticed a post called, "Taking camouflage to a new level." It's about Chinese artist, Liu Bolin. If you haven't seen his work it is definitely worth checking out. Without knowing anything about his pieces, you'd think the photos were just digital special effects. They aren't. Here's one example above. The man in the picture is real, but painted to camouflage him to the point of near invisibility. There is a gallery of his work at Eli Klein Fine Art.

4 Year-Old Boy Finds 4 Million Dollar Treasure

The BBC reports that a four year-old boy in Britain using a metal detector for the first time found a 16th Century gold pendant worth approximately four million dollars. Last year there was an even more spectacular find in the UK where a man with a metal detector located a huge hoard of over 1300 pieces of Anglo-Saxon treasure. This should be great news for British metal detector sales which will probably experience a big surge.

This Woman Would Be Immune to Pepper-Spray

Yesterday an Indian woman, Anadita Dutta Tamuly, set a new world record by eating 51 bhut jolokia chiles in less than two minutes. The bhut jolokia grows in India and is also known as the "ghost chile." It's rated as the hottest chile in the world at over 1,000,000 scoville units. Tamuly finished off the challenge by rubbing her eyes with the pepper seeds.

I like hot food and have had things with habanero chiles in them. Habaneros are 200-300,000 scovilles. They are flaming hot. I wouldn't eat even one of them raw.  I can't imagine a pepper 3-4 times hotter. Mrs. Tamuly would probably laugh if someone emptied an entire canister of pepper spray into her face.

The Running Man

A sixty-five year old Japanese man just set a new world record, running a marathon every day for fifty-two days. Pretty amazing for anyone, let alone a man his age.