You normally wouldn’t expect a golf club to be a normal photographer’s tool lying around the gallery. Unless you happen to be setup for taking high-speed photographs of eggs, fortune cookies, jello, christmas decoration and many other things being destroyed by that wood driver of yours at a few thousand frames per second. Knuttz’s Stuff, another in the long-list of college humor sites, has a 3 page photo collection of strange objects being hit, dropped and shot during various high-speed photo sessions thoughout the past few years. Bah, egg yolks are gross to begin with, but seeing one destroyed at a few thousand FPS looks even worse.

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Aspiring dictators call up your agents cause your perfect home has just come onto the market in the Pacific Northwest and for only $595,000! For that price you get a lovely and conspicuous 3 bedroom / 1.5 bath 1900 square foot suburban home that hides what could be one of the creepiest / coolest things I’ve seen in awhile. The previous owners have built-in a four (4) story underground dungeon, fully furnished and completely stocked to act as both a bomb/nucleur shelter or as a normal extension of the home. The fortress is 4 levels deep (45 feet down, below sea-level), adding an extra 1600 square feet of living area and hundreds more square feet of passages and secret rooms. The walls are 3 feet thick 5-bag concrete (20% denser than normal concrete) and give the owner 5 “known” ways of reaching the dungeon, through false doorways, secret passages and drop chutes. The dungeon is also fully furnished and has a completely functional air-circulation system, a giant diesel-powered generator, a 4-pump system to keep the dungeon dry in case of flooding, a 1-ton blast door and a 3-ton motorized door that seals you in from the outside world. My mind, it is a blown.

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To be filed in the “when hell freezes over” category, India’s highest court last week demanded that Coca-Cola, along with PepsiCo, supply details of it’s chemical composition and ingredients, after a study there claimed they both contained high levels of pesticides. According to the report, the amount of pesticide residue contained within the soda has grown more than 25 times the amount found 3 years ago in a similar study performed by Indian researchers. The two companies are regular targets for politicians in India, who regard western food products as a threat to Indian heritage and aren’t too happy with the two companies’ relative monopoly of the Indian soft-drink market. It’s highly doubtful that either company will reveal their recipes, so really all anyone can do is sit-back and see if Indian officials are able to actually pass a law banning the sale of the two largest soda-brands on the planet (or see how thick the envelopes full of cash handed to them will be). According to some reports from Coca-Cola, the only two people in the world with access to the bank vault containing Coke’s secret recipe aren’t even allowed to travel on the same aircraft together. The last time a report like this surfaced, schools banned cola sales and Coke’s sales dropped by 11% in the subsequent financial quarter.

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Prior to 1980, Lake Peigneur in Louisiana was a sleepy 11 feet shallow fresh-water lake, that was until oil conglomerate Texaco made a major drilling error while exploring the lake for oil deposits. Below the lake happened to be a giant salt mine, which, unbeknownst to the miners, was about to be punctured by the oil drilling platform above. Although not proven, evidence points to a miscalculation by the Texaco drilling team, which resulted in the drilling of a small hole through the salt mine ceiling, causing a violent chain reaction as the fresh water lake began rapidly draining into the mine, which soaked up the water almost as fast as it drained in. On the surface of the lake, a violent whirlpool formed which caused several barges, many trees and large portions of the surrounding terrain to be sucked into the mine. The mine was actually so large that it sucked the lake water in completely, which actually caused the flow reversal of the Delcambre canal, which drained to the Gulf of Mexico. The lake began refilling with salt-water, temporarily creating the largest waterfall in Louisiana (at 100-150 feet) and drastically changing the lake’s biology by introducing new species of plants and salt-water marine life to fill the now 1,300 feet deep salt-water lake.

Watch the video documentary after the jump…

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Steve Silverman, a high-school science teacher in Albany, New York has an interesting hobby. While not teaching Physics, Earth Science or Computer Science, Steve collects and documents strange and ‘useless’ information, posting them online or compiling books on the subjects of strange and interesting. There are quite a few interesting and just plain odd stories up here, for instance, I never knew PEZ was invented in Vienna, Austria (go Wien!) nor did I ever hear of the board of education member who wired a grade school with 500 pounds of explosives, killing many of the teachers and students, all because he was upset over this taxes being raised for said school’s construction. There’s also the story of Hiroo Onada, the Japanese soldier in the jungles of the Philippines who didn’t believe that Japan had surrended during WWII. Him and 3 other members of his platoon carried out gorilla attacks on the residents of the small island of Lubang for almost 30 years before being convinced that Japan had indeed surrended. Yikes. Anyways, I love useless information like this and it’s great to see these stories being passed down throughout the generations. Good job Steve.

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