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Abigail Kingston (30) from Pennsylvania will be the 11th woman in her family to wear a 120-year-old wedding dress, tailored only slightly from its original design. Her great great grandmother Mary Lowry Warren first wore the dress in 1895 and form then, it's been passed on from generation to generation of bridges in the family. - independent.ie Mary Lowery, 1885 Jane Woodruff. 1946 Virginia Woodruff, 1948 Sara Seiler, 1960 Laird MacConnell, 1976 Leslie Kingston, 1977 Janet Kearns, 1982 Jane Ogden, 1986 Virginia Kearns, 1989 Ann Ogden, 1991 Abigail Kingston, 2015 Image Sources : Abigail Kingston via Thesun.co.uk

After 20 years of people sticking their gum to the walls of an alley by Seattle 's Pike Place Market, officials say it is time for a clean-up. image source: christinacooke.com Known as “the gum wall”, the Market announced this week that it will take down the estimated one million pieces of gum from Post Alley. The sticky landmark has become a popular attraction to visitors and locals . Emily Crawford, Acting Marketing & Communications Director at Pike Place Market said: "People were waiting in line to see improv theatre, and I think it started off as improvisation and it caught on over the years and now it's one of Seattle's most visited visitor attractions." Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Source: berksfoods.com A new report brings to light that your hot dog or veggie dog may have an unintended "special ingredient" – human DNA. Clear Food , a food-analysis company, tested 345 hot dogs and sausages. T he report shows that human DNA was present in 2% of the products examined. Furthermore, "Two-thirds of the human DNA samples were vegetarian samples". The report goes on to say that researchers found traces of meat in 10 percent of the "vegetarian" products. Source:  ClearFood.com wpxi.com  

What could possibly be happening, where from these cities in the clouds? Meteorologists say the phenomenon can be a type of mirage called a Fata Morgana According to the Daily Mail , a Fata Morgana is a type of mirage that distort distance objects, and can be can be seen on land or sea. It’s caused when the sun heats up the atmosphere above the land or oceans, which creates a gradient of temperatures. Source:  telegraph.co.uk The air close to the surface is relatively cool and above that, there are layers of warmer air. When light hits a boundary between two layers that are different temperatures – and as a result different densities – it bends and travels at a different angle.

 Montreal inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru broke the world record for the longest hoverboard flight this past May, Duru flew up to five metres above a lake for a distance of 275.9 metres aboard his homemade, propeller-powered hoverboard in a trip that lasted more than 1½ minutes. Now, the 31-year-old Duru and his company, Omni Hoverboards, are working on a secret, next-generation version of the device. Watch as he takes CBC's Reg Sherren into the workshop where he is building it, and then to a Quebec lake where he puts the new prototype to the test for the first time. Source: cbc.ca

Japanese car brand Lexus,  as a 'celebration of craftsmanship', used 1,700 individually shaped cardboard sheets to create a fully functional replica of its IS saloon model.

Apparently it is possible to forget how to ride a bicycle.

Thanks to Trotify, you can enjoy this auditory pleasure while also making your mustachioed hipster friends wildly envious. Trofity is a wooden device that sits on your front wheel and makes your bike clop like a horse. Trofty.com  

Source: dailymail 1. Never be afraid to fail 2. Your greatest fear is non-existent; it is nothing but a mirage. 3. Whenever you fail, regardless of how big the failure may seem to be, always remember that the most important thing in life is life itself 4. Fearing people only creates a snare for yourself 5. We are born and then we die, why live your life doing what makes you miserable. 6. When the week feels like a day and day feels like an hour, take a break ... it is possible you are biting more than you can chew. 7. A person is never satisfied with what he/she loves; vanity will always leave an empty feeling within you. 8. Don't needlessly deprive yourself of sleep/rest for your body will claim it in excess regardless of the consequences. 9. Provide your children with as much happiness you can, so that whenever they are unhappy they will know what to hope for. 10. Talk to someone about your troubles, don't let them weigh you down. 11. Hatred/Anger/Bitterness is l...

Source: imgur.com Chris Mints, the hero that charged the UCC shooter to help save others is doing fine after having surgery to remove 7 bullets. Chris Mintz "tried to protect some people," his aunt Sheila Brown told NBC News in a telephone interview. "We were told he did heroic things to protect some people." She said that Mintz was shot seven times and had been in surgery since the shooting that left 10 dead, including the gunman. Originally from Randleman, North Carolina, Mintz served about 10 years in the Army. He had just started college, Brown said. He was shot in the back, abdomen and hands, and had two broken legs, she added. "We're not sure how his legs got broken," she said. "He was on the wrestling team and and he's done cage-fighting so it does not surprise me that he would act heroically." "It was a great, great shock ... We've all been sitting on pins and needles and praying very hard," Brown said,...