Penny Harvest Field at Rockefeller Center

Every year New York City children from participating schools collect pennies from family, friends and neighbors. These pennies don’t make their way into piggy banks or Lincoln coin collections. Instead, the children put their pennies together and they’re literally trucked to the Penny Harvest Field, an enormous and specially designed penny-holding structure in Rockefeller Center.

It’s here where the children can see the massiveness of their collection and can better grasp how their combined efforts and hard work will pay off for charities they’ll later select.

LARGEST BEAVER DAM SEEN FROM SPACE

The dam in northern Canada spans 2,800 feet and has likely been under beavers' construction since the mid-1970s.

THE GIST

• A beaver dam in Canada's Wood Buffalo National Park spans about 2,800 feet.
• Several generations of beavers have worked on the dam since the mid-1970s and it's still growing.
• It surpasses a previous record-sized beaver dam in Montana.

A Canadian ecologist has discovered the world's largest beaver dam in a remote area of northern Alberta, an animal-made structure so large it is visible from space.

Researcher Jean Thie said Wednesday he used satellite imagery and Google Earth software to locate the dam, which is about 850 meters (2,800 feet) long on the southern edge of Wood Buffalo National Park.

Average beaver dams in Canada are 10 to 100 meters long, and only rarely do they reach 500 meters.

First discovered in October 2007, the gigantic dam is located in a virtually inaccessible part of the park south of Lac Claire, about 190 kilometers (120 miles) northeast of Fort McMurray.

Construction of the dam likely started in the mid-1970s, said Thie, who made his discovery quite by accident while tracking melting permafrost in Canada's far north.

"Several generations of beavers worked on it and it's still growing," he said.

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लंबे समय तक सोने की बात सामने आते ही हमारे जेहन में प्रसिद्घ हिंदू धर्म ग्रंथ 'रामायण' के एक पात्र कुंभकरण का नाम आता है। लेकिन हममे से ‌शायद ही किसी ने कुंभकरण को देखा होगा। इंग्लैंड की 15 वर्षीय स्टैसी कॉमरफोर्ड की अप्रैल में आंख लग गई थी, जो अब पिछले सप्ताह खुली है। लगातार दो महीने तक सोते रहने की वजह से स्टैसी की परीक्षा छूट गई और वह अपना जन्मदिन नहीं मना सकी। 
 
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The Killer Plants

Top 10 Things You Can’t Know

No-one can truly be a know-it-all, because quite frankly, we are not allowed to know everything. And the government makes sure of it; this is done via a series of secrecy and privacy laws which tend to differ from country to country, but largely remain the same. Of course it is our right as citizens to know as much as we can, to keep those government blinds slanted open by all means necessary (such as via the Freedom of Information Act – a.k.a. the best friend of any journalist stuck on the local government beat). While that may be, there are certain bits of info that with be unarguably sealed off and “For Your Eyes Only.” Here are ten of those best kept secrets.

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Trade Secrets

Secret: Trade Secrets

This is a very necessary legal provision. After all, healthy competition is fundamental to a capitalistic society and making sure companies keep locked up what exactly gives them a leg up ensures that the market isn’t flooded with cheap imitators. In that way, monopolies are also guaranteed. For instance, if anyone ever managed to ascertain Coca Cola’s secret formula, Coca Cola would no longer be the #1 cola in the world, as you could just make it at at home in your bathtub for much less (although with possibly more floating hairs and bits of soap scum). Everything Coke has worked for from the ground up to accomplish in the last hundred plus years would have been unrightfully negated. These laws preserve integrity as much as they might be less in favor of the common man.

Is Rupert the world's mightiest moggy?

Is Rupert the world's mightiest moggy? Mammoth cat weighs in at 20lb... and he's still growing

At three times the size of the average cat, most would think giant pet Rupert has done enough growing for now.

But the super-sized feline, who at 20lbs (9kg) could claim to be one of the world's biggest cats, is only half grown and set to gain more weight.

The giant breed Maine coon is only half its possible size at nearly three years old, and is expected to put on another 11lbs.

Larger than life: Natalie Chettle holds her mother's giant cat Rupert over her head