“Google Immediately Fired All 28 Employees”: 40 Stories And Pics That Prove That Our World Is Strange

"Two firefighters arrived at an accident scene to find everyone safe,

except for one little girl still trembling with fear.

She clutched a few bottles of nail polish in her small hands, eyes wide and tearful.

Instead of talking about the crash, the firefighters knelt beside her.

They asked about her favorite colors.

They let her paint their nails.

Her smile bloomed. The fear faded.

For a few precious minutes, the flashing lights and sirens disappeared.

When they left, their nails were far from regulation,

but painted in the perfect shade of comfort and kindness.

Because sometimes, the greatest rescue isn’t pulling someone from danger.

It’s helping them feel safe again."

In 2011, a 59-year-old man named James Verone robbed a bank. He did so by handing the teller a small note that asked for one dollar. Just one dollar. After receiving his dollar, Mr. Verone sat down and waited for the police to arrive.

Suffering from chronic health problems, Verone had recently lost his job as a delivery driver—and with it, his health insurance. As a result, he could not afford the medical care he needed to survive. He knew that in prison, he would receive the treatment he needed even without insurance, so he committed the robbery simply to stay alive. He was sentenced to one year in prison, during which he received life-saving treatment.

A civilized country should never allow any of its citizens to become so desperate for medical care that they are forced to commit armed robbery just to survive. Charging people exorbitant amounts for the medications and treatments they need merely for profit is an insane injustice

A turkish bee keeper was tired of bears taking all of his bees honey.

He’d tried every type of security system even putting the bees in cages.

He instead decided to allow the bears to become taste testers.

It turned out they were great candidates for this job as they had very specific and refined tastes for honey. They would come each night, and sniff the different honeys, before starting with their favorite one.

He makes great money from this honey now. His top honey sells for $300 for 2 lbs.

In Finland, children read to dogs in libraries - and even to cows on farms - because the animals are calm, attentive listeners who help kids relax and concentrate, with organized programs run by the Finnish kennel club and participating municipalities

You can't store ice in a desert!
Oh yes you can.
The Persians could! Because they had the ingenious yakhchals, the ancient refrigerators!
By 400 BCE, Persian engineers had mastered storing ice in the middle of the desert, in the middle of summer; Yakhchal or "Ice Pit" is an architectural method used to produce ice and preserve food.
A yakchal was dome-shaped with thick brick and clay walls. This construction helped maintain a cold temperature inside the dome. During the winter, water was collected from rivers or melting snow Mountains. This water was directed to yakchals through canals and was distributed in small ponds or pools within the dome. During the night and the coldest hours of the day, the water would freeze due to the low desert temperatures at night. Once frozen, the ice was cut into pieces and stored in the lowest part of yakchal, where the temperature was colder.
The shape of the dome ( often rising as tall as 60 feet tall) and the natural insulation of the walls (made out of a special mortar, composed of sand, clay, egg whites, lime, goat hair, and ash in specific proportions) helped keep the ice frozen for many months. During summer, the stored ice was used to cool drinks, preserve food, or even for medicinal purposes.
In short, the yakchal took advantage of the natural cold of the desert night to create and maintain ice, using simple but effective storage techniques and thermal insulation.
Simply genius!