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Mildly Interesting

The first line in this news story is so dramatic

There’s a giant 26-foot-tall Knife Angel sculpture in the UK, built entirely out of 100,000 donated knives. But besides the impressive statistics, it’s also a monument built out of morbid necessity to remember the victims fallen to the increasing knife violence in the United Kingdom and to finally acknowledge that there is a real problem. (Via BoredPanda)

Real life Quick Time Event

This swimming eel-robot was made by a Norwegian company called Eelume. The idea is that they’ll develop these robots to live on the seafloor, cleaning and keeping check on undersea equipment and performing simple tasks like tightening loose valves with their clamp-like mouths. (Source)

Simulation of what you would see if you fell into a Black Hole. I’m unsure if this is accurate but this gif is terrifying. (Source)

Also, due to the tidal forces, you will stretched along the direction falling into the black hole and compressed in the orthogonal directions. This is called spaghettification.

Drinking Tea by Lei Xue

This car is over 80 years old. It’s a Mercedes-Benz SSK. Commissioned by Count Trossi, the SSK recalls an era when cars were custom-built works of art. (Source)

This house that looks like it’s straight out of a Tim Burton movie is located in Zürich, Switzerland

Taking things that don’t belong to you. (Source)