There is a fake village with fake shops and restaurants that is actually a care home for elderly dementia sufferers in the Netherlands.
7
‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
8
Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
19
The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
7
Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.
9
In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
19