Why Do Pilots Say ‘Roger’? Not Everyone in WWII Could Speak English…..

Even if you haven’t heard it in real life, I’m guessing you’ve heard a pilot on TV say “Roger.” I bet you’ve even heard pilots say “Roger Wilco.” Have you ever wondered who Roger Wilco is? And why pilots like to say his name?OK, Hollywood may have complicated it some what, like the example below – we all know what film this came from, don’t we?!Roger Murdock: Flight 2-0-9’er, you are cleared for take-off.Captain Oveur: Roger!Roger Murdock: Huh?Tower...

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10 Hotels Made With Weird Things

1) Card Keys This building was built from 200,000 card keys. Each room and every wall, even the toilets, are made of card keys. The hotel was built by Bryan Berg, who has a world record in building a house of cards. (Link) 2) Containers The Tonghe Shanzi Landscape Design company has built their incredible five star Xiang Xiang Xiang Pray House hotel entirely out of shipping containers! Looking like a drab shipping container...

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10 Weirdest Photos of People Waiting in Line

Did you wait in line for the new iPhone 5 in normal street clothes? Obviously, you don't love Apple enough, because you didn't dress up like this man in Ginza District, Tokyo, Japan. (Link) (Link) Steve Jobs fan waiting for the then released iPhone 4 in October, 2011. (Link) LA fan. (Link) If you've ever been to China, you'll know that waiting in line isn't exactly a habit that everyone...

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9 Coolest Elevators

It seems like a brilliant idea to lift the mood of workers by sticking more than 1,300 Jaffa Cakes to the walls of an office block's lift. However, with the average person's tongue home to billions of bacteria, some will ask if this outlandish stunt really is a good idea.Food technicians and artists took a month to install the unique walls inside the lift of the offices of the communications firm Engine on Great Portland Street, Central London....

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Trendiest Tattoos of 2012

UV Tattoos have always seemed pretty gimmicky to me, until now. Finally a use of the glow in the dark ink that actually makes sense! Done by tattoo artist Kennith Bryan of Intimate Body Art Studios, this is really great work, and I am sure Yoda would approve. In this case, this dedicated Star Wars fan is definitely doing and not trying. (Link | Via) This tattoo is not Photoshopped -it IS Photoshop! Megan Orsi is "the...

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Miniature Model

1. Paris Gerard Brion took up the challenge of building a miniature model of Paris 15 years ago. With 18,000 hours of painstaking work logged, he has crafted a miniature city, known as Le Petit Paris, in his garden in Vaissaic in the South of France out of salvaged items like old concrete blocks, baby food jars and soup tins. 150,000 visitors a year experience over 40 Paris monuments, such as the Champs Elysées, Montmartre, the Seine River,...

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