17 Magical Houses Taken Straight From A Fairy Tale

It’s often said that home is where the heart is, but I’m sure that most of us would easily fall in love with these fairytale cottages and leave our old homes behind in a heartbeat.

What goes in to making a fairytale cottage? First of all, it’s clear that you need a rural setting, preferably a forest with witches and wolves or fairies and elves hiding behind every tree and rock.

Then there’s the cottage itself. Some of these are based on historical styles while others feature fantastic designs found only in their creators’ imaginations. However, even the ones with realistic architectural elements still stand with one foot in reality and the other in a fairy tale.

Arguably the most interesting cottages among these, however, are the ones that are most committed to the realm of fantasy. Wild and strange curves, ornate forms, curling roofs and little stone pathways are what truly make a cottage look like it was torn from the pages of a fairy tale!

Hobbit House In Wales, UK

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Fairy Tale Cottage in Canada

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Three Story Treehouse in British Columbia, Canada

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Nautilus House in Mexico





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Hobbit House in New Zealand

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The Seashell House in Mexico









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Rustic Way Whimsical House in Minnesota



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Dome Home in Thailand



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Stone House in Portugal

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Akebono Kodomo-no-mori Park in Japan

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Forest House in Netherlands

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Abandoned Wooden House in Russia

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Tiny Victorian Cottage in the Catskills, New York




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Crazy House in Vietnam

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Traditional House in Iceland

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Maison de Sorcière Avec Ciel d’orage in France

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Tea House Tetsu in Yamanashi, Japan

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STRANGE AND FUNNY COMPUTER FACTS

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT COMPUTERS, SERVER, LAPTOPS :

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.

If u opened up the case of the original Macintosh, u will find 47 signatures
one for each member of Apple's Macintosh divison as of 1982.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

The computer in your cell phone has more processing power than all the computers in the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander that put 2 men on the moon.

The popular programming language COBOL was invented by Admiral Grace Hopper, the first female admiral in the US Navy.

An Amd 1400 chip running without a heatsink gets as hot as 370 degrees.

Macquariums are aquariams made from old macintosh computers.

Hard drives in the near future are expected to have a track density of 

about 100,000 tracks/inch.This means that tracks are spaced 10 millionths
of an inch apart.

One terabyte(1000 gigabytes) is equivalent to storing a stack of
documents that is more than 16 times the height of New York's empire
state building.

The 4004 was the first microprocessor of intel.

The nVidia GeForce 6800 ultra has 222 million transistors which is the
record for the max. no. transistors on a chip.

What does 50 G.B of storage really mean?It means we can stack 3 piles of
single spaced type written pages taller than the Eiffel tower and data to
support this information is about 50 gigabytes.

The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the IBM pc was :-
'The dirty dozen'.

128 bit SSL encryption is so strong that it would take much , much longer than the age of universe to crack a message encrypted using it.Even 20 years from now, if computers are a million times faster. it would still take longer than the age of the universe to crack it.

Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 1 microinch while:- A red blood cell is 300 microinches is diameter.
-- A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 microinches.
-- A particle of smog is 100 microinches.
-- A human hair is 4000 microinches

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT IT PROFESSIONALS / COMPANIES 

Bill Gates' Hse was designed using a Macintosh computer !!! - Bill Gates LOL ;)

Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'! --- ;) lol

Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000.

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

Bill Gates dropped out of college (Harvard) before founding Microsoft.

The first computer company to register for a domain name was digital
equipment corporation.

Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

The four largest software makers in the world are:-
(a) Microsoft
(b) Adobe
(c) Sap
(d) Computer Associates.
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STRANGE FACTS ABOUT INTERNET :

80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.

There are approximately 1,319,972,109 people on the Internet.

On eBay, there are an average of $680 worth of transactions each second.

There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.

The first banner advertising was used in 1994.

E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.

One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.

By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected to the Internet.

For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.

Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT KEY BOARD AND TYPEWRITERS 

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.

The Dvorak keyboard is more efficient than QWERTY. 20 times faster, in fact. !!! Amazing Even then QWERT is popular ??? ha ha lol.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
On an average work day, a typist's fingers travel 12.6 miles.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT COMPUTER GAMES 

The most expensive game ever developed was "ShenMue" for sega dreamcast.It costs $20 million.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT SOFTWARES, STRANGE SOFTWARES 

In 1971, the first speech recognition software named, "Hearsay" was developed in India.

STRANGE FACTS ABOUT HARD DISK, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-DVD-WRITERS

Disk drive recording head fly height (gap between the head and disc when the drive is spinning ) is less than 

1 microinch while:- A red blood cell is 300 micro inches is diameter.
-- A particle of tobacco smoke is 250 micro inches.
-- A particle of smog is 100 micro inches.
-- A human hair is 4000 micro inches.

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AMAZING FUNNY FACTS YOU NEVER KNOW

SOME DAY TO DAY FUNNY, STRANGE FACTS - OF LIFE:

> A person cannot fold a piece of paper in half more than 8 times.  

> There are just over 300 million cell phones used daily
in the United States alone.

> A shrimp's heart is in its head.

> Natural pearls will melt in vinegar. 

> An olive tree can live up to 1500 years. 

> Cleopatra married two of her brothers. 

> Ants can't shut their eyes. 

> On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament Building looks like an American flag.> Men's shirts have the buttons on the right, while women shirts have the buttons on the left. 

> Chewing gum will help reduce tears when cutting an onion. 

> The day after thanksgiving is the busiest day for plumbers in the U.S. 

> Coffee beans are not beans at all, rather fruit pits. 

> Fortune cookies were invented in America in 1918, by Charles Jung. 

> Scuba divers cannot pass gas at depth deeper than 33 feet. 

> The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion then, to shave them off. 

> The average American consumes enough caffeine in one year to kill a horse.

> A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50 cm (20 in) tongue.

> The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in Bible.
> Sharks are immune to all known diseases. 
> The majority of suicides occur on a Monday.- It is a fact, everyone HATES Mondays. 

> The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets - now that's a lot of babies!

> If you keep a goldfish in the dark, it will eventually turn white. 

> On average, people who use their right hand live 9 years longer than people who use their left. 

> The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. 

> It is physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.

> Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

> A snail can sleep for three years.

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Meet The World’s Most Handsome Security Guard

Everyone is hot in Brazil—even security guards. Guilherme Leao, the Internet’s new favorite attractive person, protects the subways in Sao Paolo, presumably by distracting evil-doors with his smoldering eyes and cut chest. The 22-year-old brunet was voted “Hottest Guard” on tourism site Veja São Paulo and now takes selfies with excited out-of-towners.

At first his girlfriend was ticked off. “At first she didn’t like it one bit and became jealous,” says Leao. “But I told her I’m not guilty of anything. Now she thinks it’s cool.”

But he loves all his new fans and uploads selfies for them to enjoy:

Add Him on Instagram

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Top 10 Amazing Facts About Dreams

This afternoon I had a (very rare) nap. During that nap I had a lucid dream (most of which I no longer remember). As I was waking up, I was thinking about my dream and thought that it would be a great idea to write a list about dreams for the site. So, here are the top 10 amazing facts about dreams.

10. Blind People Dream

People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body’s need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.

9. You Forget 90% of your Dreams

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

Down to a sunless sea.

Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

8. Everybody Dreams

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women. In addition, both men and women experience sexually related physical reactions to their dreams regardless of whether the dream is sexual in nature; males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow.

7. Dreams Prevent Psychosis

In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM sleep the student’s brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage. [Source]

6. We Only Dream of What We Know

Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad’s car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

5. Not Everyone Dreams in Color

A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident. It is unknown whether the impact of a dream relating to violence or death is more emotionally charged for a person who dreams in color than one who dreams in black and white. [Source]

4. Dreams are not about what they are about

If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar. Its like writing a poem and saying that a group of ants were like machines that never stop. But you would never compare something to itself, for example: “That beautiful sunset was like a beautiful sunset”. So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

3. Quitters have more vivid dreams

People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience. Additionally, according to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: “Among 293 smokers abstinent for between 1 and 4 weeks, 33% reported having at least 1 dream about smoking. In most dreams, subjects caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt. Dreams about smoking were the result of tobacco withdrawal, as 97% of subjects did not have them while smoking, and their occurrence was significantly related to the duration of abstinence. They were rated as more vivid than the usual dreams and were as common as most major tobacco withdrawal symptoms.” [Source]

2. External Stimuli Invade our Dreams

This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream. My own experience of this includes repeatedly drinking a large glass of water in the dream which satisfies me, only to find the thirst returning shortly after – this thirst… drink… thirst… loop often recurs until I wake up and have a real drink. The famous painting above (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening) by Salvador Dali, depicts this concept.

1. You are paralyzed while you sleep

Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. According to the Wikipedia article on dreaming, “Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.”

Bonus: Extra Facts

1. When you are snoring, you are not dreaming.

2. Toddlers do not dream about themselves until around the age of 3. From the same age, children typically have many more nightmares than adults do until age 7 or 8.

3. If you are awakened out of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, you are more likely to remember your dream in a more vivid way than you would if you woke from a full night sleep.

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