You need to check your pockets before enjoying the “Billionaire’s Soft Serve.” It’s not just an ordinary ice-cream, there’s much goodies added to it to make it so costly.
The Billionaire’s Soft Serve is literally an edible gold, filled with rare luxury goodies, topped with raspberry sorbet macaron which is topped with edible diamonds. To craft one cone it takes 4 hours and that adds to it’s cost.
A chocolate flake covered in a 24 carat gold leaf adds to it’s deliciousness. Also topped with a white Belgian truffle filled caramel sauce and two gelato spheres.
A pipette filled with mango, ginger and passion fruit sauce and a gold chocolate spoon adds to it’s beauty.
With added gold leaves the waffle cone is dipped in rare Madagascan chocolate on which golden pearls are mounted by hand one by one.
Bottom of the cone is filled with a spoonful of caramelised pecans and then the cone is filled thrice with salted caramel gelato.
The ice-cream weights 350gms and it takes more than four hours to craft one cone.
Stan Munro, a big fan of architecture, though not a student has first build a Toothpick City and then a Toothpick World which is in the 2015 Guinness Book of World Records for the tallest toothpick structure: Burj Khalifa, Dubai (16ft.) entirely made out of toothpicks.
Burj Khalifa, Dubai entirely made out of toothpicks. (The tallest toothpick structure)
Stan learned everything through books, the internet, History Channel, and a little something called “8th-Grade Algebra.”
Toothpicking has been a hobby since his 5th grade art teacher brought a toothpick project to the classroom. Stan stayed with it, and almost 30 years later. Stan makes a living at it.
10 years ago, when his wife Suzi was suffering with some kidney liver disease and he had to stay home caring for her, he started toothpicking. In 2006, he sold his first Toothpick City exhibit to a museum in Spain. Suzi is getting better day by day and who is Stan’s inspiration, his muse, and the center of his world. They are located in Syracuse, NY.
He completed Toothpick City 1 (A History of Skyscrapers), which had 50 of the world’s tallest buildings, in 2005.
After its sale he decided to start work on Toothpick City 2 (Towers and Temples) which will have 40 buildings made out of four million toothpicks and 170 litres of glue.
It includes the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, the Eiffel Tower and Notre Dame in Paris, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the Parthenon in Athens.
So far Stan has created more than 100 unique masterpieces consisting famous structures from around the world which are entirely made out of toothpicks.
Toothpick Worldis a traveling exhibit – unlike anyone has seen before. It is a collection of more than 60 famous buildings from around the world–ALL built to the same 1:164 scale, and all out of toothpicks. It can be set up in any configuration, and in a number of different museum spaces. Toothpick World is a sensory experience of engineering, architecture, culture and just plain craziness. It ABSOLUTELY has to be seen to be believed.
In March, 2012, Stan formed Toothpick World, LLC, a traveling exhibit corporation. The purpose of the exhibit is to entertain, educate, and even enlighten, as museum-goers see what one man can do with a little imagination, a whole lot of time, and more than 3 million toothpicks.
Few of his creations are:
Toothpick city I at the Museum of Science and TechnologyFenway Park, Boston, MassachusettsThe Roman ColiseumThe U.S. Nimitz – CVN68 Aircraft carrierLa Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain
Akshardham Temple, IndiaThe Blue Mosque, Istanbul, TurkeyEiffel Tower, ParisInternational Space StationGrand Mosque, Mecca, Saudi ArabiaLeaning Tower of Pisa, ItalyPetronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaStatue of Liberty, New YorkSt. Peter’s Basilica Square, The VaticanThe White House, Washington D.C.Tower Bridge, LondonTaj Mahal, India
Can you imagine someone not being fed and alive? Probably you may think for few days or few months only. But here’s a nature’s miracle that it’s alive even when it’s not been fed with any water or fresh air since last 44 years and it’s a rare phenomenon.
Actually we are talking about this plant which was planted in 1960 by this man, David Latimer from Cranleigh, Surrey. He last fed it in 1972 and stopped thereafter with a desire to experiment the same. But today also these plants are green.
The sealed pot containing the plant has a capacity of 38 liters and it’s deeply filled with the plant now. David is 80 now and it’s been assumed that the plant has developed it’s own ecosystem to stay alive for so many years without even being watered.
It’s surprising to know that in last 53 years this plant is being fed only once in 1972 before tightly sealing it as an experiment. The hardy spiderworts has grown inside to fill the 10 gallon jar surviving entirely on water, nutrients and recycled air.
You must be thinking about some 100s or may be around a 1000 types. But you will be surprised to know the reality of human quality of smelling.
NASA has employed George Aldrich for nearly 40 years as its ‘Chief Sniffer’ to smell every object before they can be flown into a space shuttle. George can smell anything or almost everything.
Aldrich’s team tests nearly all items that astronauts would encounter during their flight including fabric, toothpaste, circuit boards, and the ink on their checklists.
Interestingly, Aldrich can detect more than 10,000 smells. For detailed report view the video below:
Can you imagine to sleep or dine in two countries at the same time?
You might think it to be a dream or an imagination, but it’s true and here’s how?
Have you heard about the unique Arbez Hotel located on the France – Swiss border? The uniqueness of this hotel is that it has some rooms which are located on the border and allows the visitors to stay in two countries at the same time.
In some of the rooms of this hotel, guests can sleep with their heads in France while their feet in Switzerland or vice versa as the border runs right through the hotel ― and in some rooms, it runs right through the beds. While in some cases a bedroom lies in Switzerland and it’s bathroom in France.
The bed in the honeymoon suite is split between the two countries, and another guest room is entirely in Switzerland, though its adjoining bathroom is in France. So you can enjoy the trip to two countries at the same time while staying at this hotel particularly.
The restaurant of the hotel also lies on the border and it features both local French and Swiss cuisine giving it’s visitors a special experience where you can benefit from two cultures and traditions.
Diego González/Fronterasblog.com
At the dining room at Hotel Arbez you can eat in Switzerland or France — or both if you sit at this table.
The hotel’s website reads as “Two nations sleep in the same bed and eat at the same table.”
To read more on how this hotel came to exist in the first place click here.
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