Odd News
Two bees ‘work together’ to open bottle
Another video that had gone viral online is that of two bees working together to unscrew the cap off a plastic bottle.
The video was filmed in Brazil’s Sao Paulo, according to licensing agency ViralHog, and it has surprised people across the world.
In the 10-second-long clip, the two bees sat on opposite sides of the plastic cap and rotate it to unscrew it from the bottle. Once the cap had been loosened, they simply used their front legs to push it off the bottle.
“The video was recorded during my lunch break from work. I got a soda from a customer but soon the bees stole it,” the person who recorded the video was quoted as saying by ViralHog.
“Well, that’s it for humanity. We’ve had a decent run but if bees have mastered the screw-top lid I think this is the beginning of the end,” a Twitter user said while sharing the video.
“Incredible documentation of their intelligence. When they can actually unscrew the cap… that’s when we should be scared,” another person wrote. – ndtv.com
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
