Here are some fun facts from real estate to lawns that you never would have guessed to be true.
1. Your new home filled with porcelain.
In Germany and Poland, it is tradition that when a couple gets married, guests break a lot of porcelain. They go to the brides home the night before the wedding and break as much as they can so the couple will have to clean it up together. It is called " Polterabend and is meant to symbolize the struggles the new couple will face as they build a home together.
2. Dead bodies to heat homes?
The Swedes and Danes have come up with a cheaper solution to heat their homes. The Crematoriums their heat up to 2,000 degrees, which is a lot of energy that goes to waste. Someone had the bright idea to then pump that heat into local energy companies where it is disbursed and used to warm homes in the area.
3.Google and Goats
In Mountain View California at the Google headquarters instead of using a lawn mower to keep up their lawn, they rent goats. The goats then maintain the length of the grass to make it presentable.
4. Toilets in Taiwan
A restaurant chain based in Taiwan called Modern Toilet, has a bathroom theme. Customers sit on toilets, sip soups from sinks, and wipe their mouths from toilet paper. The toilets aren't in working form however, you will have something to talk about before the food comes.
5. Housewarming Party
Housewarming parties used to be literally a housewarming. Guests would bring firewood as gifts and they would lite all of the fireplaces in the home. This was used to warm the home, but also to fight off the evil spirits so that the new homeowners will start fresh with no bad energy.
6. Trading a Role for a Home?
Kyle MacDonald made his first trade in July of 2005, a red paperclip, for a fish shaped pen. Less than a year later he traded a film role for a two-story farmhouse in Saskatchewan. Who would have guessed?
7. A Red Front Door
In Scotland, when the homeowners finally pay off their mortgage they paint their front door bright red. A red door is also a sign of inviting positive energy into your home.
8. You Can Buy a Missile Silo
The most popular use of an old silo is to turn it into a home. It may not be pretty on the outside but a little creativity never hurt!
9. Clean Doorknobs
Brass doorknobs have what is called as the oligodynamic effect. The ions in the metal have a toxic effect on fungi and other virus's, eliminating the germs within eight hours.
10. Slide or Stairs?
I bet you wish you grew up here. This New York penthouse includes an 18 foot slide that poses as a centerpiece for the home. While there is a staircase you can choose what route you want to take down to the bottom floor of the home.
11. A Garden to Kill
In England, "The Poison Garden", is a garden dedicated entirely to plants that can kill you and it was inspired for children. The founders thought process behind it was, "I wondered why so many gardens around the world focused on the healing power of plants rather than their ability to kill.. I feel that most children I knew would be more interested in hearing how a plant killed, how long it would take you to die if you ate it, and how gruesome and painful the death might be. " Would you let your child go visit this garden?
12. Birds
Birds have been thought to symbolize imminent death for the home's occupants. If a bird flies into your home, it is thought that death is soon to follow.
13. Earthquake Proof Home
In company founded in Japan has developed a residential earth-quake proofing system that raises a house off it's foundation as far as 3 cm using just air pressure. When an earthquake hits, compressors activate forcing air under the home. The house will levitate until the earthquake ends.
14. TINGO
The people in Easter Island have a word "TINGO" which literally means "to take objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them until there's nothing left." Would you want to live there?
Information brought to you by AOL
No comments:
Post a Comment