There’s an abandoned fake Disney Land in China!

What was intended to be Asia’s largest theme park is now possibly the “Scariest Place on Earth.” In 1998, the Reignwood Group (a Thai-owned property developer) began plans to re-create Wonderland on 120 acres in Chenzhuang, China. But by 2000, the deal collapsed as developers, the Government and farmers could not agree on the land’s value. 

Reignwood abandoned construction and moved onto projects of golf courses and luxury hotels. Now, rather than children and costumed character, the skeletal “Cinderella’s Castle” is surrounded by fields of corn. Attempts to give new life to this project in 2008 also failed. 

  The project intended to reap profits from a growing middle class with unprecedented amounts of time and money on their hands. Now, the dystopian Disneyland is fairly easy to visit if you are China’s more adventurous tourist. 

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Canada's money is plastic and smells like Maple Syrup!

The new $100 and $50 bills that the Bank of Canada started circulating recently are made of more durable plastic, instead of those made of more traditional paper. They're a little bit more expense (they cost ¢19 instead of ¢10 per bill to make) but they have an expected life that is 2 and a half times longer than the traditional bills they replace.

The bills will also aid Canada battle counterfeiting. The polymer that they're made of is more difficult to fake. They have new holographic security measures, including one in the shape of a maple leaf. As an added bonus, they also smell like maple syrup and they're recyclable, meaning they will have a lower environmental impact than the prior bills.

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UPDATE: Based on some of your comments below, and some more digging, we've found this video of a newscast that talks about the Maple Syrup smell. Some people in it say they smell the Maple, others say it's just a rumor, and through the power of suggestion, people believe that the bill smells like something it doesn't. I've never seen that much Canadian money all at once in my life, so I'll let you guys watch and decide

Finland will soon have an Angry Birds theme park!

Those little birds seem to be taking over everything in the last few months. Their most recent conquest is a new Angry Birds Land in Finland's Sarkanniemi Adventure Park! The area has 12 rides, an adventure course and themed food outlets.

Unlike the counterfeit Magic Kingdom in China, the game makers, Rovio, helped the theme park come up with the experience. Of course, since they're working so closely with the game, you'll be able to play Angry Birds in special demo pods, and meet and greet the red bird, the blue bird or the nasty pigs.

Check out more pictures at the source, and tell us in the comments: if you could get a theme park made of your favorite videogame, which one would it be? For me, it would definitely be a Super Mario theme park.

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A man once wrestled a bear, was left for dead, and crawled over 200 miles back to his hometown!

Not much is known about Hugh Glass, but he is famous for being mauled by a bear. He was an American fur trapper in the early 1800s. Glass was scouting for an expedition in 1823 when he stumbled upon a grizzly bear with her two cubs. The bear charged Glass, picked him up, and threw him to the ground before he could gather his rifle. He got up and repeatedly stabbed the grizzly while it clawed him over and over again. 

Glass managed to kill the bear with the help of his two partners, but was badly wounded and unconscious by the end of the ordeal. Convinced that he wouldn't live, his superior had Glass's two partners stay with him until he died and then have him buried. 

The partners ended up taking Glass's things and running off, because they said some Indians arrived. Glass regained consciousness, though, with a broken leg, wounds on his back exposing his ribs, and abandoned without any equipment or weapons. He was 200 miles from the nearest town, Fort Kiowa. 

Glass set his own leg and covered himself with the bear hide. He laid his wounded back on a rotting log and allowed the maggots to eat his dead flesh to keep from getting gangrene. 

Glass crawled to the Cheyenne River and made a raft to float on. He made it to Fort Kiowa and began his recuperation. He then set out to get his revenge on the two partners that abandoned him. He ended up sparing one, because he was so young and the other because he'd joined the army. He did, however, get his lost rifle back. What a man! 

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Tupac Shakur was a ballet dancer.

You may know Tupac Shakur as the late rapping legend of the late 80s and early 90s, but what you may not know is that he used to do ballet! Tupac was attracted to acting at a young age. He became a member of the 127th Street Ensemble, a Harlem based Theatre Company. 

When he grew older, he attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he took acting and dancing classes, including ballet. It was there, in Baltimore, that he discovered rap and began getting into performing as a rapper. You can read his biography at the source

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