Kids in a Thai village wanted to play soccer. They didn't have a place to practice, so they built a floating wooden pitch themselves!

The village is set on a lake surrounded by a beautiful set of mountains and forests. However, this means that the tiny villages didn't have enough flat space around to practice and play soccer. They watched it on TV and they loved it, but were never able to play. 

Some of the kids decided they wanted to form a team and figured out how to fix their space issue. They collected old wood, a couple old barges, and fishing net. After school they worked on their wooden soccer field. It was small and had nails sticking out everywhere. The ball fell into the water constantly and so did the boys. They got really good at their footwork, though, due to the small space and got really good at playing on a slippery surface.

They ended up playing in a tournament on the mainland and got to the semifinals. They lost by one point, but the village got really excited and they were able to build a nice soccer field. Their team is now regarded as one of the best in South Asia. They’ve even won the youth soccer championships from 2004-2010!

There’s an office building in Fukushima with a highway running through it!

The building is in downtown Osaka, Japan and was finished in 1992. It has 16 above ground floors and another 2 below ground. The highway passes through the fifth and seventh floors of the building. So, the elevator doesn’t stop on either floors, because the highway is the only occupant. The elevator goes straight from the fourth floor to the eighth floor.

It was made possible to cohabitate buildings and highways in a 1989 permit that allowed for a “multi-level road system. The reason the road was constructed like this is because there were 2 different groups that had permits to build. One had a permit for the actual building, and there was another that had already planned the highway. After much negotiation, they decided on this alternative so that they could both get something out of the land. 

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Koala bears have a two pronged penis!

This is not to be confused with having two penises. It's rather, a bifurcated penis. A bifurcated penis separates into two columns thus having two ends. It isn't exclusive to Koalas either. All male marsupials except for the two largest species of kangaroos have bifurcated penises. Think of the reason why that might be the case... 

Yes, that means the females have two vaginal openings. Some other interesting marsupial facts: Echidnas, native to Australia, have a four headed penis. Only two of the heads are used during mating, though. The other two “shut down” and don’t grow during sex. The echidna swaps out its penises each time it mates

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A river in Thailand randomly shoots red fireballs into the air. No one knows why.

About 70 - 100 km downstream from Vientiane, capital of Laos, the Mekong River does something really strange. At night, the river produces red fireballs that rise up into the air and disappear without making any noise. The balls are usually small, but some have been observed to be the size of basketballs. While it might seem mysterious and remote to most of us, the area along the river is heavily populated with homes and roads, and people have gotten used to it.

People from the area confirm to witnessing the fireballs their whole life and that their parents and grandparents did too. So far there is no scientific explanation for the phenomenon. There are, however, myths about the fireballs have been formed over the years. The most famous is of a naga, dragon or snake, which crawled through the mountains where the Mekong is now. The naga continues to pass through the area, but now underwater, and like a good dragon it spits fireballs into the air from the river bottom.

At the end of every October, a festival is held in celebration of the mysterious fireballs. Tens of thousands show up every year, but the balls are random and some years aren’t even witnessed during the festival. 

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