1. Bra Museums
First up, Chinese bra museums are now a thing.
In the grand tradition of underwear collector’s 56-year-old Chen Qingzu is at the top of his game. Over the past 20 years the Chinese man has amassed a personal collection of over 5,000 bras of all colours, shapes and sizes. Now he wants to share it with the world. But before you jump conclusions he’s not some creep.
Although this seems vaguely like the actions of a serial killer - Chen actually works in health services and part of his job is to educate women on breast health and regular check-ups. He hopes the museum which is currently housed in his lounge room will teach women how important it is to look after their breasts and wear the right sized bra.
2. E.T Landfill legend
Next it’s everybody’s favourite extra-terrestrial. It’s long been urban legend that hundreds of copies of Atari’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial were dumped in a landfill back in the eighties. But it turns out it was actually true.
The game is regarded as one of the worst video games ever. And sales reflected that leaving Atari with a hell of a lot of unsold copies.
In 1983 they decided the best way to deal with this was to drive twenty semi-truck loads of the game into the dessert and bury them. A documentary team set out to prove it and now there’s no denying it really was an awful unloved game.
3. Minecraft Denmark
And finally Denmark! It’s been a thing since the year 500. But now it’s more pixelated.
The Danish Geodata Agency has recreated Denmark in the popular world building game Minecraft and when we say build we mean it. Virtual Denmark is on a 1 to 1 scale with actual Denmark. You can now explore all 42,915 square kilometres of the country without ever leaving your house. Which is good for people who love sightseeing but hate actually going to place.
Apart from being super awesome for nerds the plan is to introduce the game into local schools to help teach students about everything from urban planning to environmental policy to dying alone in caves.
