2011 Rio Carnival

The Carnival in Rio de Janeiro is coming to end today on March 8th and it is quite a spectacle. Thousands of revellers and spectators enjoyed a visual display of colors, dancers, floats, streamers and costumes all set to the sounds of samba music.














































































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Swimming with Polar Bears

This is not Photoshop as you might have thought at first.

Children can swim with polar bears in Canada. The Polar Bear Habitat is a water zoo in northern Ontario that allows kids experiencing an outdoor swim with these beasts since 2004. Of course, humans and bears are in two different pools that are separated by a layer of bullet proof glass that is about 9-10 cm thick. Still it is a real shock for those people who see such a scene for the first time in their life.

12 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About "The Social Network"

In case you don’t know, the movie The Social network is somewhat of a documentary about the social networking website Facebook. It got 8 Oscar nominations. These are some very interesting facts about the characters in the movie as well as the real people who invented Facebook.