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https://unusualplaces.org/slanic-prahova-salt-mine-museum/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-1-in-100-million-cotton-candy-lobster-found-off-the-coast-of-new-hampshire-180984814/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18551796

Just got home from work. They just sort of popped up...so I wanted to give others the chance to enjoy the view.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39302426

What do you think?

You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna, 21, won silver in Paris, following in his father Virgilijus' footsteps. He qualified for final with a 67.47-meter throw and broke his father's Olympic record with 69.89 meters. As the world record holder (74.35 meters), Mykolas is set to continue his family's legacy.

With the Olympics on I wondered how much one would sell for given a lot of these events don’t have a lot of options of making a living unfortunately.

The article is from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics so pricing might not be exact but:

At today’s prices that means the gold medal would be worth around $800 if you melted it down, while the silver would be worth about $450 and the bronze around $5.

That’s just the worth of the metals, the fact that it’s an Olympic medal means it’ll sell more but it varies a lot based on the year and event which make sense.

Earlier this month a winner’s medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics sold for $180,000 at auction, Cuban shooter Leuris Pupo’s gold medal from the London 2012 Olympics fetched $73,200, and his compatriot Iván Pedroso’s long jump gold medal from Sydney 2000 went for $71,335. All three were sold by Boston-based RR Auction.

Technique used: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_photography