A homeless woman lived in the closet of a Japanese man for one year before she was found and arrested.

Apparently the fact that someone was living in his home wasn’t enough to tip him off. It took the fact that food was missing from his house to give him a hint that something was wrong. Since he lived alone, and didn’t have any rats, he installed security cameras in his rooms and set them up to transmit to his mobile phone.

Shortly after, he saw something in those images, and thinking that there was a burglar in the house, he called the police. When the police arrived, they found the house locked, but when they entered the house they found something they didn’t expect.

“We searched the house … checking everywhere someone could possibly hide,” Itakura said. “When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side.”

It was a homeless woman, 58 years old, that entered the house when the owner left without locking the door. She lived for one year in a small closet, on a futon she moved in it, taking showers and eating the man’s food when he was out of the house.

Found this online and thought you might enjoy. Got only one question though. Wouldn’t you get your pants wet by using this method?

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Well, would you? I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

The Voronja cave, which is currently considered the deepest cave in the world, has a depth of 2191 meters (7188 feet), and it’s also the first cave to be explored at a depth of more than 2km.

In 2007 an expedition of 56 people explored it, but they say that it could be even deeper than it’s currently known.

The name is translated as Crow’s Cave and it’s located in Georgia, near the Black Sea.

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Wouldn’t it be nice if you had in your first aid kit something that would stop bleeding almost instantly? Well, the future sure sounds good in this regards, because Arch Therapeutics have made a nanohealing gel that does just that, it stops bleeding.

With clinical trials starting soon for this miracle gel, we can hope that we’ll see it in use eventually during surgery (stopping bleeding instantly instead of looking for vessels to cauterize), by paramedics or field medics during combat. The possibilities are so many for something like this.

The material consists of naturally occurring amino acids that have been engineered to form peptides that spontaneously cluster together to create long fibers when exposed to salty, aqueous environments, such as those found in the body. The fibers form a mesh that serves as a physical barrier to blood and other fluids.

And, since the body eventually assimilates it, you don’t have to remove it after using it. Sounds great!

Here’s to hoping it will be cheap when mass produced, so everyone can have it.