Name: Watch: 22-storey building demolished in 30 seconds
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Description: A year after it was irreparably damaged in a fire, the Bank of Lisbon building in Johannesburg was demolished in a controlled explosion on Sunday, and a video of it is going viral. The 22-storey building was deemed unfit for occupation after a structural assessment following the fire last September. The structure was demolished in less than 30 seconds using around 894 kg of explosives.

A year after it was irreparably damaged in a fire, the Bank of Lisbon building in Johannesburg was demolished in a controlled explosion on Sunday, and a video of it is going viral. The 22-storey building was deemed unfit for occupation after a structural assessment following the fire last September. The structure was demolished in less than 30 seconds using around 894 kg of explosives.

A year after it was irreparably damaged in a fire, the Bank of Lisbon building in Johannesburg was demolished in a controlled explosion on Sunday, and a video of it is going viral. The 22-storey building was deemed unfit for occupation after a structural assessment following the fire last September. The structure was demolished in less than 30 seconds using around 894 kg of explosives.

Amelia Rude from Indiana shared a photograph of a strange&nbsp;crystal that she recently discovered, but it broke the Internet for its uncanny resemblance to a piece of fried&nbsp;chicken!&nbsp;According to a report by UK-based publication Evening Standard, the woman makes bracelets under her brand called 'Unbeadable Energies', and had bought a calcium carbonate cluster. The photo triggered an overflow of memes&nbsp;when it made its way on Twitter. Many even commented on the post with similar instances of crystals resembling food!

When it comes to jugaad, even animals seem to be acing the game! A video, which has resurfaced on the Internet, shows a goat and a buffalo standing next to a tree, just when an idea strikes the goat. It climbs up onto the buffalo's back reach the leaves on the tree and munches away to glory. The video was shared on Twitter by IFS officer Sudha Ramen.

A Wisconsin family turned hero for a bear cub found swimming with its head stuck in a plastic container! The bear in distress was found by Tricia Hurt, Brian and their son Brady when they were out fishing on the&nbsp;Marshmiller Lake. The entire rescue operation lasted five-minutes, and the bear was freed after multiple tries to remove the container. According to a CNN report, the family learnt from locals that the bear had been running around with the tub on its head for three to four days. While a rescue organisation was contacted several times, they weren't able to locate the bear given the rural landscape of the area.

It's not every day that we get to see the chief justice riding a bike, let alone a super cool Harley Davidson. CJI SA Bobde, who has been been pretty vocal about his love for bikes, was seen riding one in Nagpur recently. and the pictures have understandably gone viral. However, the bike in question does not belong to CJI Bobde. The Harley Davidson, Justice Bobde was pictured checking out, belongs to the son of a BJP leader from Nagpur.

You can trust Netizens to come up with the most hilarious comparisons and references! Twitterati was reminded of a hot sizzling dosa in a photograph of the planet Jupiter, and chances are that you wouldn't be able to disagree. The image of Jupiter was captured back in 2000 by&nbsp;NASA's Cassini spacecraft and it is a part of several coloured maps created by them.&nbsp;

Tik&nbsp;Tok users seem to be full of food tricks. A user from Australia shared a life hack showing how she seasons sushi by using a nozzle leaving her viewers impressed.&nbsp;
Instead of seasoning the sushi from the top&nbsp;like most people, she squeezed the sauce inside the roll to coat the filling.&nbsp;
The demonstration has been viewed 2.6 million times on the platform.&nbsp;

While Govinda may be one of the best dancers of Bollywood, a young boy grooving to the actor's super hit songs is attracting fans.&nbsp;The video was circulating widely on social media and caught the eye of lyricist Manoj Muntashir, who shared it on Twitter. With&nbsp;Govinda's&nbsp;famous songs playing in the backdrop, the clip has got over 1.5 million views! The boy is winning praise for his high spirit and effortless moves.&nbsp;

Netizens love an easy life-hack and the latest one on the block has won many hearts. A vendor had a simple technique to sort fruits by size. The clip has been doing the rounds on social media for a while but came to the fore when it was shared by Twitter user Vala Afshar, collecting over 3.6 million views. The video shows two rods placed side by side with cartons under them. The distance between the rods increases from one end to another in a slanting position. When the pomegranates&nbsp;are placed between the rods, it falls into the boxes kept below as per the size!

Michelin star chef and restaurateur Vikas&nbsp;Khanna&nbsp;has been running massive food distribution drives amid the pandemic. In a recent interview, a BBC&nbsp;anchor enquired whether Khanna's&nbsp;'sense of hunger' came from his upbringing in India. The US-based&nbsp;Indian chef's reply has gone viral on Twitter. Khanna&nbsp;told the news anchor that he was from Amritsar, where community kitchens can feed the entire city, which is why his sense of hunger is not from India but actually his beginnings&nbsp;in New York. He spoke about his struggle of starting out as youngster in the city of New York post the 9/11 period when getting jobs as a brown person was especially challenging.&nbsp;

'Bharat Ratna' has been trending on Twitter all Sunday. Users on the micro-blogging site have poured in&nbsp;their suggestions for who deserve the honour, and Akshay Kumar, Sonu Sood were the most popular choices. Twitterati picked Akshay Kumar and Sonu Sood for Bharat Ratna because of their contribution, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. While they noticed Sonu only after his efforts&nbsp;during the pandemic, users remembered Akshay's donation since Pulwama attacks in 2019.

A farmer couple from Punjab is leaving many in awe with their soulful singing. The duo sang the classic song by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi&nbsp;'Aawaz Deke Humein Tum Bulao' from the 1962 film 'Professor'. The clip is believed&nbsp;to have been captured when Lalchand and his family were in Rajasthan&nbsp;earlier this month. Since being shared on Twitter, the video has racked up over 40,000 views and even won praise from National Award-winning singer&nbsp;Rekha Bhardwaj and music artist&nbsp;Mohit Chauhan.

L'Oreal, the world's biggest cosmetics company, has joined the legion of beauty brands moving towards a new era of inclusivity.&nbsp;The beauty giant has decided to remove words like 'whitening', 'fair' and 'light' from its range of skincare products. L'Oreal&nbsp;Group owns over 500 global brands including Maybelline and Lancome.
The move follows a similar decision by Unilever to re-brand its decades-old 'Fair &amp; Lovely' cream, in the face of growing social media criticism. Unilever's rival Johnson &amp; Johnson also said this month that it would stop the sale of skin-whitening creams.

The Bangtan&nbsp;Boys have done it again, and this time they've officially entered the world of academia.&nbsp;A recently published Harvard School Business paper talks about the rise of BTS.&nbsp;Titled, 'Big Hit Entertainment and Blockbuster Band BTS: K-Pop Goes Global', the paper&nbsp;talks about the 7-member band, who sing mostly in Korean and have&nbsp;inspired a first-of-its-kind global cultural influence that has people often comparing them to&nbsp;The Beatles.&nbsp;The paper dwells into the K-pop industry and BTS'&nbsp;impact on the Korean economy.&nbsp;The Korean pop band reportedly accounts&nbsp;for a whopping $4.65 billion of South Korea's GDP.&nbsp;BTS&nbsp;may finally be getting their due&nbsp; recognition, and it's not just from its ARMY.

"The king of fruits should travel like a king", believes a supermarket in Dubai that delivers mangoes in a Lamborghini! The Pakistan Super Market even offers a free joy ride to its customers once the delivery is made. The managing director of the store, Mohammad Jehanzeb told Gulf News that the idea was&nbsp;originally meant to cheer up kids quarantined at home amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic, but left adults equally thrilled. Jehanzeb&nbsp;makes the deliveries&nbsp;himself, greeting delighted customers.

Policemen in West Bengal seem to have found new ways of battling the&nbsp;coronavirus. An official communiqu&eacute;&nbsp;that is doing the rounds in the force, claims that using mustard oil, drinking hot lemon water and other such home remedies will heal and also treat coronavirus. Senior cops in the Siliguri police even claim these have benefited many.&nbsp;The letter lists many other ways to keep the virus at bay. These include, eating boiled mashed potatoes or puffed rice or salad dipped in raw mustard oil regularly. Mustard oil can also be applied to nostrils thrice daily. Not just that, steam treatment 4-5 times day, drinking hot lemon water 4 times a day and gargling with hot water and salt may also help, the communiqu&eacute;&nbsp;claims.

If you thought fusion food trends would stop at 'Chocolate&nbsp;Maggie', you're wrong! As strong immunity becomes the need of the hour, an ice cream chain from Karnataka has launched&nbsp;Chyawanprash&nbsp;and haldi flavoured ice cream! Dairy Day claims that this is the first time haldi is being used in ice creams. The news, however, didn't blend well with Netizens, who cringed at the 'unappetising flavours'.

An anti-China protest held on June 19 in Kolkata has social media laughing out loud again. A photograph from the protest has gone viral and it shows that the protesters have used the map of United States on their poster instead of China. Not only that, the map&nbsp;was even coloured red and had 5 yellow stars just like China's flag. The viral picture&nbsp;was taken for Getty Images by photographer&nbsp;Sumit Sanyal. The protesters have not been identified but CPI(M) leaders have suggested they were BJP&nbsp;workers.&nbsp;
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A collector in Spain reportedly took the help of a furniture restorer to tidy up a copy of a famous painting but the results were quite far off from the real deal. The artwork, which was originally painted by&nbsp;Spanish Baroque artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo, looks so botched after the restoration that it has gone viral on social media. While this isn't the first botched art restoration, people are laughing their hearts out at the effort and turning the set of before-and-after photos into hilarious memes.&nbsp;

You no longer have to cry while peeling onions! This easy hack has got you covered. Denver-based foodie, James Rembo&nbsp;shares an easy process, where all you've go to do is chop the onion into two halves and punch its top. By doing so, you'll be able to pinch out the peel easily and chop.&nbsp;

A viral photograph of a doctor's wrinkled hand after wearing protective gear for over 10 hours is making waves on the Internet. The photograph brings to light the difficulties faced by our frontline warriors, fighting day and night to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic. It was shared on Twitter by an IAS officer and led to an outpouring of photos by essential workers, sharing their hands at the end of the working day.

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