Coolest car ever!

This queer product is not the result of the ice storm that hit Toronto recently.

What you're looking at is actually a running, driving, full-size pick-up truck crafted out of solid blocks of ice for Canadian Tire's coolest commercial yet.

Although this highly detailed and fully functional ice truck isn't exactly street legal, we're pretty sure the rolling marketing stunt could likely pass a government issued crash safety test (so long as it was a cold day outside). So how did they do it?

Well, the talented team at Ice-culture in Hensall, Ontario, took a real truck chassis and running gear, welded the suspension solid and recreated the bodywork with 11,000 pounds of ice, all to showcase that its MotoMaster battery will work at -40 degrees below freezing.

To create the Canadian Tire Ice Truck the team of professionals completely stripped the body off of a 2005 GMC Silverado. They fitted it with a steel frame, and ice sculptors were called in to chisel out the frozen vehicle around the frame of a regular chassis. "It was probably one of the biggest challenges we've ever done," said Heidi Bayley, from Iceculture (the company that sculpted the truck).

Architectural marvel

They will go to any extent to attract females. Even build intricate structures for it.

The concept of bachelor pads isn't unique to humans. Male bowerbirds are amazing architects, but they reserve theirs skills for just one purpose - finding a mate. They construct such elaborate and dazzling nests to impress females.

It may be a good lesson for humans too. Male bowerbirds use embellishments such as coins, nails, leaves, shells, seeds, flowers and live insects to weave their nests, called bowers.

Bowers are U-shaped nests built with twigs and grass, and carpeted with moss. Each bower is an architectural marvel that stretches out five or six yards across, complete with a thatched roof and supporting pillars. Blue is a very important colour in the construction process. Male bowerbirds use several blue objects - berries, flowers, bottle caps and string - to attract prospective mates.

Research has proven that females are attracted to bowers with the most number of blue decorations. Because blue objects are rare in a bowerbird's environment, a male who is able to acquire them and protect them is deemed superior.

Twin mothers give birth the same day

They came into this world together.

Twin mothers Aimee, left, and Ashlee Nelson hold their newborn sons Donavyn Bratten, left, and Aiden Lee Alan Dilts at Summa Akron City Hospital Ohio. The mothers, 19, gave birth about two hours apart.

What a coincidence! They delivered their children on the same day, two hours apart.

Aiden and Donavyn didn't wait until new year's day to come screaming into the world, but the circumstances of their births are still pretty special: The babies were born about two hours apart to Ohio mothers who are identical twins.

The 19-year-old mothers - Aimee and Ashlee Nelson - weren't raised to do things alike and did not plan the births to come at the same time.

In fact, their due dates were about a week apart. Aimee's son, Donavyn Scott Bratten, was born just after noon on the last day of 2012.

Ashlee's son, Aiden Lee Alan Dilts, made his appearance at about 2:00pm. They were delivered by the same doctor at Summa Akron City Hospital.

They are not the only twins that gave birth to their offspring on the same day.

Erica and Tashina Ackley are twins who not only share a birthday, but, also share the birth days of their first babies.

The two sisters, who will be 22 this week, delivered only hours apart Friday morning at Down East Community Hospital in Machias.

Tashina gave birth to a six-pound, 11 ounce, 19.5-inch girl - Ivory Mae Cushing - at 8:54 a.m. Erica followed suit just before noon, giving birth to a six-pound, 18-inch boy - Keiran Leighton Carter. "We took pregnancy tests together and found out we were pregnant on the same day," Erica said, "and we did every [prenatal] appointment together."