Let’s play house

Tyson Leavitt decided to build these playhouses after noticing enormous backyards of his clients and little to no amenities for children. Pics/Facebook

Charmed Playhouses, a family business based in Letherbridge, Canada, claims to build the world's most fantastic, luxurious and quality playhouses, and looking at some of their creations, we're inclined to agree. But before you start dreaming about your very own backyard fantasy playhouse, you should know that some of these can cost an arm and a leg. Even though prices start at a respectable $3,500 for a basic playhouse, if you're looking for something special, the bill can easily go into tens of thousands, and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. "We're currently working on one playhouse that will cost upwards of $4,00,000," owner Tyson Leavitt told INSIDER back in 2019. "Many of them range from $1,00,000 to $3,00,000."

Leavitt, who worked in landscaping for nine years before founding Charmed Playhouses, decided to go ahead with his "stupid idea" to build luxury over-the-top treehouses and playhouses for children after noticing that many of his clients' backyards were enormous, but featured little to no amenities for children. Some had a rickety swing set, but not much else, so he decided he could do much better. And he was right.

After building a playhouse for his three children, a client asked Leavitt if he could build a Rapunzel-inspired one for his kids. Even though he had never built stylised playhouses before, he decided to do it, and it turned out so good that he ended up entering it in a home-and-garden show. "A lot of times clients come to us. They just tell us what they like. We take their ideas, we combine them and they morph into something beautiful by the time we're done," Tyson told the Calgary Herald in 2017. "Our entry-level one starts at $3,500 but we also offer customised playsets upto $2,00,000. It depends on what your budget and vision is."

Loyalty test

Man earns thousands of dollars by flirting with women to check their loyalty

Xavier Long, a 20-year-old man from Alabama, claims he is paid several thousands of dollars per week by men who want him to test their girlfriends' loyalty. Long has been conducting so-called "loyalty tests" on behalf of men who allegedly ask him to flirt with their female partners via texts to see if they give in to his advances. His tests involve checking whether the client's partner can be trusted by sliding into their DMs, and reporting back any shady behaviour. He makes up to $2,000 a week from fees. "I've made a pretty good amount. I don't have an exact number," he says.

TikTok users stunned by monster-size Rottweiler pup

TikTok viewers were left stunned by the size of a monster Rottweiler pup, who is so big that he's even been compared to a bear cub. Bosco is only 15-weeks-old, but he has already grown into quite the powerhouse and is so enormous, his owner struggles to hold him in her arms. Comments on the video-sharing platform were filled with people totally baffled by the pup's size - and speculating about just how big he would grow to be.

Study nixes Mars life found in meteorite

A four-billion-year-old meteorite from Mars that caused a splash here on Earth decades ago contains no evidence of ancient, primitive Martian life after all, scientists reported. The four-pound (2-kg) rock was found in Antarctica in 1984. Groundwater moving through the cracks in the rock, while it was still on Mars, formed the tiny globs of carbon that are present, according to the researchers. The same thing can happen on Earth.

Sending out a false batman-themed alert

The Missouri State Highway Patrol alert sent cell phones blaring statewide: Authorities in Gotham City, Missouri, were searching for a purple and green 1978 Dodge 3700GT. But there is no Gotham City, Missouri, and the car referenced was the one used by the Joker in the 1989 Batman movie. Soon after, they sent another alert asking people to disregard it.

Woman has tongue replaced with thigh

Cameron Newsom, 42, had half her tongue removed in an effort to fight cancer after dealing with excruciating pain post-diagnosis in 2013. Surgeons took skin and muscle from the woman's thigh to re-create the part of her tongue lost to her rare infection of squamous cell carcinoma.

Man faked death to evade charges, found alive

Nicholas Alahverdian, who also goes by the last name Rossi, supposedly died at age 32 in February 2020 from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but turned up last month at a Glasgow hospital, where he was on a ventilator for COVID-19. He faked his own death to evade sex assault and fraud charges.

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