When is a power drill not just a tool you use to build things? When it’s used for cooking, carving pumpkins, and even bicycles. If you’ve never seen or heard of this tool, “drills with pistol grips are the most common type in use today, and are available in a huge variety of subtypes.” Continue reading to see more.

5. Cooking

4. Playing Guitar

3. Carving Pumpkins

2. Roasting Marshmallows

1. Bike

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5 Interesting construction facts:

  1. The Incas considered bridges to be so sacred that anyone who tampered with one was put to death. Among the most impressive Inca bridges were the chacas, or rope bridges, that spanned great distances over gorges and rivers. They were made of plaited grasses woven together into a single cable as thick as a man’s body, and they sometimes extended for 175 feet. It took as many as a thousand people to build such a bridge, and many of these remarkable structures lasted more than five hundred years.
  2. Japanese farmers, after removing the hulls from their rice crop and sorting out the white kernels, take the hulls from the leftover rice, mix them into a kind of paste, mold the substance into brick-shaped blocks, and build houses with them. Such buildings are known in Japan as “houses of rice skin”.
  3. In the mid-sixteenth century Hicleyoshi, the so-called peasant ruler of Japan, ordered that all the swords in the nation be collected and melted down. The metal was then used, in 1586, to construct an enormous statue of Buddha. It took 50,000 artisans more than six years to build the statue, and exactly ten years after it was completed an earthquake razed it. Not a trace of this giant figure remains today.
  4. A bridge built in Lima, Peru around 1610 was made of mortar that was mixed not with water but with the whites of 10,000 eggs. The bridge, appropriately called the Bridge of Eggs, is still standing today.
  5. The only man made structure visible from space is the Great Wall of China.

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