New islands are supposed to take ages—carved out by slow tectonic shifts or patiently built by coral over centuries. But in the last 100 years, Earth has been caught in the act of making land in real time. Some of these islands blasted out of the sea in a single day, born from underwater volcanoes and ash clouds so thick they turned noon into twilight. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Others appeared more quietly—river mud stacking up year after year until a “sandbar” became a coastline, then a real island with plants, birds, and eventually people. And a few weren’t made by nature at all, but by humans—dredged, dumped, and engineered into brand-new territory that didn’t exist

Some buildings are basically geology experiments that people decided to live inside. Not wood, brick, or concrete—but walls grown from mushrooms, blocks made from salt, façades that literally breathe, and “stone” you can cast like plastic. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In this video, we’re counting down 15 weird building materials that are real, used in real projects, and often solve very practical problems like heat, humidity, weight, or waste. Some look normal from far away—until you realize what they’re actually made of. For more content like this one follow us also on Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram! https://youtu.be/ghW2pXm4G8U?si=uc-7s-XKeE3hnw1N (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({ google_ad_client: "ca-pub-9631494490181431", enable_page_level_ads: true });