Cardboard Boxes

1. 5 Fun Facts About Cardboard - Cardboard Is Not Just For Moving Boxes! New Richmond, on the Ohio River in Clermont County Ohio about 25 miles east of Cincinnati, has a rich history as a steamboat town and this is evident by the presence of the town’s annual International Cardboard Boat Regatta. The town is also home to the New Richmond Cardboard Boat Museum, a non-profit organization started in 2007 that features colorful and whimsical cardboard-made watercraft displayed in a museum setting. The museum also showcases cardboard-made objects such as hot rods, a school bus, a steam locomotive, a 10-foot guitar, a supersized coffee cup, a Wile E. Coyote-style sit-atop missile, and more. Cardboard Wikkelboats or "wrap boats" when translated to English are now being used for short-term living accommodations in the Rotterdam landscape, 73 kilometers to the southeast of the country's capital, Amsterdam. The floating houses are made of 1.2-meter-long cardboard segments weighing 500 kilograms each and can easily facilitate any moving service. A study published in Applied Animal Behavior Science found cats were more likely to sit inside 2-D shapes that imitate an illusion of a square or cardboard box, and it may give researchers more insight into our furry friend’s perception of visual illusions. It is studies like this that explain why cats like playing and sleeping in cardboard boxes so much. A self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh was discovered in July 2022 underneath layers of cardboard and glue after hiding for more than a century. The press office of the National Galleries of Scotland issued a statement saying that after using a delicate moving service they discovered x-ray images of Van Gogh's 1885 "Head of a Peasant Woman" revealed a previous self-portrait on the reverse side, an artist hack Van Gogh used to save money on canvas and supplies. World famous cardboard artist @Tsu_ku_ru_san has created real-life cardboard replicas of the Master Cycle Zero in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and the Yu-Gi-Oh! D-Wheel that drives.