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Bizarre facts-Praying Mantis 2008-10-10 02:01:01 The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off. Read more:Bizarre
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Amazing 97 year old picture 2008-10-09 23:54:02 Valued Exposure: A member of Amundsen's Antarctic expedition, believed to be his assistant Hansen, with a sledge and team of huskies beside the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, 1911. Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images Read more:Amazing
Albinistic animals 2008-10-09 23:53:54 Albinism is a form of hypopigmentary congenital disorder, characterized by a partial (in hypomelanism, also known as hypomelanosis) or total (amelanism or amelanosis) lack of melanin pigment in the eyes, skin and hair (or more rarely the eyes alone). Albinism results from inheritance of recessive alleles.The condition is known to affect mammals (including humans), fish, birds, reptiles, and amphib
Fascinating events-The World's First Billion-Dollar Home 2008-10-03 00:03:31 While visiting New York in 2005, Nita Ambani was in the spa at the Mandarin Oriental New York, overlooking Central Park. The contemporary Asian interiors struck her just so, and prompted her to inquire about the designer.Nita Ambani was no ordinary tourist. She is married to Mukesh Ambani, head of Mumbai, India-based petrochemical giant Reliance Industries, and the fifth richest man in the world. Read more:Dollar
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17-year old teen has 7 children 2008-10-03 00:02:58 Argentine teenager Pamela Villarruel poses with her seven children outside her parents' home in the town of Leones in Cordoba Province, northern Argentina, May 11, 2008. (Pics courtesy: AP)Pamela, 17, bore all seven children in just three pregnancies, having her first boy in 2005 when she was 14 and the other six girls in two deliveries of triplets in the following two years. Pamela and her chil
Amazing happenings- Miracle man walks again 2008-10-03 00:02:32 He survived against all the odds; now Peng Shulin has astounded doctors by learning to walk again. When his body was cut in two by a lorry in 1995, it was little short of a medical miracle that he lived. It took a team of more than 20 doctors to save his life. Skin was grafted from his head to seal his torso but the legless Mr Peng was left only 78cm (2ft 6in) tall. Bedridden for years, doctors in Read more:Amazing
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Tragic happenings 2008-10-03 00:02:04 This is a Pulitzer prize winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan famine. The pictures depicts a famine-stricken child crawling towards a United Nations camp located a kilometer away.The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who left the place as soo
Amazing facts-Deadliest Venomous Fish 2008-11-01 02:01:00 A new study finds there are fish more venomous than snakes. Here are a few of them, photographed by William Leo Smith of the American Museum of Natural History Poisonous Soap FishNaso SurgeonfishPterois lionfishSoap fish Read more:Amazing
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Strange facts-No eyebrows 2008-10-31 02:01:02 The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off! Read more:facts
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Strange facts-Travel precaution 2008-10-29 02:01:01 Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution! Read more:facts
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Amazing animal-Longest tail 2008-10-28 02:01:00 Crystal Socha, 26, of Augusta, Kan., combs the tail of her American Paint horse, Summer, during the 11th annual EquiFest of Kansas at the Kansas Coliseum in Wichita.Eleven-year- old Summer holds the Guinness Book of World Records title for the longest tail on a horse, at 12 feet, six inches. Read more:Amazing
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Amazing facts-Ngaphechaung Monastery and it's cats 2008-10-26 02:01:01 Ngaphechaung Monastery is located in Inle Lake, on the way to Phaung Daw Oo Pagoda. This is an attractive wooden monastery built on stilts over the lake at the end of the 1850s. Aside from its collection of Buddhas the monastery may be of interest to visit because its monks have taught a few of the many cats living with them to jump through hoops. 25 minutes boat ride to visit and ancient monaster Read more:Amazing
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Fascinating events-The world's deepest swimming pool 2008-10-25 02:15:24 Nemo 33 is a recreational diving center in Brussels, Belgium that is home to the world's deepest swimming pool. The pool itself consists of a submerged structure with flat platforms at various depth levels. The pool has two large flat-bottomed areas at depth levels of 5m (16 ft) and 10m (32 ft), and a large circular pit descending to a depth of 33m (108 ft). It is filled with 2,500,000 litres of n Read more:events
Strange facts about statues 2008-10-25 02:01:02 If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle;if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle;if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause. Read more:facts
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Animal world-Tiny deer 2008-10-24 02:04:01 This tiny deer was delivered by Caesarean section at a wildlife hospital after his mother was killed by a car. Little Rupert, who is so small he can fit in an adult's hand, was born after vets failed in their battle to save his mother.At just six inches tall and weighing just over a pound, he is now in an incubator in the intensive care unit at Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital in Buckinghamshire. He Read more:Animal
Bizarre events-Man marries Dog 2008-10-22 03:21:23 This is about a real-life 'man marries dog' tale! It took place for real during a traditional hindu ceremony at a temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, india. The groom in question was a 33-year-old Indian farmer named Selvakumar, and he was wed to a female dog named Selvi. He married the four legged animal to atone for stoning two other dogs to death and stringing them up in a tree 15 years Read more:Bizarre
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Strange facts-Longer 2008-10-21 02:01:00 Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people. Read more:facts
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Fascinating events-Angelina Jolie's doll 2008-10-20 02:01:01 London (ANI): American actress AngelinaJolie
's look-alike doll was snapped up by an anonymous bidder for 2,000 pounds during an eBay auction. The doll with the same bee-stung lips, perfectly arched eyebrows, and tiny mole on the forehead had been hand painted by artist Noel Cruz. Jolie's figurine had just been an ordinary doll before Cruz removed the factory paint, and then re-touched the face wi Read more:Angelina Jolie
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Strange facts-The strongest girl in the world 2008-10-18 02:01:01 Varya Akulova, also called "Girl Hercules" is capable of lifting up to 350 kg, while she weighs only 40 kg and she is the strongest girl in the world. This fact has already been confirmed twice by Guinness Book of World Records.Varya's muscles are barely visible but she has tremendous will-power, translucent body and thread-like tendons. Varya says, "I wish I could be big, really big: 190 cm tall Read more:facts
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Strange happenings-Car fountain 2008-10-16 02:01:00 This unusual fountain set up in Rome, Italy and is the work of Spanish artist Juan Galdeano who wanted to make a statement that would hopefully draw attention to the issue of global warming. The fountain was built to look like it's sustaining a hatchback Seat Ibiza, when in reality the car is being supported by an intricate installation. Let's face it, that would have to be quite a powerful jet of Read more:Strange
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