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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 57 weeks 6 days 1 hour 8 minutes ago
A copy of J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter novel sold at auction Thursday for almost $41,000. The copy of the hardback first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," published in 1997 and signed "Joanne Rowling" on the back of the title page, was sold...(more)
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submitted by Suzy for team Batboy's revenge! 31 weeks 2 days 23 hours 40 minutes ago
A 36-year-old Swiss amateur parachutist made a successful 650-metre (2,130-foot) drop Saturday using a replica of a parachute designed more than 500 years ago by Leonardo da Vinci.
"I came down... smack in the middle of the tarmac at Payerne military airport," said Olivier Vietti-Teppa. "A perfect...(more)
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submitted by Lisa for team Batboy's revenge! 21 weeks 2 days 23 hours 20 minutes ago
It's not every day that UC Berkeley botanists get excited about a flower emitting the stench of rotting flesh.
Officials at the UC Botanical Garden said they opened the door of the garden's Tropical House on Monday morning and were pleasantly surprised that the greenhouse smelled of...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 21 weeks 4 days 11 hours 25 minutes ago
Natalie Coughlin is 25 years old, an elder stateswoman of swimming.
Dara Torres wears goggles that are older than Coughlin.
Torres is 41. In swimming, that's not old, that's Pleistocene.
Torres swam in her first Olympic Games in 1984. Last year, she came out of a seven-year retirement, practically...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 14 weeks 4 days 11 hours 47 minutes ago
You stoop into the cave and when your eyes finally adjust, you freeze.
The walls are moving. Wriggling, really.
Bats.
Nine thousand of the squeaking, diminutive devils crawl over a 10-by-10-foot chamber that would be pitch-black if not for a few narrow slits in the plywood entryway.
Something takes flight...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Batboy's revenge! 60 weeks 4 days 7 hours 51 minutes ago
More Pravda. Hey, they think Putin is a great guy too!
"The Russian media has recently reported on a huge monster with the head of a serpent and the body of a crocodile lurking at the bottom of a lake near the village of Somin in Western...(more)
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submitted by Collin Frost for team Batboy's revenge! 22 weeks 1 day 32 minutes ago
From the Hollywood Hills to the Nevada state line, people reported seeing a fireball streaking across the sky and appearing to fall toward the San Bernardino Mountains on Tuesday morning. But explanations of the mysterious object were scarce.
San Bernardino County Fire Dispatch reported receiving dozens of...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Batboy's revenge! 73 weeks 4 days 12 hours 47 minutes ago
A therapist has been accused of taking advantage of a patient with a split personality - using one of her alter egos for sex, another to be his cleaner and a third to lend him cash for holidays.
When confronted by his alleged victim he refused to...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Batboy's revenge! 73 weeks 4 days 12 hours 56 minutes ago
SMOKERS helped thwart a robber who marched into their bingo hall with a samurai sword - because the new ban means they were forced to stand outside to light up.
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submitted by Ari for team Batboy's revenge! 81 weeks 2 days 11 hours 23 minutes ago
WTF? Teachers convince six-graders they're about to die because... Well, read the story... Everyone involved should be fired...
"Staff members of an elementary school staged a fictitious gun attack on students during a class trip, telling them it was not a drill as the children cried and...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Batboy's revenge! 73 weeks 4 days 12 hours 2 minutes ago
Bill O'Reilly's show claims there is a national underground lesbian criminal network that targets men and children and forces "indoctrination into homosexuality" and, I LOVE THIS PART, packs pink Glocks. Pink! Sweet. Anyhow, you've just got to read this story and watch the video.
The only...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 22 weeks 15 hours 33 minutes ago
A full century after the mysterious Tunguska explosion in Siberia leveled an area nearly the size of Tokyo, debate continues over what caused it.
Many questions remain as to what crashed into the Earth from above -- how big it was and what it was made of....(more)
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