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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 167 weeks 5 days 3 hours 34 minutes ago
A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn — hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor. He pulled out the phone. It fell apart.
The...(more)
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submitted by Robert Cauthorn for team Batboy's revenge! 88 weeks 4 days 17 hours 7 minutes ago
Franz Reichelt was a tailor who designed what he promised was a "parachute jacket." He decided to unveil it to the public by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Pathe filmed it. The also filmed officials measuring the size of the crater he made when he...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Batboy's revenge! 231 weeks 1 day 16 hours 47 minutes ago
Australians have come up with a novel solution to the millions of feral cats roaming the outback - eat them.
The felines are the descendants of domestic pets and kill millions of small native animals each year.
A recent Alice Springs contest featured wild cat casserole. The meat...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 50 weeks 3 days 15 hours 37 minutes ago
Nothing puts a damper on a serene afternoon's kayaking like the sight of a primeval sea monster.
That was the rude lesson for Tom Pickles and Sarah Harrington, who'd taken their watercraft out on the foggy waters of Lake Windermere, only to encounter what appeared to be "an...(more)
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submitted by Grace 225 weeks 5 days 6 hours 32 minutes ago
DALLAS (AP) -- A woman arrived at her child's daycare center to find the building closed with her 14-month-old daughter locked inside alone, authorities said....
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 147 weeks 3 days 17 hours 22 minutes ago
A Philadelphia cable network's early morning broadcast of a Good Friday service at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different — a 30-second "Girls Gone Wild" ad.
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submitted by Grace for team Batboy's revenge! 239 weeks 3 days 17 hours 15 minutes ago
It's been hailed as the luckiest day of the century, a time to take chances on love and lottery tickets and all things uncertain.
That day is today -- July 7, 2007, a.k.a. 7/7/07 or 777.
More weddings will be held today than on any day in recent...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team Batboy's revenge! 198 weeks 2 days 7 hours 12 minutes ago
I don't know why, but I'm in the mood for UFO craziness. So off we go!
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submitted by JKM 181 weeks 4 days 11 hours 14 minutes ago
Supposedly, Bigfoot lives in North Georgia, and several of his relatives are still there. At least that's what a pair of Georgia outdoorsmen and a California "Bigfoot expert" continue to claim.
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submitted by Elizabeth for team Mysteries of the Universe 199 weeks 2 days 7 hours 39 minutes ago
You won't find it on any official map and you won't know when you cross the line, but according to some people, the Bermuda Triangle is a very real place where dozen of ships, planes and people have disappeared with no good explanation. Since a magazine...(more)
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written by M Walker for team Batboy's revenge! 251 weeks 1 day 11 hours 40 minutes ago
So I was reading the English language version of Pravada to see how they covered the protests (official verdict: Putin rocks and Kasperov is a pawn of communists AND fascists AND the US... sigh...)
Anyhow, armed with that trenchant analysis of events, I decided to see what...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Batboy's revenge! 214 weeks 3 days 4 hours 8 minutes ago
Police arrested a man on suspicion of stealing a GPS receiver after the device apparently gave him away....
