Topic: STRANGE - on October 19, 2007 at 12:51:00 PM CEST
Oil prices touch above $90 level
Oil prices have broken through $90 a barrel for the first time, lifted by the low dollar and ongoing concerns over tensions in eastern Turkey.
US light crude rose to $90.02 in late Thursday trading in New York, before pulling back to $89.54 in early Friday trade in the Far East.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 19, 2007 at 12:40:00 PM CEST
10 Most Bizarre Scientific Papers
«The Effect of Country Music on Suicide»
«Love and Sex with Robots»
«Rectal Foreign Bodies: Case Reports and a Comprehensive Review of the World's Literature»
«Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans»
«Safe and Painless Manipulation of Penile Zipper Entrapment»
«Pressures Produced When Penguins Poo -- Calculations on Avian Defecation»
«Farting as a Defence Against Unspeakable Dread»
«Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers»
«Ultrasonic Velocity in Cheddar Cheese as Affected by Temperature»
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 9, 2007 at 1:01:00 PM CEST
Navy Jets in Death-Defying Skim across the Water during Air Show
Fishermen and pleasure boats got a treat after a member of the US Navy Blue Angels aerial aerobatic team made a high-speed pass right in front of them.
The manoeuvre sent a huge water vapour cloud radiating from the F-18 fighter during an air show in the San Francisco Bay area yesterday.
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Topic: STRANGE - on October 3, 2007 at 12:54:00 PM CEST
World's Largest Swimming Pool
Already drawing the crowds in the South American resort of San Alfonso del Mar in Chile, this artificial lagoon and swimming pool is eight hectares in size and contains an incredible 250,000 cubic meters of water.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 28, 2007 at 9:51:00 AM CEST
100-year-old celebrates her birthday by smoking 170,000th cigarette
Winnie Langley started smoking only days after the First World War broke out in June 1914 when she was just seven-years-old - and has got through five a day ever since.
She has no intention of quitting, even after the nationwide ban forced tobacco-lovers outside.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 26, 2007 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
Crop circle creation on film
Over 1,000 ft long and 520 ft wide, and boasting over 90 separate circles within the formation and 60 without, the mega crop formation, made its appearance in pitch darkness in the early hours of the windy, damp and overcast Saturday morning of 7/7/07.
Dedicated UFO hunter and cameraman Winston Keech takes up the story:
"This is the most spectacular formation to have occurred in Wiltshire for many years. It's flattened area is over 95,000 sq ft or roughly 2,25 acres."
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 21, 2007 at 3:19:00 PM CEST
Diet Coke is 99% Water (And That Is Now a Good Thing)
Back in the day, when people noted that Diet Coke was 99% water, it was an insult. The point was that water was free, and Diet Coke was just free water plus a little bit of artificial this and that — so you would have to be a fool to pay so much for it.
Of course, times have changed. Bottled water now generates an estimated $50 billion in sales each year, with that number growing rapidly. According to this CBS News report, which puts soda revenues at $68 billion a year and stagnant, bottled water is now as big a business as soda.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 21, 2007 at 3:16:00 PM CEST
Man's heart stops after Red Bull overdose
A MAN whose heart stopped after he consumed eight Red Bull energy drinks in five hours has called for an overhaul of the product's warning labels.
Matthew Penbross, 28, collapsed after downing the popular drinks, each containing 80 milligrams of caffeine, last Sunday.
He drank the Red Bull while competing in a motocross event on the state's Mid North Coast.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 20, 2007 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Camel rapes and kills a woman
The woman, whose name was not released, was killed Saturday at her family's sheep and cattle ranch near Mitchell, 600 kilometres west of the Queensland state capital Brisbane, state police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory said.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 15, 2007 at 8:36:00 PM CEST
Tokyo Summerland wave pool manages to fit in some water
It’s summertime here in Tokyo, and since we’re in the middle of the Obon holiday week a lot of Tokyoites have left town for the countryside, leaving a strangely empty city behind. Those who stick around or come in from the countryside pack just about every tourist spot to the gills. We went to the Tokyo Summerland today to catch some sun, and could barely move! Believe it or not, the picture below is of a pool…
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 14, 2007 at 12:21:00 PM CEST
Girl overdoses on espresso coffee
A teenager was taken to hospital after overdosing on espresso coffee.
Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family's sandwich shop.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 13, 2007 at 11:57:00 AM CEST
Drunken German joyrider kills 300 chickens
Three hundred chickens died in panic early on Sunday when a drunken German teenager on a joyride crashed a van into their shed, police said.
"Apparently some of the chickens were so desperate to get away that they ran into the wall and died," the spokesman said. "Others suffered heart attacks."
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