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8-Limbed Baby Touted as Reincarnated Indian God
A baby in India born with a conjoined twin is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a god.
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A Strange, Little Library Unlike Any You've Seen Before
If Borges’s Library of Babel is a massive, amorphous store of written documents, Jonny Love’s Unconcious Library is the opposite. Although it houses over 100,000 books, ladders, and scrolls, it contains virtually no concrete information. ...
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Rasputina - Clipped
A unique visual interpretation of the song Clipped by the band Rasputina. An eerie and touching music video using strange and haunting imagery.
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Family Finds Coyote on Kitchen Counter
A Newton County family says they were in shock when they found a coyote sitting on their kitchen counter.
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Extreme weather in Australia: It's Raining... Spiders
It's raining... spiders. Countless baby spiders are falling from the ski in the Australian city Goulburn, South Australia, covering the entire landscape in spider webs.
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The Real “No-Go Zone” of France
A Forbidden No Man’s Land Poisoned by War
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The Mystery of the Margate Shell Grotto
In 1835 a labourer was digging a field just outside the English seaside town of Margate. His work was interrupted when he thrust his spade in to the soil and it simply vanished in to the ground...
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Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript
A language scholar sets out to find the missing pages of an ancient, influential medical text by Galen of Pergamon.
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Angry lawyer-inventor reads “Stupid Patent of the Month,” files first lawsuit vs. EFF
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been involved in plenty of litigation, but until now, it's always been the one filing suit—seeking to create change in areas like free speech, copyright, or government surveillance. Now the EFF finds itself on the other side of the "v." Scott Horstemeyer, an Atlanta attorney and inventor whose patents were the subject of a monthly EFF feature called "Stupid Patent of the Month," has sued the advocacy group over an April 30 blog post entitled...
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Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found
17th century widow Louise de Quengo, wearing her shoes and cap, was found along with heart of her husband in lead coffin
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Terrifying “vampire fish” falling from the sky in Alaska
Fairbanks residents were shocked by eel-like lampreys with sharp teeth raining down from above
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Lucian Freud's Silly and Suggestive Teenage Letters Go Up for Sale
Most of us would be embarrassed if private letters we'd written in the notorious naïveté of youth were read by strangers.
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We Subconsciously Predict, and React to, Emotional Events in the Future: Study
It is possible that our subconscious mind somehow “sees” events 1 to 10 seconds in the future. Before we are consciously aware of an event, our bodies...
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Behind the greatest Wikipedia hoax ever pulled
Yuri Gadyukin did not owe money to a gangster. His final film was not swirling out of control. Weathers did not kill him. His body was not found beneath the Hammersmith Bridge. Gadyukin never died, in fact, because he never existed...
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University Installs 'Texting Lanes' for Distracted Walkers
A university in Utah is giving its student who walk and use their cellphones at the same time their own "lane" on stairways in a new student center
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The Man Who Grows Fields Full of Tables and Chairs
It takes Gavin Munro six years to grow a full crop of willow furniture on his Derbyshire furniture farm.
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The ‘Unfathomable’ Pursuit of Personal Tunneling
When Leanne Wijnsma digs a tunnel, it needs to be in a public place. She marks the spot where it will begin and the spot where it will end, and she begins....
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Chimps and the Zen of Falling Water
There is a waterfall in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. Maybe 12 feet high, it’s fairly modestly sized, though even a modest waterfall is quite a magical thing. And it’s here that chimpanzees come to dance…
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When Booth Saved Lincoln's Life
One year before Abraham Lincoln was murdered, his assassin's brother came to the rescue of the president's eldest son.
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10 People Who Claimed To Visit Other Planets
Over the last couple of centuries, many individuals have claimed to visit other planets through astral projection or through secret, possibly alien, technology. Since the 1970s, most alien stories have been about small gray men abducting humans but usually staying on Earth, which seems a pity...
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