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Grandmother with Alzheimer's climbs down the outside of a tower block
A grandmother in China who suffers from Alzheimer's was rescued yesterday after climbing down the exterior of a high-rise building for 10 storeys with her bare hands. The elderly woman in her 80s had escaped from her home on the 14th floor through the windows after being locked in by her family members. She was pulled into safety by a family on the fourth floor who opened their windows to drag her into their apartment, a fire brigade in Chengdu said on social media.
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Chimpanzee browsing Instagram on iPhone with precision goes viral
Unique animals get a lot of attention on social media, and the latest example is a savvy chimpanzee intentionally browsing Instagram on iPhone
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This is Canada's only known weed smuggling tunnel
Only one known weed smuggling tunnel has ever existed between Canada and the United States. Daily Hive has story from the man who led the investigation.
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The Amount of Poop on San Francisco's Streets Has Hit an All-Time High
The city had a whopping 28,084 reports of turds in 2018.
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Brunei-owned luxury hotels vanish from social media after backlash
9 Brunei-owned luxury hotels have suddenly disappeared from social media following widespread protests against anti-LGBT laws.
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Zoo Keeper Helps Constipated Monkey Pass Peanut By Licking Its Butt For An Hour
As stories about a Chinese zoo keeper licking a monkey's butt in order to save its life go, this one from chinaSMACK is by far the most endearing. After a young Francois' leaf monkey in his care consumed a peanut that had been tossed into its enclosure, Wuhan Zoo employee Zhang Bangsheng noticed that the animal had become dangerously constipated.
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Parents Shocked After Teen Racks Up $6,774 Wireless Bill on Bell
Parents of teenagers are again getting ‘bill shock’ from expensive overages for calling or texting.
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Same couple, same bike, same location
50 years apart
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Unbelievable Assassin Bug Wears Its Victims' Corpses as Armor
Like a real-life version of the Predator—that's barely a half-inch in size—the aptly named assassin bug wears the bodies of its victims like trophy armor after liquefying and consuming their innards. Disgusting. After it's made a kill, the assassin bug—which calls Malaysia home—injects its victim with a special enzyme that dissolves and softens its guts so they can be easily sucked out.
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Man Frozen Under Snow For Hours Is Brought Back To Life
A 25-year-old man, frozen within a snow drift, has been “brought back to life” by doctors after they initially thought he was dead. Justin Smith was ice-cold to the touch, and paramedics assumed he had succumbed to severe hypothermia. However, as reported by The Washington Post, after a last-ditch effort to restart his heart, he was saved against all odds in a first for medical science.
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This Man Was Almost Swept Away in a Flood—Then a Stranger Stepped In
Unexpectedly, rushing waters grabbed hold of his vehicle and swept him away. He thought he was going to die. Martinez (right) being helped from his flooded car by an anonymous hero In storm-ravaged Santa Clarita, California, last March, Margarito Martinez approached Road Runner Road carefully. A swollen creek had flooded it. Martinez, driving a Toyota SUV, figured he’d be OK. Big mistake.
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One of the First Persons to Benefit From Plastic Surgery During WWI
I hope they had anesthesia back then, because this surgery must hurt like hell. Harold Gillies was a New Zealand surgeon who had trained in England. Posted to France in 1915, he witnessed the rise in horrific facial wounds inflicted by this new style of warfare. On his return to England, Gillies set up a special ward for facial wounds at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. He even sent his own casualty labels to the field hospitals in France to make sure that men with such injuries were sent directly to him.
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Australian Science Teacher Uses Experiment To Demonstrate The Crazy Amount Of Sugar In A Soda!
A science teacher shows how much sugar is in a fizzy soda drink, by boiling away all the water and leaving the unhealthy residue behind. After about 2 hours and once all the water had evaporated, the sugar caramelised into toffee. With further heating, the sugar carbonised, turning black and puffing like a dragon.
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A runner was attacked by a mountain lion. He suffocated it to death in self-defense, wildlife officials say
A trail runner attacked by a mountain lion Monday while running in a Colorado park killed the cougar by suffocating it, state wildlife officials said. The man, who hasn't been identified, was running alone in Horsetooth Mountain Park when he was attacked from behind, according to a Colorado Parks and Wildlife release. The man told authorities he heard something behind him on the trail and as he turned, he was attacked.
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Twitch Streamer And Game Studio Employee Arrested In Child Sex Sting
Thomas Cheung, an employee of game studio Hi-Rez (Paladins) and a partnered Twitch streamer, was arrested last weekend in Brookhaven, Georgia in connection with a Super Bowl weekend child sex sting. Police charged him with using a computer service “to seduce, solicit, lure or entice” a child, which is a felony in Georgia. Cheung, 32, was one of 21 men arrested by Georgia police and the FBI, 11alive first reported and esports reporter Rod “Slasher” Breslau publicized among the games community.
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Millarville, Alta. woman giving away $1.7M home in letter writing contest
Alla Wagner's $1.7-million property in Millarville, Alta., could be yours — for a small entry fee and some creative pencraft. Wagner, who has health problems after a back injury made navigating stairs impossible, said she needs to downsize, but can't find a buyer. "No offers. Nothing's going on, you know, and I was told it was too high from market value, so I lowered the price," she told Daybreak Alberta. "And it still didn't move at all."
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Out-of-this-world spaceship designs based on everyday objects
For his sci-fi illustrations, artist Eric Geusz takes inspiration from all around him
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Wounded tiger 'finds humans to ask for help' after being injured
A wounded tiger has amazed wildlife experts by coming out of the wild to seek human help after he was wounded. The tiger, known as Tikhon, suddenly appeared at a remote Russian border post on the frontier with China over the New Year period, and refused to leave. Even when the border guards - part of the FSB security service, formerly called the KGB - fired warning gunshots, the cat stayed put.
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Social worker left surprise $11M to children's charities
Alan Naiman was known for an unabashed thriftiness that veered into comical, but even those closest to him had no inkling of the fortune that he quietly amassed and the last act that he had long planned. The Washington state social worker died of cancer this year at age 63, leaving most of a surprising $11 million estate to children's charities that help the poor, sick, disabled and abandoned. The amount baffled the beneficiaries and his best friends, who are lauding Naiman as the anniversary of his death approaches in January.
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VIDEO: Men risk lives in heart-stopping rescue to save child falling from fifth floor of building
A bus driver named Tagir Magomedov and his colleague, Aydemir Kulduev, managed to catch a child falling from a fifth-floor apartment window in Dagestani, which is a federal subject of Russia.
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