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• Tallest man unveils largest cookie in Norway

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  The worlds tallest living man has unveiled the worlds largest gingerbread man at an Ikea outlet in Norways capital, Oslo.
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• Man Acted Like He Was in Military, But Was Not

  
  WGNS Radio — Authority: 450
  Veteran’s Day is a good time to remember the importance of telling the truth at your high school reunion. Thirty-nine-year-old Steven Burton was caught impersonating a member of the military last month after he dressed as a Marine at his 20th high school reunion in Martinez, California.Burton, who actually works in ...
  9 hours ago

• Prank Gone Wrong

  
  WGNS Radio — Authority: 450
  Bradley Jennings got dressed as a robber for Halloween and then went on to convincingly play the part. Police in Jacksonville, Florida arrested the 31-year-old Jennings the day before Halloween after he pretended he was going to rob a convenience store. Jennings walked into the Check ‘n Go store with a mask, pointed ...
  10 hours ago

• Nerd News + Life Imitates the Onion: Eliot Spitzer to Speak At Harvard About Ethics

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 483
  I cant make this stuff up if I tried. Thats right, disgraced New York pol Eliot Spitzer is talking about ethics to a Harvard audience today . Yes, Spitzer , who was forced to resign as governor of New York after that huge adulterous sex scandal! Bonus: the madam who supplied him with prostitutes thinks this is ...
  10 hours ago

• Strange News for Thursday

  
  My Strange Blog — Authority: 124
  Strange News for Thursday Includes: An interview with Michio Kaku; The Vatican & Aliens; More Articles on Alien Life; Kecksburg, PA UFO case; Sweat lodge probe; The Quest for a Lost Army; The Mysterious Trebitsch-Lincoln; Mean People; A Paranormal Find; Monster Hunter Obit…Ancient Mystery: The quest for ...
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• School in North Carolina caught selling grades for cash

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 138
  Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro, North Carolina is in a money crunch like many schools across the country. So like most of those schools it held a fundraiser last year, selling chocolate candy bars.But that didnt raise anything. So with the principals blessing, Rosewood Middle embarked on a new scheme...The ...
  11 hours ago

• Nicolas Cage was Stalked by a Mime

  
  Gone Hollywood — Authority: 565
  Nicolas Cage was stalked by a mime during the filming of Bringing Out the Dead, and decided to talk about it in an interview with Parade.The broke actor stated that during filming, the mime would show up on set and start doing “bizarre” things.Cage stated,“I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or ...
  20 hours ago

• Great White Shark Performs Cesarian Section

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 737
  A great white shark has performed a C-section, according to the New Zealand Herald, Eco Worldly, and other media reports today. According to these sources, a shark at Kelly Tarltons Underwater World bit a pregnant female shark in the stomach. ...
  1 day ago

• Police: Wife pulls knife on husband over vodka

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Police said a woman threatened her husband with a 7-inch knife after he threw away her bottle of vodka as she slept in their suburban Detroit home. Clawson police Lt. Scott Sarvello told The Daily Tribune of Royal Oak the man returned home from work Sunday night to find his wife sleeping with a bottle of vodka. He ...
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• Charges dropped against Fla. men in sidewalk feud

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  Prosecutors have decided to drop charges against two men who got into a raucous fist fight at a St. Petersburg City Council meeting. Frederick Dudley and Ronald Deaton were arrested in October after they began throwing punches during an argument over a decision to privatize a public sidewalk. The men, ages 76 and 61, ...
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• Australian men undress and soap up at a car wash

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  It was just a routine car wash. Except there was no car - and no clothing. Four Australian men who allegedly undressed and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance. Police said the men paid for a wash before stripping nude and cleaning themselves in the soapy water while their female ...
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• Dominique Swain Hates Puppies, I Love Naked PETA Ads (Photos)

  
  Gone Hollywood — Authority: 565
  Yeah, she’s hot, but she also kills puppies.Dominique Swain, a PETA spokeswoman who once did a nude ad condemning the wearing of fur, was caught dropping eight unvaccinated puppies off at an animal shelter.The 29 year old actress showed up at a Malibu shelter this weekend, bearing a box filled with eight-week-old ...
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• The 3 Best Cars for Cougars?

  
  Auto Motion — Authority: 476
  MotherProoof.com, an automotive site geared for women, knows there are many “cougars” on the prowl these days, and that these ladies need worthy wheels in which to get around. With that in mind — and citing TV shows such as “Cougar Town” and “Desperate Housewives” — the site has named its top three ...
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• Peru: 1.5 lbs. of nails pulled from mans stomach

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  "They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru. Doctors in the city of Cajamarca said they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abantos stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scrap metal.
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• Bat Blow Jobs

  
  YesButNoButYes Reader Comments — Authority: 653
  Scientists have discovered that more than two-thirds of female short-nosed fruit bats perform oral sex on their male partners. The female bats that gave their lovers a generous head start were rewarded with longer love making sessions. The sonar-aided chicks also continued the act during mating. Flexibility is ...
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• Bats Have Creative Sex Lives

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 737
  Certain primates, including humans, engage in oral sex. The practice has been documented in bonobos as well. But now researchers have documented fellatio in bats, marking the first time oral sex has been seen in an animal other than a ...
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• Woman Drives Into Aquarium at Tampa Airport

  
  Asylum — Authority: 732
  Filed under: Weird News , News , Weird Stuff , Weird We dont want to say that all women are bad drivers, but weve found at least one who strongly believes in conforming to stereotypes. While picking up a relative at Tampa International Airport on Monday, Yamile Campuzano-Martine, a woman, lost ... Read more ...
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• NC school sells test points for $20 to raise money

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  A middle school in North Carolina is selling test scores to students in a bid to raise money. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that a parent advisory council at Rosewood Middle School in Goldsboro come up with the fundraising plan after last years chocolate sale flopped.
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• New device takes gorillas blood pressure

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 840
  One of the gorillas at Zoo Atlanta has been under pressure lately. Zoo keepers, along with undergraduate students from Georgia Tech and reseachers from Emory University, got a western lowland gorilla named Ozzie to voluntarily have his blood pressure taken by a machine students designed called the Gorilla Tough Cuff. ...
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• Ligers, Toygers, Micropigs, more -- Big vs. Small Animal Showdown

  
  Asylum — Authority: 732
  Filed under: Humor , Weird News , Animals , Weird Stuff You may have heard that micropigs are the latest designer pets in the U.K., but in addition to breeding animals to be tiny enough to fit inside a starlets purse, man has also enjoyed breeding its favorite animals to be terrifyingly huge, just to see ... ...
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