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A snow plowing train that runs through the snow with no problem at all. [Maniac World] | |
The hi-tech football that tells referees when it has crossed the line. [DailyMail] | |
A billboard that 'whispers' a spooky message audible only in your head. [Adage] A video which explain how this works. [LiveLeak] | |
Sony on Thursday unveiled a prototype digital camera shaped like a pizza cutter with a wheel that can be turned to generate enough power to take pictures. [Yahoo News] | |
Cellphone user rings up $85,000 bill. [Globe & Mail] | |
Recent breakthroughs in scramjet engines could mean two-hour flights from New York to Tokyo. [Popular Science] | |
In The Matrix, hero Neo wins his battles when time slows in the simulated world. In the real world, accident victims often report a similar slowing as they slide unavoidably into disaster. But can humans really experience events in slow motion? [Eurek Alert] |
Animal:
A Queensland toddler was apparently saved from drowning by his family's pets after he fell into a dam. [Ninemsn] | |
Hunter’s camera captures images of a ‘unicorn deer.’ [Buffalo News] | |
A male swan who was shunned by females due to his oddly deformed neck may finally have found a girlfriend after seven years of waiting. [Sky News] | |
A cat survived jumping 70 feet (21 meters) from a tree after spending 10 days trapped on branches. With video! [Kero23] | |
Stray cat brings disease to family. With video! [Wlwt] | |
Two scorpions that scurried across the cabin aisle of a Vietnam Airlines plane panicked passengers and delayed the domestic flight by two hours. [Rte] | |
Scientists searching for fossils high in the Andes mountains in Chile have unearthed the remains of a tank-like mammal related to armadillos that grazed 18 million years ago. [Yahoo News] |
Miscellaneous:
The average woman's handbag now weighs the same as five bags of sugar. [DailyMail] | |
Is Hitler’s child living in Britain? [The Sun] | |
A school custodian's impromptu after-hours karaoke performance prompted a police response when a teacher thought she was being threatened over the loudspeaker. [Wcbstv] | |
Romanian man discovers authorities declared him dead eight years ago. [Cbc] | |
Artist exhibits slabs of human excrement at London gallery. [Msnbc] |
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