According to Moscow police, this is not the first time something like this happened. In 2007, the mummified body of a man was found in a sitting position in his apartment kitchen in the city of Tula, central Russia. He had been dead for 6 years in a sitting position no less, and was only found because authorities were making their rounds to collect payment from those who did not pay their utility bills for a long time. I guess 6 years of not paying the electricity bills would certainly be a large amount, if the electicity was still on in his apartment at the time of death.

The dead man was identified as Vladimir Ledenev, and police decided not to investigate further because they found no evidence that he died a violent death.

I think such is the symptom of society today that many ignore their neighbors and when this is widespread like today, such cases will probably occur again. Yikes!

Source: Pravda

No camera tricks, no Photoshop; it’s all really art worthy of a chameleon’s act. Liu claims he takes as much as 10 hours to paint himself for some pictures. What is still not clear, is does he rely on an assistant to paint him after he has given sufficient instructions?

Says Liu, “My work is a kind of reminder, to remind people what the community we live in really looks like, and what kind of problems exist.”

Check out his amazing self portraits, and try to spot him in those pics!

A wire was also put into a major abdominal blood vessel to ensure the vessel became lacerated in the explosion.

Scientists hoped to learn how long the animals can survive when more than a third of their blood have been removed, and hopefully help troops injured in combat or during a terrorist bombing attack.

“This work is part of our broad combat casualty care programme. Anecdotally, we are seeing evidence of people surviving because of this work,” said a spokeswoman for the Porton Down army facility, where the test was carried out.

But is it necessary to blow up live animals for this? Well guess what, none of the pigs survived (obviously).  I think this experiment is nothing but gross animal cruelty.

Source: Telegraph UK

His lightbulb has been burning almost continuously for 109 years and has never blown. It currently stil hangs from the ceiling in Fire Station 6, Livermore, northern California. Nicknamed the Centennial Light, this traditional 4 watt, traditional filament lightbulb was Adolphe Chailet’s entry in a contest that Thomas Edison’s lightbulb, during the search for a lightbulb.

Edison was a ruthless businessman who out-muscled Chailet’s design and somehow managed to get his lightbulb approved instead of the others. And the world has been using “defective” lightbulbs ever since, without realizing that lightbulbs can in fact be – very long lasting; it is all down to the design.

Not surprisingly, Chailet’s lightbulb is recognized as the World’s Most Durable Lightbulb, by the Guinness Book of Records; but it matters little, since Edison made all the money and got his lightbulb used by millions of people.

I know the lightbulbs I used; they always had to be replaced every few months. Even fluorescent lights do not last for very long either….

The Centennial Light Bulb

Source: Centennial Bulb

Ok, so they may have to split it up between themselves and their sister (who lives in America), but still, they’ll all be billionaires even after the split.

How did they come to such a stupendous fortune? Well, apparently their maternal grandmother was very wealthy, and therefore, so was their mother. But their mother cut off ties with her family, and lost touch with her children (the brothers), until she died one day.

When the brother’s maternal grandmother passed away in Germany, they became the closest next of kin to be entitled for the fortune, since German law stipulates that the closest direct descendents are entitled to the share of any estate.

“If this all works out it will certainly make up for the life we have had until now – all we really had was each other – no women would look at us living in a cave,” said Geza.

“But with money maybe we can find a partner – and finally have a normal life. We don’t know yet if she (their mother) even told our grandmother about us – I understand it was only while they were carrying out genealogical research that lawyers found we existed,” added Geza.

This must be the most stupendous rags-to-riches story I ever heard. Better than any powerball lottery.

PS: What did they do in their past life to deserve such luck?

Source: Ananova

What do you see in the picture?

Did you see the nice ass of the girl behind?

Great eyesight! Wow!

But look closer again…

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Click the picture to enlarge.

Now what do you see?

You see, it’s not an ass.

It’s just the shoulder and armpit of the woman holding the camera!

The police who answered her call at around 2:30 am fortunately agreed to help, and persuaded the boy to wind his game up and go to sleep.

Police officer spokesman Joe Zanoli said that the 911 call was “a little unusual, but by no means is it surprising — especially in today’s day and age when these kids play video games and computer games.” Haha.

I can understand because I used to be addicted to games as well, and it is no sweat to be spending all day and all night playing until you forget to even eat or sleep. But if every mother is going to resort to calling the cops for such situations, it’s going to distract the police from much more serious cases.

More disturbing are people dying from playing too much computer or video games like this case in South Korea.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

Source: Yahoo News

The woman, Svetlana Tagantseva, 28 gave birth to a baby boy who weighed 6.75 kilos or 15 pounds and stands at 62 cm tall. Now that’s big!

“He looks like he is six months old already! He can hardly fit into the beds in the newborn department here. Other kids that lie next to him are so tiny in comparison to him,” doctors say smiling.

The baby is Svetlana’s third (large) child. She also has two children who were large at birth.

If you guessed that the baby would have been too large to come out, you’re right – Doctors delivered him via Cesarean section, and they say the baby would have broken the mother’s bones if he were to come out the normal way!

I think the baby might grow up to be a giant…

Source: Pravda

The snowman was made from 2 tiny tin beads welded with platinum, and the scientists used something called an ion beam to carve the eyes and the smile. Another particle of platinum was used for the nose, which measures just 0.001 mm across.

“The snowman is mounted on a silicon cantilever from an atomic force microscope whose sharp tip ‘feels’ surfaces creating topographic surveys at almost atomic scales,” says the NPL.

If this snowman was presented to you, it would just look like a mere speck of dust. A snowflake is about the same size as the snowman.

Photo: Dr Cox / National Physical Laboratory

Source: The Register UK

Chris Rickard, 49, suffered a deep gash on his forehead and abdomen, as well as cuts and scratches on his chest in the 9 AM attackHe was walking his pet dog, Rocky near his home farm which had a dam nearby, when they startled a sleeping kangaroo. Rocky chased the kangaroo and the kangaroo grabbed the dog and held it underwater for 20 seconds in the dam’s waters. Imagine that!

Chris tried to save his dog and was attacked by the kangaroo instead.

“I thought I might take a hit or two dragging the dog out from under his grip, but I didn’t expect him to actually attack me,” Mr Rickard said.

“I was stuck having to hold onto the dog with both hands because it was half drowned and I couldn’t really see anything because the kangaroo just ripped into me.

“It was a shock at the start because it was a kangaroo, about 5 feet high, they don’t go around killing people. Then all of a sudden I realised the first hit gave me opened up a wide gash above my eye and blinded me. I was flailing away underwater carrying a dog with a kangaroo ripping into me.”

The kangaroo only stopped when Chris elbowed it in the throat, which made it retreat.

This incident reminded me of the movie, Kangaroo Jack. I never knew they would be so violent and intelligent at the same time. So next time you think kangaroos are nice, cuddly animals………think again!

Animals are so unpredictable.

Source: Fox News