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Huge swarm of birds

This swarm of birds in Denmark, 300,000 starlings to be exact, created quite a stir recently. Starlings are birds from the family Sturnidae, which prefer to roost as a group, and can mimic many types of sounds – Something like parrots.

This massive starling swarm is really startling!

Grandma finally passes driving test after 950 tries

A South Korean grandmother who previously kept failing to pass her driving test finally succeeded on her 950th attempt. Cha-Sa-soon, 68, had been trying since April 2005 and already spent more than $4200 in application fees. Read the rest of this entry »

Man aged 112 marries girl aged 17

A Somali man who claims to be 112 years old married a teenage girl aged 17. He already has 114 children and grandchildren with his other wives and says he wants to have more children now with his new bride. Read the rest of this entry »

Chinese “cat girl” stumps doctors

A six year old girl from China has a bizarre condition which has doctors stumped. Li Xiaoyuan from Fengkai, South China, had a birthmark that has been spreading all over her body, giving her the appearance of a “cat girl.”

A surgeon at Zhaoqing City Dermalogical l Hospital, Guangdong province, said Li Xiaoyuan may have a rare skin disease which makes her moles spread out control, until it affects half her body. Read the rest of this entry »

Are there dinosaurs still among us?

The question of whether dinosaurs still roam this planet crops up now and then, and I myself still wonder whether about this. Take for instance the persistant rumor of dinosaurs roaming the Congo swamp, or in the native language, they call such a creature, Mokele-mbembe.

In the Congo region, there is a vast swamp, 55,000 square miles in size (142,500 sq km), called the Likouala Swamp, supposedly the largest area of marshland jungle in the world. There have been persistant tales of large beasts roaming this jungle dating back hundreds and hundreds of years. European travellers who ventured into this region heard tales from the natives who describe a monster that resembles the brontosaurus, or some other sauropod dinosaur. Read the rest of this entry »

Strange cloud formation in Moscow

Here is a strange cloud formation that was spotted recently in Moscow, Russia.

Sure it looks weird, but then again, it could just be some very high tech aircraft sporting some very high tech technology that can create such an effect in the sky.

I do believe there are a lot of high tech stuff out there which are the result of clandestine government research all this while. Entirely possible.

Another rational possibility is they are hole punch clouds.

Sign this petition. Help stop the killing of dolphins

Do you like dolphins? Dolphins are highly intelligent mammals that live in many of the world’s oceans and are (truly) fascinating to know. In fact, dolphins have been man’s best friend in the sea, as there are many tales, and real reports that attest to dolphin’s saving human lives from drowning, or from shark attack.

Are we humans grateful to the dolphins? Apparently not.

Young dolphin with pacifier

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Did Hitler kill himself?

World War 2 ended 64 years ago, and yet there are still many unsolved mysteries. One of them is, did Adolf Hitler kill himself? While we are all told that the dictator shot himself after taking cyanide during the final phases of the Russian capture of Berlin on April 30, 1945, new evidence have emerged that Hitler may not have shot himself. Apparently, the skull that is supposedly Hitler’s is that of a woman aged below 40. It is not Hitler’s skull!

The accepted theory all this while is that Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun’s body was wrapped, taken outside the bunker by his generals, placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol, and burnt. But this finding reopens the mystery again. Did Hitler really die in that bunker? Read the rest of this entry »

Maggots found in woman’s nose

Warning – Gross story. An Indian woman in Mumbai was found to have 40 maggots crawling inside her nose and chewing her flesh after doctors could not figure out what was wrong with her.

The 70 year old woman had a nose bleed for 5 days and her family took her to 2 hospitals but the doctors did not realize what was wrong with her and gave her nosedrops which of course did not work. Only after she was taken to the civic-run Sion Hospital that doctors found out she had maggots inside her nose! Read the rest of this entry »

Nice fruit shapes

A selection of some nice fruit shapes. These shapes were created when a mould was placed over the growing fruit, and that is how the fruits get to be this way.

Buddha shaped pears

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