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Spooked horse swims 3km offshore

May 18, 2012
Spooked horse swims 3km offshore

Beach goers and boaters along the coast of Central California are accustomed to seeing fascinating sea creatures large and small off its shore—but an Arabian horse? Some at first thought the gleaming white animal bobbing up and down on the waves near Santa Barbara was a seagull, but were surprised to learn it was...
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Man buys $2m Andy Warhol sketch for $5

April 3, 2012
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A British businessman is said to have stumbled on a never-before-seen Andy Warhol sketch at a US art sale – picking it up for less than $5. The 1930s sketch was hidden among other items Andy Field bought in Las Vegas, The Sun newspaper reported. The signed work is thought to have been etched...
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Speech-jamming gun silences people mid-sentence

March 3, 2012
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JAPANESE researchers have invented a speech-jamming gadget that painlessly forces people into silence. Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University, developed a portable “SpeechJammer” gun that can silence people more than 30m away. The device works by recording its target’s speech then firing...
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Acid attack victim, Katie Piper, can see again

February 6, 2012
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Katie Piper arriving at The TV Choice Awards 2011 in the UK and right, with Lisa Faulkner at a London awards ceremony honouring inspirational women in 2012. Photo: AAP / Getty Images Surgeons in Britain have restored the sight of a woman blinded after having acid thrown in her face in an attack arranged...
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Missing wedding ring found on carrot 16 years after it was lost

January 4, 2012
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A WOMAN has miraculously found her white gold wedding ring on a carrot in her garden – 16 years after it disappeared. Lena Paahlsson of Sweden took the white gold ring off while baking with her daughters during Christmas 1995, but it vanished from the kitchen counter where she had put it. The family...
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Bracelet reveals amazing craftsman’s skill from 7500BC

December 26, 2011
Polished skills: The obsidian bracelet contains remarkable detail

(so good it couldn’t be bettered today) A 9,500-year-old bracelet has been analysed using the very latest computers – and the results show that it is so intricate even today’s craftsmen would struggle to improve it. Researchers from the Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes in Istanbul and Laboratoire de Tribologie et de Dynamiques des Systèmes...
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‘World’s oldest’ yoga teacher a spritely 91-years-old

December 23, 2011
Bernice Bates, 91, is the world's oldest yoga teacher, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Picture: AP

    BERNICE Bates is 91 years old and more flexible than people a third of her age. Guinness World Records recently awarded her title of Oldest Yoga Teacher. While there might be other, older yogis, Ms Bates, completed the lengthy documentation process required by Guinness. Her daughter nominated her earlier this year. Ms...
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Indiana Jones missed the REAL Mayan skull – it’s not crystal, and it’s shaped like a monkey

November 20, 2011
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By ROB WAUGH The ‘crystal skulls’ relics of ancient American civilisations have all been exposed as fakes – but a Mayan carved skull appears to be the real thing. Not only that, experts believe the relic – buried along with its owner between 250AD and 600AD – may have been a replica of a ‘hand...
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Minhaj Gedi Farah becomes face of hope from the famine

November 11, 2011
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Then-seven-month old Minhaj Gedi Farah weighed 3.1kg when he first arrived in the Dadaab refuge camp in Kenya. Picture: AP WHEN the world first bothered to notice the famine sweeping east Africa, one child seemed to appear in media outlets everywhere. HE’S truly one of the lucky ones. Minhaj Gedi Farah was seven months...
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Internet ‘weighs the same as a strawberry’

November 5, 2011
The entire internet weighs as much as a strawberry, calculates YouTube science show Vsauce. But if you're only counting the data, not the electricity required to make it work, the whole lot weighs far far less

The entire internet weighs as much as a strawberry, calculates YouTube science show Vsauce. But if you’re only counting the data, not the electricity required to make it work, the whole lot weighs far far less A mathematician recently calculated that eBook readers ‘gain weight’ when you add new books to your library –...
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