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1941 Fruitcake Sells for $525
- 4 Jan 2012
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CINCINNATI (AP) — "A 1941 fruitcake has sold for $525 to an Arizona man in an Ohio company's online auction, and the money will go to the homeless in southwest Ohio.

Elite Estate Group sold the cake in an auction on its website. Company owner Larry Chaney says the man, who wanted to remain anonymous, probably bought the cake as an investment. Chaney says he doubts anyone would eat a 70-year-old fruitcake even though it was vacuum packed and contained rum that probably helped preserve it.
The cake was made in 1941 by The Kroger Co. It was returned unopened to a Kroger store in 1971. The manager took it home and kept it until recently when his son was helping him get rid of some things and gave the cake to Chaney."

via news.yahoo.com
Jyoti Amge : World's Shortest Woman
- 26 Dec 2011
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"Celebrating your 18th birthday is a momentous occasion for anyone, but for tiny Jyoti Amge the milestone is even bigger news.
The 2ft teenager is already a mini celebrity in her hometown of Nagpur, India, but is now set for a huge record when she is officially declared the world's smallest woman.
And despite her miniature stature, 61.95cm-tall Jyoti hopes to celebrate being crowned the world's shortest woman by launching a Bollywood movie career."

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Parallel Parking ~ Persistence Pays
- 24 Dec 2011
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Seal Pups and Dancing Cats
- 21 Dec 2011
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Seal pup wanders into home and puts his flippers up...
By Kiri Gillespie of the Bay of Plenty Times
A wandering baby fur-seal wriggled through the cat-door of a Bay of Plenty house - and made himself at home on the couch. A stunned Annette Swoffer thought she must have been hallucinating when she found the young pup hanging out with her cats in her kitchen on Sunday night.

read on via nzherald.co.nz

The smallest man in the world dancing with his pet cat...
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The Child Who Never Grew Up...
- 1 Dec 2011
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"We bring to you the curious case of a real-life Benjamin Button, with a twist. A Brazilian woman, who has neither aged, nor is getting any younger. Born on May 7, 1981, Maria Audete do Nascimento still has the body of a baby."

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The Youngest Mother
- 23 Oct 2011
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"While this is hardly something one would want to hold the record for, for a so many reasons, it would seem that Lina is unlikely to lose this record any time soon (or one would at least hope so!) So, for now, the current record for youngest human being to give birth to another is 5 years, 7 months, and 17 days, which means she was probably impregnated a month or two before her fifth birthday. Disturbing…"

find out more via todayifoundout.com
Miami Invaded By Giant, House-Eating Snails
- 25 Sep 2011
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In southwest Miami, a small subdivision is being called "ground zero" of an invasion by a destructive, non-native species.

"It's us against the snails," Richard Gaskalla, head of plant industry for Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, tells weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz.

That's the Giant African Land Snail, to be precise. They can grow to be 10 inches long. They leave a slimy trail of excrement wherever they go. They harbor the microscopic rat-lung worm, which can transmit meningitis to humans. And they will literally eat your house.

via npr.org
Uhuru Dog Living on Africa's Rooftop...
- 8 Sep 2011
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Aug 31 2011

MOSHI – Four tourists were greeted by a rather unexpected guest when they reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain, located in Tanzania.

They spotted a dog living at the Uhuru peak of the Kilimanjaro Mountain, which rises 19,341 feet above sea level.

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- 1 Sep 2011
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One Step Beyond : Where Are They ?
- 20 Aug 2011
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The Falling Rocks at Chico

March 12, 1922—rocks that had been falling "from the clouds," for three weeks, at Chico, a town in an "earthquake region" in California (New York Times, March 12, 1922). Large, smooth rocks that "seemed to come straight from the clouds."

In the San Francisco Chronicle, in issues dating from the 12th to the 18th of March—clippings sent to me by Mr. Maynard Shipley, writer and lecturer upon scientific subjects, if there be such subjects—the accounts are of stones that, for four months, had been falling intermittently from the sky, almost always upon the roofs of two adjoining warehouses, in Chico, but, upon one occasion, falling three blocks away: "a downpour of oval-shaped stones"; "a heavy shower of warm rocks." San Francisco Call, March 16—"warm rocks." It is said that crowds gathered, and that upon the 17th of March a "deluge" of rocks fell upon a crowd, injuring one person. The police "combed" all surroundings: the only explanation that they could think of was that somebody was firing stones from a catapult. One person was suspected by them, but, upon the 14th of March, a rock fell when he was known not to he in the neighborhood.

The Vanishing of Charles Elton

In 1917 a man named Charles Elton approached a government cabinet member in Woodrow Wilson's cabinet. That was the year Wilson declared war on Germany (WWI).
Elton, under strict controlled conditions, (Set up and supervised by the government not Elton), dropped a pellet into a bottle of water (the water had just been tested to verify it was water) then the new solution was feed into a brand new engine that had never had gasoline in it. The engine started and ran until the mixture was completely consumed.
Mr. Elton was asked to wait outside but a few minutes later he had disappeared.

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