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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 International News of the Weird With an unintentional focus on Asia. The Thai police will now wear Hello Kitty armbands as punishment. Late for work? Wear a hot pink armband featuring everyone's favorite Sanrio character. Hey, it's more amusing than a dunce cap. A woman in Germany had a pencil removed from her head after 55 years of being bothered by headaches. She fell on the pencil at the age of four and it's been lodged inside her head ever since. In India, police fed a thief chicken and rice hoping he would defecate the gold necklace he'd swallowed. They first fed him 40 bananas, a trick that had worked with a thief who swallowed an ornament a few months before. And finally, we make our way to China--I'll leave the headline alone since it's brilliant: No more crispy duck served at toilets. "Food stalls attached to Beijing's public toilets will be removed in good time for next year's Olympics." Obviously, when I use a restroom my first thought afterward is, "Gee, I'm hungry." Labels: facts, links, weird news ^ Top | 2:05 PM | | | 
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Random Facts In 1939, a five-year-old Peruvian girl became the youngest documented mother in history. She hit puberty somewhere between the ages of 18 months and three years. According to the CIA World Fact Book, Singapore has a population of 4.5 million people. And 4.4 million cell phones. But only 2.4 million people use the internet. There's a provision in the document that annexed Texas that would have allowed it to be divided into five states. The average wedding in the US "costs over $23,000 and includes an average of 168 guests, 100 of whom actually give wedding gifts that average $85 each. But the costs of attending a wedding are not limited to the gift—amazingly the typical guest spends on average $500 to attend the event when new attire, travel, gas, parking and hairstyling are factored in." Cook peanut butter at high enough pressures, and you can make a diamond. If Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones break up, she gets $2.8 million for each year that the marriage lasts. Colin Powell can speak a bit of Yiddish. Microwaved water can explode. Labels: facts ^ Top | 11:00 PM | | |
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