We try not to write about the weight fluctuations of celebrities but Crystal Renn, the former poster girl for the plus-size modelling industry, and her recent weight loss makes for a story about more than just having an off-day while wearing a bikini. Crystal spent the majority of her early modelling career striving to make it [...]
Scientists who make discoveries that have lasting value to humanity get awarded with Nobel prizes. That doesn’t happen to those who figure out that wearing socks on the outside of shoes can decrease the number of falls on icy sidewalks. However, for those stout-hearted eggheads willing to research a seemingly ridiculous hypothesis, such as confirming [...]
Heidi, a cross-eyed opossum that took the internet by storm in December, garnering hundreds of thousands of Facebook fans, inspiring a line of stuffed dolls and even earning an invitation to the Oscars, has died at the age of three-and-a-half, the Associated Press reports. According to Reuters, Heidi was put to sleep at her home at the Leipzig zoo in [...]
EUGENE, Ore. — Sometime after midnight on a moonlit rural Oregon highway, a state trooper checking a car he had just pulled over found less than an ounce of pot on one passenger: A chatty 72-year-old woman blind in one eye. She insisted the weed was legal and was approved by the U.S. government. The [...]
Every once in a while a dull, monotonous activity like fishing can suddenly become a heart-pounding adventure. Take Rupert Kirkwood, a 51-year-old veterinarian from Devon, England. He was lolling in his kayak for hours before he hooked a shark that dragged him for half a mile, the BBC reported. It had been a slow day fishing [...]
A two-headed cat in Worcester, Mass., has twice the reasons for celebrating his recent birthday: It got him in the Guinness Book of World Records. The double-domed feline is named “Frankenlouie,” and according to its owner, who only wants to be known as Marty, he turned 12 on Sept. 8, according to the Worcester Telegram. In doing [...]
Couches are designed for sitting or, preferably, napping. But a team of speed freaks in Sydney, Australia, who are driven to put a motor to anything have turned what would ordinarily be a leather two-seater couch perfectly suitable for sleeping away a Saturday afternoon into a racing vehicle capable of reaching speeds of 101 MPH. [...]
In 1966, I wanted nothing more than to get out of Pennsylvania and see the world. A recent graduate of Penn State, I was teaching art outside of Philadelphia and being told to dance with my students during the prom. I couldn’t join the Marines so I joined Pan Am: I signed up to be [...]
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The “Aladdin” music show at Disney’s California Adventure park was briefly shut down after two performers were left hanging upside down on a magic carpet. Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown says the malfunction occurred during a performance Sunday afternoon. No one was hurt. The park expected to reopen the show, “Aladdin – A [...]
ATLANTA — Police say a bomb squad called to the world’s busiest airport found something fishy about the unclaimed luggage at Atlanta’s international airport – spicy fish wrapped up in aluminum foil. Upon inspection, police reported they found the package didn’t contain explosives. But the baggage handlers’ suspicions of something odd proved right. An investigator [...]
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