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India suspends bus driver for letting a monkey ‘drive’
A bus driver in India who let a monkey drive behind the wheel of his vehicle was suspended after a video of the event went viral online. The bus driver was smiling and petting the langur monkey as it sat on top of the wheel of the moving bus. The footage was recorded by a […]
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$18 Million of Cocaine Found Hidden Inside of Bananas Donated to Prison
Authorities in Houston, Texas say that bananas that were donated to a prison turned out to have almost $18 million dollars street value worth of cocaine hidden inside of the boxes. The Department of Criminal Justice said that the drugs were found in two pallets of bananas that were donated under the pretence that they […]
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New Study Shows Men Fear Social Shame Of Ordering Vegetarian Dishes
Researches from the University of Southampton have found that men who don’t like the taste of meat or men who are unable to eat it for health reasons still find it extremely difficult to choose a vegetarian or vegan dish from a restaurant menu due to the fear of being ridiculed by their peers.] The […]
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Kellogg’s drop ‘approved’ by mums’ slogan after complaints from fathers
The breakfast cereal maker Kellogg’s has come under fire when Father’s for Juice protested outside a branch of Asda in Peterborough over what they described as “cereal discrimination’ against fathers on their packaging. Kellogg’s said they would replace the word for ‘mum’s with ‘parents’ so that it is more inclusive with both parents. A spokesman […]
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Virginia man puts up electric fence to keep kids off his lawn
Bryan Tucker says that he is annoyed at school kids trespassing on his lawn while they are waiting for their school bus. He said that he erected the fence on Tuesday because he had an issue last year with kids littering and trespassing on his property. He complains that he has to pick up trash […]
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Shots fired into residential home because of bad restaurant review
Mr Walley was sitting at home watching television when all of a sudden a bullet flew just centimetres by his head. He mentions that he could feel the air of the bullet as it passed by him. His younger daughter Monica was just in the other room. “I didn’t think anyone was crazy enough to […]
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British man with ‘Taiwan’ tattooed on forehead claims he was beaten up by Chinese people in Cambodia
A British man known as Ferrell was assaulted while on vacation in Cambodia. On Saturday evening he attracted quite a lot of attention from a group of Chinese men who noticed his tattoo in a bar. Ferrell said that the men shouted “Taiwan, China” and he yelled back “Taiwan, Taiwan” as a response. Ferrell mentions […]
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“Ghost” ship appears after being missing for 9 years
A rusted cargo ship that lacks crew and goods, bearing an Indonesian flag was found drifting off of Myanmar. A bunch of fishermen came across the ship which bears the name ‘Sam Rataulangi PB 6000’ was seen drifting down the Gulf of Martaban which is about 7 miles away from Myanmar’s busy commercial capital. Military […]
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Flower shop owner caught stealing plants from cemetery
Police say a flower shop owner stole plants and other items from graves at a New Jersey cemetery for months. Police installed surveillance cameras at the First Reformed Church Cemetery in Pequannock Township after two plants disappeared from the mausoleum and replacement plants were stolen two days later. He says the cameras caught a woman […]
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Women keep giving birth after eating this legendary pizza
If you’re pregnant and feel like it’s about time you gave birth, pop over to Hawthorne’s and have ‘The Inducer’. The somewhat scarily nicknamed pizza has a growing reputation for sending expectant women into labour. It’s long been acknowledged that spicy food is associated with helping overdue mums give birth. Many have traditionally opted for […]
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Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances
Female dragonflies use an extreme tactic to get rid of unwanted suitors: they drop out the sky and then pretend to be dead. Rassim Khelifa from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, witnessed the behaviour for the first time in the moorland hawker dragonfly. While collecting their larvae in the Swiss Alps, he watched a female […]