What a crappy restaurant!

Food is either served in a flat bowl that resembles a male urinal; larger main meals are served in a toilet bowl. Noodles or rice are served in a bathtub shaped bowl. Some of the most popular meals are curry noodles or rice because of their resemblance to....well....you know! Chocolate ice-cream is popular for the same reason.

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4.5kg hairball in teen's stomach

DOCTORS in Chicago have reportedly removed a 4.5kg hairball from a young woman's stomach.

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Halloween hijinks leads to murder call

PASSENGERS on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police.

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Black market in drug toy claims 'bizarre'

A CLAIM that a black market could develop in Bindeez, the toddler toy that turns into a dangerous party drug when eaten, has been labelled "bizarre" by the New South Wales Government.

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Man levitates outside the White House

DUTCH magician Ramana has been doing his best to freak out American people by levitating in Times Square and in front of the White House.

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Flying Car About To Take Off?

In 1918, long before George Jetson commuted to Spacely Space Sprockets, the U.S. Patent Office issued Felix Longobardi the first patent for a vehicle capable of both driving on roads and flying through the air.

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Titan forecast: Drizzle Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...

Talk about cold, miserable weather! When dawn comes on Titan it's nearly 300 degrees below zero with a steady drizzle.

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Bipolar Disorder: In the Genes?

Bipolar disorder runs in the family. However, scientists still cannot pinpoint it to one specific gene since there are many other factors that may lead to the manic-depressive illness.

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It's the ghosts groping women, says pub owner

THE owner of an English-themed pub in Phoenix says the ghosts are to blame for strange events, including glasses being thrown, beer bottles exploding, and women being groped.

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Video: Huge Hail Hits Australia

High winds and hail nearly the size of tennis balls struck southeast Australia "like a mini-tornado," damaging buildings around the town of Lismore on October 9.

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Belgium Fetches $17m Bid On eBay

Belgium has been put up for auction and attracted a top bid of $17 million before eBay stopped the spoof sale.

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Bikini Babe World Record

1010 bikini babes gathered on Sydney's Bondi Beach to break the record for largest swimsuit photo shoot.

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Pink Guns For Girls

Firearms shops in the US are stocking pink rifles and shotguns to encourage girls to get into shooting.

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Google Sponsors $30 Million Moon contest

Google Inc. is bankrolling a $30 million out-of-this-world prize to the first private company that can safely land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back a gigabyte of images and video to Earth, the Internet search leader said Thursday.

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Bizarre Parasitic Star Found

A dead, spinning star has been found feeding on its stellar companion, whittling it down to an object smaller than some planets.

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Czech Crash Victim Wakes Up Speaking English

A CZECH speedway driver knocked unconscious in a crash stunned ambulance drivers when he woke up speaking perfect English.

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Pot-Smoking cows ?

A NEW Zealand pro-cannabis group says it has scientific evidence that cannabis can stop the development of mad cow disease.

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Fish Meets Bikini in the Fishkini

The fashion market has a new addition, a bikini made from the skin of the tilapia fish.

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Christmas All Year Round

If you fancy celebrating Christmas all year round then a house in the Philippines is the place to go.

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And It Seemed Like Such A Good Idea

An Albanian fishmonger set fire to his van in a burst of anger after the national soccer team lost to the visiting Dutch side, and firefighters failed to extinguish the blaze because someone had stolen their water.

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Texas Company Builds Emotional 'Robot Boy'

The theory posits that humans have a positive psychological reaction to robots that look somewhat like humans, but that robots made to look very realistic end up seeming grotesque instead of comforting.

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A Whole New Spin On Reality

Cliff Pickover's Reality Carnival is a site dedicated to all the strange and wonderful things that consist in our world. Enjoy.


http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html

Funky Fries and Other Foods That Flopped

In 2002, hoping to follow the success of Heinz's new "kiddie" ketchup versions (in green and purple), Ore-Ida introduced Funky Fries: chocolate-flavored, cinnamon-flavored, and blue-colored French fries

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Hundreds Pose Nude on Swiss Glacier

Hundreds of naked people formed a "living sculpture" on Switzerland's Aletsch glacier Saturday, hoping to raise awareness about climate change.

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You Don’t Say! (or if you do, you’re fired)

The mayor of a Siberian oil town has ordered his bureaucrats to stop using expressions such as "I don't know" and "I can't." Or look for another job.

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Connecticut Man Contracts Anthrax From Drums

A musician and a family member both contracted a non-contagious form of anthrax, apparently from imported animal skins used to make drums, officials said Wednesday.

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Wife's Handy Solution

A Chinese wife has cut her husband's right hand off because of his internet addiction.

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Mummy of Girl Sacrifced By Incas Prompts Gasps

Museum-goers gasped at the well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is on display for the first time, a serene gaze etched on her face hundreds of years ago when she was sacrificed and froze to death in the Andes.

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Are there still pirates in the world?

Pirates are still around today. However, unlike the charming and lovable Jack Sparrow from the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films, they're not the types of guys you'd want to meet in a dark alley.

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Tattoo Expo In Moscow

Body Painting, piercing, tattoos and extreme body modifications drew crowds at Moscows's first tattoo expo.

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Creepy Ghost Footage See It To Believe It

A compiled selection of chilling ghost and poltergeist clips. Genuine or fake ? You decide....

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Robot Code of Ethics to Prevent Android Abuse, Protect Humans

The so-called Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots, South Korea's Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy announced last week.

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Doctors to operate on 'human pin cushion'

DOCTORS in China have discovered 26 needles embedded in the body of a woman.

Chaser comedians detained over cardboard motorcade

THREE members of ABC TV's The Chaser team have been questioned by police after strapping on cardboard cars complete with Canadian flags and "driving" through central Sydney.

Study: Ancient Space Collision Killed Off Dinosaurs

An ancient collision between two mega-asteroids spawned the killer space rock that slammed into Earth and marked the beginning of the end for the dinosaurs, a new study claims.

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X-Seed 4000 To Be Bigger Than Mt Fuji

At 13,123 feet high, the massive, mountain-shaped building envisioned by Japan's Taisei Construction Company would overshadow Mount Fuji itself by nearly 700 feet. That's the equivalent of NINE Empire State Buildings stood one upon the other! The building, known as the X-Seed 4000, is designed to house up to one million residents on as many as 800 floors! Designers have had to consider tricky questions of temperature and pressure ...

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Monkeys 'Mock Women'

A troop of monkeys have reportedly taken to harassing and mocking women in a village in Kenya.
The vervet monkeys are reportedly destroying crops and causing a food crisis in the village of Nachu, reports the BBC.

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Huge Hole Found In The Universe

The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.

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Sex Crazed Koala To Save Zoo Colony

A SEX-MAD koala recruited from Scotland to teach his counterpart in an Austrian zoo about the birds and the bees is finding himself very much in demand.

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