It's dim up North, so people need bigger brains

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It's dim up North, so people need bigger brains
People from northern parts of the world have evolved bigger brains and larger eyes to help them to cope with long, dark winters and dim skies, scientists said on Wednesday.
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Serbian man becomes 'human magnet' after doctors zap his heart
Sibin Ivanovic has become a magnet for all things metal after doctors zapped him with a high-voltage shock to restart his heart.
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Amputee told he'd have to have other leg removed to receive insurance cash
Bus driver Martin Wells tried to claim on his insurance after having a leg amputated – and was told they would only pay up if he had both cut off.
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Detention gave girl of 17 heart attack
A girl told yesterday how she had a heart attack at 17 because she was given her first school detention.
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Mother conned grieving pet owners out of £90,000 for 'tasteful' funerals before setting fire to animals and dumping them in a field
A mother who burned the bodies of pets in fields and left their bodies to rot in bin bags has been fined just £3,000.
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McCauley family scoops third US lottery win
A lucky US mother and daughter from North Carolina have beaten all the odds by winning the lottery three times.
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Crystal Harris says sex with Hugh Hefner 'lasted two seconds'
She says they will remain friends, but former playmate Crystal Harris has taken a parting shot at her former fiance Hugh Hefner's skills in the bedroom.
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Japanese rail firm punished staff with toilet cleaning and weed cutting
A Japanese railway company was today ordered to compensate train drivers and staff for forcing them to clean toilets and cut weeds as punishment for train delays and other lapses.
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Texas Boy, 12, Designs Dress for Michelle Obama
First lady Michelle Obama, widely recognized for her style sense, may wear a dress that was created by a 12-year-old Texas boy.
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Gran spends 90 minutes clinging to a rope after falling 50ft down a well
The duck pond needed topping up, so they lowered a pump on a rope into their 50ft well to extract some water.
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Britian: Sales of supersize toilet seats for the overweight soar
Sales of an oversized toilet seat have been surging as Britain's obesity rate has gone through the roof.
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Black Hole Drinks 140 Trillion Earths' Worth of Water
'... a cloud of water vapor weighing in at a mind-bending 140 trillion times the mass of the world's oceans, swirling around a giant black hole 20 billion times the mass of the Sun.'

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Missing man found in chimney 27 years on
The body of a Louisiana man who vanished 27 years ago have been found lodged inside a bank's chimney.
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Historic Ohio Lake Erie lighthouse up for auction
An Ohio Lake Erie lighthouse is on the auction block for anyone looking for a distinctive property that includes a lamp visible for 11 miles.
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California man uses butter knife in self-surgery attempt to remove hernia
A Southern California man stuck a butter knife into his belly in a failed bid at self-surgery to remove a painful hernia.
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Toronto mayor accused of one-finger salute
Did Mayor Rob Ford give the middle finger to a local artist who gave him the thumbs down?
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Reindeer cave art 14,000-years-old discovered in Gower peninsula
Reindeer cave markings found in a secret location near Swansea may be Britain's earliest example of cave art, archaeologists believe.
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Girls aged just seven taught to pole dance
Girls as young as seven are being given pole dancing lessons.
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Woman sues government after light falls, injures her in hotel room while having sex on work trip
SHE was on a work trip, staying in a hotel booked and paid for by her employer - but does a sex accident count as being injured on work time?
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