WEIRD IS THE WORLD: Loch Ness Monster's Home Not on the Level

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Loch Ness Monster's Home Not on the Level
Just as the bubble in a carpenter's level moves back and forth depending on the surface it rests upon, Scotland's Loch Ness tilts back and forth according to the movement of the ground beneath it caused by the tides on the nearby North Sea.
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Baby recreates classic movie scenes
A six-month-old baby who poses with props to recreate classic movie scenes has become an internet sensation.
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Swiss message in bottle found in Africa after 30 years
A 48-year-old Swiss was astonished to receive a letter this Christmas from South Africa in reply to a message in a bottle he first set adrift on the river Rhine 30 years ago.
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Cops In MA Sent To Retrieve Overdue Library Books From 5-Year-Old
The chief of police in Charlton, Massachusetts sent a uniformed police officer to pay a visit to a home and demand the return of two overdue library books.
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Impossible crystals are 'from space'
Examples of a crystal previously thought to be impossible in Nature may be from space, a study shows.
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Life-size replica of E.T. washes up
A stolen life-size replica of E.T. has come home - after a coastguard search for a 'body' washed up with the tide turned out to be the model alien.
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Human remains found on Queen Elizabeth's holiday retreat, Sandringham estate
British police say they've found human remains on the Sandringham estate, a vast area in rural Norfolk where the royal family holidays.
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Drag queen tampon ad 'transphobic' claim
Tampon maker Libra has been branded "outrageously transphobic" over its new ad implying transgender people are not real women because they don't menstruate.
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Deep-Voiced Men Don't Have 'Macho' Sperm
A low-pitched voice in a man is associated with a litany of masculine traits: dominance, strength, greater physical size, more attractiveness to women, and so on. But new research strikes one trait off that list: virility.
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Golf cart driver caught 3 times over limit, tries to run away from police
A man driving a golf cart tried to run away from police after getting caught almost three times over the legal blood alcohol limit.
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Partygoers bear sprayed just before new year
Just as they were getting ready to ring in the new year, some guests at a house party in Portage la Prairie were hit with bear spray shortly before midnight Saturday.
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World's worst souvenirs - photos
CONTENT WARNING!
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Indian child killed as human sacrifice
Two men have been arrested in central India for allegedly killing a 7-year-old girl and cutting out her liver in a ritual sacrifice to ensure a better harvest, police said Monday.
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William, Kate celebrate New Year's Eve in a teepee
It was a family affair for the British royals on New Year's Eve. Prince William and his wife, Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, rang in 2012 at an event thrown by Kate's party planner sister, Pippa Middleton.
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First class on Airbus A380 looks like Starship Enterprise
The first class cabin of Qantas's A380 super-jumbos looks astonishingly like the U.S.S. Enterprise in Star Trek - although you'll have to settle for earthly routes such as London to Sydney and Sydney to Los Angeles.
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Flushing Can Spread Diarrhea Disease
Flushing the toilet with the lid up can spray diarrhea-causing bacteria into the air, according to a new study of hospital toilets.
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Officials Say Raining Arkansas Blackbirds Were Targets of a Crime
Blackbirds raining from the sky for the second New Year running over the town of Beebe, Ark. was more likely a criminal rather than a supernatural phenomenon.
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High school pupils on strike over drunk teacher
Pupils at a school in southern Norway have gone on strike in protest against a teacher who allegedly turned up drunk in the classroom, and their school’s failure to take the problem seriously.
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