WEIRD IS THE WORLD: 51-year-old man cross-dressed to fake medical claims

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51-year-old man cross-dressed to fake medical claims
Authorities say a man masqueraded as a female to get into three local hospitals, charging more than $100,000 in medical bills to a woman's medical card.
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Bear bites Florida woman in rear end as she walks her dog
A woman walking her dog near an apartment complex in Longwood, Fla., early Friday morning was bitten in the rear end by a bear.
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Paddington Bear is crowned Britain’s top animated character
Kids favourite Paddington Bear has been voted Britain's top animated character.
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Thai taxi driver returns $450,000 in gold to owner
A Thai taxi driver has returned gold worth $450,000 to a customer who left the jewelry behind three days earlier.
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Scientist seeks deposits for elephant sperm bank
Elephants in captivity are becoming too inbred, so a German researcher has amassed a sperm bank of wild elephant semen for zoos to draw on. There’s just one small problem – sperm is not a commodity bull elephants give up lightly.
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Forget sex: dirty dishes cause most couple fights
German couples fight not over sex or money but untidiness, a new survey has revealed. Nearly a third of people asked listed mess as their number one point of conflict.
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Swedish feminists bare pits to 'reclaim the hair'
Some forty Swedish women gathered at a Malmö square in the afternoon on Thursday, taking a stand against the recent internet storm vilifying women's hairy armpits.
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Outrage as St. Patrick's Day deemed too religious and renamed "O'Green Day"
A Massachusetts school principal has enraged the local community by renaming St Patrick’s Day ‘O’Green Day’ in an effort to encourage diversity and remove the Catholic element.
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Man killed buried under 20-foot mound of pinto beans
A 56-year-old man was killed on Thursday when he was buried under a 20-foot mound of pinto beans at a warehouse in Colorado, police said.
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Barmaid with Guinness fear prepares for St Patrick's Day 'nightmare'
A barmaid with an ironic fear of Guinness is preparing for a 'nightmare' shift after being forced to work her least favourite day of the year, St Patrick's Day.
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Springfield schools approve policy that could provide condoms for 12-year-olds
The Springfield School Committee has given first-step approval to a policy that would make condoms available to students as young as 12.
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Experts find 7th-century teen buried in her bed
Archaeologists excavating near Cambridge have stumbled upon a rare and mysterious find: The skeleton of a 7th-century teenager buried in an ornamental bed along with a gold-and-garnet cross, an iron knife and a purse of glass beads.
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Hundreds of body parts found in unused cellar at German university
A German university has been rocked by the discovery of hundreds of human corpses and body parts in a cellar -- and it is believed they may have been there for more than a decade.
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The Beast: Britain’s biggest beef burger
It tips the scales at fifteen pounds, it contains 18,000 calories and it's Britain's biggest burger.
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Sex-starved fruit flies turn to drink
Male fruit flies that have been rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have mated freely, scientists say.
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