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Living to the age of 100, but retaining the body of a 50-year-old may one day be a possibility. Good news, since half the babies born now in the UK will live at least that long....Source November 15th, 2009 Zan Posted in Crazy Offbeat News, Offbeat News No Comments »
Now that he's all grown up, 18-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal wants the world to know just how tiny he is. Magar, who stands 22 inches (56 centimetres) tall, has been waiting four years for his chance to take the title of the world's shortest person. On Thursday, a day after his birthday and becoming an adult, supporters mailed an application package to Guinness World Record in London seeking to stake his place in the record book....Source November 13th, 2009 Zan Posted in Crazy Offbeat News, Offbeat News No Comments »
PepsiCo Inc. is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men "score" with two dozen stereotypes of women by giving users pickup lines and a scoreboard to keep track of their conquests....Source October 20th, 2009 Zan Posted in Crazy Offbeat News, Offbeat News No Comments »
How could a woman be pregnant with two fetuses, but not with twins? Todd and Julia Grovenburg, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, are expecting two babies, but one might be weeks older than the other. Some doctors believe it's a rare case of superfetation, a condition common in animals, but rarely seen in humans. In this case, Julia, who was already pregnant, got pregnant again....Source September 30th, 2009 Zan Posted in Crazy Offbeat News, Offbeat News No Comments »
When the Old Testament writers warned about an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, they couldn't have known about Sharron Thornton. The 60-year-old Mississippi woman now has a tooth for an eye after an unusual operation at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami. In the first operation of its kind in the United States, surgeons removed one of Thornton's canine teeth, coincidentally known as an eye tooth, shaped it, and attached a synthetic lens. The tooth-eye combo was then temporarily implanted into a pouch inside the woman's cheek so it could grow a protective coating of living tissue. Finally, a hole was cut into Thornton's left eye, where the tooth was implanted....Source July 27th, 2009 Zan Posted in Crazy Offbeat News, Offbeat News No Comments »
A Massachusetts teenager who spent three nights alone on Mount Washington in April after he sprained an ankle and veered off marked trails has been fined more than $25,000 for the cost of his rescue. Scott Mason had been praised for utilizing his Eagle Scout skills — sleeping in the crevice of a boulder and jump-starting fires with hand sanitzer gel. But authorities say he wasn't prepared for the conditions he encountered and shouldn't have set out on such an ambitious hike....Source