Offbeat
- Faith In God Protects From Stress And Anxiety
[16 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Psychologists of a Canadian university made a research, during which they established that faith in God helps to get rid of anxiety and lower the level of stress. ...
- Poll Identifies the Biggest Mistakes on a First Date
[13 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
Onepoll.com, which is an internet marketing research company, carried out a poll of 3,000 people to identify the biggest mistakes a person makes on the first date. The number one mistake was clicking your fingers at a waiter. ...
- Man Loses a Testicle After Horse Bit it Off
[13 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
A horse attacked a 35-year-old man while he was unloading sand stored in a horse-drawn cart at a construction spot in Indonesia. ...
- Young Man Stuffed His Cat into Marijuana Bong to Quiet the Animal Down
[05 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
A man stuffed the cat of his girlfriend into a makeshift marijuana pipe in order to calm down the animal. According to Area Schomaker of Lincoln he had done this previously and it always worked. ...
- Woman with Two Uteruses Gives Birth to a Baby From Each
[02 Mar, 2009] comments (0)
It may sound unbelievable, but a woman from Michigan, United States, who had two wombs, gave birth to two babies, one from each of the woman's uteruses. ...
- Two New Seasons to Make The Simpsons Longest TV Show in US
[27 Feb, 2009] comments (1)
FOX asked for the creation of two new seasons of The Simpsons, which would make the show the longest on the television. ...
- Woman Becomes Mermaid thanks to Specialists from Weta
[27 Feb, 2009] comments (5)
A woman from Auckland, who lost her legs below the knee when she was a child, managed to accomplish her dream to become a mermaid with the help of industry experts from Weta Workshop the woman's wish became reality. ...
- Most Bizarre Names in Britain and the US
[25 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
British researchers decided to investigate the weirdest and unfortunate names of people living in the UK. They found Jo King and Justin Case, then there were Terry Bull, Mary Christmas, Anna Sasin and Doug Hole. ...
- Thousands Fall for Weight-loss Chocolate Scam
[20 Feb, 2009] comments (2)
Losing weight with the help of chocolate may sound incredible and miraculous in a way. But recently it was revealed that it is not worth spending for the phenomenal chocolate that burns calories. ...
- Italian Woman to Be Inseminated With Sperm from Comatose Husband
[19 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
A well-known gynecologist from Italy looks forward to artificially inseminate a woman with sperm taken from her husband, who is in coma due to brain cancer. ...
- Monks Build Buddhist Temple Out of Beer Bottles
[18 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
In northeast Thailand monks erected a Buddhist temple using more than a million recycled beer bottles. The construction is known as Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, or Wat Lan Kuad which is translated as the Temple of a Million Bottles. ...
- The 2009 Stella Awards Reveals Most Shocking US Lawsuits
[17 Feb, 2009] comments (9)
This week at the annual Stella Awards, some of the most frivolous and outrageous lawsuits have been revealed to the public. ...
- Organization Working on South Pole Flooded with Applications for Vacancies
[13 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
According to the British Antarctic Survey, it has been flooded with applications for job vacancies on the South Pole, which means that for Britons working at -50C is better than not working at all. ...
- Woman Surprises Her Lover With Rose Petal Scene from American Beauty
[13 Feb, 2009] comments (1)
To celebrate Valentine's Day and surprise her boyfriend, a woman from UK spent thousands of pounds to rent a penthouse suite and recreate the scene from the Oscar-winning movie American Beauty by covering her body with rose petals. ...
- Anna Nicole Smith, the Opera, to Be Staged at British Royal Opera
[12 Feb, 2009] comments (0)
Mark-Anthony Turnage, a popular English composer, decided to write an opera about the life of the famous glamour model Anna Nicole Smith. The opera will debut at Covent Garden in 2011. ...