Seven charged in Indian organ trafficking
• upi.comSeven people, including government workers, were arrested Saturday in Bangalore, India, on suspicion of being involved in human organ trafficking, police said.
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Florida 'artist' held in traffic fracas
• upi.comA Florida judge told a defendant this week she should keep what she calls performance art away from busy streets "and everything will start looking up for you."
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Cat Gets Busted For Smuggling Contraband Into Brazilian Prison
• Business InsiderPrison guards caught a cat carrying a mobile phone and a saw trying to walk through prison gates in north-east Brazil, it has emerged.
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You will not read anything better today...
• Daily Paul.comI bought this for my son and he spent countless, blissful hours simulating massacres of weddings, funerals, and other family gatherings of brown skinned foreigners!
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Bumbling Australian robbers tunnel into wrong store
• RT.comTwo Australian thieves made off with $2,600 after accidentally tunneling into a local KFC instead of their intended target, a jewelry store next door to the restaurant.
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Up to 300 Birds Mysteriously Fall From The Sky In Seymour, Tennessee?!
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/Residents and those passing by near Dogwood Hills subdivision on Boyd Creek Highway Sunday afternoon were met with an unusual scene. Dozens of dead birds littered the highway and surrounding fields after falling from the sky. Sgt. Robert Stoffle of t
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New year rung in with cold swims
• upi.comBrave swimmers in Minnesota, South Carolina, Wisconsin and Chicago rang in the new year Tuesday by jumping into frigid waters.
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Woman says hypnotists stole her cash
• upi.comA Russian woman told police she was robbed by a pair of women who used hypnotism to trick her into handing over $40,000.
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The Massive Scale Of Amazon's Distribution Operations, Revealed Through Startling Images
• www.businessinsider.comMind-Blowing Facts/Pictures About Amazon's Giant Shipping Operations
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Coin found in potato field sells for $430,000
• Terrence Aym - HeliumIt's said that life can be strange and Lady Luck sometimes has a sense of humor.
Both adages apply to Lillian King who found an old coin buried in the middle of a potato field and walked away with more than a pretty penny.
The coin, a 16
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Brazil to clone its endangered species
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/The scientists at Brazil’s Embrapa agriculture research agency said this week they have spent two years building a gene library with hundreds of samples from eight native species, including the collared anteater, the bush dog, the black lion tamarin,
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Is Every Single Elephant a Village-Wrecking Booze Hound?
• http://www.livescience.com, Eli MacKinnon"Marauding pack of booze-addled elephants wreak havoc on Indian village." It's a story, or at least a headline, that's surprisingly common.
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Mayor of Alaska village walks on four paws
• CNNThe mayor of Talkeetna has reigned over the town since he was a kitten. When the people decided that their human candidates were not up to par, they elected Stubbs to be their mayor, meaning that there are at least two people who lost a race to a cat
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The Ukrainian Navy Is Strapping Dolphins With Guns To Attack Swimmers
• Business InsiderThe Navies of the world have long known how effective the sonar of dolphins and sea lions can be at locating small underwater objects.
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Man eaten by hogs at Oregon farm
• www.kptv.comWhile searching the hog enclosure, the family member found Garner's body in several pieces, with a majority of it consumed by the hogs, the district attorney said.
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Source Of Loud Boom In Foothills A Mystery
• http://sacramento.cbslocal.com, Anjali HemphillPeople from all over El Dorado County say they’re hearing loud booms several times a week, but there are many theories on what is causing them.
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Belgium-sized rocky mass adrift off New Zealand (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
• http://www.rt.comA gigantic raft of volcanic pumice pebbles has been spotted floating off the coast of New Zealand.
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Tennessee man charged $85,000 for a tank of gas
• http://chrisinmaryville.net/Feel like gas prices are making a dent in your budget? Imagine how Ray Crockett felt when he received a bill for nearly $85,000 after filling his gas tank. Nashville’s News Channel 5 reports that Crockett charged about $30 in gas from a local stat
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Horrific Testicle-Eating Fish Invade Illinois Lake [Video]
• Terrence AymWhen the pacu cannot find its normal food—nuts, snails, and vegetation indigenous to the Amazon—it becomes a meat eater. In Papua New Guinea it's called the 'ball-cutter fish' because it attacks male swimmers and fishermen and savagely bites off t
Make It So - Energy Science Fiction Becoming Science Fact
• Oilprice.comStar Trek has been noted on many occasions throughout the series for seemingly predicting (or perhaps inspiring) the progression of technology.
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5 Charged in Case of Chinese Teen Selling Kidney for iDevices
• http://www.wired.com, By Christina BonningtonFive people have been charged with intentional injury in the case of a Chinese teenager’s obsessive quest for Apple products.
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Mysterious Clintonville Booms Caught On Tape
• http://www.prisonplanet.com, Paul Joseph WatsonNoise sounds more like an underground explosion than an earthquake
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Wis. town longs for relief from mysterious booms
• http://hosted.ap.org, By DINESH RAMDE and CARRIE ABemused curiosity is turning into worry and aggravation for families in a small Wisconsin town longing for peace and quiet after three nights of mysterious booming noises that have sent some residents into the streets
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Minister praises plan to heat swimming pool from fires of crematorium
• By Rowena MasonA money-saving plan to heat a swimming pool with energy from the cremation of dead bodies has been backed by a senior Government minister.
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Secret $1 million gold stash discovered in French rafters
• Yahoo NewsCrews renovating an old building get a big surprise when "sacks of gold" rain down from the ceiling.
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The 25 Best Jeremy Lin Signs We've Seen So Far
• Cork GainesMaybe the strangest phenomenon of the Jeremy Lin story is the explosion of puns created based on his name.
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200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World's Oldest Living Organism
• www.popsci.comA patch of Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass native to the Mediterranean, has just gotten its DNA sequenced and its age determined--and as it turns out, some parts of this particular patch are up to 200,000 years old.
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Court to decide if SeaWorld whales are illegal 'slaves'
• www.breitbart.comA California federal court is to decide for the first time in US history whether amusement park animals are protected by the same constitutional rights as humans.
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Judge Orders Florida Man To Take His Wife on a Date
• www.nbcmiami.comJust in time for Valentine's Day, a Florida judge ruled on Tuesday that a man involved in a scuffle with his wife treat her to an evening at a local bowling alley and a romantic meal at Red Lobster.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Dentist Dad May Be Worth ~ $60,000,000
• www.businessinsider.comEdward, a dentist in Dobbs Ferry New York, loaned his son the money. In return, he was granted 2,000,000 shares of Facebook.
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