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7 Unbelievable Lottery Stories
Published 5/6/2008
Frane Selak escaped from a derailed train, a door-less plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car accidents... and then, one day, won a million dollar lottery!
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Still-Life Levitation by Johan Lorbeer
Published 4/30/2008
Johan Lorbeer is a German street performer. He became famous in the past few years because of his “Still-Life” Performances, which took place in the public area. His installations includes “Proletarian Mural” and “Tarzan”, which are famous in Germany. Several of these performances feature Lorbeer in an apparently impossible position.
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10 Greatest Office Pranks
Published 4/29/2008
As long as there have been offices, there have been office pranks. There is just something about spending 8 hours behind a desk or inside a cubicle that awakens the prankster inside us all. Here are 10 of the funniest office pranks you're likely to see (in no particular order).
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10 Funniest Typos ever
Published 4/23/2008
On a legal paper:
"... in the office may be assfisting me on behalf of..."
Yes, "assfisting", instead of "assisting". Freud, anyone?
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World's Ugliest Dog
Published 4/19/2008
A 14-year-old pedigreed Chinese crested owned by Susie Lockheed of Santa Barbara, California won the "World's Ugliest Dog" title at the Sonoma-Marin Fair contest for the third consecutive year on 2005.
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Ron Mueck's Incredible Human Sculptures
Published 4/18/2008
Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. His incredible sculptures of creepy, grotesque, mottled skin and uncannily gigantic proportional figures have adorned the Millennium Dome as well as Charles Saatchi's living room for a number of years now. It would be fair to say, Mueck's one of the leading contemporary artists of today.
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Tennis anyone? Sky is the limit
Published 4/17/2008
In February 2005, tennis pros Roger Federer and Andre Agassi were in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the ATP's Dubai Duty Free Men's Open, a $1 million International Series Gold event. While in town, they took part in a publicity stunt, engaging in a friendly exhibition tennis match on the grass helipad atop the luxurious Burj Al Arab hotel.
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Black and White Twins
Published 4/16/2008
A mixed-race British mom, Kylie Hodgson, gave birth in 2005 to twins, one of each. No, not a boy and a girl. Two girls — one black, the other white. The odds of such a birth are about a million to one, experts said.
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Suicidal Bear Reconsiders
Published 4/16/2008
On 15 September 2007, a 250-pound bear wandered onto Rainbow Bridge on Old Highway 40 near Donner Summit in the Lake Tahoe, California, area of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Apparently frightened by approaching automobile traffic, the large bruin went over the railing, then caught a ledge and pulled itself onto a concrete girder beneath the 80-foot-high bridge.
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Smallest Works of Art on Earth
Published 4/15/2008
Willard Wigan was born in Birmingham, England in 1957 and is the creator of the smallest works of art on earth. From being a traumatised and unrecognised dyslexic child, he is now emerging as the most globally celebrated micro-miniaturist of all time and is literally capable of turning a spec of dust into a vision of true beauty. Willard can create a masterpiece within the eye of a tiny sewing needle, on the head of a pin, the tip of an eyelash or a grain of sand. Some are many times smaller than the fullstop at the end of this sentence.
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Arthur Mole's Extraordinary Mass Photography
Published 4/14/2008
Almost a century ago and without the aid of any pixel-generating computer software, the itinerant photographer Arthur Mole (1889-1983) used his 11 x 14-inch view camera to stage a series of extraordinary mass photographic spectacles that choreographed living bodies into symbolic formations of religious and national community. In these mass ornaments, thousands of military troops and other groups were arranged artfully to form American patriotic symbols, emblems, and military insignia visible from a bird's eye perspective.
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Please ignore our other... um... crashed airliner
Published 4/11/2008
The cabin announces: "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for choosing to fly with Mandarin Airlines.
As we taxi out to the runway please make yourself comfortable... and for those of you sitting on the right side of the plane... pelase ignore our other... um... airliner."
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World's Drunkest House: 70,000 Beer Cans
Published 4/11/2008
On May 2006, a rented house in Ogden, Utah, was discovered to have accumulated some 70,000 empty Coors Light cans in eight years of tenancy -- the cans covered the furniture and blocked the entrance. The garbage house tenant consumed 24 cans of Coors Light per day for 8 years!
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Oddee's Original Videos (New!):
Amazing Girl Dances holding 10 Bottles over her Head!
Starring our first original video, professional dancer Rosa dances her paraguayan folk music while holding 10 bottles over her head!
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