French fries in Germany could be significantly shorter this year due to the heatwave that has baked Germany and much of Europe this month, the German Farmers’ Association (DBV) said on Friday. Hot and dry weather has led to a meager harvest of extra-large potatoes used to produce the ideal-length French fry. “The French fries industry [...]
July 25, 2010
COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho — The manager of an Idaho thrift store is seeking the return of her laptop computer, which was accidentally sold for $5. Sandra Bechthold says she was shocked when she learned her 2-year-old Dell Inspiron and case were sold on July 12. Bechthold had to do some work offsite that day, leaving [...]
July 21, 2010
If you live in the United States, a warning: you may want to read the terms of service of the websites you use a little more carefully. That’s because a government prosecutor in New Jersey is pursuing criminal charges against the operators of a company that used an automated process to purchase event tickets on [...]
July 20, 2010
Women are at their most beautiful and attractive at the relatively mature age of 31 years old, it has been revealed. A study of 2,000 men and women from the UK looked at a variety of aspects of beauty including, confidence, looks and style, in a sample of women. Overall it was found that a [...]
July 17, 2010
Superstitions ascribe supernatural origins to things that humans don’t understand, and they occur across the world. Early humans had a lot that they didn’t understand, but modern people are much more enlightened. Superstitions about bad luck feel like the kind of things we tell gullible children, so why do I still see people knocking on [...]
July 16, 2010
Indonesia’s Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict [...]
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