You may have dabbled with a foreign accent just for fun, or for a performance of some kind. But in very rare cases, a person’s voice takes on a dramatically different sound without his or her permission, and the original accent may be totally lost. The phenomenon is called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and it’s gotten [...]
September 14, 2010
The government of North Korea claims it has fashioned a mind-expanding, liquid brain juice dubbed the ‘Super Drink’ that can supposedly multiply brain cells and halt skin aging. Leave it to the world’s most bizarre and out-of-date regime to produce an anti-oxidation drink that, according to the secretive Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), “protects skin from [...]
September 6, 2010
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? So that means beauty treatments are also in the eyes of the participant. But sometimes, these eyes are smeared with snail ooze. Or maybe they’re splashed by a ramen noodle spa or slithered across by snakes during a massage. Some beauty treatments around the world seem [...]
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 16, 2010
A Chinese airport was dramatically closed after an aliencraft was detected by baffled air traffic controllers. They spotted the UFO on radar screens forcing bosses to ground flights and divert planes away from Xiaoshan airport in the eastern city of Hangzhou. The mysterious object glowed on monitoring instruments late on Wednesday night and was snapped [...]
July 4, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two Anchorage roommates argued over property and one chose to settle it with antlers. Anchorage Police received a call late Thursday afternoon after shots were heard in the 2400 block of Douglas Street in west Anchorage. Once police arrived at the scene, they found a person who had been stabbed with antlers. [...]
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