A girl aged ten is set to be $4,700 richer after finding a lump of Whale Sick. (w/pic)
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Super Valuable Whale Vomit
Kissing Fish Therapy
More than 50,000 "kissing fish" have been put into the hot spring pool at the tourist resort of Holiday Beach in Haikou, south China’s Hainan Province. This therapy is said to be capable of treating certain skin diseases through kissing the skin. Great photos.
Britain Fast Becoming Nation of Online Shopkeepers
New research from Datamonitor, commissioned by PayPal, estimates that the number of online shoppers in Britain will increase by 10 million, rising to nearly 25 million by the end of the decade.
Tesla Motor’s 130 mph Electric Car
Some call it a silent rocket ship, a black blur, streaking down a back road in San Carlos, cowing its muscle-bound, gas-gulping brethren. This is undoubtedly the future of electric cars.
China Dealing with ‘Income Disparity’ Issues
A report released by the State Development and Reform Commission shows that the Gini coefficient, an index for measuring the income disparity, has now reached 0.4, or the maximum point within the appropriate range in China’s urban areas.
Fighting Monkeys with Monkeys
In an effort to keep monkeys out of New Delhi, and specifically out of the Indian capital’s subways, authorities have called in one of the few animals known to scare the creatures — a fierce-looking primate called the langur, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported.
Idiot Filmmakers from France
Spanish police have arrested four Frenchmen for jumping in front of cars on a busy road so that they could film them and post the footage on the Internet, the newspaper El Pais said Tuesday.
Left-Handed Men Get Paid More
Left-handed men, often seen as having an advantage over right-handed counterparts in sports like tennis, also enjoy much better paydays, a new study says.
Custom Design Your Own Ketchup Labels
Capitalizing on the 130th anniversary of its most famous product, the H.J. Heinz Co. has created a special Web site allowing consumers to create their own ketchup bottle labels.
