Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

Having A Magnetic Personality Might Not Be So Great

08.26.2010 · Posted in Medical Mystery, Mental Powers, Miscellaneous

Brenda Allison of North London, England, has magnetism. No, it’s not that she has a personality that draws people to her (thought she might), it’s that she has a biochemical makeup that makes metal objects stick to her. Ms. Allison not only can stick change, safety pins, and spoons to her body, but also can ...

Umm . . . Ingenious Use Of Land?

06.10.2010 · Posted in Miscellaneous

Manila Water, Inc. plans to build a sewage treatment plant in an unusual place in Taugig City: a graveyard. The plant will be placed under a currently vacant section of the cemetery in the Philippines, and a memorial park will be created above the plant. For those of you currently saying “Ewwwww!,” the treated water ...

Sausages Bad For Bird Aerodynamics

06.08.2010 · Posted in Miscellaneous

An Australian kookaburra has been pigging out at barbecues, with the result being the same as it is for humans: getting too fat.  Apparently, picnickers have been feeding the bird sausages, and the bird has been bulking up in response, weighing 1.2 pounds, about 40 percent more than it should. Now it’s too heavy to ...

Really Wrong Number

06.03.2010 · Posted in Miscellaneous

Be very worried should you ever be assigned the phone number 0888 888 888. Every person who was assigned that number in the past ten years has died, often of premature causes: Vladimir Grashnov, CEO of Mobitel in Bulgaria, died at age 48 of cancer. Konstantin Dimitrov, Bulgarian mafia boss, was shot and killed (surprise) ...