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Study Shows Ancient Moss Cloned itself for 50,000 Years

news.nationalgeographic.com Moss on the Hawaiin Islands is regarded as among the oldest multicellular organisms in the world. The peat moss propagates by creating duplicates of itself which means that the existing crop originated from exactly the same founder plant that arrived at Hawaii hundreds and hundreds of years ago. It’s believed that human activity including [...]

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Man Tries to Use $1,000,000 Bill at Walmart

www.msnbc.msn.com A guy in North Carolina was imprisoned after trying to purchase items with a forged $1 million bill at Walmart. The 53-year-old tried to buy a carpet cleaner, a microwave oven and a variety of other products over-the-counter with a $1 million bill which he insisted was legitimate, even though the largest bill in [...]

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Sound Pulled from a Very Old Recordings

www.physorg.com Scientists are already able to obtain sound from recordings produced in Alexander Graham Bell’s laboratory. Bell had created the recordings to protect against having his ideas compromised and had delivered them to the Smithsonian Institute, his staff have been working on enhancing the quality of sound of Thomas Edison’s phonograph. It’s not recognized if [...]

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Lost Ring Found on Growing Carrot After 16 Years

www.bbc.co.uk A lady in Sweden has located her wedding ring on a carrot in her own backyard after it had been misplaced for sixteen years. Lena Paahlsson had lost the ring in 1995 after putting it on her kitchen area draining board to do some cooking. When she returned to get it she noticed it [...]

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PETA Demands Memorials for Cows

www.dailymail.co.uk The animal rights group feels cows killed on the highway must have memorials intended for them. PETA ( People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals ) has requested authorization to buy memorial markers to put on roadways at locations where cows trucks have been involved in an accident causing in the fatalities of the [...]

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Bizarre Incident that Inspired ‘The Birds’

www.usatoday.com A strange event in 1961 that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s popular movie might have at last been solved. California’s Monterey Bay was the scene of the weird occurrence in 1961 when a number of seabirds rammed themselves in to buildings for reasons that eluded experts for many years. Researchers nevertheless think they’ve finally solved the [...]

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Woman Sees Face of Jesus in a Sock

www.telegraph.co.uk Thirty eight year old Sarah Crane is convinced one of her drying socks showed the face of Jesus in the wrinkles. The sock joins a large list of mundane inanimate items that believed to include the face of Christ in reports and media stories worldwide. “I called my boyfriend over straight away – we [...]

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Nasa’s Grail Gravity Twins To Enter Moon’s Orbit

www.bbc.co.uk The 2 satellites will enter in to orbit around the moon within numerous hours to start mapping its gravity. Scientists wish the mission can provide fresh information in to the moon’s inner structure that might help reveal a little more about how the moon created and why the near and far sides are so [...]

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China Declares Manned Moon Mission

www.telegraph.co.uk China has announced intentions to land a man on the moon and also to construct a space station by as soon as 2020. The statement arrived as part of a 5-year plan that highlights the development of China’s space exploration initiatives such as the progression of new satellites and a substantial technological discovery in [...]

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Woman Sued a Man That Was Hit By A Train

www.latimes.com A lady hit by a man’s body after he was hit by a train is suing the victim over her injuries. In 2008 Hiroyuki Joho was hit by a train and died after attempting to cross the railway lines during heavy rain. His body flew upwards by the force of the incident and hit [...]

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