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Young teenager gives birth in shower

May 5th, 2008 · No Comments

A teenage girl gave birth to her baby in the shower while she was home alone. She then proceeded to walk four blocks with the baby attached via an umbilical cord to the hospital.
17-year old Zochilt Parra gave birth to a baby boy before school on Wednesday morning.
There was no one home, she she […]

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Canada’s own Trish Stratus opens Yoga Studio

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Canada’s own Trish Stratus, a former fitness model and WWE Diva, has opened up her very own yoga studio. The new location is called Stratusphere Yoga Studio.
The Stratusphere Yoga Studio is set to open at The Village at Vaughan Mills, a mall just north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This is the latest project from Stratus […]

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Tags: Curiosity · Canada · Entertainment

Albert Hofmann the creator of the drug LSD dies

May 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who is considered the father of LSD, has died at the age of 102-years old.
Hofmann made the discovery of LSD back in the early 1940s.
In 1938, Hofmann was working on a fungus that killed grain, ergot. He isolated lysergic acid diethylamide. Five years later, he spilt some on […]

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Tags: Curiosity · Health

US Man Dies After Police Use Taser

April 25th, 2008 · No Comments

New York - Over the weekend, Oxford Police had to use a taser on a man, stunning him. The man, 24-year old Kevin Piskura, has died.
Piskura died on Thursday afternoon.
This came five days after he was hitw ith the taser in the chest on Saturday.
He was interfering with the arrest of a friend, which […]

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Real life superhero survives 400 meter fall

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

A man who was on a snowmobile has survived after falling more than 400 meters down Mount St Helens. He is currently recovering in the hospital.
51-year old adventurer John Slemp parked his snowmobile away from the edge of Mount St. Helens, and then crawled over to get a look over the edge into the […]

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Study Finds Scientists Use Pefromance Enhancing Drugs

April 11th, 2008 · No Comments

Hollywood - According to a new survey released by the journal Nature, one in five scientists use performance enhancing prescription drugs to give their brains an edge over others.
The survey involvd 1,427 scientists from 60 countries. 70% of those scientists were found to be from the U.S.
The most common prescription drugs taken by […]

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Husbands part of make work program for their wife

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

According to a new study, husbands create hours of extra housework for wives to do each and every week.
The research came from a study carried out at the University of Michigan. The study found that on average, a husband creates an extra seven hours of housework a week for their wife.
On the other hand, […]

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FDA ordered the seizure of $1.3 million of illegal dietary supplements

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Last Wednesday, the U.S. seized over $1.3 million of illegal dietary supplements. The supplements were seized from LG Science LLC of Brighton, Michigan.
The FDA ordered the seizure of the drugs.
The FDA stated that the products contained unapproved food additives as well as new dietary ingredients. This caused the supplements to be considered illegal […]

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Purchased for $20 Pizza.com sells for $2.6 million

April 7th, 2008 · No Comments

43-year old Chris Clark has hit it big, selling the domain name Pizza.com for $2.6 million. He purchased the domain for just $20.
14-years ago, Clark purchased Pizza.com for just $20, and has had it renewed yearly ever since.
The 43-year old owns a software company and never really made much of the domain. He […]

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Tags: Curiosity · Sci/Tec

Private jet crashes into a residential estate

March 31st, 2008 · No Comments

A private jet crashed into a residential estate over the weekend, causing the home to burst into flames, killing five people.
The pilot was confirmed as 63-year-old Mike Roberts.
He lived in Effingham in Surrey.
He had two passengers, David Leslie and Richard Lloyd, both worked in the motor sport industry.
It is believed that the pilot actually managed […]

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Tags: Curiosity