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SANDRA, THE NON HUMAN PERSON
A court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, granted a petition in ordering the freedom of a Sumatran orangutan from Buenos Aires Zoo. Sandra, age 29, is a “non-human person” and thus sufficiently advanced in “cognitive
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FOUND IT!!
At a recent art show at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, Italian artist Sven Sachsalber brought in a large haystack, dropped a needle into it and gave himself two days to find it. Late the
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LIKES TO CRUSH SKULLS
A German woman who identifies herself only as “Anna Konda” described to Vice Media her Female Fight Club in Berlin, where women test themselves in wrestling matches. While some of the women are fetish-motivated
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Very Easily Offended
— Steve Soifer, CEO of an international support group for people with “shy bladders,” excoriated DirecTV for its series of commercials featuring Rob Lowe, whose “awkward” TV character stands at a urinal and says,
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BABY BEAUTY
Amanda Collins, 28, took beauty pageant mom down to the next level when she entered her daughter Luna in Britain’s UK Princess and Prince International pageant based entirely on the results of Luna’s ultrasound
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Sign Of The Times
“Selfie fever” has begun to sully the sacred Islamic pilgrimages to Mecca, according to scholars who complained to Arab News in September. What for centuries has been a hallowed journey intended to renew the
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War is Hell
— The newly inaugurated “Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent” (a project of Osama bin Laden’s successor, Ayman al-Zawahiri) failed spectacularly in its maiden mission in September when it attempted to commandeer an American aircraft
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Of Course!
— Jonathan Thomas, 50, was charged with DUI and disorderly conduct in Washington Township, Ind., after driving through two backyards and getting his vehicle stuck in the second. Police reported that Thomas “showed his
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Seriously???
German Rolf Buchholz, who owns the Guinness Book world record for most body piercings (453), said he was upset to be denied entrance into United Arab Emirates to do a performance at Dubai’s Fairmont
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FB World
Up-and-coming Sicilian mobster Domenico Palazzotto, 28, was outed in August by Italy’s L’Espresso magazine as the owner of a Facebook page that shows off Palazzotto’s muscled, bare-chested body. One concern is that the site
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