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onto No Such Thing As The News March 31, 2015 9:23 AM
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A potion made from a medieval medical recipe killed MRSA bacteria in the lab, raising hopes it could lead to new treatments for modern-day skin infections
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After spate of cheating scandals in Bihar, army reportedly takes radical step to ‘avoid frisking so many people’
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Iranian state TV recently aired some amazing video of a sniper killing six ISIS fighters in under two minutes. He’s an impressive marksman. It’s just too bad that the video is fake. This “Hezbollah sniper” is actually just playing the video game Medal of Honor.
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Dry grass piles up around homes in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria – at times reportedly reaching roof height
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It is usually bright pink and similar to a flatworm - but it's the animal's amazing evolution that has baffled scientists
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A lookalike of the star appeared in an advert for the Espresso Club coffee company
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The world’s largest model railway has come to Google Maps.
Tom Perran's curator insight,
January 15, 2016 9:44 PM
If you have never seen the Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg, or even if you have , you NEED to check this out! Incredible!
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Wednesday's top breaking story comes to use from the burg of Florence, Alabama, pop. 39,319, where NBC affiliate WAFF reports that suspicious items were fo
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Cheese-based power station in the Alps produces enough power to supply a
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The fisherman who survived for 15 months at sea is being sued for one million dollars (£650,000) by the family of his dead colleague, who accuse him of eating their relative to survive.
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Britain is sifting through centuries of laws to strike down those deemed obsolete, irrelevant or just plain absurd.
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Companies in South Korea are getting their staff to take part in their own pretend funerals to make them appreciate life.
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A controversial experiment at Fermilab designed to hunt for signs that our universe may really be a hologram has failed to find the evidence it was seeking, the laboratory has announced.
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We all know that eating lots of garlic can make your breath unpleasant (although there are other foods you can eat along with the garlic to avoid this). So you’d guess that garlic would also make your BO smell garlicky…right? Not so fast. In this study, a group of Czech researchers had some male “odour …
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The statue by Sophie Ryder had to be moved because people on their phones were
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Their remains have been described as the 'ugliest fossil reptiles' ever with faces and bodies covered in bony knobs so it's not hard to see why they weren't easy on the eye.
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The unusual sheath might not put most of us in the mind of intercourse, but it was a standard for the wealthy back in the day
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The flight had been delayed for 10 hours, and impatient passengers had already taken earlier flights, turning the plane into a charter flight for the lone, fortunate passenger
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35 restaurants across China have been found illegally using opium as seasoning in their food, state officials say. Five restaurants are being prosecuted over the findings, whilst 30 more are under investigation, according to the China Food and Drug Administration.
Treathyl Fox's curator insight,
February 13, 2017 12:24 PM
Article published a year ago. Shocking old news but bears repeating. Might again elsewhere.
Those poor customers. "It is unclear how the opium came to enter the food, however, previous cases in China have seen chefs try to ‘hook’ customers on their food through use of the narcotic which can cause serious addiction." Glad they shut the restaurants down!! Come on chefs! Don't say you didn't know any better! So? Any further steps taken? Like chefs put in jail! Chefs rat out drug suppliers! Etc. Don't just shut down the restaurant and stop there!
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Large metal spheres thought to be space debris are found in northern Vietnam.
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'That was wrong,' the Diocese of San Pablo says, as a viral video shows its priest on a hoverboard on Christmas Eve
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A Facebook campaign has been launched for Norway to give their flat Finnish neighbour a mountain that would become its new highest peak as a gift for the centenary of its independence.
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Being unhappy or stressed will not put you at a greater risk of dying, according to the UK's Million Women Study.
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An online group has put Barsik the cat up for mayor in the Russian city of Barnaul.
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Flurry of humorous comments on social media after motorist seeks refuge among
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It was a scary scene at Kirtland Air Force Base Wednesday afternoon. Men in tactical gear and Humvees could be seen after phone calls were made to base security regarding an active shooter.
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Really interesting, it just goes to show how much we can learn from our history, be it medicine or not.