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March 19, 2015 1:17 PM
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Peregrine falcons nesting on Vodafone mobile phone masts cause poor signal

Peregrine falcons nesting on Vodafone mobile phone masts cause poor signal | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Vodafone warns mobile phone users in London to expect up to two months of slower networks because nesting peregrine falcons on masts cannot be moved
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March 17, 2015 10:39 AM
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Spain finds tomb of writer Cervantes

Spain finds tomb of writer Cervantes | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Scientists say they have found the tomb of Spanish literary giant Miguel de Cervantes, nearly 400 years after the Don Quixote writer's death.
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March 17, 2015 7:35 AM
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Ikea shuts down world's most ambitious game of hide-and-seek, world mourns

A match of hide-and-seek with over 32,000 Facebook signees was squashed today by Ikea, according to Bloomberg. The event was set to overrun the Ikea in Eindhoven. A similar event with 19,000...
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March 1, 2015 9:11 AM
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Escalator sucks in commuter’s pants

Escalator sucks in commuter’s pants | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
A 35-year-old Somerville man lost his pants — but kept his cool — at the Davis MBTA station during the morning commute yesterday, in the T’s latest escalator mishap.T rider Greg Murphy, who witnessed the aftermath, told the Herald he was on his way to work when he and dozens of other commuters happened across the bare-legged man and a disabled escalator at about 8:30 a.m.
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February 28, 2015 7:17 AM
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Russians try to rename their town 'Putin'

Russians try to rename their town 'Putin' | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
A petition to draw on the president’s authority to improve local living conditions has got off to a slow start in Krasnokamsk
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February 25, 2015 9:28 AM
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Swede's 21st balloons dubbed 'IS' propaganda

Swede's 21st balloons dubbed 'IS' propaganda | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
After Sarah Ericsson hung up balloons in the shape of the number '21' for her birthday, her home was paid a visit by Swedish police who thought they stood for 'IS' and had been put up by supporters of the Islamic State extremist group.
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February 13, 2015 7:35 AM
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Britain's best word play from the UK PUN championships

Britain's best word play from the UK PUN championships | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
The contest will take the format of a “rap battle”, with the acts taking it in turns to showcase their word-play wizardry on randomly chosen topics over four rounds
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February 10, 2015 11:01 AM
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Now This Is A Crisis: $317 For A Pack Of Condoms In Venezuela

Now This Is A Crisis: $317 For A Pack Of Condoms In Venezuela | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
CARACAS, Venezuela — Condoms are the latest item to become scarce — and costly — in Venezuela.

Once easy to find, condoms disappeared from pharmacy shelves as the year started, along with many food and cleaning products.

Venez...
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February 9, 2015 6:07 AM
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Royal Marine's Liverpool FC tattoo reads 'You'll Never Walk' after amputation

Royal Marine's Liverpool FC tattoo reads 'You'll Never Walk' after amputation | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Andy Grant defies odds to become runner after waking up from operation to remove leg below knee and finding key word missing from You'll Never Walk Alone tattoo
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February 4, 2015 6:43 AM
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Fake ice 'too slippy' for penguins

Fake ice 'too slippy' for penguins | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
A group of penguins has been temporarily removed from an aquarium exhibit because the fake ice flooring was too slippery.
Ryan Choong Jia Jing's curator insight, February 8, 2015 7:39 AM

This is soo adorable but yet shocking people could fail at making fake ice. 

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January 30, 2015 2:57 PM
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Super Bowl Team Cities See More Flu Deaths

Regions that send a team to the Super Bowl saw on average an 18 percent increase in flu deaths among those over 65, probably because of increased transmission due to gatherings of people at parties during the height of the flu season. Karen Hopkin reports.
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January 28, 2015 8:57 AM
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Two secret planets seem to be hiding at the edge of our solar system

Two secret planets seem to be hiding at the edge of our solar system | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
At least two planets that could be bigger than Earth might have been hiding at the edge of our solar system, scientists have claimed.
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January 27, 2015 5:01 AM
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Scientists Figure Out How to Unboil an Egg

Scientists Figure Out How to Unboil an Egg | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
The method could save the biotech industry a lot of headache, and a lot of money.
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March 18, 2015 7:16 AM
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Meteor mistaken for sinking ship's distress flare

Meteor mistaken for sinking ship's distress flare | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Full-scale sea search and rescue operation launched off Cumbrian coast after 'missing ship fires distress flare' that turns out to be space rock
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March 17, 2015 8:31 AM
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These are the most common lies that we tell to impress others

These are the most common lies that we tell to impress others | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Most of us have told little white lie to save face – but would you go as far as fibbing about saving someone’s life?
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March 10, 2015 9:43 PM
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Irish Es are smiling – ecstasy and other drugs temporarily legal in Ireland

Irish Es are smiling – ecstasy and other drugs temporarily legal in Ireland | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Court of appeal rules law on controlled substances unconstitutional after challenge, and emergency legislation is expected to take a day to come into effect
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February 28, 2015 1:00 PM
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'Mad chicken woman' sells round egg

'Mad chicken woman' sells round egg | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
A "perfectly spherical" chicken egg, thought to be "one-in-a-billion" sells online for £480 with the money going to charity.
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February 25, 2015 9:57 AM
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'Racist' bird names banned by Sweden

'Racist' bird names banned by Sweden | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Sweden's Ornithological Society has banned several names for birds following concerns that they sound racist, after completing the first official guide to bird names in Swedish.
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February 19, 2015 5:59 AM
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Court rules against ex-teacher with a phobia of young kids

Court rules against ex-teacher with a phobia of young kids | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
CINCINNATI (AP) — A retired teacher who sued a school district, saying administrators discriminated against her because of a phobia that makes her fear young children, lost her appeal in the federal case on Wednesday. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati upheld a lower-court decision that had dismissed Maria Waltherr-Willard's breach-of-contract claim against Mariemont City Schools.
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February 13, 2015 7:32 AM
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Teenager undergoes world's first penis reduction operation

Teenager undergoes world's first penis reduction operation | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
A 17-year-old has undergone what is believed to be the world's first surgical penis-reduction procedure after it grew so big he was unable to play sport
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February 9, 2015 6:24 AM
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Rare warty pigs are lost when male eats his entire family at Bristol zoo

Rare warty pigs are lost when male eats his entire family at Bristol zoo | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Incident involving the ciritically endangered animals happened shortly before a rare monkey was eaten by otters and three lorikeets escaped
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February 5, 2015 7:13 PM
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Emoticons can rack up huge bills

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Emoticons in text messages are being charged as picture messages on some handsets, leaving users with unexpected bills.
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February 1, 2015 7:26 AM
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Club grows grass with cannabis lamps

Club grows grass with cannabis lamps | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
Cannabis factory lamps seized by police are put to use by Leeds Rhinos to grow some grass of their own - on the pitch.
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January 30, 2015 6:24 AM
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Sperm whale's emergency evacuation... of its bowels

Sperm whale's emergency evacuation... of its bowels | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
What does such a gigantic animal have to be scared of? Spooked by the photographers, this sperm whale protected itself by enveloping them in a poonado
Bea Brown's curator insight, August 23, 2015 4:16 PM

Next time you are scared shit-less, be it literally or figuratively, remember that even whales have their bad days. At least your 'poonado' is not considered newsworthy, although it is somewhat amusing. 

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January 27, 2015 5:10 AM
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Polar bear penis bone may be weakened by pollution

Polar bear penis bone may be weakened by pollution | No Such Thing As The News | Scoop.it
The baculum, a bone in the penis of polar bears, is losing density in areas where pollutant contamination is high – and that may spoil the bears' sex
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