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    Americans' Heads Getting Bigger

    Modern life may be going to your head. It's not clear why—medicine? cars? supermarkets?—but the skulls of white Americans, and perhaps of other races and nationalities, have become slightly taller and roomier, according to new forensic research. New measurements of hundreds of skulls of...
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    Bird 'Suicides' Over Jatinga, India

    Over the last 100 years, thousands of birds have flown to their death over a small strip of land in Jatinga, India. In a town of only 2,500 people, this bizarre Bermuda Triangle of fowl death remains largely unexplained, despite studies by India's most prestigious ornithologists. After...
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    Rogue Planets (Solo / Orphan Planets Without Suns)

    Solar System Likely Once Had Another Gas-Giant Planet To evolve into our current solar system, the original version probably had a fifth gas giant, computer simulations indicate. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Those are the gas giants, the four heavyweights of the solar system. But...
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    'Unnatural Histories' - BBC TV series

    Has anyone else been watching this series? I think it's very interesting and enlightening. The series descibes how various 'wilderness' locations around the world did not arise from being examples of wildness untouched by human hands, but instead owe much of their existence to humans...
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    Giant statue of Hadrian unearthed

    Parts of a huge, exquisitely carved statue of the Roman Emperor Hadrian have been found at an archaeological site in south-central Turkey. The original statue would have stood 4m-5m in height, experts estimate. His achievements include the massive wall built across the width of northern...
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    'Who Wants Free Money?'

    Town chaos as cash thrown in air People in Aberystwyth had an unexpected windfall when a man showered what is thought to be thousands of pounds into the air at a pedestrian crossing. The man was heard to shout: "Who wants free money?" seconds before hurling the cash into the air in...
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    Freak storms kill six in France

    A freak hurricane-force wind has struck the French capital Paris and much of the country's north, killing at least six people, say the emergency services. Tens of thousands of homes have been left without electricity. The storm hit Paris without warning and lasted only a few minutes, but...
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    Interesting mythology website

    Rather good, I think... http://www.pantheon.org/
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    Strange Streak Imaged in Australia

    Meteor experts don't think it's a meteor. Atmospheric scientists don't think it's lightning. The photographer insists that the streak and flash on the above image has not been created digitally. So what is it? Nobody is sure. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041207.html
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    Has Arafat Been Poisoned?

    As Arafat's health seems to be in a somewhat sharp decline, and for reasons unknown (so far) I wonder what will happen if he dies, WRT conspiracy theories? One possible conspiracy that occurs to me is that he's been poisoned, as the reasons for his ill-health don't seem to be all that clear at...
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    Red Mercury

    Note the reference to 'red mercury'... Terror arrests follow paper tip-off The men are being held at Paddington Green station Four men are being questioned by UK police investigating a Sunday newspaper's claims that a group of businessmen were trying to buy radioactive material. Three...
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    Serbia Ponders A Case Of Mass Monkey Theft

    BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia is trying to account for around 600 monkeys thought to be missing from a consignment imported from Africa. According to the Serbian Statistics Bureau, the monkeys were imported from Tanzania two years ago and paid for by the kilo. The shipment weighed two tonnes...
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    Falling on their swords...?

    The idea for this thread cropped up last night during a Fortean pub experience, so bear with me... How common is it for famous exponents of certain subjects or themes to die from what they espouse, or die from something that their particular cause frowns upon? One person that springs to...
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    Fallstreak Holes / 'Hole Punch' Clouds

    Source: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040112.html What could create a huge hole the clouds? Such a hole, likely hundreds of meters across, was photographed last month from a driveway near Mobile, Alabama, USA. Very unusual to see, hole-punch clouds like this are still the topic of...
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    Disney does Dali...

    In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, in one of cinema's oddest collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney's studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the shelf. Now, 57 years later, a team of Disney animators has finished what Dalí started...
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    Iridescent Clouds

    'Why would clouds appear to be different colors? A relatively rare phenomenon known as iridescent clouds can show unusual colors vividly or a whole spectrum of colors simultaneously. These clouds are formed of small water droplets of nearly uniform size. When the Sun is in the right position and...
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    Did Jesus Visit Britain?

    According to folklore, Jesus was also supposed to have visted Somerset when he was a child - a tale which is also supposed to be the inspiration for the hymn 'Jerusalem'.
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    Daytime Darkness Events (New England 'Dark Day', etc.)

    One of these puzzling events took place where I live at the moment (Wimbledon) in 1910. I was wondering what people's pet theories are for this sort of occurance? Have any occured recently?
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