A 71-year-old Chinese woman has pulled a car 65 feet - with her teeth.
Wang Xiaobei performed the stunt with a car weighing more than a ton in Jinan, Shandong province, where she lives.
She attached one end of a heavy rope to the car and wrapped a handkerchief around the other end before biting on the rope.
Wang said she has been practicing feats of strength with her teeth for more than 30 years.
She previously managed to carry a 55-pound bucket of water with her mouth, and also a bicycle.
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Source: www.ananova.com
'Yo, are you cooin' at me?'
A West Yorkshire hospital has banned visitors from cooing at newborn babies over fears their human rights are being breached and to reduce infection.
A statement from Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax said staff held an advice session to highlight the need for respect and dignity for patients.
On one ward there is a doll featuring the message: "What makes you think I want to be looked at?"
Debbie Lawson, neonatal manager at the hospital's special care baby unit, said: "Cooing should be a thing of the past because these are little people with the same rights as you or me."
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
And no playing show tunes, either
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University of Iowa President David Skorton said that threats sent to a law professor who objects to the pink visitors' locker room at Kinnick Stadium won't be tolerated.
Erin Buzuvis said she has received death threats for saying the color scheme promotes sexism and homophobia.
Buzuvis, who moved to Iowa from Boston in the fall, said she will challenge whether Iowa is violating NCAA rules by painting the visitors' locker room pink.
Skorton said "it is deeply offensive and completely unacceptable that a public discussion about the locker rooms has been degraded by threats of violence."
Source: www.nbc5.com
And there were no crank telegrams
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." Western Union internal memo, 1876.
Source: www.goodquotes.com
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