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Former Colorado Gov. John Vanderhoof: has had a plaque on his wall containing a tiny piece of rock from the Apollo 17 mission. Cut from the rock known as Sample 70017 or the "Goodwill Rock," was cut up into hundreds of pieces and distributed to all 50 states and more than 130 nations. Its estimated value is $5 million.

Sir Paul McCartney recently admitted that he cannot remember many of the classic songs he has written- he said there are "just too many".

RCMP have charged two men in the theft of a large tractor from a farm in southern Manitoba. The men discovered the keys had been left in the tractor and decided to take it for a joy ride. After their fun, they left it at the side of the road and it was badly damaged, has an estimated value of $180,000.

Hundreds of seemingly drunk parrots are falling out of trees and the sky in a northern Australian town. Lisa Hansen, a veterinary surgeon at the Ark Animal Hospital in Palmerston, near Darwin said, "They fall out of trees... and they're not so coordinated as they would normally be. They go to jump and they miss the next perch." The birds are given sweetened porridge and fresh fruit to treat the hangover.

Police were called when a naked skateboarder arrived at Centennial Beach in Barrie, last Friday evening. The skateboarder, who was planning a quick "skinny" dip, was issued a warning and escorted home.

US daredevil Jonathan Trappe made a record-breaking flight across the English Channel last week, in a wicker basket borne aloft by a cloud of 55 helium-filled spheres, travelling around 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Ashford in Kent, England to a French field outside Dunkirk.

Scientists at Boston University have used infrared cameras at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama to record tremulation. The shaking is a form of dominance communicated between male red-eyed tree frogs.

Joseph Peer and Alexander Kendl at the University of Innsbruck in Austria think that about half of all ball lightning reports are actually tricks of the mind induced by magnetism.
Ball lightning is often reported during thunderstorms, and it's known that multiple consecutive lightning strikes can create strong magnetic fields.Focusing magnetic fields on the visual cortex of the brain causes subjects to see luminous discs and lines. When the focus was moved around within the visual cortex, the subjects reported seeing the lights move.

Mummifying animals was a common practice among ancient Egyptians, who embalmed thousands of crocodiles and buried them in mass graves as offerings to the crocodile god Sobek.

Al and Tipper Gore have decided to separate after 40 years of marriage,

Quebec scientists shuddered when a giant snakehead was found dead on the shores of the Saint-Charles River. Believed to have been an overgrown former pet, it is related to the savage, voracious, quick-tempered, razor-mouthed northern snakehead fish which is from Asia but this fish has recently been discovered in areas dotted around North America. The northern snakehead can survive four days out of water (it has a primitive lung above its gills) and slithers from one stream or lake to another- it can walk for up to 1/2 a kilometer! An 18-inch snakehead was pulled from a Chicago harbour five years ago- Northern snakefish invaded the Potomac River near Washington, D.C (during the GW Bush administration)- New York State has discovered the species in a few ponds and streams- mid-state. These fish grow anywhere from a meter to 1.8 meters in length. YIKES

A University of Alberta researcher studying red squirrels have found that these asocial creatures, which usually despise each other, have taken the unusual step of adopting and raising the orphaned cubs of their kin. Dozens of social species -- including chimps, cats, and dogs -- have been known to take in another animal's orphans, but it's the red squirrel's solitary nature that makes this discovery unusual, says The U of A's Jamie Gorrell, a PhD candidate in biology- one five authors of the report.

Kenyan guys are painting themselves up and going about as Masai Warriors to attract women. The women are ready to pay quite a for Masai Jungli gigolos.