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July 13, 2006
A farmer in a Kazakhstan village claims his chicken laid an egg with the word "Allah" written on its shell. Bites Amantayeva, from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan, tells state news agency Kazinform, "Our mosque confirmed that it says 'Allah' in Arabic. "
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May 17, 2006
Ian Mucklejohn is the UK's first man to have his own children without having a female partner. The 58-year-old businessman decided to contact an American egg donor, have her eggs fertilized with his sperm in California and pay a surrogate to carry the babies. If he had done it in the UK, it would have been illegal.
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April 12, 2006
A Belgian couple is engaging in a different kind of egg hunt. The mom and dad are desperate for another baby and are flyering entire neighborhoods. The hopeful parents have posted 4,000 letters through mailboxes in neighboring communities.
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February 12, 2006
A German zoo is still scratching their head as they attempt to figure out how to get six gay penguins to mate with females within the species. The females were flown in from Sweden last year in attempt to get the six penguins to mate. However, the female Humboldt penguins are too shy to make the first move, according to Heike Kueck, the German zoo director.
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September 30, 2005
Nissan develops an egg-shaped car whose body pivots 360 degrees so the rear end becomes the front. The Pivo is shown Friday at a Tokyo Nissan showroom and is an experimental model that is not expected to go on sale for several years.
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