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August 31, 2007
Beating his own world record, a 41-year-old Malaysian man dragged three train coaches 2. 8 meters (9 feet) using only his teeth. Rathakrishnan Velu, nicknamed "King Tooth" pulled a seven-coach, 328 tonne train using a steel rope clenched in his mouth along tracks at a railway station in Kuala Lumpur.
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August 16, 2007
In an attempt to get rid of countless stray dogs lurking around roads, the city council in the Indian capital of New Delhi has proposed a new idea of shipping them to Korea, where dog meat is widely consumed in soup. The problem of stray dogs is so widespread that the council is also planning to drug the canines to make them sleep through out the day, so they do not hinder traffic movement. If this was not enough to make you wonder about the future of stray dogs, the officials also expressed their desire to send all the dogs to neighboring states, so that "Delhi can be saved. "
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August 16, 2007
Topics girls, hospital, birth, woman, beds, blog, babies, canada, drugs, indian, baby, family and women
A 35-year-old woman from Canada, who was transferred to Montana because of a shortage of neonatal beds there, gave birth to rare identical quadruplets. The odds of this occurring is one in 13 million. Officials at a Great Falls hospital told Associated Press Thursday that Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare.
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July 18, 2007
Indian police are on a monkey hunt in northern India after a South Korean tourist accused a monkey of stealing his reading glasses. According to Investigating Case Officer Govind Singh, Kim Dang Hoon has already filed a formal complaint stating that the primate intruded into his room.
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July 4, 2007
The letter through which Napoleon Bonaparte sent three kisses to the woman he was to marry fetched $556,000, the highest price in an auction of several manuscripts in London. The French emperor, shortly after he had row a with his future wife Josephine, wrote to her, "I send you three kisses - one on your heart, one on your mouth and one on your eyes. "
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