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January 7, 2007
Israelis currently own 10 percent of the privately owned land on the moon, where real estate sales have skyrocketed following NASA's announcement last month that it would establish a permanent moon colony by 2025. While it is illegal under the terms of the United Nations' Outer Space Treaty for states to purchase land in space, private citizens are permitted to do so.
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January 7, 2007
An eight-year-old autistic boy had been given his own postal box because he loves sending letters to his friends and acquaintance. Gareth Scott, from Gatley, Greater Manchester, England now has his own postal box in his garden after a private company donated one for him.
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October 31, 2006
A German Court has ordered a love witch to pay back a $1,275 fee to a disappointed client after a spell failed to win back the woman's boyfriend. According to the court statement, the service offered by the self-proclaimed love-witch was "objectively completely impossible. "The client had consulted the witch in 2003 about a spell to bring back her partner.
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October 21, 2006
A Chinese man is suing the Beijing trade bureau for denying him a permit to sell bags of "World Cup air. " The man had a plan to sell air from the World Cup and let soccer fans breathe in the air while watching the game. Li Jie, an entrepreneur, also had plans to sell "2008 Olympic Air. " The price would have been about 50 yuan or $6. 30. The Chaoyang Industry and Commerce Bureau rejected his application, saying air from special places was not classified as "an industrial category. "
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October 3, 2006
A British policeman was named Mr. Gay U. K. 2006 in a ceremony recently. Reports said that PC Mark Carter, 23, bested other homosexuals including a town planner and a sailor and was voted as Britain's sexiest gay at the Blackpool's Flamingo Club.
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