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October 15, 2007
Six friends broke a record after catching a 844-pound shark during a fishing tournament off the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. Adlee Bruner, 47, and his five other friends took more than an hour to pull the 11-foot mako shark onto the boat from the Gulf of Mexico.
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September 22, 2007
A 62-year-old man was charged with felony robbery and battery causing bodily injury after he stole another man's false teeth right out of his mouth. If convicted of robbery, Robert Henry Stahl could face two-to eight-years in prison. The victim, Billie Townsend, 56, told police that he went to a bar to pay Stahl the money that he owed him.
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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 21, 2007
Dutch researchers claim that human teeth, daisy petals, eggshells and white paint can be turned into cheap lenses, China's People's Daily Online reported on Wednesday. The Chinese news Web site said the science news agency New Scientist reported that researchers at the Twente University in the Netherlands made the discovery.
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August 2, 2007
For years, he's been known simply as the "Unknown Child". After what researchers say was a wrong identification in 2002, one of the smallest victims from the sinking of the Titanic has been given a new name. The remains of a child who died during the disaster was identified five years ago as that of Eino Viljami Panula of Finland. But, earlier this week, one of the Canadian researchers who identified the child in 2002 said the team was wrong and that the child is actually an English boy.
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