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Zhang Ruifang a 101-year-old Chinese grandmother from Henan Province, grew a horn on her forehead, above her left eye a year ago. Now there’s another growing right above her right eye. Her youngest son, a 60-year old-man, said that the second horn was growing faster than the first one. The children also worry that they could inherit the bizarre abnormality from their mother.

At first a pimple like growth appeared on her above her left eye, which Zhang ignored. The growth then developed into a 2.4-inch horn similar to that of a goat.

Initially she was quoted as saying: ‘it was a nuisance sleeping and so on, but now I get people visiting me all the time bringing me food and gifts and asking to take my picture.’ In fact, she’s so fond of her horns that she’s refused offers from doctors to remove them.

Here’s another problem caused by deforestation….

This Gum Wall, also known as the Wall of Gum, is one of the least known (and perhaps the oddest well not quite) attractions of the historic Pike Place Market, Seattle – known nationally for its fish throwers and as the location of the original Starbucks logo.

It has its beginnings in the early 1990s when theatre patrons waiting in line to buy tickets or attend the theater began placing their gum on the wall. At first people used gum to anchor coins to the wall, but the practice stopped, leaving only the gum on the wall after the coins were taken by some people. It continues to grow in popularity and, therefore, in length and width and height. As the wall has grown, so has the sophistication of the gum  art.

The unnamed man drove his Renault Scenic into the Shell petrol station in Bad Klosterlausnitz, Germany, while wearing only a pair of black shoes.

Station manager Frank Hollmotz, 25 said: ‘I guess he didn’t want to get his feet dirty. He climbed out of the car in full view of the CCTV cameras and filled up – then walked into the shop to pay. He then went back to the forecourt and climbed into his car and left.’

Staff said they would not file a complaint with police, as the naked protest hadn’t made staff feel threatened – and they added that they were not exactly sure if it was even a crime, as the petrol station is private property.

There were several angry protests in Germany over Easter after petrol companies were accused of driving up prices ahead of the Easter holiday. It’s not clear exactly how buying your petrol naked makes this point.

Source : Metro.uk

This is how you do it step by step :

1. Get a few watermelons but make sure that it weighs between 6-16 pounds per melon
2. Find some old soda or mineral water bottles and fill it with sand
3. Some old plastic sheets
4. A few friends to keep the score

That’s all you need! For illustration purposed please refer to picture below. Get ready to bowl baby.

Check out the score keeper!

The Dancing Forest of Kaliningrad is definitely an interesting site, especially if you’re into strange natural phenomena. Known as the Dancing Forest or  Drunken Forest, by the locals, this unusual pine forest is made of trees of various shapes, most of them twisted in circles and spirals, along the ground which makes it the strangest natural phenomena on Earth.

The Dancing Forest, according to tourists, looks more like a site near Chernobyl, with 20-year-old pines tied into natural knots and loops, like lumpy contortionists.

Several theories emerged, including one suggested by a psychic who said the forest is located on a spot where massive amounts of positive and negative energies collide. Others say the causes are geological, that it must have something to do with the unstable sandy soil. But the most widely accepted theory is that the Dancing Forest was manipulated by the powerful winds blowing in the area.

Memory was something you lost with age
An application was for employment
A program was a TV show
A cursor used profanity
A keyboard was a piano
A web was a spider’s home
A virus was the flu
A CD was a bank account

A hard drive was a long trip on the road
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived

And . . . if you had a 3.5 inch floppy.

You just hoped nobody ever found out!?!

Google has renamed itself after Topeka, Kan., 0n Thursday morning, the company’s home page was titled “Topeka” instead of “Google,” although still in its distinctive blue-red-yellow-green

Why? Because in March, Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten announced that he was informally changing the name of his town to “Google,” just for one month.

“Whatever the outcome, the conclusion is clear: we aren’t in Google anymore,” blogs Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Google has made a name for itself as one of the more proactive pranksters in the business world. Every year on April 1, the company tries to punk its followers with a new prank.

The naughtiness stems back to 2000, when Google claimed that its “MentalPlex” could read your mind through your computer screen, allowing users to conduct searches on sheer brain power.

“With MentalPlex, you just project a mental picture of what you want to find,” explained Google, in its 2000 posting, accompanied by a hypnotic spiral.

Last year, Google claimed its site was featuring the world’s first 3D browser, but this was just another case of April Fool’s bunk.

Source:CNN

Following a year of research, Starbucks announced today the introduction of two new beverage sizes . The idea was based on findings through research and direct customer feedback through MyStarbucksIdea.com where customers requested for even more choices in beverage size.

Unveiling the Plenta and the Micra that will satisfy all customers’ needs for more and less coffee.

Derived from the Italian word for plentiful or small, the Plenta™  (128 fl oz) delivers coffee lovers record amounts of the world’s finest coffee beverages while the Micra™ (2 fl oz) delivers a quick and satisfying morsel of goodness.

Starbucks is also suggesting several subsequent uses for the Plenta™ cup post coffee enjoyment. Suggested usage options include popcorn receptacle, rain hat, perennial planter, lampshade or yoga block. The Micra also serves as a convenient milk dish for kittens, soft boiled egg cup or paper clip holder.

If you don’t know it yet, this was an April Fool’s joke played on thousands of people yesterday via the www.starbucks.com!

Source : starbucks.com

Cheng Guorong, a beggar in China lived unknown on the streets of  Ningbo about half a month ago. He suddenly became famous after an amateur photographer testing his camera lenses posted a set of photos taken of the homeless man online. His family soon found him with the help of these clues.

He became an internet sensation after his photos were seen on net. People were talking about how handsome, cool and sexy looking he is. How he even looks like a Japanese or Korean actor. The people dubbed him as “Brother Sharp” in Chinese.

He became so popular, that people are searching on the streets for him, some hoping  to catch a look of him, while some wishes to help him. He was even on the front cover of a magazine ! But this famous beggar gets frightened by the crowd, cries and sort of loses his mind when too many people approach him.

There are many versions of  how he ended up on the streets. But the real story is still unknown. One version is that the 34 year old from Poyang county of Jiangxi province, left home for work 11 years ago. His father and wife died in a car accident a year ago, and he has two sons, aged 10 and 11.

According to his relatives, Cheng Guorong headed for Zhejiang’s Ningbo city in 2000 and lost contact with his family three years later. Relatives said Cheng Guorong is a proud man and his mental illness may be linked with the pressures he faced in life.

The frenzy peaked when netizens went onto the streets in search of “Brother Sharp” in the hope of getting some updated pictures of him!

Here's Cheng Guorong on the cover of a Chinese magazine

Did we mention he also cross dresses sometimes? Here he is in a white frilly frock!

This brown dress doesn't do him justice at all! LOL!