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In case you haven't noticed it, the full moon last Friday, Dec 12 is the year 2008's biggest full moon. This is because the moon is nearest to the Earth on that day (and night) as a result, it will be 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than the other full moons this year.

Fullmoon in the dark night (Source)

Earth, the moon and the sun are all bound together by gravity, which keeps us going around the sun and keeps the moon going around us as it goes through phases. The moon makes a trip around Earth every 29.5 days. But the orbit is not a perfect circle.

The moon's average distance from us is about 238,855 miles (384,400 km). Friday night it will be just 221,560 miles (356,567 km) away. It will be 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other full moons during the year, according to NASA.

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Now 48 years old, Hang Mioku is said to be a cosmetic surgery addict and has severely disfigured her faced after injecting it with cooking oil. She had her first surgery at 28, mostly to her face. Despite her face so enlarged and disfigured she thinks she's beautiful and still want more but doctors refuse to do so suggesting that her obsession could be a sign of a psychological disorder.

Amazingly, she found a doctor who was willing to give her silicone injects and, what's more, he then gave her a syringe and silicone of her own so she could self-inject.

When her supply of silicone ran out Hang resorted to injecting cooking oil into her face.

Her face became so grotesquely large that she was called "standing fan" by children in her neighbourhood - due to her large face and small body.

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Considering his age, this little guy got serious talent about yoyo. See his amazing tricks in this video.



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Save your porn or else, you might end up like this man. :)

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At 6,650 kilometer the Nile River is the world's longest river. So long that it covers ten countries, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea and Kenya. Since ancient times, this magnificent river supports the civilization surrounding it.

Satellite image of the northern portion of the Nile River (Source)

The Nile River in Cairo, Egypt (Source)

The Nile River is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world.

The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and fertile soil, but the former being the longer of the two. The White Nile rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source in southern Rwanda [show location on an interactive map] 2°16′55.92″S 29°19′52.32″E / -2.2822, 29.3312, and flows north from there through Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Uganda and southern Sudan, while the Blue Nile starts at Lake Tana in Ethiopia 12°2′8.8″N 37°15′53.11″E / 12.035778, 37.2647528, flowing into Sudan from the southeast. The two rivers meet near the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

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This really is one unique beer bucket. We're sure beer drinkers will crave to have a mug of drink from it's unique faucet.

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Yahoo Movies listed the most watched movie trailer of 2008. For movie fanatics like us who miss those movies, it's time to get a glimpse of this year's box office hits by watching it's trailer.

For one thing, I never thought The Dark Knight is on the top list. It's maybe because of Heath Ledger's passing away this year. Now we know one of the recipe of a successful movie. :)

1) The Dark Knight (Batman)

2) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of Crystal Skull


3) Twilight


4) Incredible Hulk


5) Iron Man


6) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


7) Wanted


8) Hancock


9) Sex and the City


10) Kung-fu Panda

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Ever wonder how your favorite cartoon character's skeleton looked like?Here's some of them and more at the link below.

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You wanna control your dream? Try the Lucid Dream Machine. As this video is claiming, with under 6 dollars you can create a Lucid dream machine and be able to remember and/or control your dreams. Pretty cool, but I would rather have a nice and sound sleep wearing one of this.



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How would you like to see yourself in one of this stunning nature pictures. Truly, the world is a beautiful place to live in.









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If you are wondering where the world's largest river, the Amazon River, originates, it's right here at the Nevado Mismi. It is located about 700 km southeast of Lima, Peru and is one of the highest points of Colca Canyon. It's amazing that despite it's historic significance, this site is just marked with a wooden cross.

Nevado Mismi is a 5,597 m (18,363 ft) mountain peak of volcanic origin located in the Andes mountain range of Peru. A glacial stream on the Mismi was firmly identified as the most distant source of the Amazon River in 1996, 2001 and 2007. The waters from Nevado Mismi flow into the Quebradas Carhuasanta and Apacheta, which flow into the Río Apurímac which is a tributary of the Ucayali which later joins the Marañón to form the Amazon proper.

In 1982 Jean-Michel Cousteau led a large scale scientific exploration of the Amazon from its mouth to its origin. The “Cousteau Amazon Expedition”[4] cost eleven million dollars and culminated in a six-hour television documentary titled “Cousteau’s Amazon” released in 1983. It offered study information to last years and gave insights into the biology and geology of the largest river system on earth. This expedition was broken into three separate groups and the upper Amazon section was covered by “The Flying Expedition” tasked with exploring the upper third to Aracipa from the river's origin.

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This is an amazing view from the top of Burj Dubai. Still under construction, Burj Dubai will be the world's tallest building when completed.



In this picture, you can see the turn of the earth (top corners).


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1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
22. Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane, just in case there is a crash.
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.

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This hilarious Japanese marshmallow eating game show gives a very funny meaning to marshmallow eating. You got to watch this video, it's very funny.



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This is a graphic video of dolphin and whale massacre in Faroe Islands, Denmark. I can't believe these people are doing this to these gentle giants of the sea.



Here's another video. Watch how they trap the dolphins to make them go to shallow water where people are waiting to slaughter these mammals.

You know how to play a guitar? This man certainly knows how to play a guitar with both feet



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If you happen to visit, why not eat at MYASS, I mean, at Mcdonalds in Yass

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This Thai Temple named “Wat Lan Kuad” or “Temple of Million Bottles” is literally made from more than one million recycled bottles. It is estimated that the whole structure is made from 1.5 million recycled bottles - most of them are donated.

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This naked panda is not dressed up for the Halloween. He was involved in a fight, broke his leg and the vet needs to shaved off his fur to do the operation. Result? A naked panda/ :)



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Meet Brad Sciullo, a.k.a the Burger King. In 4 hours and 39 minutes, this chef at a western Pennsylvania Italian restaurant ate a 15-pound burger with 5.2 pounds of toppings. He is the first person to successfully eat the huge burger at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pittsburgh.

For completing the challenge in under five hours, Brad won $400, three T-shirts, a certificate and a burger hangover.




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