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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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40-year-old nicknamed AJ is a woman who can't forget. She was also called as the "Human Calendar" because she can remember everything that happened to her. You can pick any random dates and she can elaborately tell verifiable details about what happened to her for the past 25 years of her life even any significant news events on topics that interested her. She usually also recalls what day of the week it was and what the weather was like.

She says that from 1980 at the age of 14 onward, her recall became automatic. Her parents didn't notice her superior memory until she was in her 20s.

"I have studied learning and memory for over 50 years, and I had never read of or even heard about a person who has a comparable ability to remember," McGaugh said. "However, we do not know whether she is unique or whether there may be others with comparable remembering ability who have not as yet been identified."

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Who says babies only needs milk? This store knows more. :)


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Iran is just one step closer to claim the world record for longest sandwich when the crowd couldn't wait before the three Guinness representatives could measure it and began devouring the 1,500 meter long Ostrich sandwich.

On May this year, a record was set by Italy for the longest sandwich measuring up to 1,378 meters. Iranian organizers hope to break that record by showing the video footage of their Ostrich sandwich to the Guinness World Records, since the evidence was eaten by hungry crowds.

Chaotic scenes ensued as the sandwich was rapidly gobbled up, leaving three Guinness representatives present bewildered and unsure if a new standard had been set.

See the video of the world record Ostrich sandwich attempt by Iran.



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In the Saturday Night Live show, vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin had a guest appearance and did the show's welcome speech. Tina Fey's impersonation of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has become popular specially that the US election day is coming.



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Dana Kunze is not insane to to dive from a 172 foot platform. He's in for the high dive competition.



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Gas prices shouldn't hinder you from riding in your most odd vehicles, like this guys does.







And the winner is...

It's official. The record for most t-shirt worn at once made by Matt McAllister last 2006 was beaten last September 19, 2008 by Swedish T-Shirt Store. The official t-shirt count was 237, the previous record was 155.



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At 14 years old, Jack Moule is UK's youngest national jet-ski freestyle champion. Weighing only at 8.5 stone with a height of 5'4", he wowed judges with his top-class flips, spins and rolls on his 22 stone jet-ski. His signature moves include the nose stab and the incredible barrel-roll.

Jack said: 'I love jet-skiing - it's just an absolutely brilliant sport and even the training is good fun.

'What I really want to do is go all the way and become world champion.

'Sport is all about football for most of my friends at school but I wanted to try something different and more extreme.'

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Meet Rhett Lamb, the 3 year-old boy who couldn't sleep. He is awake almost 24 hours a day which makes him irritable during the day.

Rhett is suffering from an extremely rare condition called Chiari Malformation. This condition squeezes the brain into the spinal column which result to strangulating of the brain stem which controls our body's sleep, speech, cranial nerves, circulatory system, and the breathing system.

In order to relieve the pressure on Rhett's brain stem, doctors performed surgery this week that they hope will allow him to sleep properly for the first time in his life. Surgeons made an incision at the base of Rhett's skull to the top of his neck and removed the bone around the brain stem and spinal cord, which produced more space.

Update: After undergoing surgery to remove at the base of his skull, Rhett Lamb can now sleep like normal child do. Here's a video from Yahoo.



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Stipe Cavlovic couldn't believe when he caught a bullet fired at them, with his false teeth. Stipe Cavlovic and his wife Mirna, got caught up in a row between two men, one them fire. The bullet ricocheted off Mirna's cheek and got stuck in Stipe's false teeth. Surprised, Stipe then spat out the hot bullet terrifying his attacker and fled.

I thought I was dead for sure," he told police. "I didn't even see the bullet hit my wife. I just saw the flash of the gun's barrel.

"The next thing I knew was something hit my false tooth and I spat out the hot lead. It hurt like hell but we're both still alive."

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When all machine fails, go to the last resort - human power. It's what this guys are doing on this human-powered Ferris wheel.


Man-powered Ferris wheel show



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Man-powered Ferris wheel from India



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If you are in a park, be careful of gags like this ripped pants prank. You might see yourself in one of this.



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If you spend whole your life wandering what's at the end of the rainbow, settle down now because it already been discovered and caught on a camera.


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Bao Xishun is not just the world's tallest man recognized by the Guinness Book of record for the second time, he is also a proud father of a baby boy, making him the world's tallest dad instantly.

His wife, Xia Shujuan, gave birth to a healthy 4.2kg baby at a hospital in Zunhua, China.

It remains to be seen whether their son will take after Bao or 5ft 5in Xia on the height front. However big he grows, however, it seems likely that he'll be able to settle playground disputes with a confident claim that 'my dad is bigger than your dad.'

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You have to watch this video to the end to find out why it's titled "computer virus".



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Meet John Perry, the man who can't get fat.

Mr. Perry can eat all he can, whatever he likes and never get fat. In fact, he regularly eats Chinese takeaways, chips, chocolate and clotted cream, but his weight has remained stable at 11st 12lb. It's because he has a condition called lipodystrophy - an ailment that makes his body produces six times the normal level of insulin and in turn burns fat rapidly.

Doctors thought he was refusing to eat or had a stomach ulcer, he said.

He initially tried to eat more to gain weight, but it had no effect.

“I didn’t like being slim at first. As a teenager playing football I was so thin I got embarrassed taking my shirt off," he said.

“I used to eat loads of chocolate to try and put on weight but I couldn’t.”

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When you're in a Balance Beam, you should be in balance to avoid accident such as this. :)

If you are on a diet but can help dining out, why not try the ZeroCal - the negative calorie food container.

* The meals contain a large proportion of foods with negative calories (cauliflower, cucumbers, celery, garlic etc.) creating a calorie deficit.

* •Many high-calorie foods (like meat) are substituted with lower-calorie foods that are just as delicious (like seafood).

* •The remaining calories are erased through our proprietary CalBurnKnob™ technology. This is a knob on the takeaway box that's very hard to open (see picture below) – meaning you burn off the remainder just by opening the container!

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If you think animated movies are inexpensive, you are wrong. In fact, animated movies are one of the of the most demanding movie to make, both physically and financially. It because artist have to draw every sequence of the scene and actions. Convinced? Here's a list of the top ten most expensive 3D animated movies of all time. (Note: all figures are in US dollar)


1) The Polar Express
Production Costs: $170 Million
U.S. Box Office: $173 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $297 Million

2) Final Fantasy: Spirits Within
Production Costs: $137 Million
U.S. Box Office: $32 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $85 Million

3) Dinosaur
Production Costs: $128 Million
U.S. Box Office: $138 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $356 Million

4) Monsters Inc.
Production Costs: $115 Million
U.S. Box Office: $256 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $525 Million

5) Treasure Planet
Production Costs: $100 Million
U.S. Box Office: $38 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $91 Million

6) Finding Nemo
Production Costs: $94 Million
U.S. Box Office: $339 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $866 Million

7) The Incredibles ()
Production Costs: $92 Million
U.S. Box Office: $261 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $631 Million

8) Toy Story 2
Production Costs: $90 Million
U.S. Box Office: $246 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $486 Million

9) The Wild
roduction Costs: $80 Million
U.S. Box Office: $37 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $87 Million

10) Shark Tale
Production Costs: $75 Million
U.S. Box Office: $161 Million
Worldwide Box Office: $363 Million

(Image credit: Polar Express Movie)