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Denny Ingram was a lucky man last week. He caught a yellow lobster - a 1-in-30 million chance. The very rare yellow lobster was caught in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. Lobsterman Denny Ingram found the lobster in one of his pots last week. It is golden on the top and bright yellow on both sides.

Another colored lobster was caught off the coast of New Hampshire last year. It was a blue lobster and the change is 1-in-5 million. The rarest of them all is the white lobster caught off Cape Cod in 2004 and change to caught one is 1-in-100 million.

It's also apparently good luck for this lobster, who will not be heading to anyone's dinner table. Ingram says he plans to keep the yellow lobster on display at the fishermen's co-op at the State Pier in Newport.

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Caño Cristales is not only known as the world's most beautiful river, it's called as "the river of five colors" and "the river that ran away from paradise". That's because Caño Cristales is really an amazing sight to behold when it resident algae are in bloom.

It only happens once a year in the period between the wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right. Many varieties of algae and moss bloom in an amazing display of colors. In that period, the river is coated with different colors, from yellow, blue, green, black, and red and countless shades in between.

If you want to see Caño Cristale in it's dazzling display of color, you have to be there at the right time because for most of the year, it is indistinguishable from any other river, with a bed of rocks covered in dull green mosses and a cool dark blue current.

Often referred as the "river of five colors", "the river that ran away from paradise," and "the most beautiful river in the world." A unique biological wonder Caño Cristales is one of those places you have to see to believe.

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It really is dangerous to drive in a frozen lake especially if you're driving a bulldozer. Poor driver didn't know that the heavy equipment is already sinking and so he goes down with it. His co-worker couldn't help but watch.

This one is scarier than paddling from Australia to New Zealand. And you might think that this picture is photoshopped, it's not. This amazing picture of a shark staking a man on a 3.8-meter sea kayak is a real photograph. It was taken by Thomas P. Peschak in south-western South Africa. This picture of an article about great white sharks posted at White Shark Trust’s website.

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The secret romance between a donkey and a zebra has finally resulted to a Zedonk, a Zebra/Donkey hybrid. The unique-looking female zedonk was born at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Georgia, USA. It has stripes in her legs and face, which she inherited from her fathers and a narrow head of a donkey which she got from her mother - a perfect hybrid.

Aside from the stripes, she also inherited the wild instincts her father. Usually, a foal will lay over on its side, sunning itself. But she sits up at all time - like she's on alert looking out for predators.

Officials at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve, where the cute little crossbred was born, are as surprised as anyone by the very rare coupling. It turns out, the zebra/donkey romance has been many years in the making, but somehow the duo managed to keep it a secret. "The animals have been running (in the fields) together for more than 40 years, but this is the first time that this has happened here," says the preserve's founder. "We never suspected that they (had mated), so it was quite a surprise when the zedonk was born."

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No bearjacking today and hikers can let their guards down - it's bear day-off.

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Bear + unattended car equals bearJacked car. One thing to learn from this video is bear don't make a good driver.

20-year-old actor Nick Afanasiev, aka the Tongue Boy, became a YouTube sensation when he posted videos of his unusually long tongue. It turned out, he has the longest tongue in United States. At 3.5 inches in length from the middle of his closed top lip to the tip of his tongue, Nick's tongue is 0.36 shorter than that of the world record holder for the world's longest tongue, Stephen Taylor.

"I knew it was long; I just didn't know it was one of the longest." Afanasiev told the news station.

Check out one of his YouTube videos.



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Talking about overcoming disability, Dustin Carter has been there and done it. When he was five-years old, he contracted a rare blood disease that claimed all four of his limbs. Losing both his legs, and half of each arm was no less challenging for Dustin, who grew up depressed and a straight "F" student.

However it all changed when he discover wrestling. With the help of a coach, Dustin overcame his disability and eventually made it all the way to the Division II state final. While in high school, Dustin won over forty matches in his senior year of high and a match at the Ohio State Tournament.

"I don't look at myself as different," Dustin said. "I wrestle like anybody else. I go to school like anybody else. I can live on my own like anybody else. I can do anything anybody else can do.

"I don't like people feeling sorry for me."

Video of him working out in a gym.



Here's a video of him while competing.



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Steven Ortiz is just your average 17-year-old. But when it comes to bartering online, this Glendora, CA teen rocks. He manages to trade an old cellphone into a 2000 Porsche convertible in Craigslist in two years using his bartering skills, patience and common sense.

Along the way, he traded the old cellphone with an iPod, then a MacBook Pro laptop, then electronics to dirt bikes, then cars and trucks, and an SUV. The latest is a Porsche. Who knows he might trade it again for something.

Ortiz’s skill at identifying a good deal started years ago when he would buy cell phones off of his friends. At $30 each, he would turn around and sell the used cell phones online for three times the amount he paid. He also picked up a knack for repairing electronics, which enabled him to take something that was almost worthless and get it functioning again.

Here's a video of him and his Porsche featured in a local TV news.



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[Warning: This video is very graphic.]

In case you're wondering what Rhinoplasty is, it's a surgical procedure which is usually performed by either an otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon, maxillofacial surgeon, or plastic surgeon in order to improve the function or the appearance of a human nose. It is more commonly known as "nose reshaping" or "nose job".



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Man's best friends will surely rejoice with this news. The world’s very first ice cream truck for dogs rolled out in London. The ice-cream van will serve canine-friendly flavors such as "Dog Eat Hog World" — a chicken and gammon sorbet. This vehicle was created to celebrate the Boomerang Pets Party.

And also, though their ice cream flavor tastes different than what we're used to, they are safe for human consumption.

"The weather has been so hot, we thought dogs deserved a cooling treat as much as anyone else," said Sally Bezant of event organizer Boomerang Pets Party. She said a team of pet nutritionists had been through a complicated scientific process to determine the tastiest and safest flavors for the dogs' dessert. And although the unusual flavors were tested on a panel of dogs, they can be eaten by humans.

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Madhuri, an Indian elephant, certainly knows how to pass time. When she gets bored her favorite "playmate" is an unlucky lizard. The park where she lives has a good population of lizards and she is known to be an expert in catching these reptiles. She would caught the lizard alive and carried it all the time for few days, tossing it up and even dropping it.

These extraordinary shots were taken by Jagdeep Rajput, 49, from Delhi. He said: ‘She’s known to be quite aggressive so when I did eventually find her I approached carefully.

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If you have been mailing electronically, this time you can smoke electronically.

Tobacco companies should be afraid with this invention - the Electronic cigarette. This cigarette replacement is the fastest growing cigarette-replacing product in the market today. E-cigs as they are called, don't have cancer causing carcinogens such as tar and carbon monoxide. They are quickly becoming an effective method of harm reduction for smokers, as well as being used as a smoking cessation tool. And the best thing about it, it feels and taste like the real one.

If you're an smoker who wants to quit using the Electric Cigarette, you can buy a guide here.



(Get Electric Cigarette guide here.)

At just 6-years-old, Giuliano Stroe, a Romanian descent, is dubbed as the world's strongest boy. He became a Guinness World holder in 2009 after setting the record for the fastest ever ten meters hand-walk with a weight ball between his legs.

Born July 18, 2004, Giuliano is a six-year-old bodybuilder and gymnast. He has been lifting weights since he was two-years-old in Florence, Italy where his family lives. On February 24, 2010 he broke the world record for number of 'air push-ups' - an exercise where push-ups are performed without letting your feet touch the ground. Stroe managed 20 'air push ups' beating his previous record of 12, live on Romanian TV.

Stroe performance made him an Internet sensation as hundreds of thousands of people have watched the clip of him performing the stunt on YouTube. Here's a video of him while training.



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What could be better to celebrate the upcoming release of Starcraft 2 than eat this Starcraft cake. I just wish they also have one for Terran and Protoss.

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The designer of this is the same designer of this. Well, sort of.

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If you see her, Sheyla Hershey will really stand out from the crowd. That's because Mrs. Hershey is the woman with world's largest breast.

Born on December 19, 1979 in Brazil, Hershey is now a housewife now living in Houston, Texas in the USA. In May 2008, after 8 operations, she had a recorded breast size of 34FFF. And she seemed not contented with it that she had another operation in her native Brazil in January 2009. This time she was reported to have a size 38KKK breast.

Well, we hope she will stops this "big" dream of hers because last July 14 2010, Hershey was reported to be suffering from a staph infection in both breasts following her most recent surgery. Although her implants have been removed, the infection may also necessitate breast removal.

Here's a video of her.



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Back in 1925, a certain Mr. Corbett had a vision of America by the year 1950. His vision was published in the Popular Science Monthly magazine August 1925 issue. According to him, by the year 1950, American city streets will have four levels. The top level will be for pedestrians, the second for the slow motor traffic, the third for the fast moving traffic and the bottom is for electric trains.

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NASA Robot, Senseta MAX 5.0A, solves a 19-year-old murder mystery of Dawn Sanchez.

It happened in 1991 when Bernado Bass killed Dawn Sanchez. Her body and the murder gun was never discovered during the investigation. Bass' car, in which Sanchez was last seen, was also missing which resulted to the dismissal of the case in 1991 due to lack of evidence.

The case was recently reopened when an informant told the authorities that the car may have been disassembled and buried in a large abandoned lot in Alviso. The exact location in the lot was not specified, and the cost to excavate the entire area was too high. Enter Senseta MAX 5.0A, a rover outfitted with a Geometrics G-858 magnetometer. Based on data gathered by the robot, the county excavated the site and retrieved car parts that matched the suspect’s car. On August 29, 2009, Bass pleaded no contest to the charges and was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to six years in prison.

Carnegie Mellon Innovations Lab (CMIL) in collaboration with the NASA Payload Directed Flight research team from the Intelligent Systems Division at NASA Ames, and the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., assisted the County of Santa Clara’s District Attorney’s Office in solving a 1991 cold case murder investigation. The team deployed a Senseta MAX 5.0A Rover, an autonomous ground vehicle, to perform magnetic surveys of a vacant lot in Alviso, Calif., looking for buried material evidence, which included car parts and a possible body buried in the old junk yard.

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