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The Japanese are crazy about soy sauce, and they will do anything to put it in every kind of food known to man. Love it!

You all know we’d love to promise this would be the last time we’re mentioning underwear-loving daredevils, a genre of swashbuckling thievery made recently famous by the likes of Japanese Shideo Kodama and Yoshio Fukasawa, but our gut feel tells us Garth Flaherty and his wonderful stash of about 1,500 unmentionables is just one of [...]

We know you’re getting tired of hearing about that darned $1 million laptop from Luvaglio, but just so you know, Luvaglio CEO Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio recently told Gizmag behind silken showroom drapes and amid cavorting expensively-hired 24-hour French pantomimes that the fabulously pricey luxury goods his company produces are such because that’s how the company [...]

North Hollywood’s Norton Sales Inc. is the currently hot “junkyard of the stars” — home to bits and pieces of America’s space program you can purchase to complete your Apollo 11-themed living room. Here you can buy cool space program stuff like the Apollo command module engine ($1.5 million), J-2 engine for the Saturn V [...]

The Serbian town of Cacak is so happy Samantha Fox is going to perform in a concert there in April that the menfolk thought erecting a life-sized monument of the once-hot 1980s sex symbol is the only befitting thank-you gesture. The town’s decision-makers are in a heated discussion on how to do that, as Fox’s  [...]

Professor Esmail Zanjani of the University of Nevada loves his new sheep — not because it is sweet, enthusiastic, and can do an uncanny rendition of Aya Matsuura’s Pretz commercial — but because it is the world’s first “chimera” with the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells [...]

The strange stuff recently oozing out of France’s venerable space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) is the green jello-like manifestations of 1,600 UFO sightings just made public.
“It is a world first,” said Jacques Patenet, the aeronautical engineer who heads the office for the study of “non-identified aerospatial phenomena.”
Known as OVNIs in French, UFOs have [...]

Now this is public service for motorists (bitten by rattlesnakes / stung by scorpions / dehydrated / left alone with American Idol rejects / sunstroked / etc) at its very best.