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In Mexico, most lawmakers are totally fucking high, like, all the time!
Yudit del Rincon, a 44-year-old lawmaker, went before the state legislature this year with a proposition: Let’s require lawmakers to take drug tests to prove they are clean.
Her colleagues greeted the idea with applause. Then she sprang a surprise on them: Two lab technicians [...]

Artist Joshua Allen Harris intriguing street art makes use of subqay exhaust and garbage bags in his “street art.”

Somewhere, a crab unwittingly walks near a pipeline crack…

Philips uses some clever web ninja shit to make its ball shaver seem like the next best thing to having actual balls, and a huge dick.
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Initially, however, computers didn’t have memories as we would recognise them.
When the iconic Manchester Baby computer first ran in 1948, it was revolutionary because it stored its programs in the form of RAM. It sounds obvious now, but if you wanted to run a fresh program on a computer at the time, weeks of rewiring [...]

This kid doesn’t suffer awkward mascots.

A tiny microscope that employs the same kind of chip used in digital cameras can produce high-resolution images of cells without the expensive, space-hogging lenses that have been part of microscope design for centuries. Researchers at Caltech, who developed the revolutionary imaging system, say that the devices could be mass-produced at a cost of $10 [...]

Man who actually sits on a golden throne doesn’t like it at all when people are “selfish.” And are gay.

An “amazing” photo-heavy narrative on how the world’s dead ships end up on the beaches of Bangladesh and India, to be manually scrapped and broken down by sickly men for a mere $1.50 a day.
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Boobs on things that normally don’t have boobs. Genius.

Kanchana Kaetkaew, the “Scorpion Queen,” sets a new record by holding a poisonous scorpion in her mouth for over two minutes. Now she can go home and have hot post-record-setting sex with her husband, the Centipede King. No, seriously.
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If you sometimes find yourself looking at mousetrap-kill and wonder, how the fuck does this contraption work? Some guy has taken the liberty to show you the answer, in ultra-slow-mo, with his tongue!

Free download of 8-Bit Jesus: Classic Christmas Songs in the Style of Classic NES Games. This full release contains 18 tracks total, including improved variations of a few of the original nine!
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Catholic priest Fr. Dino Bottino, from a city in northern Italy, is currently the subject of a shitstorm for telling kids at a children’s mass that Santa Claus doesn’t exist. Whoa, that’s totally mean! He should just have told them all about Mithras.

Qian Hongyan was only three years old when a hardcore car accident left her legless. And because they were so poor, the only “prosthetics” they could afford was a basketball. Despite all that tragic shit, however, she’s very gung-ho about competing in the 2012 Paralympics in London. Hey, that’s what we call balls!

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Scientists discovered a thick layer of solar particles inside Earth’s magnetic field that shouldn’t be there in the first place, which means there are huge [previously unnoticed] breaches in our planet’s solar defense. That could mean huge global problems hitting us in the next period of solar activity to begin in 2012. Now that’s action.
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Somebody reviewing the China Sea Chinese Fastfood sounds like the actual Chinese restaurant owner, even has the broken English grammar for that authentic Chinese restaurant owner feeling!