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The four 300-ft nuclear cooling towers at the Chapelcross nuclear power station in the south of Scotland took merely 10 seconds to demolish on Sunday. And never to be upstaged in fun things like this, the British Nuclear Group even installed a webcam for the viewing pleasure of Internet users that captured the last agonizing [...]

This report is most heartbreakingly summed up in the line: “No one missed him. No missing person report was ever filed.”
The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.
The police said in a statement the man was 59 [...]

The vending machines issued by Japan’s Apex Corp. will begin giving free coffee and soft drinks in June — but only after users are made to watch a 30-second commercial.
They’re calling this new revenue-earning scheme “Medicafe,” and it sounds good already except it’s going to be available only in Japan.
Customers can select a drink on [...]

Nine-year-old Jesse Courtney was shocked — shocked! — when his doctor told him a pair of nice, earwax-slurping spiders had been making a home out of his left ear.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader’s left ear canal.
His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a [...]

We don’t know what to do with this overly-cute Asian two-year-old girl as she just breaks our heart. Maybe somebody should teach her how to say “I want my money, bitch!” to make full use of that talent.
via TV IN JAPAN

Female bartenders in a bar in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province in China are made to dress up, pout and flirt like only real nurses can, while they serve you liquor through these colorful syringes and test tubes.

The Antique Wine Company is putting up for sale a heady collection of vintage wines spanning four centuries — the oldest wine dates back to 1787, before the French Revolution.

Even though the provenance of the collection is impeccable, (a number of bottles were stored in the Bordeaux cellars of one of the Rothschild family), The [...]

This is one of the photos taken by Mitya Aleshkovski of Boris Yeltsin’s funeral at Moscow Church. More “exciting” photos at Mitya’s own site, although most of them are shots taken from this same angle.
via ENGLISH RUSSIA

This is what happens to your neck if you happen to meet an old world samurai warrior and manage to really, really piss him off.

Natalie Merchant’s 2001 album Motherland was supposed to be adorned by these images of cute kids with gas masks and oxygen tanks. But darn that 9/11, making the said images suddenly “too upsetting,” what you ended up seeing was Natalie under an apple tree. Well, enough time and perspective have made haunting things a-okay again, [...]