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A whale that is stranded and sick is set to leave this world a bang… of explosives that is. The Western Australia Department of Environment and Conservation have decided that the unusual step is necessary because the 9.5m aquatic mammal is too big to shoot. When the time comes,...
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At least 18 people have died while mushroom picking in Italy this year – not one of them from accidental poisoning. In their quest for delicious fungi, the hapless ‘shroomers all fell victim to dangerous terrain. They fell down crevasses, gorges and rocky slopes. The Lombardy region claimed 7,...
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This is disgusting. And once again, adds proof to my theory that people should be interviewed before having kids. A couple in South Korea has been arrested after they starved their newborn baby to death. It wasn’t an intentional starving. They were just too busy raising their virtual daughter...
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Cristian Capatanescu succumbed to multiple organ failure on a Bucharest hospital bed awaiting surgery that would have helped him to lose weight – he was 54. At the time of his death the 184-centimeter-tall man weighed in at around 400 kilograms. Capatanescu’s weight made him the fattest man in...
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Six workers at a factory in India died after drowning in a giant vat of tomato sauce. The Indian Express reported that a female worker slipped and fell into the 6m deep tank vat. Five colleagues jumped into help and all six were killed by the fumes given off...
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A Talladega man admitted himself to hospital after suffering burns to more than 90% of his body in an Alabama Power substation early Friday morning. Police Chief Alan Watson speculated that Willie Eugene Lewis scaled the fence around 2 a.m. Friday and began climbing onto some equipment and holding...
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An elderly Ukrainian man, his wife and their grand daughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning when an ill-conceived rat extermination plan went wrong. The 71-year-old had planned to gas the vermin in the basement of his home using exhaust fumes from his car. So he attached a hose to...
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Danish police are urging the Vatican to take action over a Dutch nun suspected to be involved in the death of one of her fellow sisters. The nun in question, one Mother Theresa Brenninkmeijer, is suspected to have covered up the death of an elderly sister who succumbed to...
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When Richard Butler took his girlfriend Bethany Lott on a hike in the North Carolina mountains, he had a surprise in store. He was planning to propose. It was raining heavily on Max Patch Bald, as the couple neared the place where the 30-year-old Butler planned on popping the...
