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1996-03-31
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Strange but true News
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A cobra crawling across a busy road created a miles-long traffic jam
during morning rush hour in New Delhi.
A 2-year-old Peruvian porker made a pig of himself when he devoured a
birthday-party buffet meal fed to him by a British keeper who thought the
box of goodies was full of scraps.
A Danish court ordered a woman to pay a fine of $91 each week for
refusing to change the spelling of her son's first name --
"Christophpher." Under Danish law, only names listed by the Ministry of
Ecclesiastical Affairs can be given to children.
Using doses of radiation strong enough to kill 250 people, Japanese
scientists say they can make bad wine taste good and cheap whisky smooth.
The head of the Dutch bird-protection society was hospitalized after
being knocked down by a dead goose shot by a hunting companion.
Criminals should be caged in a zoo to enable people to humiliate them, a
South African newspaper quoted one of the country's top politicans as
saying.
The family of two Brazilian kidnap victums was forced to pay the ransom
twice because the gang leader stole the money from his partners.
Saying he won't be compared to a toilet, a 9-year-old Lafayette,
Calif., boy named John is threatening to boycott Parker Brothers because
of its potty-termed game called "Big John."
A Swedish forest owner fed up with Christmas-tree thieves found a way
to get even -- pouring sewage onto the branches to generate a foul smell
when the tree is taken inside and the frozen sewage thaws.
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