Electrician saved by wrist watch
11-24-2009 |
6
An electrician who was connecting a high voltage switch was hit with 11,000 volts but survived because he was wearing a ...
Bank robber eats demand note on camera
11-24-2009 | 6
A man who entered a bank on Thursday and handed over a note threatening to open fire if he wasn't given the money was la...
Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables
11-10-2009 | 17
A 22-year-old student from Portsmouth suffers from a rare phobia which renders her terrified of vegetables. The conditio...
Bizarre plant root resembles boy
11-8-2009 | 14
Scientists are attempting to understand the process that created a bizarre 12 lb root that was dug out of the ground by ...
Woman saved by "guardian angel"
11-1-2009 | 5
A woman in Spain had her life saved when a complete stranger came up to her on a bus and told her to have tests done for...
Woman swallows 78 items of cutlery
10-30-2009 | 7
A 52-year-old woman with an obsession for swallowing cutlery had to undergo an operation after she consumed a whopping 7...
Giant pumpkin breaks record
10-30-2009 | 3
Just in time for Halloween, a school teacher in Ohio has grown a record breaking giant pumpkin that's so large it weighs...
Real-life Harry Potter laments name
10-24-2009 | 33
A 20-year-old Briton who shares the name of the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter and who even has a scar on his forehea...
Man proves he has world's strongest fingers
10-23-2009 | 2
A kung fu master from China has been recognised in the Guiness Book of Records as having the world's strongest fingers, ...
Tommy Cooper found in meat pie
10-17-2009 | 4
A fish shop owner in Wales, Crad Jones, has found the uncanny likeness of comic legend Tommy Cooper in the markings on t...
Cat registered as hypnotherapist
10-13-2009 | 19
In a demonstration aimed at showing how lax hypnotherapist regulations are in the UK a BBC presenter has been able to ge...
5-rupee coin stops bullet headed for heart
10-5-2009 | 1
A man in India this week was miraculously saved from a bullet fired at his heart by a five-rupee coin in his wallet that...
Hovis bakes 3,300lb bread and butter pudding
10-4-2009 | 2
Hovis have entered the record books by baking a bread and butter pudding so large that it weighs more than two baby elep...
Bizarre achievements win Ig Nobel prizes
10-3-2009 | 9
A number of unusual achievements have been honoured with this year's Ig Nobel prize including a designer who invented a ...
10-year-old girl sells gran on eBay
9-30-2009 | 21
A 10-year-old schoolgirl who had grown tired of her grandmother's "moaning" put her up for sale on eBay where she attrac...
Man lives with 100,000 bees
9-28-2009 | 0
A man in Zimbabwe has been accused of witchcraft as he has lived with over 100,000 bees in his small house for two years...
Dalek created out of 480,000 matchsticks
9-26-2009 | 12
A 66-year-old man in Bognor Regis, England has spent the better part of two years creating a full scale model of one of ...
Coral man has 'shells' cut from his body
9-22-2009 | 8
A man suffering from a rare condition that covered his body in unusual shell-like growths has undergone successful treat...
Man turns blue after self-medicating
9-12-2009 | 11
A man who self-medicated on silver compound to treat a skin condition for over 10 years has turned blue as a side-effect...
Beware of the biscuits
9-10-2009 | 34
A new study has revealed that over 25 million people in Britain have been injured by biscuits with 500 people a year nee...
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