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Regular use of text messages and e-mails can lower the IQ more than twice as much as smoking marijuana.
weird factsThat is the claim of psychologists who have found that tapping away on a mobile phone or computer keypad or checking them for electronic messages temporarily knocks up to 10 points off the user’s IQ.This rate of decline in intelligence c...
Students Plagarize Honor Code | Weird Facts
weird factsSAN ANTONIO - Their goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.However, the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match another school's code - without proper attribution...
Millionaire goes back to McDonald's job | Weird Facts
weird factsA lottery winner has gone back to his old job serving burgers at McDonald's.Luke Pittard, 25, shared a $2.85 million jackpot with his girlfriend 18 months ago.After taking a break Pittard, who has since married his partner, has decided to ...
Restaurant gives 25 percent discount for bugs found in food | Weird Facts
weird factsDUBAI (Reuters) - A group celebrating a birthday at a Dubai diner were cheered by a 25 percent discount but not necessarily the reason: "Bug on food."The restaurant cut the bill for seven customers at a birthday dinner after they found fou...
Lawsuit Settled Over Stolen Virtual Sex Toys In 'Second Life' | Weird Facts
weird factsTAMPA, Fla. -- A legal dispute over the theft of virtual sex toys has resulted in a real-life slap on the wrist. A federal judge accepted the settlement Thursday of a lawsuit filed last year against a Texas man accused of stealing sex toys...
Oprah show sued over 'seat rush' | Weird Facts
weird factsA woman has sued the company behind Oprah Winfrey's TV chat show, claiming she was injured when audience members rushed to find seats at a recording. Orit Greenberg has demanded $50,000 (£25,100) in damages after allegedly being pushed do...
Man Gets Stolen Mustang Back 38 Years Later | Weird Facts
weird facts(AP) LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man is getting his stolen Mustang back _ 38 years after it was stolen. The vehicle has an extra 300,000 miles and a different paint job, but Eugene Brakke’s 1965 Mustang is evidently running just fine.Bra...
Norwegian Hospital to Equip Babies With Anti-Theft Alarms | Weird Facts
weird factsOSLO (AFP) - A Norwegian hospital said Monday it was planning to equip all newborn babies with anti-theft alarms to protect them from kidnappings and help avoid identity mix-ups."The main reason is that we want to emphasise security," Erik...
Vegas Man Paints Car Like Police Cruiser... And It's Not Illegal! | Weird Facts
weird factsLAS VEGAS, N.M. — Jessie Vigil's black-and-white car sports a red-and-blue emergency bar across the top and the word "police" painted on the doors. Vigil, however, isn't a cop. Law enforcement agencies say what he's done with his car isn...
Judges overturn libel verdict over bad review given Irish pizzeria | Weird Facts
weird factsDUBLIN, Ireland - The decision was bound to leave a bad taste in somebody's mouth.In this case it's the owner of Belfast pizzeria whose unprecedented libel verdict has been overturned by a Northern Ireland appeals court.Owner Ciaran Conver...
Oops! Bank Mistakenly Starts Foreclosure Process On Wrong House | Weird Facts
weird factsKISSIMMEE, Fla. -- A Kissimmee homeowner was in England when he learned a Florida bank had mistakenly started foreclosure proceedings on his house.As it turns out, Denroy Bell didn't even have a mortgage with the bank, Citi-Residential. Th...
NASCAR Fan Gets Posthumous Spin Around the Track | Weird Facts
weird factsTALENT, Ore. — Big George Helms had tickets for last weekend's NASCAR race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but died before he got to use them. He still made it to the track, though.At 6-foot-5 and 400 pounds, Helms wouldn't have been ab...
Parents Foil Drinking Party After Checking Daughter's MySpace Page | Weird Facts
weird factsA children's advocate Monday applauded the actions of two parents who learned of a party their daughter was hosting by monitoring her MySpace page and then calling police.Marathon County sheriff's deputies issued 29 underage drinking citat...
An Iranian Court Orders a Man to Give His Wife 124,000 Roses | Weird Facts
weird factsAn Iranian court has ordered a man to give his wife the 124,000 roses that he promised in her dowry, after she filed a complaint to claim it, reports say.The woman said she was claiming the dowry because her "very stingy husband" would not...
13 Stupid Ideas That Made Millions of Dollars
Want to make it big as an entrepreneur? Check out these recent odd and quirky business ideas. P.S. These ideas could not have been too “dumb” as they have all made millions of dollars for the entrepreneurs who started them. For your pooch:Looking...
Weird Facts: Counterfeiters Learn How To Make Fake Ferrari's
weird factsROME (Reuters) - Italians are used to buying bogus Gucci bags or Rolex watches to look stylish but police found a new height of craftsmanship and cunning when they broke up a ring selling fake Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real price....
Weird Facts: Vengeful Bride Sues Runaway Groom
A filipina bride is suing her former fiance after he ran off with another woman before the wedding ceremony had even finished. // weird factsThe couple had nearly finished saying their vows when a woman appeared at the back of the church and shouted ...
Weird Facts: Man Accused Of Taking $2M After Bank Confuses Him With Someone Else
weird factsNEW YORK -- A man was charged with withdrawing $2 million from an account after a bank confused him with a man who has the same name. Benjamin Lovell was arraigned Tuesday on grand larceny charges.The 48-year-old salesman said he tried to ...
Weird Facts: How deep is your love? Passion phones know
weird factsSEOUL (Reuters) - Valentines Day in South Korea means chocolates, romantic dinners and a high-tech mobile phone device that can secretly check the passion in the voice of a lover.The "Love Detector" service from mobile operator KTF uses te...
Weird Facts: See What It's Like To Have More Money
weird factsAs part of an insane marketing test, I''m giving away anin-depth Internet "Business-In-A-Box". I should be sellingthis for $497, but...I''m flat out giving it away. Your costis zero... zip... zilch!You probably think I''ve lost my mind - a...
Weird Facts: Radio Station Giving Away Free Divorce For Valentine's Day
weird factsAP) CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston radio station is observing Valentine’s Day with a reminder that Cupid sometimes misses his mark. WKLC-FM, better known as Rock 105, is giving away a free divorce.Valentine’s Day isn’t all hearts a...
Weird Facts: Moose That Fell Off A Cliff Nearly Squashes Alaska Trooper's Patrol Car
weird factsAP) Alaska State Troopers see plenty of hazards, but Trooper Howard Peterson was nearly felled by a new one: falling moose. Peterson was driving Feb. 2 on the Seward Highway south of Anchorage when something big and black fell out of the s...
Weird Facts: Woman Declaired Dead By Mistake ... Twice
weird factsSUMMIT, N.J. (AP)A 57-year-old New Jersey woman has been declared dead twice in the past year by the Social Security Administration, despite the fact that she is very much alive.Susan Lindsley, who is developmentally disabled and works abo...
Weird Facts: British men pick big TV over sex
weird factsNearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey - perhaps unsurprisingly carried out for a firm selling televisions - has found.Electrical retailer Comet surveyed 2,000 Brito...
Weird Facts: Man Makes Bomb Threat To Get Beer
weird factsA Virginia Beach man says he called in a bomb threat to a Target store to get the police away from a grocery store across the street just to rob it of beer!The saga all started Wednesday afternoon when Virginia Beach Emergency Communicatio...
Weird Facts: How To Build A Successful Million Dollar Business On Hating President Bush
http://www.bushslastday.com/weird factsFor three years, a Bush-hating Vermont pipe carver has built a million-dollar business around the digits "01.20.09."On Jan. 20, 2009 -- one year from today -- Elliot Nachwalter and his company, "Bush's Last Day,...
Weird Facts: The $400-A-Bottle Beer
weird factsCOPENHAGEN, Denmark -- It will take more than a few bucks to buy this bottle of brew.Carlsberg ASA officials said the brewery's new Vintage No. 1 beer is probably the world's best and most expensive.The Danish brewer is charging about $400...
Funny Weird Facts
weird facts 1. Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating. 2. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia....
Weird Facts: Marijuana Vending Machines to Begin Operating in California
weird factsVending machines distributing the drug marijuana are to begin operating in the US state of California.The machines can only be used by people who have been prescribed the drug for health reasons.Patients will have to provide a prescription...
Weird Facts: Six People Are Locked Up In A Nuclear Bunker [Video Documentary]
weird factsSix people are taken to a nuclear bunker and subjected to a world without sensory stimulation. Three subjects are left alone in dark, sound-proofed rooms, while the other three are given goggles and foam cuffs as white noise is piped into ...
