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DeadBrain: Offbeat News
9th September
Last updated 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
This swan looks lonely paddling about on his pond but don't be fooled ? he's been acc­used of murder.
Many artists use pencils to create beautiful works of art ? but not so many make masterpieces on the tip of one.
A luxury car worth £1.2m is clamped outside Harrods in central London after being illegally parked.
Doggy ice cream, a walk-in cow wash and other clips
A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill -- described as the teeth that saved the world -- sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.)
A set of gold-plated false teeth, once worn by Winston Churchill, has been sold at auction for £15,200 pounds, three times the guide price.
Wearing saggy pants is not a crime, just foolish
A black bear walked into a New Hampshire house through an open door, ate two pears and a bunch of grapes, took a drink from the family fishbowl and grabbed a stuffed bear on its way out the door.
A man thought to be the oldest living person in Tokyo, has been found to be a fraud and actually died three decades ago.
French engineers are testing a pedal-boat submarine on the French Riviera. Water crazy notion!
Wearing saggy pants is not a crime, just foolish. That's how a New York City judge ruled in throwing out a summons issued to a man wearing low-slung pants that exposed his underwear.
A man listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo in fact died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified in his bed.
A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill -- described as the teeth that saved the world -- sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds ($23,723.)
A package addressed from "Grandpa Henderson" in San Diego to "Grandma Henderson" in Talladega, Ala., wasn't ordinary mail, and it wasn't picked up by any grandmother.
The escaped Bengal tiger who captured headlines across South Africa has been found and returned home after a 2-day search, hungry and worse for the wear after a jump from the back of a moving truck, the tiger's owners said Thursday.
Reuters - A partial set of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's gold-mounted dentures has fetched 15,200 pounds ($23,770) at auction, over three times the estimate.
A waiter takes a tablet of beer mugs on the opening day of Schweizerhaus beer garden in Vienna March 15, 2010. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter BaderReuters - A Dutch brewer with a penchant for competition has laid claim to creating the world's strongest brew: a beer that is some 60 percent alcohol by volume.
Reuters - A vicar was found guilty on Thursday of conducting hundreds of sham marriages between African nationals and cash-strapped eastern Europeans to allow illegal immigrants to gain residency in Britain.
An upstate New York couple's newborn boy is probably always going to be known as the "McBaby."
Litter-ally amazing: Lucky the helpful dog has become a hit in his home town after learning to pick up rubbish.


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