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Richie wobbled his way along a gruelling 20-mile ride, from La Cienega Boulevard to Venice Beach, which he filmed on a camera carried on his chest
Terrified of the yellow fruit that is the third most popular in the world, her fear so bad that being in the same room as bananas terrified her, and the distinctive smell always made her nauseou
To be perfectly honest, the handbag in its present form is a relatively new thing, only having started to become really desirable around the end of the 19th century.
No metal object in his vicinity seems capable of avoiding a physical attraction to his body, the moment his shirt comes off.
Japanese people apparently go mad to get their lips around these fruits, because sucking on the seeds inside makes everything taste sweet.
Tasmanian King Crab is, not surprisingly, a delicacy in its native Australia, but a British aquarium worker was on hand to pay £3,000 for Claude and two other examples - thinking it a genuine bargai
The inventive Giuseppe employed pieces from the LEGO Bionicle range to build each band member then created an ingenious system of rubber bands and pulleys - connected to the figures’ arms - which allowed them to play various vintage equipment including synthesizers and drum machines...
Over 700 hours of labour are required to make every one of these super mattresses, which contain huge amounts of curled Latin American horse tail, pure Mongolian cashmere, and over 1,600 miles of specially woven silk.
Luckily, a member of the public found her in a hedge near Camelford, Cornwall, some NINE MILES away, and this is not the first time that she has sleepwalked out of the family farm.
Her mother, Margaret Palermo has defended the choices her daughter makes, claiming the 15-year-old to be an innocent and good girl who just likes frills and ribbons a lot.
35th year in which industry publication the Bookseller have run this odd award, in which books named from How to Sharpen Pencils to A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
Employing the ancient Japanese art of Origami, this imaginative inventor use those techniques to make the bicycle capable of handling loads of as much as 485 lbs.
Kept in a North Yorkshire house for four and a half decades, the owner had no idea how valuable it was.
Weighing in a half a pound, several times heavier than a normal egg, it not only had a double yolk inside, but indeed even a second, fully-formed egg which also had a yolk.
It is truly mind-blowing to see the intricate small detail that Kris manages to put into his work, creating entire nightmare worlds that always seem frozen in some unspecified moment.
This callous and cruel young student will be paying for his so-called drunken moment of madness with 120 hours of unpaid of work in the community, which sentence an angry magistrate imposed upon him.
This strange sport is dubbed Kaninhop, and was first invented in the early 80s in Sweden, but has now become a global passion, owners in the USA, Canada and Japan eager to take part.
These tiny lizards measure much less than inch from head to tail, the juveniles small enough to stand on the head of a match, beating the previous lizard record holder - dubbed dwarf gecko - which is much longer at 1.3 in.
Aptly dubbed Vampire Woman, Mexican Maria Jose Cristerna, mother of four, turned herself into a vampire look-a-like after herself suffering ten years of abuse, has set up an agency to help other victims.
Back in 2005, a six month period saw five dogs jumping to these canine suicides, the dread spot located between the last two parapets on the right-hand side of the bridge
Not only has he unearthed Black Country images of them dating back to 1945 and beyond, but also uncovered evidence of the phenomenon in documents dating back to 1880.
If the claims are verified, it will mean that McNamara, who was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts but whose family moved to Hawaii's North Shore when he was aged 11, has beaten his previous record, which was also set at Nazaré.
This venerable old athlete commented that he will keep running for at least four hours daily after that. Most likely from his home in Ilford, he said during a visit to his home state of Punjab, adding that running is his life
Worse still, the beast is said to feed on the blood of animals, mainly goats, which is why it has been dubbed the Chupacabras - goat sucker.
Aptly named Board Of Imagination, the skateboard they have devised actually does take orders directly from the brainwaves of the user. It then transfers them to the onboard 800-watt motor which powers the miniature vehicle.
