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The Weird Week in Review

Olympics Open, Maternity Wards Full, 16,000 Couples Wed Today is an auspicious date for China, not only because of the Olympics, but also because the date is 8-8-8. The Chinese word for "eight" is a homophone for "wealth". All 200 beds in Beijing's main maternity ward are full as women have scheduled caesarean section births to ensure "Olympic babies". Other cities report scheduled births at five times the normal number today. In addition, an estimated 16,000 couples will tie the knot today. Max Goes for... READ ON

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Dog Nurses White Tiger Cubs Three white tiger cubs were born Sunday at Safari Zoological Park in Kansas. Their mother Sassy refused to nurse them, so zoo officials recruited Isabella, a one-year-old Golden Retriever who had just weaned a litter of puppies. Isabella has taken to the cubs as if they were puppies. The park specializes in housing and breeding rare and endangered species. Groper Leaves Dirty Hand... READ ON

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Robber Writes Note on Personal Check 33-year-old Patrick Johnson was arrested on bank robbery charges after he demanded and received money from two Bank of America locations in Ocala, Florida. In both instances, he passed a note to the teller that said he had a gun. Police were able to find Johnson with the help of witnesses on the scene. Officers then noticed that both notes were written on the backs of printed checks from Johnson's personal checking account! Vet Pulls Hook out of Shark's... READ ON

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No Wife for World's Worst Student 74-year-old Shiv Charan made a vow that he would not take a wife until he passed India's year 10 school exams. That was in 1969. Charan has taken the exams almost every year since then, and has failed 38 times. This year, he failed all but one subject, Hindi. "As long as I am alive I will go on giving examinations in order to get a wife," he said. Asked if he was ready to give up his quest, he said: "Better to die than go back on your word." Frantic Rescue Effort... READ ON
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Bride's Dress Falls Apart at Altar A 30-year-old woman in Italy is suing her dressmaker for 23,000 euros after her wedding dress fell apart. The stitching came undone as the couple stood at the altar, revealing her bottom to the congregation. The ceremony was completed, but proper photographs could not be taken at the wedding in 2006. The bride and her husband have since separated. Immigrant Cat Survives 7 Days in Locked... READ ON

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Puppy Survives Compactor A puppy in Evansville, Indiana was smashed in a cardboard compactor -and escaped with only a bruise! The female lab-pit bull may have been compacted more than once. The crew who found her at the recycling company is looking for a permanent home for her. Russian Monument to... READ ON

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Nail in Skull Removed with Claw Hammer George Chandler of Shawnee, Kansas accidentally shot a nail into the top of his head when the hose to his nail gun became tangled. He didn't immediately know that he had a 2.5 inch nail in his head. He was rushed to the hospital, where a doctor used a common claw hammer to remove the nail. Chandler says he feels very lucky the injury wasn't more serious. 21-Leaf Clover Sets... READ ON

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It's not a tumor, it's a towel! In 1983, surgeons at the Asahi General Hospital in Chiba prefecture near Tokyo performed ulcer surgery and unknowingly left a surgical towel inside the patient. Twenty-five years later, the unnamed 49-year-old man sought help at a different hospital for abdominal pain. Doctors found what they believed to be a 3-inch tumor. Surgeons only realized the mass was a towel when they removed it! The towel is blue-green, but they are not certain of its original color.... READ ON

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Space Station Toilet Out of Order There is only one toilet aboard the International Space Station, and it's not working. The one toilet for the three-person crew is on the Russian-built Zvezda module. They have been using the toilet aboard the docked Soyuz space capsule. NASA flew a new pump from Russia to Florida, and will send it via the space shuttle Discovery when it launches on Saturday. Girl Swallows Magnetic Toy... READ ON

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Exam Had Answers on the Back 12,000 teenagers in Britain took the GCSE music exam last week. Most didn't notice that the answers to the test questions were printed on the last page of the exam booklet. "All exam papers have a copyright statement dealing with source material on the back page," an OCR spokeswoman said. "This one in particular had more detail than is usual in a music paper." Officials believe that at most, 5% of the scores would be affected, and students will not have to retake... READ ON

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