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Weird and Wonderful Weekly
April 17, 2009 4:15 PM
Bizarre Incidents, Quotes and People From Around the World
By GABRIEL O'RORKE, ABC News London
Quotes of the Week
"This is the first cloned camel in the world," --Nisar Wani, a researcher at the Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, about Injaz, a female one-humped camel. Injaz was born after more than five years of work by scientists at the Camel Reproduction Center and the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory.
“The presence of livestock is intended to help deter the abuse of this land." –Hampshire County Council, when it placed eight cows on playing fields to deter youngsters from riding their motorcycles on the grass in Southampton, England.
"Maybe I inhaled the [fir tree] bud somehow, but I don't remember." –Artyom Sidorkin, speaking on Russian state television after surgeons reportedly found a fir tree growing inside his lung during an operation for what they believed was a tumor.
WWW News
Saved by the Cash: A 58-year-old Brazilian woman survived gunfire thanks to a stash of money in her bra. Ivonete Pereira was shot aboard a bus in Salvador, Brazil by one of two attackers who tried to rob the bus. Aware of the frequent bus attacks in the region, Pereira had wedged 150 reals ($69) in 20- and 10-real notes inside the left side of her bra. Luckily, the cash took most of impact and the bullet was later removed at the hospital.
Cash Treated like Trash: In Taiwan, police were faced with the opposite problem when a 55-year-old man threw bank notes worth $29,600 from a taxi, causing disorder in the streets. Changhua police put the man’s actions down to a nervous condition, adding that he will be charged with public endangerment and destruction of currency.
Facts and Figures
87 percent. The percentage of illiterate women in Afghanistan.
60.6 percent. The amount of Twitter users who are 35 years old or older worldwide.
20 percent. Both UBS and Citigroup have shed 20 percent of their work forces since 2008.
3 ears. A man with a third ear surgically implanted on to his forearm appeared at Edinburgh's Napier University. Austrialian performance artist Stelios Arcadiou, known as Stelarc, had the third ear created from cells in a lab in 2006.
1 day. The family of Bethlehem, made up of about 40 nuns and 20 monks, is only allowed to touch and kiss one another on one day per year, Easter Sunday. They describe it as one of the happiest days of the year.
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