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Offbeat News tagged with off-beat

Picture Gallery, Extraordinary Chickens From Around the World
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, pictures, photographs, chickens )

Beatrice
- 8 hours ago - telegraph.co.uk
They may look like perm-sporting rock stars or even perfectly coiffured poodles - but this collection of specially-trimmed wildlife are actually all chickens. Pictured here is a bearded splash pullet Silkie.
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The 'Abominable Mystery' Even Darwin Couldn't Solve
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, puzzling, evolution, orchids, Darwin )

Beatrice
- 2 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Orchids have been around for as long as dinosaurs, but the puzzle of their evolution is only now being fully understood. To the layman's eye, flowers might not seem especially inexplicable. But what puzzled Darwin was the way in which, after appearing
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Johnny Depp Wins His 2nd 'Sexiest Man Alive' Title From People Magazine; Matt Bomer Also Wins
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, Sexiest Men Alive, performance )

Lone
- 2 days ago - chicagotribune.com
Depp nudged aside Jackman to get the coveted endorsement from People magazine Wednesday. It's the 46-year-old actor's second time as "Sexiest Man Alive." He also won in 2003.
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Shaming Undermines Justice
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, crime, signs, public, news )

Lone
- 3 days ago - blogs.usatoday.com
Across the country, judges and prosecutors and jailers are freelancing by imposing their own brands of retributive justice: forcing people to wear humiliating clothing, parade in public and even sleep in doghouses. The punishments are wildly
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How Hitler and the Nazi's Tried to Steal Christmas
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, bizarre, Nazis, crime, culture )

Cal
- 3 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The Nazi Party tried their best to remove Christ from Christmas by paganising carols, producing glittering swastika, iron cross and toy grenade baubles for the fir tree, research for a new exhibition has found.
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Chinese Traffic Cop's Funny Lecture on Helmet Safety (Video)
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, culture, custom, funny, humans, humor, interesting, off-beat, unusual, society, world )

Daphna
- 4 days ago - treehugger.com
When Beijing Policeman Tan, the star of his very own local news segment, stops a motorcyclist because his passenger isn't wearing his helmet, we get an earful on gender norms, hairstyles, and one of our favorite topics -- helmets! See the video below.
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Will The Earth End in 2012?
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, interesting, 2012, apocalypse, end of the world, Nibiru )

Beatrice
- 5 days ago - space.about.com
There has been a lot of interest lately in the theory that the world is going to end in the year 2012. The hollywood version of events is scheduled to be in theaters in November 2009 and has a lot of people talking. So, is this something that we need to
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Clip Du Jour: When Animals Attack...With Urine!
Offbeat  (tags: televison, CBS show, beaver, wild animals, peed on lady, bizarre, off-beat )

Simone
- 5 days ago - popwatch.ew.com
Does laughing at this poor woman getting sprayed with beaver urine make me a child? Perhaps. But I'm willing to live with that burden because...seriously, how often to anchors get peed on?
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Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Collider?
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, particle accelerator, temperature, overheating )

Beatrice
- 7 days ago - time.com
Sometime on Nov. 3, the supercooled magnets in sector 81 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), outside Geneva, began to dangerously overheat. Scientists rushed to diagnose the problem, since the particle accelerator has to maintain a temperature colder than
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Woman Passes Driver's Test on 950th Try
Offbeat  (tags: auto, cars, humans, off-beat, unusual, women, world )

Caree
- 9 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
A woman in South Korea who tried to pass the written exam for a driver's license with near-daily attempts since April 2005 has finally succeeded on her 950th time. The South Korean woman must still get past the driving exam to get license.
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28 Balls-Video
Offbeat  (tags: arts, bizarre, culture, funny, humans, humor, interesting, odd, off-beat, pictures, unusual )

Daphna
- 9 days ago - environmentalgraffiti.com
When art dabbles with science, the results don't always chime. Not so in the case of Pascual Sisto's 28 Years in the Implicate Order. Mesmerising, spellbinding - this video loop of multiple balls bouncing in sync with one another is these descriptions and
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In N'Out Maru CUTE VIDEO!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, cats, investigation, bizarre, funny, off-beat, performance, interesting )

Suzybell
- 10 days ago - buzzfeed.com
Celebrity Buzz Box Cat gets his first music video. The only thing that could improve this would be the involvement of a Double-Double.
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2012: Six End-of-the-World Myths Debunked
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, off-beat, unusual )

Marty
- 11 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
The end of the world is near--December 21, 2012, to be exact--according to theories based on a purported ancient Maya prediction and fanned by the marketing machine behind the soon-to-be-released 2012 movie.
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Brazilian Man Turns Up Alive at His Own Funeral-As Is Customary in Brazil, the Funeral Was Held the Following Day.
Offbeat  (tags: unusual, off-beat, odd, interesting, bizarre, auto, crime, humor, performance, police, safety, society, news )

Suzybell
- 11 days ago - metro.co.uk
A Brazilian man who was thought to have been killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family when he turned up alive at his funeral. Relatives of bricklayer Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, had identified him as the victim of a car crash on Sunday night, pol
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