Print
This List
Email to
a Friend
Circumcision & Cucumber Pepsi: Strange News This Week, June 15th
STRANGE 
Tags: news, current events, strange news, health, science, politics, wildlife
Some of the most bizarre stories making headlines for the week of June 15th, 2007. Do you know of a wacky story that belongs on this list? Feel free to add it by clicking the 'add to this wiki' button!
| | Frank L. White, the man on the 'Cream of Wheat' box, finally recieved his tombstone after being dead almost 80 years. Previously, his grave was marked by a nameless concrete marker. His new headstone has his name and the 'Cream of Wheat' etching that made him famous. His headstone was a result of a local campaign. |
| | Cucumber flavored Pepsi was released in Japan this week ("Pepsi Ice Cucumber") |
| | An Indianapolis school teacher is suing 4 of her students for a video they made in which an evil teddy bear kills a math teacher with her name. She claims the film included "graphic violence" and could cause "trauma". |
| | A woman in the Netherlands (apparently an alcohol abuser and binger for many years) was diagnosed with Colitis, an inflammation of the colon. However, this was caused by Strongyloides stercoralis, a parasitic worm living inside of her for over a quarter century! She contracted the worm during a vacation in Spain 27 years ago, and the chronic alcohol use caused to infestation to come to a head. |
| | More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region. |
| | A study submitted to the British Journal of Urology International finds that the most sensitive parts of the penis are removed during circumcision. The research included making a "penile sensitivity map" and testing the mapped areas with a tool. |
| | According to a new study, women with healthy father/daughter relationships are more likely to choose a partner that resembles their father, whereas women with poor relationships to their father don't. The study was done by mapping 15 facial proportions of random men, and asking a panel of 49 random women to rate them. Scientists then compared the results with the same facial proportions of the participants fathers. |
Lister:
ListAfterList Wiki Contributors
Source:
Animal Story courtesy of FoxNews.Com
Other lists of interest:
Current list rating:
5.00