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  • Alligator rumoured to be Hitler’s pet to be preserved forever

    Alligator rumoured to be Hitler’s pet to be preserved forever

    An alligator believed to have belonged to German dictator Adolf Hitler has been preserved after dying at the age of 84 at a zoo in Moscow.  

    According to the details, the alligator, Saturn, died in May and the reptile’s skin was donated to the Moscow’ Darwin Museum. The alligator will be put on display after work by taxidermists at the zoo in the new year. Taxidermy is the art of preserving an animal’s body via mounting or stuffing.

    Known to have been a pre-war star attraction at Berlin Zoo in Nazi Germany, the story also dispersed that the reptile had been in the Hitler’s personal pet collection, as suggested by famous Russian writer Boris Akunin. Dmitry Vasilyev, a vet at Moscow Zoo also said that there was no doubt that Hitler admired the alligator.

    The alligator was born in the wild in Mississippi in 1936 before being caught and sent to Berlin Zoo.

  • Student names Emraan Hashmi, Sunny Leone as parents in admit card

    Student names Emraan Hashmi, Sunny Leone as parents in admit card

    A 20-year-old student in Bihar, India has named Bollywood actors Emraan Hashmi and Sunny Leone as his father and mother respectively.

    The examinee, Kundan Kumar, not only filled the parents column with the Indian film stars, the address he mentioned was even more absurd.

    He noted Chaturbhuj Sthan, the town’s infamous red-light area as his address.

    “We have ordered an inquiry. It is obviously mischief and the student might himself be responsible for the same. Based on the report of the inquiry, further action will be taken,” the university’s registrar Ram Krishna Thakur said.

    The student is being tracked down based on the Aadhaar Card number and mobile number mentioned on the admit card.

  • Man walks 280 miles to calm down after fight with wife

    Man walks 280 miles to calm down after fight with wife

    An Italian man walked for a week after a fight with his wife. The man walked 200 miles until he was stopped by police in Fano and fined over $400 (Rs 64119) for violating curfew rules.

    According to local reports, the man went for a cool-down after an argument with his wife and ended up trekking over 280 miles, only to be fined for breaking quarantine curfew.

    While speaking to authorities the man told them: “I came here on foot, I didn’t use any transport,” adding that along his lengthy journey, he “met people who offered me food and drink”.

    “I am okay, just a bit tired,” shared the man, who became known as the ‘Forrest Gump’ of Italy on social media after walking a total of 60 km (37.2 miles) per day.

    Authorities told a local news outlet Il Resto del Carlino that when they found the man “wandering aimlessly,” he appeared “lucid and focused”.

    The police checked the man’s ID and learned that his wife had reported him missing. Authorities then contacted his wife, who travelled to Fano to get her wandering husband. The man waited in a hotel until she arrived.

  • Man’s wife sells his PS5 after he lied and told her it was an air purifier

    Man’s wife sells his PS5 after he lied and told her it was an air purifier

    A Taiwanese man bought the newest Playstation 5 but could not enjoy playing with the device because his wife sold the console after she found out his lie about it being an air purifier.

    The buyer, Jin Wu, shared the experience on Facebook. Wu said he arranged a meeting with the seller in person and even called to verify the purchase, but was met by a female voice, who he said didn’t sound like she was much of a gamer.

    Wu added that the “price is also the cheapest to find on the day.”

    When Wu met the seller to claim his new PS5, he was greeted by a sad husband instead of his wife.

    After a short exchange about where the device was purchased, the husband admitted that he tricked his wife into thinking the game console was an air purifier.

    “It’s my wife who wants to sell it,” the Facebook post read. “I went silent after seeing the look in his eyes. I could feel his pain.”

    “Seems like women can still tell the difference between a PS5 console and an air purifier,” the post concluded.

  • Titanic II is preparing to sail in 2022

    Titanic II is preparing to sail in 2022

    Titanic II, a nearly identical replica of the doomed ship, might make its maiden trip in 2022, giving fans a chance to experience the journey themselves.

    According to reports, Australian businessman and politician Clive Palmer is behind the initiative. Work on the ship recently restarted after a financial dispute with the Chinese government stopped development back in 2015. The idea for the ship was first floated in 2012.

    The new ship will be an identical copy of the ship, which sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg. It will have the same cabin layout, public areas, swimming pool, Turkish baths, and a grand staircase as the original ship.

    Titanic II will also be equipped with plenty of life boats and will have modern navigation and radar equipment to avoid any disaster.

    When construction is completed, there will be nine floors and 840 cabins, and passengers will have their pick between first, second, or third-class tickets. The first sailing is scheduled to take place in 2022.

  • Coin mistakenly stuck in nose surgically removed after five decades

    Coin mistakenly stuck in nose surgically removed after five decades

    A Russian man had mistakenly put a coin in his nose when he was only six years old. It was surgically removed from his nose when he complained of a breathing problem at the age of 59.

    Doctors in Russia said they recently faced a unique case when the patient told them he was unable to breathe through his right nostril for the past several months.

    CT scan of the patient showed his nose was blocked by some object. Following an endoscopy, doctors were surprised to discover that a coin was stuck in the man’s nose.

    When they discussed it with the patient, he remembered how he had mistakenly put the coin in his nose when he was six and did not tell anyone about it because he was afraid of his strict mother.

  • Lebanese artist turns blast debris into symbol of hope

    Lebanese artist turns blast debris into symbol of hope

    Lebanese artist Hayat Nazer created a symbol of hope from the Beirut blast debris which shocked the world in August 2020.

    The woman statue stands nearly three meters tall with her arm raised, the wind whipping the hair away from her scarred face, and a broken clock at her feet with the hands showing 6.08, the time that a blast ripped through Beirut port on the evening of August 4.

    The statue is made of broken glass and twisted materials that belonged to people’s homes before the explosion that killed 200 and injured 6,000 and symbolizes the city’s hopes of rising from the rubble.

    “If you look at the statue, one half has a leg standing, the hand looks surrendered, there is a scar on the face with the flying hair and the clock on this side, as if the explosion is still happening,” Nazer told Reuters.

    “But the other hand and the other leg is leaning as if it is starting to walk and the hand is raised, it wants to continue, it wants to keep going and rise from the rubble. And this is the truth, this is our truth,” the 33-year-old said.

    She says those affected by the blast who saw the 2.6-metre statue, temporarily exhibited in front of the damaged port, drew strength and hope to carry on.

    Nazer had already started on a female sculpture before the blast, but volunteered to help clean up destroyed houses and streets. At night, she would return to the sculpture, using the glass and metal pieces she had collected.

    “I felt like Beirut was a woman who despite what she suffered is very strong,” she said.

  • VIDEO: Egypt unearths new mummies dating back 2,500 years

    Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed more than 100 delicately painted wooden coffins, some with mummies inside, and 40 funeral statues in the ancient burial ground of Saqqara.

    Egyptian antiquities authorities has declared the discovery the largest find at the site this year.

    The sealed wooden coffins, some containing mummies, date as far back as 2,500 years and are “in perfect condition of preservation,” Khaled el-Enany, Egyptian Minister for Tourism and Antiquities, told reporters in Saqqara.

    The fine quality of the coffins meant that they were probably the final resting places for the wealthiest citizens, officials said.

    Other artifacts discovered include funeral masks, canopic jars and amulets.

    The artifacts and coffins will ultimately be displayed at several museums in Egypt.

    In a dramatic display, experts opened a coffin and X-rayed a mummy, determining it was most likely a man around the age of 40.

    The latest discovery comes as Egypt is trying to draw visitors back to the country, which depends heavily on tourism. Political problems, including a 2011 uprising that toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak, coupled with terrorist attacks and other instability have deterred tourists, and the coronavirus dealt another blow.

    According to a Times database, Egypt has reported 110,547 total virus cases. The country reopened its borders to visitors in July.

  • Girl climbs atop advertisement board to protest against arranged marriage

    Girl climbs atop advertisement board to protest against arranged marriage

    An Indian girl frorm Madhya Pradesh climbed atop an advertisement board, demanding to marry a boy against her mother’s wishes.

    The pictures shared on social media, showed her sitting atop the advertisement board and speaking on the phone.

    Later, crowds began to gather below her to see her actions.

    According to local media reports, the police also reached the spot and tried to convince the girl to come down. However, she refused.

    The police personnel then contacted the boy she wanted to marry. Pardesipura Sub-Inspector (SI) Ashok Patidar said the girl decided to come down after the boy insisted that she come down.

    The girl had climbed the advertisement board after her mother forced her to marry a boy of the family’s choice.

  • Police arrest murderer of eight-year-old child via ‘spelling mistake’

    Police arrest murderer of eight-year-old child via ‘spelling mistake’

    Indian police identified an alleged murderer, who kidnapped and murdered his eight-year-old distant cousin, through a spelling test.

    According to details, the 22-year-old accused identified as Ram Pratap Singh, allegedly kidnapped the eight-year-old boy, from his grandmother’s house. He then used a stolen phone to send a ransom note to the family demanding Rs 200,000 for the release of the child.

    In the message, he wrote: “Do lakh rupay Seeta-Pur lekar pahuchiye. Pulish ko nahi batana nahi to haatya kar denge (Reach Sitapur with Rs 2 lakh. Don’t inform the police or your son will be killed).”

    The family approached police after more than a week and registered a missing complaint after which an investigation was initiated.

    “We swiftly formed teams to trace the kidnapped boy and called back on the same number but it was switched off. The cyber-surveillance cell was roped in and we detained the subscriber, who seemed illiterate and unable to write an SMS,” the local police said.

    The investigators detained 10 suspects, including the accused, from the area on the basis of clues gathered through the area’s CCTV footage and tip-offs.

    All of them were asked by the cops to write a sentence: “Main police main bharti hona chahta hoon. Main Hardoi se Sitapur daud kar ja sakta hoon (I want a police job. I can run from Hardoi to Sitapur).”

    Singh, who made spelling mistakes in his ransom note once again repeated them by writing ‘pulish’ for police and ‘Seeta-pur’ for Sitapur, resulting in his arrest.