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Joe R. Thompson, who in January was thrown 25 feet into the air in a car crash near Highway 40 and Woods Chapel Road in Blue Springs, Missouri, survived by grabbing onto some power lines that he hit on the way down. Thompson, 18, dangled from the lines for 20 minutes until rescuers arrived. Authorities explained Thompson was lucky enough to grab the lines that weren’t charged with live current.
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The Agri Gold Company of Vijaywada, India, has begun marketing powdered dung of holy cows which, when reconstituted with water, may be used in place of fresh dung in Hindu purification rituals, according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Priced at 50 cents a kilo, the product is meant as a convenience for those who live in large cities where cattle are in short supply, and because the mixture contains camphor, turmeric, and sandalwood paste, it smells better than the fresh article.
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Authorities at Uplands Manor Primary School, in Smethwick, England, ordered teachers to use green ink for correcting papers because red was deemed “too negative.”…And police in Wiltshire County, England, adopted a new anticrime tactic, hand-delivering letters to 22 repeat offenders asking them to adopt New Year’s resolutions to cease breaking the law.
