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A Spanish quadriplegic has been charged with drunkenly attempting to drive his motorized bed along a highway to a local wholehouse.Antonio Navarro 42,was clocked at speeds of up to 12 mph in a mouth-operated motor bed customixed with a telephone,an ashtray,and a rear-view mirror."Just because you're disabled,doesn't mean you don't have needs," said Navarro,who says he's a regular at the Jade Whorehouse in Ferrol."I like brunettes," he added.

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Key West, Florida, is closer to Cuba than to the mainland of the United States.

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The United States battleship Delaware was commissioned in 1910.

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King George I, of England, was born in Germany and could not speak the language of the country he ruled.

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The city of Buffalo is celebrating the apparent capture of the notorious "Hugging Bandit," who has victimized bar patrons for the last decade.Myra Castleberry,48, would allegedly hug and fondle drunkin men she found staggering out of bars and steal their wallets.Most victims, police say,were too inebriated to remember what Castleberry looked like."Hopefully,she'll be hugging her pillow in her prison cell for a long time,"said Detective Sgt. Tom Donavan.

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Using its anal sphincter muscle, the Mongolian tapir is capable of creating high-pitched tones that can be heard by dogs nearly 30 miles away.

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Marilyn Manson is blaming his recent divorce on his wife's insistence that he became a responsible adult. The 38-year-old androgynous rocker,
known for his guttural singing style,corpse-like makeup,and prosthetic-breast stage costumes,says that after he married stripper Dita Von Teese,she told him she had tolerated my lifestyle because she hopped I would change.She threatened to leave if I didn't.he immediately sunk into a depression.I was no longer supposed to be a rock star.I was someone who had to be apologized for.

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Customs officials have dogs that are trained to distinguish between Cuban cigars and all other cigars.

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An elderly Chinese woman has found relief from the headache she has endured for the last 63 years. After Jin Guangying 77,from Jiangsu province,decided to seek medical attension for the lifelong problem,doctors sent her for x-rays. "We were surprised to learn there was a bullet inside her head," her son said.Jin says she remembers being shot through the ear by invading Japanese troops in 1943,but didn't realize the bullet,which surgeons removed last week,had entered and remained inside her skull.

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A British thief stole a car without noticing the elderly couple in the back seat.The car's owner had left his keys in the car,as well as his parents,both in their early 90s,while he ran into a shop.The passing thief saw the keys and seized the opportunity,abandoning the car a mile away after glancing in the rearview mirror and looking into the eyes of two terrified passengers.

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Katie Holmes is furious that an 18-year-old actress has changed her name to Katee Holmes and intends to lose her virginity in a porn film. The name change is a "tribute to Katie,who had always portrayed an innocence in everything she's done," says Katee's manager.But a representative for Katie Holmes called the stunt a "cheap shot" and said Holmes was seeking legal advice."Obviously,Tom would support Katie in anything she decides to do about it," said a spokeswoman for Holmes' husband,Tom Cruise.

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Delmar is popularized as the little town too big for one state. The community has the distinction of being located partly in Delaware and partly in Maryland.

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It is physically impossible to urinate and give blood at the same time.

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Constipation kills nearly twice as many people as diarrhea, mainly because the former mostly afflicts the old and weak while the latter mostly affects young, strong children.

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Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered a pop star to rewrite his hit song "Parveen tu Bari Namkeen" ("Parveen,You Are So Cute") after an Urdu newspaper published an anguished letter from a college student named Parveen.She says that she had to abandon her studies because whenever I would pass by the college canteen,the boys would start singing the song and laugh at me. Singer Abrar ul-Hag has agreed to present a reworked version of the song within two weeks,despite his contentions in court,besides,that he was actually singing the name Parmeem.

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Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant fought on the same side in the war with Mexico in 1848.

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West Hartford is the birthplace of Noah Webster, the author of the first dictionary published in 1807.

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The first golf tournament in Connecticut for women only was held in Waterbury on June 12, 1917.

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The Du Pont Laboratories first produced nylon at its plant in Seaford, Delaware. This earned the town the distinction of being the Nylon Capital of the World.

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A German train screeched to a halt when the driver fell out an open door,apparently while taking a pee.The train,traveling at 70 mph,was braked by a "dead man switch," which stops the train automatically in the absence of a driver.The driver was found by the side of the tracks,a few miles back,with his zipper open. "it is not at all unusual that staff open door while driving," said a spokesman for the driver's union. "with only one driver,they cannot take a leak otherwise."