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Berlin Airport Hires Bees to Monitor Air Quality

Berlin’s Schoenefeld international airport, located in the capital’s rural outskirts has decided to use honey bees to monitor the air quality near the airport. But they did confess that this is a long term project. “The honey monitoring will supplement our air quality control system,” Jochen Heimberg, responsible for the airport’s environmental division, said in a statement. “In addition to ... Read More »

Doomsday Predictions are Bad for Humans

Lets face it all these doomsday predictions are causing more damage than just broken hearts when the doomsday doesn’t arrive on the said date. In case you are wondering what could actually go wrong if someone comes up with a Doomsday Date ? Lets have a look at it. Hmm, most of us just read the news, laugh about it ... Read More »

World to End on October 21st not May 21st

After the world failed to end on May 21st 2011. The California preacher Harold Camping has come up with some revised dates. Its October 21st that the world will end. He said he messed up with the calculation in translating heavenly numbers to earthly numbers. A California preacher who foretold of the world’s end only to see the appointed day ... Read More »

US man eats record 25000th Burger!

What started as a teen tradition, the consumption of McDonald’s burger is still on the high. Thats what we can conclude after coming across an US man named Don Gorske, who has successfully completed his 25000th burger. Don Gorske, aged 57, developed the fond of eating burgers when he was 19.  It took him 37 years to eat his record ... Read More »

May 21, 2011- Judgement Day?

Here we go again, a Christain group is hitting the streets of California claiming May 21,2011 is the Judgement day. Who started this So called Doomsday Warning? According to NPR, Harold Camping, the network’s 89-year-old founder, has been interpreting the Bible on the air for years. He says that everyone knows there would be a judgment day at some point. ... Read More »

Indian Bank Cash eaten by Termites

Lol! The Hungry termites have eaten nearly $225,000 cash in a Bank of India. The incident took place at an Indian Bank located in Uttar Pradesh, India. I am surprised with the negligence of the bank officers. What were they doing? Same Old Action: The State Bank of India says an enquiry into the latest incident has been held. “The ... Read More »