A tourist in Australia is lucky to be alive after being bitten on the penis by one of the world’s most venomous snakes.
The man was having a roadside toilet stop when the deadly brown snake emerged from the bush and lunged at his crotch.
Category: Life Is Like Science Fiction
YouTube videos that show a group of friends apparently cooking kernels of popcorn with their cellphones have been viewed more than a million times since they were uploaded last week.
The group, including three Britons, said that they were still coming to terms with how close they came to death in a two-day ordeal in which they were plunged from one life-threatening crisis to another.
Having been swept away and “spun around” for 10 hours in shark-infested waters, they reached the beach of a remote island at nightfall, only to find it was inhabited by Komodo dragons, the world’s largest and most deadly lizards.
The dolphins that died after beaching in Cornwall had ingested debris and mud, leading one of the scientists who examined them to compare their deaths to “mass suicide”.
Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before. Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.
When it comes to giving up smoking, pick the start date carefully. At certain times in your menstrual cycle, you are twice as likely to succeed at kicking the habit.
Vitamins taken by around a third of the population do not extend life and may even cause premature death, according to a respected group of international scientists.
Female fruit flies have a hidden talent: the ability to sing like a male. All you have to do is switch on one gene – and chop off their heads.
Emissions from traffic and factories can trigger the formation of dangerous blood clots, according to researchers. It’s the latest entry in a growing list of problems that have been linked to air pollution, from heart attacks to delays in children’s learning.
Fortune-tellers, mediums and spiritual healers marched on Downing Street on Friday to protest against new laws they fear will lead to them being “persecuted and prosecuted
