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Earthling Worms Can Be As Disgusting As Alien Face Huggers
Blood Worms. They look like gentle earthworms until they extend their mouths and show their teeth made of atacamite, “a copper-based chloride biomineral”. Their poisonous bite is painful for humans and kills whatever prey they find in the shallow marine waters where they live.
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This Wave Looks Like One Giant Comfortable Mattress
Photo: An impressive image of surfer Sean Woolnough on top of a wave, taken by Stuart Gibson in Namotu Island, Fiji, for the Red Bull Illume photo contest. Frozen in time, it looks like a comfy place to lie down and enjoy the sun. Looking for aeroplane tickets right now.
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This One-cent Stamp Is ‘The Mona Lisa Of Stamps’ And Worth $US20 Million
There is art in everything. Value in trash. Millions in the tiniest of things. Take this stamp. Known as the One-Cent Magenta from British Guiana, it’s 158 years old, hasn’t been seen in public since the mid 1980s and is considered to be the Mona Lisa of stamps. Oh and Sotheby’s expects it to sell…
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In Search Of Fresh Recruits, AFL Is Drafting Force-Wielding Stormtroopers
Today may officially be May the 4th, the sci-fi themed celebration of all things Star Wars, but the Australian Football League has been engaged in festivities since Friday. Perhaps the most humorous aside to come out of it all is the story of fresh Bulldogs recruit “S. Trooper”, whose kicking action must be Force-enhanced, despite…