Dear Bloggers,
Guess what, boys and girls? It's Weird & Wacky News Monday! Every Monday, I will deliver some (usually 2-3) weird and/or wacky news articles or pictures.
First up is.....Cross gender model!
Thai lady boy Angkookrat Warangnam, known as Toon, was one of 200 'women' to enter the Brighton's Next Hot Model contest. Shy Toon sailed through the preliminary rounds, wowing judges with her deep brown eyes, long dark hair and slimline figure.After being given the green light by every member of the panel, the Lady Boys of Bangkok star, 26, revealed that she was born a man.Organiser Scott Woolgar said: "During the selection process it did not cross any of our minds for a minute that she was a man.
Secondly is....Interesting choice of exit!
A Russian man had to be rescued by emergency workers from a rubbish chute where he had jumped to escape his girlfriend (Why?) but ended up getting stuck after sliding three floors down.Soviet era buildings in Russia frequently have a metal rubbish chute in the stairwell with a latch opening on each floor that is slightly bigger than a grocery bag. The unidentified man apparently travelled three floors down the chute in the apartment building in Tyumen before getting jammed at the fifth floor level, when he started calling for help. Rescue workers had to use an "electric instrument" to cut the metal and extricate the victim and passed him to a waiting ambulance team, the ministry said.
And last, but not least......Dinosaurs had arthritis too!
Researchers studying a giant eight metre pliosaurus found evidence of an arthritis like disease in its jaw.Usually capable of ripping other dinosaurs to bits with its 20cm teeth, the gammy jaw would eventually have stopped her feeding and led to her death 150 million years ago.Dr Judyth Sassoon, of Bristol university, was fascinated by the specimen since first seeing it in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.In life, it had a crocodile-like head, a short neck, whale-like body and four powerful flippers to propel it through water in pursuit of prey, reports journal Palaeontology.Studying the skeleton, believed to be a female, Dr Sassoon soon noticed that it had the signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis, that had eroded its left jaw joint, displacing the lower jaw to one side.Dr Sassoon said: "In the same way that aging humans develop arthritic hips, this old lady developed an arthritic jaw, and survived with her disability for some time."But an unhealed fracture on the jaw indicates that at some time the jaw weakened and eventually broke. With a broken jaw, the pliosaur would not have been able to feed and that final accident probably led to her demise."
Weird and wacky new out!Bye Bye for now,
Your writer extraordinaire :)
Guess what, boys and girls? It's Weird & Wacky News Monday! Every Monday, I will deliver some (usually 2-3) weird and/or wacky news articles or pictures.
First up is.....Cross gender model!Thai lady boy Angkookrat Warangnam, known as Toon, was one of 200 'women' to enter the Brighton's Next Hot Model contest. Shy Toon sailed through the preliminary rounds, wowing judges with her deep brown eyes, long dark hair and slimline figure.After being given the green light by every member of the panel, the Lady Boys of Bangkok star, 26, revealed that she was born a man.Organiser Scott Woolgar said: "During the selection process it did not cross any of our minds for a minute that she was a man.
A Russian man had to be rescued by emergency workers from a rubbish chute where he had jumped to escape his girlfriend (Why?) but ended up getting stuck after sliding three floors down.Soviet era buildings in Russia frequently have a metal rubbish chute in the stairwell with a latch opening on each floor that is slightly bigger than a grocery bag. The unidentified man apparently travelled three floors down the chute in the apartment building in Tyumen before getting jammed at the fifth floor level, when he started calling for help. Rescue workers had to use an "electric instrument" to cut the metal and extricate the victim and passed him to a waiting ambulance team, the ministry said.
And last, but not least......Dinosaurs had arthritis too!
Researchers studying a giant eight metre pliosaurus found evidence of an arthritis like disease in its jaw.Usually capable of ripping other dinosaurs to bits with its 20cm teeth, the gammy jaw would eventually have stopped her feeding and led to her death 150 million years ago.Dr Judyth Sassoon, of Bristol university, was fascinated by the specimen since first seeing it in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.In life, it had a crocodile-like head, a short neck, whale-like body and four powerful flippers to propel it through water in pursuit of prey, reports journal Palaeontology.Studying the skeleton, believed to be a female, Dr Sassoon soon noticed that it had the signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis, that had eroded its left jaw joint, displacing the lower jaw to one side.Dr Sassoon said: "In the same way that aging humans develop arthritic hips, this old lady developed an arthritic jaw, and survived with her disability for some time."But an unhealed fracture on the jaw indicates that at some time the jaw weakened and eventually broke. With a broken jaw, the pliosaur would not have been able to feed and that final accident probably led to her demise."
Weird and wacky new out!Bye Bye for now,
Your writer extraordinaire :)
Hello, Hazle here, where do you get all of this information? It's awesome!
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