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Edinburgh psych researcher Richard Wiseman and team left a load of wallets lying around with various contents, trying to see if there was a correlation between, say, baby pictures or cards indicating charitable giving and the rate at which wallets are returned. It turns out that people in Edinburgh (and maybe everyone) have a high likelihood of returning wallets with baby pictures, but are much less likely to return the wallets of charitable givers:

The baby photograph wallets had the highest return rate, with 88 per cent of the 40 being sent back. Next came the puppy, the family and the elderly couple, with 53 per cent, 48 and 28 respectively. At 20 per cent and 15, the charity card and control wallets had the lowest return rates.

Overall, 42 per cent of the wallets were posted back -- more than the team had anticipated. "We were amazed by the high percentage of wallets that came back," said Dr Wiseman.

Scientists have also found evidence for a baby instinct in brain scanning experiments. A recent study at the University of Oxford examined how people responded when they were shown photographs of baby or adult faces.

Want to keep your wallet? Carry a baby picture (via Derren Brown)

(Image: 6. Wallet, a Creative Commons Attribution licensed photo from Saad.Akhtar's Flickr stream)

As if you needed more evidence that texting is more dangerous than swine flu, a 15-year-old girl from Staten Island walked into an open manhole while texting. She's fine, don't worry, although she did lose a shoe in the sewer.

Alexa Longueira fell about 4 or 5 feet into an open manhole in Staten Island, scraping up her back and shoulders in the process, although she is otherwise physically unharmed. Her mother noted that she was also mentally injured, as the sewer was "putrid" and one of her shoes remains down there. Apparently, there were some DEP workers on the scene who were "looking" for cones to mark the area when the girl fell in.

The Longueira family says they will sue, although it's not clear exactly who—the city? The cellphone company? Alexa herself, for not watching where she was walking? Regardless, we are all allowed to laugh at this story, at teenagers with their texting, and at Staten Island as a whole, because the girl is unhurt. Proceed. [MSNBC via Twitter]

Remember in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, when Augustus Gloop fell into the chocolate river while trying to drink from it? Well the same thing happened in New Jersey this week with fatal consequences. I’m not kidding!

An employee named Vincent Smith II at a New Jersey chocolate processing plant died on Wednesday after falling into a 8 feet deep, 14 feet long and 6 feet wide vat of hot chocolate. The 29-year-old was dumping raw chocolate into the vat when he fell in from the nine-foot high platform, suffering a fatal blow to the head from the vat’s agitator, a paddle-like mechanism which stirs the chocolate.

One of the other employees quickly shut off the machinery, but it was unfortunately too late to save Smith. The facility, owned by Cocoa Services Inc., was churning a batch of chocolate for Hershey’s when the accident happened.

source: CNN

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We’re not making this up!

Tatiata Kozhevnikova, a 42 year old Russian woman, has set a new world record for vagina lifting.

The Guinness Book of Records was on hand to witness Tatiata break the world record by lifting a 31 pound (14 kg) glass ball with her must be very large vadge.

LMAO! We’re not making this shiz up. It’s for real.

So what did miss Kozhevnikova do to strenghten her Hulk-like pussay?

Murano glass ball! Yeah! you heard it right. She’s been toying with it for the past 15 years.

She said: “After I had a child, my intimate muscles got unbelievably weak. I read books on Dao and learned that ancient women used to deal with this problem using wooden balls. I looked around, saw a Murano glass ball and inserted it in my vagina. It took me ages to get it out!”

And just incase you haven’t tried stuffing your vajayjay with a glass ball before, Tatiata fully recommends it to all women who want to make their sex life sexier.

“It’s enough to exercise your vagina five minutes a day, ladies, and in just one week you’ll be able to give yourself and your man unforgettable pleasure in bed,”

Ladies, just do it for your men.

Yes! Yes! and Yes!

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Charlie Barlow plans to room with one of his best friends next semester at the University of Chicago: Lauren "Lulu'' Danzig. The two are among 50 students who will take advantage of a new policy allowing male and female undergraduates to room together -- something that was forbidden...

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Harrison is fit and ready to go in the 5th installment of Indiana Jones.

Nick Vujicic was born with no arms or legs, but has learnt to play football, swim and even surf. The 26-year old is mainly torso but has a small foot on his left hip which helps him balance and enables him to kick.Mr Vujicic uses his single foot to type, write with a pen and pick things up between his toes.