According to biologists at Harvard University, some African frogs can morph their toes into claws by puncturing their own skin with sharp bones. The bones are sharp enough to wound predators and protect the frogs from danger, but obviously it’s using sparingly since it requires the bone to pierce the skin on their feet. These [...]

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This is a land-line telephone, if you don’t know that, you aren’t old enough for this post.

Now most people have never used a phone sex service, but everyone knows about them, advertised in the back of men’s magazines and referenced in popular culture. Well this interesting gallery of photos contains the images and words of [...]

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A bicycle race in Mexico took a tragic turn for the worst when a drunk driver swerved into a field of cyclists. Seven athletes were severely injured, with one fatality. It was an American from Texas too, which will probably greatly ease tensions between the countries. This really is a crazy image!
[Flickr page]

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Ryan McGeeney spent six months in Afghanistan as a Marine, and thought that working at the Standard-Examiner as a newspaper photographer would be safer work. Well, there are no guarantees in life. He was speared through the leg by an errant javelin while working at a high school state track meet, but was fortunate enough [...]

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This picture is from a bizarre incident near Dallas, Texas, when a plane landed on top of another plane. Both of the pilots seemed to think the other would give way, one plane was trying to take off and one plane was trying to land. The planes collided on the runway, with the landing plane [...]

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You’d think the title is a joke, but apparently the future is here, and it’s sweet! Yves Rossy, a former pilot, has spent the last five years making and refining a personal jetpack with 10ft rigid wings and four Germanbuilt model aircraft engines. More pictures and video after the jump. After being dropped from a [...]

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Now this is a priceless picture. From the caption:
In Houston, a Texan protesting amnesty for illegal immigrants argues that anyone who can’t master English doesn’t deserve to live in America.
We really enjoy the fact that the protester underlined the erroneous word on the sign. It’s like they wanted to emphasize the irony!
[SFGate]

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Now that is sweet! This foosball game is best played with 22 people.

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