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http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/home-21568-woods-children.html
Man committed suicide but his body sat decomposing for 3 days because neighbors thought his lifeless figure was part of a Halloween display:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-marina-death17-2009oct17,0,3558556.story
The city of Stockholm, Sween has been shooting thousands of wild rabbits each year and burning the bodies for heating fuel!
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE59D4LZ20091014
Study found that people often use "motivated reasoning" when sorting through new information or arguments that contradicts what they already believe. The researchers found that even when people were presented with evidence from trusted sources, many would use questionable or contorted logic to ignore the evidence instead of changing their minds on the issue:
http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/lane_wallace/2009/09/all_evidence_to_the_contrary.php
Postcard was delivered in the UK...40 years after it was sent:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6290026/Postcard-delivered-after-40-years.html
Debate about whether or not convicted sex offenders should be allowed to attend church. Many churches have nurseries and sex offenders are not supposed go anywhere close to a nursery, so some states are passing laws letting sex offenders go to church and other states ban sex offenders from getting near children anywhere:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1929736,00.html
Shepherd in Jordan was shocked when he saw his flock of sheep spontaneously catch on fire and completely disappear! The people of Jordan worried about a volcano or that a massive earthquake was imminent, but it turned out to be due to an underground methane gas leak:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6308252/Flock-of-sheep-bursts-into-flames-after-gas-leak-in-Jordan.html
About half of the people in India (665 million people) do not have access to toilets. However, the India government started a "No Toilet, No Bride" campaign two years ago that encouraged women to refuse to marry unless their suitor puts a bathroom in their future home. Since the campaign started, 1.4 million toilets have been built in the northern state of Haryana:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101934.html