| October 28, 2007 | - The New York Times Style section published a feature on the rise of the term “vajayjay” to describe female genitalia. “The reason that vajayjay has caught on, I think, is because there is a black--Southern especially--naming tradition, which is to have names like Ray Ray and Boo Boo and things like that,” said John H. McWhorter, a linguist at the Manhattan Institute. “It sounds warm and familiar and it almost makes the vagina feel like a little cartoon character with eyes that walks around.”
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New York Times
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| September 18, 2007 | - A British man named Anthony Anderson was arrested for urinating on a 57-year-old woman as she lay dying of pancreatic failure. “This,” yelled Anderson as he was filmed, “is YouTube material.”
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BBC News
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| July 4, 2007 | - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in an attempt to prevent gay sex, planned to install a quarter-million-dollar robot toilet.
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South Florida Sun Sentinel
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| June 4, 2007 | - A family in Morocco were evicted from the toilet where they had lived for several years. “When he came home,” said the mother of her son, “he would cry and asked me why we lived in the toilet.”
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BBC
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| May 10, 2007 | - Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz testified in a pre-trial hearing related to the November 2005 killing of 24 civilians in Haditha,
Iraq. “I know it was a bad thing what I've done,” he said about his role in the killings, which were in retribution for the death of another Marine, “but I done it because I was angry T.J. was dead, and I pissed on one Iraqi's head.”
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Reuters via Alertnet
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| April 16, 2007 | - Toto, Japan's leading toilet maker, was offering free repairs for 180,000 bidet toilets after several burst into flames.
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Fox News
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| March 21, 2007 | - To test the integrity of ten local hospitals, journalists in Hangzhou, China, replaced their urine samples with tea; six of the hospitals diagnosed the reporters with urinary tract infections.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Lifestyle
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| February 22, 2007 | -
Kentucky Fried Chicken president Gregg Dedrick wrote a personal letter to Pope Benedict XVI asking him to bless the company's 99-cent Fish Snacker.
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Restaurant News
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| February 7, 2007 | - In a scenario that psychiatry professor Michael Stone called “unique in the annals of female crime,” U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak was arrested after she drove 900 miles to attempt to kidnap a woman she believed was romantically involved with a male space colleague. Dr. Keith Ablow, another psychiatrist, theorized that Nowak, who when taken into custody was wearing a diaper and was in possession of a BB gun, pepper spray, garbage bags, and rubber tubing, may very well have “unresolved issues.”
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NY Times
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MSNBC
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MSNBC and ABC News
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| December 10, 2006 | - Police and firefighters on Long Island rescued a veteran who had walled himself in with a seven-foot-high pile of fecal matter and other debris.
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NYPost
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| December 5, 2006 | - A plane bound for Texas made an emergency landing after a female passenger lit matches to mask the odor of her fart.
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WKMG Local News
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| October 6, 2006 | - Dog-feces-cleanup franchises were opening across the United States. It's the “best job in the world,” said Matt Boswell, the Chief Excrement Officer of Texas-based Pet Butler, which operates in 14 states.
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The Seattle Times
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MSNBC
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| October 2, 2006 | - A contender for the world chess championship refused to play in a finals match after being accused of taking a suspicious number of bathroom breaks.
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Moscow Times
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| September 7, 2006 | - Actor William Shatner turned down a free seat on the Virgin Galactic spaceship. “To vomit in space,” he said, “is not my idea of a good time.”
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The Daily Mail
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| September 4, 2006 | - Around 125 people in Ethiopia died from an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea.
| Source 1:
Seacoast Online
Source 2:
Reuters
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| September 1, 2006 | - In a courtroom in Duluth, Minnesota, a cocaine trafficker ate his own feces.
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Duluth News Tribune
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| August 23, 2006 | - Paul Weisman, a researcher at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said that scientists were “anally pursuing” a new designation for Pluto.
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Universe 'too fascinating'
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| August 15, 2006 | - In Germany a man was struck on the back of the neck by projectile human feces, then robbed of $9,554 by three people who offered to clean him off.
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Reuters
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| July 31, 2006 | - A Chicago woman was suing Borders Books after she was “permanently disfigured” in a toilet seat accident.
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CBS2 Chicago
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| July 31, 2006 | - It was reported that detainees at the Guantánamo Bay prison have attacked their guards with spit, feces, semen, and a bloody lizard tail.
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AP via Breitbart.com
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| July 27, 2006 | -
Saddam Hussein demanded that he be shot—not hanged—if he is found guilty of murdering Shiites in Dujail in 1982. “This case,” said Hussein, “is not worth the urine of an Iraqi child.”
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Scotsman.com
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| July 18, 2006 | - A taxidermist from Lake County, Florida, was arrested after urinating on $500 worth of frozen food.
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Local 6.com
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| July 12, 2006 | - In Australia
scientists found that mothers are less revolted by the smell of their child's feces than they are by the feces of other children.
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Live Science
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| June 27, 2006 | -
Australian scientists studying the use of dingo urine as a kangaroo repellent found that the urine startles kangaroos.
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Yahoo! News
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| April 25, 2006 | - Due to extreme inflation, toilet paper in Harare, Zimbabwe, cost $145,750 per roll (or U.S. $0.69).
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The New York Times
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| April 4, 2006 | - Doctors in North Carolina announced that they had successfully implanted lab-grown bladders into several patients.
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New Scientists
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| March 8, 2006 | - A five-year study into alternative methods of managing hog waste produced no feasible alternative to the current practice of filling massive lagoons with excrement.
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WRAL.com
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| February 22, 2006 | - A Bavarian village was flooded with over a foot of pig
manure.
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BBC News
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| February 19, 2006 | - Toxoplasma parasites, found in cat
feces, were causing deadly brain disease in U.S. otters.
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BBC News
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| February 17, 2006 | - In Harare, Zimbabwe, twenty newborn babies and fetuses were being pulled from the sewers each week.
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CNN.com
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| January 6, 2006 | - A 76-year-old performance artist was in trouble for chipping Marcel Duchamp's “Fountain,” a urinal valued at $3.6 million, with a hammer. In 1993 the same performance artist was arrested for urinating into the artwork.
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AP
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| December 1, 2005 | - A Jasper County, Georgia, eighth-grader was dismissed from school after he took down a video camera installed in the school's boys' bathroom; it turned out that the camera had been placed there by the school principal so that he could observe the boys.
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WMAZ.com
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| October 19, 2005 | - A burglar in Spokane, Washington, broke into a house and stole golf clubs, but left a pile of feces arranged in the shape of male genitalia.
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MSNBC
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| October 14, 2005 | -
Swiss scientists discovered that the prions that cause mad cow disease and scrapie can be passed through cow urine.
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Medical News Today
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| October 7, 2005 | - A registered sex offender in Medford, Oregon, was arrested after he asked a group of four girls for a ride to the mall. The police said that the suspect was covered in feces, but the man insisted he had just been rolling in tomato paste.
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SFGate
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| September 22, 2005 | -
New York City announced that it would install up to twenty public pay toilets, one for every 405,203 people.
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1010 WINS
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| September 14, 2005 | - At a U.N. summit, President George W. Bush was photographed writing a note to Condoleezza Rice. "I think I MAY NEED A BATHroom break?" read the note.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 25, 2005 | - A Springfield Township, Ohio, postal worker was caught putting urine in the post office coffeepot.
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The New York Times
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| August 16, 2005 | - In Richmond, Virginia, a sale on used laptops led to 17 injuries and one woman wetting herself.
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AP
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| August 12, 2005 | - A man in Columbus, Georgia, was in trouble for smearing feces on his body and walking through a mall.
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Ledger-Enquirer.com
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| July 15, 2005 | - A Bear, Delaware, woman was charged with injecting her two-year-old son with human feces.
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Delaware Online
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| July 11, 2005 | - It cost $75 to bleach
your
anus in Los Angeles.
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The Village Voice
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| June 28, 2005 | - A man in New Hampshire was arrested for hiding inside an outhouse tank.
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AP
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| June 16, 2005 | - And four cheerleaders in Texas were in trouble for smearing human feces on a pizza in an attempt to frame a rival cheerleading squad.
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WOAI.com
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| May 24, 2005 | - A San Diego doctor was training a dog named Ginger to detect cancer by sniffing human urine.
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Sign On San Diego
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| May 6, 2005 | - In Victoria, British Columbia, a man was barred from a civic meeting because he was dressed as a giant piece of feces named “Mr. Floatie.”
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Canada.com
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| March 30, 2005 | - A Toronto man attempted to pass a Breathalyzer test by stuffing his mouth full of his own feces.
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Ottowa Sun
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| March 18, 2005 | - Municipal workers in Buffalo, New York, were asked to provide their own toilet paper at work due to a budget crisis.
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Boston.com
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| March 11, 2005 | - A New Jersey man was arrested for a string of burglaries. “He defecated in at least four residences,” said a prosecutor. “When he was taken into custody, he also defecated, and that was in his pants.”
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The Trentonian
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| March 10, 2005 | - An Idaho teenager was in trouble for frosting
brownies with his semen.
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Sun-Sentinel.com
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| February 20, 2005 | -
Chinese scientists announced the development of a new process that turns sewage water and mud into organic fertilizer and pesticide.
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Xinhuanet
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| February 16, 2005 | -
NASA researchers studying the methane signatures of Mars found evidence of life below the Martian surface.
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Space.com
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| February 11, 2005 | -
Anti-Semitism was on the rise in London; there were complaints of arson, beatings, and the mailing of a snuffbox filled with excrement.
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The Independent
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| February 4, 2005 | - Frozen urine dropped from the sky in Scotland.
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The Daily Record
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| January 17, 2005 | -
German police were searching for the those responsible for sticking miniature American flags into thousands of piles of dog excrement in public parks over the last year.
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Ananova
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| January 12, 2005 | - During the trial of Army Spc. Charles Graner Jr., it was revealed that he threatened to rape prisoners and made them eat pork, and made one prisoner eat from a toilet.
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New York Timesimes
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| January 5, 2005 | - and a $20 million art project described as a "visual golden river" broke ground in New York's Central Park.
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The New York Times
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| November 17, 2004 | -
Soldiers at Fort Lewis, Washington, were throwing chocolate pudding and lemon-lime Gatorade at each other in order to prepare for duty at Army detention centers like Guantánamo Bay. “I feel good about this mission,” said one soldier. “I get to be part of the solution.”
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The Olympian
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| November 17, 2004 | - The World Toilet Summit was held in China.
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AP
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| October 22, 2004 | - German archaeologists unearthed Martin Luther's privy.
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BBC
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| August 18, 2004 | - A new survey found that about 10 percent of the world's food crops are irrigated with sewage.
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New Scientist
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| July 15, 2004 | - Britain's Science Museum was thinking about using visitors' excrement to cut down on its electricity bills.
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Reuters
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| March 20, 2004 | -
Virgin Atlantic Airways decided not to install urinals shaped like a woman's open lips at a first-class lounge at New York's JFK Airport.
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ABC.com.au
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| March 4, 2004 | -
Baghdad's
sewage continued to flow untreated into the Tigris River.
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New York Times
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| January 7, 2004 | - The United States Transportation Security Administration decreed that passengers may no longer line up to use the toilet on airplanes.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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| November 5, 2003 | - Marine biologists traced a strange submarine farting sound to bubbles that were observed coming from a herring's anus; it was the first discovery of a fish making a sound (which has been labeled a "fast repetitive tick," or FRT) with its anus.
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New Scientist
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| October 25, 2003 | -
FBI agents at the Norfolk, Virginia, airport took anal swabs from a mechanical farting dog to make sure it did not contain explosives.
| Source:
BBC
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| October 14, 2003 | - A genomic survey of human feces found it inhabited by 1,200 viruses, about half of which were previously unknown to science.
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Nature.com
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| July 5, 2003 | - A primary school in China was fining children five yuan per incident for farting in class.
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Undernews
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| May 22, 2003 | - Some Afghan civilians were found to have "astonishing" levels of uranium in their urine.
| Source:
BBC
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| March 18, 2003 | -
Cameroon's health minister warned the people not to drink their own urine.
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| September 10, 2002 | -
A large chunk of frozen urine crashed through the roof of a home on Long Island.
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| April 2, 2002 | -
People in Washington State were alarmed at the numbers of urine-filled bottles and other human waste being found along the state's highways.
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| March 26, 2002 | -
The Supreme Court ruled that a South Carolina man could no longer sell his own urine online; for $69 plus shipping and handling, the pipe fitter would mail five ounces of urine, plastic tubing, and a warmer to customers concerned about their ability to pass employers' drug tests.
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| August 7, 2001 | - Many people in Thailand were still drinking their own urine.
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| June 19, 2001 | - Buck Weimer, an inventor from Colorado, came up with a new type of fart-proof underpants for people who suffer from chronic flatulence; the device, called Under-Ease, comes with a replaceable charcoal filter.
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| June 12, 2001 | -
Australia was vaccinating
sheep and cattle to prevent farting, which emits methane, a potent gas that contributes to global warming.
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| June 5, 2001 | -
China's official news agency reported that 3 million Chinese drink their own urine every day.
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| April 10, 2001 | - A man was arrested in New York for using a spray bottle to contaminate Manhattan salad bars with a cocktail of his own urine and feces; he was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, criminal tampering, possession of a forged instrument, and public urination.
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