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Brazilian pianist Ricardo de Castro Monteiro plays piano in the air during the annual “Virada Cultural” event, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 6, 2012.

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11 Types Of Iconic Facebookers

Most of us are Facebookers; out of these 11 iconic Facebookers, find out which one best described you.

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is carrying out urgent enquiries after it was made aware that output from its BBC World News channel may have been censored in Malaysia.

The broadcast of anti-Government protests in Malaysia was apparently edited before it was re-broadcast on Malaysian satellite television Astro, with sequences removed from the original BBC version.

On the left of the picture above is BBC’s original broadcast of the 10pm (Malaysian time) news on April 28, 2012. On the right is what Malaysian Satellite TV Astro was broadcasting.

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Many of us are dreaming to win lottery but it’s always just a dream. Believe it or not, a QuikTrip gas station on Glendale Ave has sold out lucky winning lottery tickets, not only one or two tickets, but it sold six lottery tickets which strike first prizes that worth $6 million in single draw!

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The original passenger liner Titanic was sunk in the North Atlantic Ocean in 100 years ago after hitting an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK to New York City, US. Now we have the chance to see “Titanic” again because an Australian billionaire wants to build an “unsinkable” Titanic II, which expected to make its maiden voyage follows the old Titanic route, in late 2016.

The high-tech replica of the Titanic, has same dimension as old Titanic with 840 rooms and nine decks and will be built at a Chinese shipyard.

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Monsterpalooza, the convention of special effects makeup artists, was held in Burbank, Los Angeles from April 13 to April 15, 2012. The convention focuses on “the art of monsters,” such as horror makeup, sculpture, and artwork.

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An American man who lost his lips, nose and teeth in a 1997 gun accident has successfully completed an “extreme makeover” on his face in University of Maryland Medical Center. It sounds and looks impossible but it’s real, it happened in USA.

The 37-year-old man Richard Lee Norris had undergone several life-saving and reconstructive surgeries after the accident but had limited use of his mouth and, before the surgery, appeared as though his lower face and nose had been mashed in.

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Ksenia Bubenko is a 20-year-old girl who wanted to lose weight, but after dropping some pounds, she became obsessed with being as thin as possible. Now she weights only 20 kilograms.

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A normal domain name costs about $10 but do you know how much is the price of the world’s most expensive domain name and which is the one? The answer is “Insure.com”, which costs $16 million!


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