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Tennis Ball-Size Hail Leaves Nebraska Town Looking Like a War Zone

Posted: 11 Jun 2014 04:26 AM PDT

Earlier this month, a ferocious hailstorm wreaked havoc throughout the American Midwest. Several cities were badly affected, but perhaps none as much as Bray, a small town in Nebraska. The hailstones that hit Bray were unbelievably large, roughly the size of tennis balls. Naturally, the town was completely battered – the storm left it looking like a war zone with houses and vehicles almost completely destroyed.

Large chunks were ripped out of houses and the paint was torn off the walls. The cars in the town looked as though they had been through a gang war – with the windscreens and windows completely smashed in. Although tornadoes were reported in the region, the hailstones did the most of the damage, wreaking havoc among the locals. Over 20 people from Bray were injured as well; they were rushed to the emergency room, but none were seriously hurt.

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Can You Believe This Gorgeous Dress Is Made Almost Entirely Out of Toilet Paper

Posted: 11 Jun 2014 02:07 AM PDT

This white wedding dress is so elaborate  and stunning that you're never going to believe what it's made of – toilet paper. The one-of-a-kind dress was created by art student Olivia Mears, from Asheville, North Carolina. She used only 11 rolls of toilet paper, 100 ft. of tape and lots of glue to put the whole thing together.

The dress was made for a local event called the Annual Cheap Chic Toilet Paper Wedding Dress Contest, sponsored by Charmin, a toilet paper company. "I learned about the contest with only a few weeks to prepare the dress," said Olivia. So she worked on the project for about 20 hours, and came up with a real winner.

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The Japanese Bar Where Waiters Are Princes, Customers Are Princesses and Everyone Is a Girl

Posted: 11 Jun 2014 12:55 AM PDT

Japan really does have some of the most interesting bars and restaurants that cater to a large variety of customers with strange interests. We've heard of restaurants catering to airsoft lovers, offering great discounts to bald patrons, using monkeys as waiters, and even a bar run by a monk. Now we've found out about a cross-dressing Tokyo bar that caters only to a female clientele. The waiters are women too, dressed as dashing young princes, while the customers get to be princesses for the day.

The aptly named 'Bar Prince' is located in Tokyo's Nakano ward. They have a strict women-only policy for the staff as well as patrons. The boyish-looking staff don ruffle-trimmed prince outfits and swept-over hairstyles – they're all crossdressers. Their mission is simple – to make every woman who walks through their doors feel like a princess. They even have a special name for their customers: 'o-hime-sama', which, obviously, means princesses.

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