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- For More Than a Year, This Heartbroken Dog Has Been Waiting in the Same Spot for the Owner Who Will Never Return
- French Man Develops Pills That Make Flatulence Smell Like Flowers or Chocolate
- Chinese Martial Artist Can Breathe While Hanging by His Neck from a Tree
| Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:23 AM PST Every day, heartbroken Masha, a brown dachshund, waits in vain at a Siberian hospital for her owner who died a year ago. Her sad tale mirrors that of the famously loyal Japanese dog Hachiko who waited for his master at a train station for 10 years. Owing to the similarities between the two dogs, Masha has earned the nickname 'Russia's own Hachiko'. The sweet little dog has been visiting the Novosibirsk District Hospital Number One for the past two years, ever since her owner – a pensioner from the village of Dvurechie – was admitted. Masha was his only visitor – she would go away at night to guard their house and return to the hospital in the morning to keep the man company.
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| French Man Develops Pills That Make Flatulence Smell Like Flowers or Chocolate Posted: 27 Nov 2014 01:07 AM PST Believe it or not, someone has actually invented a pill that makes your farts smell like roses or chocolate. It sounds like a joke, but according to their inventor, they work wonderfully. The pill is the brainchild of 65-year-old French inventor Christian Poincheval. Christian says that he began developing the pills six years ago, after a rather copious dinner with some friends. "We had just come back from Switzerland and we were eating a lot with our friends and the smell from the flatulence was really terrible," he revealed. "When we were vegetarian, we noticed that our gas smelled like vegetables, like the odor from a cow pat, but when we started eating meat the smell of the flatulence became much disagreeable," he added. "We couldn't breathe so me and my friends decided something had to be done. We needed to invent something that made them smell nicer."
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| Chinese Martial Artist Can Breathe While Hanging by His Neck from a Tree Posted: 27 Nov 2014 12:28 AM PST Chinese martial arts expert Li Liangbin probably has the strongest neck muscles in the world. They are so strong that he can actually support himself and even breathe while hanging from a noose! The 49-year-old from Lizhuang village, China's Shandong province, said that he's been practicing kung fu since he was a young boy. "Although I am now a kung fu master, I'm always looking for new challenges and new ways to discipline my body," he revealed. "Kung fu is my life and it’s important to have a challenge. Everyone knows about kung fu masters that can chop up concrete blocks or leap off tall buildings, but surviving a hanging is something new." So he decided to toughen his neck muscles to such an extent that he would be able to survive even after being hung from a tree.
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