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China’s Eco-Heroes: Blind Man and Friend with No Arms Plant 10,000 Trees in 10 Years

Posted: 17 Mar 2015 06:38 AM PDT

Jia Haixa and Jia Wenqi are the most unlikely pair of environmentalists we’ve ever come across. The former is blind, while the latter is a double-amputee. Yet, they've managed to use their symbiotic relationship to plant over 10,000 trees in the past decade.

Haixa and Wenqi began their beautiful partnership when they were unable to get jobs due to their impairments. They have now become each other's eyes and hands, and taken on the task of transforming a three-hectare stretch of riverbank in Yeli village, in north China's Hebei Province.

"I am his hands," said Haixia. "He is my eyes. We are good partners." The 53-year-old was born with congenital cataracts that blinded his left eye. Then, in 2000, he lost sight in his right eye as well after a work-related accident. Wenqi, on the other hand, lost both arms in an accident when he was only three years old.

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Japan’s 60-Minute-Candy – A Real-Life Version of Willy Wonka’s Everlasting Gobstopper

Posted: 17 Mar 2015 06:16 AM PDT

There’s a wacky new diet product sweeping Japan, and it’s modeled after Willy Wonka's famous Everlasting Gobstopper. Aptly named the '60-Minute Candy', it's a lollipop with a three-centimeter ball of sugar that lasts for an entire hour!

The 60-minute-candy has gone viral in the Japanese Twitterverse, with hundreds of women passing it on as a great way to suppress sugar cravings. A gigantic lollipop doesn’t really pass for diet food, but a few licks of it apparently beat gorging on a candy bar, and since it lasts so long it’s also more affordable.  Well, because it's long-lasting, it's actually great to suppress cravings for foods with higher calories. And they're so handy that people could carry them around and take them out from time to time for a good lick.

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Chicago Spa Uses Breast Milk for Nutritious Facials

Posted: 17 Mar 2015 02:24 AM PDT

Not long ago, we wrote about how consuming breast milk is the latest fad among bodybuilders to gain muscle faster. And now, a spa in Chicago has found another interesting (albeit weird) use for mothers' milk – nutritious facials!

The brand new River North spa, called 'Mud Facial Bar', features several $40 facials on its menu. But the most intriguing one actually involves breast milk at an additional charge of $10. The milk is mixed with white clay so that it can be applied to the face and dried. The unique treatment can supposedly make your skin as smooth as a baby's bottom.

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