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If the wind changes, you’ll stay like that! The hilarious pictures that show models’ faces being blasted with an industrial hair dryer

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This series of eye-popping pictures show what you would look like if you walked head first into a hurricane.

Lithuanian photographer Tadas ?erniauskas invited 100 models into his Vilnius studio so he could blast their faces with air with an industrial hairdryer. The funny, and also slightly terrifying, results were then displayed as part of his ‘Blow Job’ exhibition.

www.tadaocern.com Photographer Tadas Cerniauskas takes photographs using powerful fans

 

Blasted: Lithuanian photographer Tasas Cerniasukas invited models into his Vilnius studio so he could blast air at their faces Continue reading

Dentist pulled out all boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her

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A dentist pulled out all her ex-boyfriend’s teeth after he dumped her for another woman – who has now left him because he is toothless.

Anna Mackowiak, 34, is facing jail after taking her revenge on 45-year-old Marek Olszewski when he turned up at her surgery with toothache just days after breaking up with her.

She gave him a heavy dose of anaesthetic and plucked his teeth out.

She then wrapped his head and jaw in a bandage to stop him opening his mouth and said there had been complications and he would need to see a specialist. Continue reading

That’ll show her: The man who sold everything on eBay after wife left him buys own Caribbean island AND finds love again

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  • Briton checks off bucket list after becoming internet sensation in Australia
  • Runs with bulls, dives with sharks, learns to fly a plane over last 4 years

He auctioned his entire life – car, home, job and friends – on eBay in a midlife crisis that made headlines the world over.

When Ian Usher’s wife Laura left him six years after they emigrated from Britain to Australia, he shed every part of his old life.

Then he took the proceeds and made a fresh start, travelling the world armed with nothing but a list of life-goals.

For sale: Ian Usher auctioning his entire life on eBay in Perth, Australia, four years ago

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Flight attendant on plane rants about crashing

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A female flight attendant who started ranting about a possible crash over the public address system of an American Airlines plane on Friday was subdued by passengers and crew as the plane returned to the gate, passengers said.

So, will he measure up? 22-inch Nepalese man, 72, heads off to meet Guinness Book Of World Records team tomorrow… and be confirmed as planet’s smallest man

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At just 22 inches tall, shorter than the length of a broadsheet newspaper, Chandra Bahadur Dangi will tomorrow be officially named the world’s smallest man by Guinness World Records.

Dangi, 72, left his home in a isolated Nepalese village to fly to the capital, Kathmandu, to be measured by Guinness World Records officials tomorrow.

Guinness World Records said if his measurements are correct, he will beat the current record holder for the world’s shortest man, Filipino Junrey Balawing, 18, who is 23.5 inches tall.

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, who is set to break the record as the world's smallest man tomorrow, goes for a stroll near his home in Reemkholi village in Dang district, some 540 kilometres southwest of KathmanduChandra Bahadur Dangi, who is set to break the record as the world’s smallest man tomorrow, goes for a stroll near his home in Reemkholi village in Dang district, some 540 kilometres southwest of Kathmandu

 

Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, poses with a local newspaper to show his tiny frameChandra Bahadur Dangi, 72, poses with a local newspaper to show his tiny frame

He claimed the title last year from Khagendra Thapa Magar, 18, whose height is… Continue reading

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New record set at Wing Bowl eating extravaganza

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More than 17,000 mostly beer-fueled spectators packed a Philadelphia indoor arena on Friday for the city’s annual early morning eating extravaganza in which competitors vie to eat the most chicken wings.

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Italy’s “Get back on board, damn it!” T-shirts a hit

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A coast guard officer’s “Get back on board damn it!” order to the fleeing captain of the capsized Costa Concordia liner is being printed on T-shirts by a company hoping to inspire Italians to rescue their country from economic crisis.

The priest who changed the course of history for the worse… by rescuing four-year-old Hitler from drowning in icy river

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  • Future Fuhrer was plucked from certain death by boy who grew up to join the church
  • German newspaper from 1894 reveals incident

A four-year-old Adolf Hitler was saved from certain death after falling into an icy river while playing as a child, it emerged today.

The man who would become leader of the Nazi party in Germany and kill millions of innocent people was rescued by another boy who grew up to become a priest, according to a newly-discovered German newspaper archive.

The four-year-old future Fuhrer was living at the time in the Kapuzinerstrasse in Passau in Germany, just across the border from his native Austria.

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Rescued: Johann Kuehberger, left, saved the life of a four-year-old Adolf Hitler, pictured right in an undated photo, when they were both children

According to Max Tremmel, a priest who went on to become one of Europe’s most famous organists, his predecessor Johann… Continue reading

Tech guru accidentally broadcasts explicit sex chat to massive online audience

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When you are confident enough in your abilities to give yourself a title like The Tech Guy, you’d better be sure that you can live up to it.

A tech expert recently aired a spicy conversation between him and his female boss, making millions of viewers privy to an intimate conversation between he and his lover, according to a report from Gawker.

The conversation that flashed up momentarily on screen starts with Leo Laporte telling lover Lisa Kentzell: ‘Come over, I’m naked in bed. Waiting for you. The door is open.’

She replies: ‘I love you’.

Laporte is a man who has based his name and career around his web-savvy, teaching eager listeners how to best use the internet and technology on his netcast network called TWIT.tv, which streams 27 radio shows- four of which he is the host.

The Tech Guy: Leo Laporte has made his career on being web-savvy, but he made quite the faux pas when he revealed a steamy affair on his showThe Tech Guy: Leo Laporte has made his career on… Continue reading