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| UpdatedSigns featuring the faces of former ACT election candidates will soon be put underground to help wombats overcome disease.
Topics: animals, veterinary-medicine, offbeat, human-interest, canberra-2600
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Work Christmas parties can be awkward at best, permanently scarring at worst. Take Deirdre Fidge's advice and be prepared for this year's festivities.
Topics: work, relationships, offbeat, australia
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| UpdatedNeuroscientists insist women's brains should be studied separately to men's, while a gold-plated sex toy is topping Christmas wishlists, Jo Fox writes.
Topics: discrimination, men, women, neuroscience, psychology, offbeat
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| UpdatedA new baby, a fluffy kitten, a puppy — all elicit a similar response and now there is a push to give that emotion a name to encourage more research.
Topics: animals, emotions, offbeat, research, psychology, southport-4215
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A British man aiming to become the first person to swim across the Atlantic has said he is grappling with sharks, jellyfish stings, choppy water and a sea moth that tried to nest in his left ear.
Topics: offbeat, human-interest, swimming, sport, senegal, brazil, england
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The craze of bottle flipping has been labelled noisy, annoying and addictive, but while some schools are banning the pastime, one is turning it into a competitive sport to teach students about probability.
Topics: education, offbeat, mathematics-education, science, primary-schools, schools, mona-vale-2103, nsw, australia
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Why dead fish are hanging from rural road signs has long perplexed people driving the lonely roads of regional Queensland.
Topics: offbeat, fishing-aquaculture, port-alma-4699
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| UpdatedA six-year-old female giraffe named Kitoto arrives in Perth after leaving Sydney for a gruelling 4,200-kilometre journey across the Nullarbor.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, animals, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedAn unusual sea slug that looks like a Pokemon, eats blue bottles and has a powerful sting has been spotted on a Gold Coast beach.
Topics: marine-biology, science-and-technology, offbeat, rainbow-bay-4225
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| UpdatedA lost New Zealand fur seal is released back into the ocean after being found in a cow paddock in south-eastern New South Wales.
Topics: animals, offbeat, bega-2550, mogareeka-2550, nsw
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A Japanese theme park has been closed to close one of the attractions after online outrage over an online skating rink featuring thousands of dead fish.
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Santa Claus is outsourcing his reindeer this holiday season to help deliver pizza for a Domino's outlet in snowy northern Japan.
Topics: food-and-cooking, animals, offbeat, human-interest, japan, asia
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| UpdatedA skating rink in western Japan featuring about 5,000 dead fish frozen beneath the ice is forced to close after facing fierce criticism on social media.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, japan, asia
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An ABC reporter bares all to uncover truths about a local nudist club that wants to foster a sense of community and build body confidence among its members.
Topics: human-interest, clubs-and-associations, community-and-society, people, offbeat, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedDo yourself and your kids a favour and drop the "Santa charade", writes Ben Pobjie. You don't have to be a Grinch about it — just tell them the truth.
Topics: children, parenting, national-days, religion-and-beliefs, offbeat, psychology
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Calls to emergency services are not usually bearing good news — but one police station in Florida received a heartwarming 911 call on Thanksgiving from a five-year-old boy inviting staff to join his family for dinner.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, police, united-states
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US President Barack Obama gets the White House into the holiday mood with the traditional pardoning of the national Thanksgiving turkey, this time with his nephews standing in for daughters Malia and Sasha.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
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Incredible aerial footage showing kilometres of gridlocked traffic in Los Angeles area goes viral, as tens of millions of Americans set out for Thanksgiving holidays.
Topics: human-interest, offbeat, united-states
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Work is already underway on 14 massive puppets set to star at this year's Woodford Folk Festival, with their creator being helped by students from Queensland University of Technology.
Topics: carnivals-and-festivals, community-and-multicultural-festivals, performance-art, offbeat, woodford-4514
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An Australian trio has broken the world record for the highest basketball shot, launching the ball from the top of a dam in Switzerland.
Topics: offbeat, basketball, human-interest, switzerland, australia
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| UpdatedAn Aussie trio breaks the world record for the highest basketball shot, launching the ball from the top of a dam in Switzerland.
Topics: offbeat, australia, switzerland
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When Facebook accidentally listed millions of users as "dead" in an embarrassing glitch, it was a reminder that everyone needs to plan for their own digital death.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, human-interest, death, offbeat, united-states, australia