A 19-year-old suburban Detroit resident is on track to graduate from The University of Michigan after just a year of study. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Baby girl's parents have given their newborn 25 middle names, honouring great boxers. Her full name is:
Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown.

Possibly worse than this! picked by TheStep 1 year ago

Percy, Norman, Edna and Gertrude are just a few of the classic British names that could soon be consigned to the graveyard of history. Many popular baby names of years gone by are quite literally dying out with the passing of an older generation. picked by lpoindexter 2 months ago

When is young too young?

A ten-year-old girl from Charleroi gave birth to a baby last year. The father was 13. picked by deepcleanfun 1 year ago

It is the baby turtle that proves two heads really are better than one. While its siblings grow at a the usual steady pace, this tiny creature is speeding ahead. The reason for its extraordinary growth spurt is simple: having two heads mean it eats twice as fast. picked by AutumnLotus 1 month ago

An Austrian woman lived with the mummified remains of her aunt for a year after she died at age 96. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

"All the beer consumed in the US each year could fill one out of every 25 residential in-ground pools in the US"
and other fancy facts. picked by suckersklub 2 days ago

Extreme case of Dwarfism

(video en espanol) but still worth a watch picked by trushafty38 7 months ago

Details of 2,000 suspects wanted by Dutch Police languished unchecked within the Crown Prosecution Service for a year. Eleven of the people listed have since gone on to commit crimes within Britain, including serious assault. picked by Pocksucket 8 months ago

Successful New Year trip makes a holiday really happy. To the contrary, spoilt vacations can not only sadden holiday memories, but also cloud the whole future year. So you need to foresee everything. picked by femina 2 years ago

A Polish woman was so intoxicated during her labour, her baby was born 15 times over the limit. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Interestingly enough, so are a good majority of the Seventy Year Old Men in this country. picked by muppetmaker 1 month ago

In Connecticut, a woman who gave birth to a 9 pound baby, 8 and 1/2 pound twins and a 12 pound baby just broke the eighteen year record giving birth to a 14 pound baby. She doesn't care about all the media attention she just wanted the baby out of her already! picked by musicgirldani 2 years ago

Women who use make-up on a daily basis are absorbing almost 5lb of chemicals a year into their bodies picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Sociologists, baby name experts and teachers all agree that what you name your child does indeed impact her personality, her ability to interact with her peers, even how she is perceived by total strangers.

(Yea, this one is for INY) picked by icepigs 2 months ago

Jon pokes fun at Time's 'Person of the Year' award. picked by Boomshank 2 years ago

In a year in which roughly 17,000 leading presidential contenders, plus of course Dennis Kucinich, held roughly 63,000 debates, during which they spewed out roughly 153 trillion words; and yet the only truly memorable phrase emitted in any political context was ``Don't tase me, Bro!'' you know there will be a lot of humor to find. picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

When President Bush came to power in 2001, the US spent $1.4bn a year on humanitarian and development aid in Africa. By 2006, the figure had quadrupled to $5.6bn a year. And it is likely to get bigger. The centrepiece of Mr Bush's aid to Africa is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (Pepfar), a five-year, $15bn Aids prevention and treatment program. His most recent budget proposes doubl... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago

A 60-year-old New Jersey woman has become the oldest in the United States to give birth to twins after delivering two sons. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Doctors screened out from the woman’s embryos an inherited gene that would have left the baby with a greater than 50% chance of developing the cancer. picked by deEPCHIll 3 months ago