Category: WTF
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Behold Brazilian biologists swimming with a giant anaconda
Read Brazil Dispatch Images of a giant anaconda being photographed underwater created a stir this week on Facebook Brazil. After the amazing images were posted and shared, many Facebook users posted comments doubting the authenticity of the photographs. Biologist Daniel De Granville, who took the pictures, assured the G1 network that the images of the…
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Weight loss by (extreme) ice bathing ?
Read the Wired Cronise got the idea back in 2008 while watching a TV program about Michael Phelps. The coverage claimed that, while training, the Olympic swimmer ate 12,000 calories a day. At the time, Cronise was on a diet of 12,000 calories per week. (He was carrying 209 pounds on his 5’9″ frame and…
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Chinese farmer beaten for daring official to swim in filthy Ruian river
Read The Independent Mr Chen had been campaigning to shut the paper mills he said were poisoning his local rivers, after members of his family fell ill. When a local businessman, Jin Zengmin, posted pictures of a rubbish-filled river in Rui’an city on his microblog last week and offered officials 200,000 yuan (£24,000) to take…
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Giant isopod fasts for 4 years, still doesn’t care to eat
Minders at the Toba Aquarium in Japan say a male giant isopod know as “No. 1” last ate now more than 1500 days ago, on 2 January 2009, a horse mackerel which it devoured in just five minutes. That’s 18 days before President Obama began his first term. They’ve tried everything, but the animal justs…
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A man swims breaststroke on top of his car during a hail storm
Or something like that, via Complex
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Ian Thorpe used to promote ‘closet’ gay club
Read GayStarNews A photo of Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe is being used to promote a Melbourne ‘closet’ gay dance party. The promotional poster for the ‘Closet Party’ features a black and white image of the swimmer above a slogan saying it is ‘for homosexuals and those who love them.’ Thorpe has repeatedly denied being gay,…
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Chinese official declines $30,000 bet to swim in Ruian river, says it is people not industry that polluted it
Oh the irony, read the Guardian Last week, an eyeglass-retailer executive from Rui’an City, coastal Zhejiang province, offered the city’s environmental protection chief Bao Zhenming more than £20,000 to take a 20-minute dip in a highly polluted local river. The entrepreneur, Jin Zengmin, posted the dare to his microblog beneath pictures showing the waterway overflowing…
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English backpackers still swim in torrential storm at Coogee Beach
English backpackers make the best of torrential storm weather at Coogee Beach, Sydney
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Missing tourist found in LA hotel’s water tank
Read for instance The Huffington Post British tourist Michael Baugh and his wife said water had only dribbled out of the taps at the downtown Cecil Hotel for days. On Tuesday, after showering, brushing their teeth and drinking some of the tap water, they headed down to the lobby and found out why. The body…