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Have you ever consider going on your regular running routine on barefoot? Well, now you can - sort of - with Vibram FiveFingers shoes. This shoes is designed to make you feel like you are running without shoes and yet protect your feet from dirt and debris. And why would you do that? Studies shows that running without shoes can strengthen your feet, ankles, and lower legs and improve balance.

Vibram started making the five-toed shoes in 2006, but the trend really picked up steam last year, following the publication of Christopher McDougall's book “Born to Run.” The book describes how Mexico’s Tarahumara Indians have become some of the greatest long-distance runners in the world despite running barefoot or in sandals fashioned from tire rubber.

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Ella Rose Riehle is extremely lucky. That's because she won't forget here birthday. All she needs to do is count - 8,9,10 and 11,12. Ella Rose was born on 8/9/10 at 11:12 PM. Her mother Terri Riehle from Cincinatti, USA was happy that she will not get her kid's birthday mixed up.

That day, she was hoping for the 11:12 a.m time slot, but when that time came & went, everyone started guessing when the baby would arrive. By 11 p.m., she started experiencing intense labor pains, and at the one-in-a-million time, baby Ella Rose came into this world. Terri recalls looking at the clock and seeing: 11:12.


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Steven Slater, called it quits and said, 'That's it. I'm Done'. He was referring to his job as a JetBlue flight attendant. It happened yesterday morning in JFK international airport, inside the running Jetblue flight #1052, after he was hit on the forehead by a baggage of a female who was removing the baggage in the overhead compartment and ignoring his instruction to remain seated. After exchanging a heated argument with the female, he cursed her in the public address system, grab a beer and deployed the emergency chute the leave the plane.

He was then arrested in his home in Queens, New York, shortly after the incident and was charged with reckless endangerment and criminal mischief with a bail set at $2,500.

Here's a video of his arrest.



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It's not just during April Fool's day you will get a cubicle like.

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Denny Ingram was a lucky man last week. He caught a yellow lobster - a 1-in-30 million chance. The very rare yellow lobster was caught in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. Lobsterman Denny Ingram found the lobster in one of his pots last week. It is golden on the top and bright yellow on both sides.

Another colored lobster was caught off the coast of New Hampshire last year. It was a blue lobster and the change is 1-in-5 million. The rarest of them all is the white lobster caught off Cape Cod in 2004 and change to caught one is 1-in-100 million.

It's also apparently good luck for this lobster, who will not be heading to anyone's dinner table. Ingram says he plans to keep the yellow lobster on display at the fishermen's co-op at the State Pier in Newport.

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Caño Cristales is not only known as the world's most beautiful river, it's called as "the river of five colors" and "the river that ran away from paradise". That's because Caño Cristales is really an amazing sight to behold when it resident algae are in bloom.

It only happens once a year in the period between the wet and dry seasons, when the water level is just right. Many varieties of algae and moss bloom in an amazing display of colors. In that period, the river is coated with different colors, from yellow, blue, green, black, and red and countless shades in between.

If you want to see Caño Cristale in it's dazzling display of color, you have to be there at the right time because for most of the year, it is indistinguishable from any other river, with a bed of rocks covered in dull green mosses and a cool dark blue current.

Often referred as the "river of five colors", "the river that ran away from paradise," and "the most beautiful river in the world." A unique biological wonder Caño Cristales is one of those places you have to see to believe.

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It really is dangerous to drive in a frozen lake especially if you're driving a bulldozer. Poor driver didn't know that the heavy equipment is already sinking and so he goes down with it. His co-worker couldn't help but watch.

This one is scarier than paddling from Australia to New Zealand. And you might think that this picture is photoshopped, it's not. This amazing picture of a shark staking a man on a 3.8-meter sea kayak is a real photograph. It was taken by Thomas P. Peschak in south-western South Africa. This picture of an article about great white sharks posted at White Shark Trust’s website.

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