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World's ugliest woman buried

Known to be the world's ugliest woman, Julia Pastrana, was finally buried 150 years after she died in her native town in northern Mexico on Tuesday. She used to travel across the world as an exhibit at various circuses. Born in 1834, Julia suffered from various diseases that gave her dense facial hair and a thick jaw set like an ape. Popularly known as ‘bear woman’ or ‘ape woman’, she died in 1860 in Moscow after giving birth to her son who too suffered from the same set of diseases. Sadly, the son couldn't live for long and died only a few days after he was born.

Yet another Earth-ending theory

Now that the world didn't end on 12.12.12, new dates for eventual doomsday have been declared. But don't worry because you won't be alive to witness the catastrophic super-volcano that seismologists claim will erupt in 200 million years and destroy Earth.

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A bank with just one employee

The village of Gammesfeld in Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany houses the world's smallest bank – the Raiffeisen Gammesfeld eG bank. What’s more amazing is the fact that its CEO Peter Breiter is the only employee who works for the bank. Everything from opening the bank, cleaning the floors to making financial transactions is done by Breiter. The bank is not connected though any network as its customers are only from the village that has a total of 500 residents.

Man tries to make out with an ambulance

Police arrested 25-year-old Callum Ward when he was seen pressing himself against the bonnet of an ambulance in England. One of the officers was quoted saying, “It looks as though he is attempting to make love to the front of the ambulance”. Ward was under the influence of popular drugs like cannabis and amphetamine when he was booked for the incident. Just prior to this, he also set a packet of peanuts on fire inside a phone box. The court sentenced him to a community order with a supervision requirement for six months and ordered him to pay a fine of £60. Surprisingly, it’s not the first case where people have tried to hump a vehicle. In 2007, a Scottish male, Robert Stewart, was caught trying to make out with a bicycle.

By 2014, mobile devices will outnumber humans

According to new research by Cisco, there will be 1.4 mobile connected devices per human by 2017. However, by next year, mobile devices will exceed the human population. According to the forecast, as against 7.6 billion humans, there will be over 10 billion wireless devices in circulation.

People are taking a break from Facebook

In a research conducted by the Pew Research Centre’s Internet and American Life Project in December, over 60 percent of the current Facebook users admitted that they have often not logged on to their profiles intentionally for several weeks because they lost interest and considered Facebook a waste of time.

Leadership comes easy to people with long faces

According to a new research led by psychologist Daniel Re, it has been hinted that people who have a long face are seen as natural and trustworthy leaders. The study conducted at the University of St Andrews in UK, which suggests that long-faced people excel during adverse conditions has its roots in ancestral times when mostly such people were chosen as leaders because of their survival instincts.

Your cup of coffee or mug of beer can charge your phone

A new device developed by a telecom company in Washington claims to use the warmth or chill of a beverage to fuel mobile phones like iPhone, music players like iPod and other Android based phones. The compact device, a size of the bottom of a cup, can be carried in a purse or a backpack and it has been designed for use during emergencies. The charger has two ends, one each for a cold and hot beverage. The company claims that the USB port enabled device can charge the phone at the same speed as any other plugged-in charger.

Now proven: Men romance better than woman

A UK based research conducted around Valentine’s Day reported that women are more likely to ditch the day of romance than men. The survey says that for women, V-Day means nothing more than say just giving out a romantic card and they see no need to shower their partner with extra love on the day. More than 21% of the 2000 women who participated in the survey said that they would not celebrate the day as against 14.5% men who didn't approve of the day. It also noted that men are more likely to pamper women with gifts.

Entrepreneurs are happier

Obviously they are… After all they get to keep all the profits! However, there is now research to prove this. In a survey conducted by AXA business in the UK, it was hinted than those who run their own business are 50% more satisfied than people who work for someone else. This too when work bothers them twice more than their employees, they get to take lesser number of leaves and consider their customers as the biggest cause of stress.

Docs freeze baby for 4 days

Not to kill him, but to save his life. An infant who was born with a rare heart condition that has just 5% survival chances as it makes the heart beat at double its natural pace was kept under a controlled atmosphere to drop his core temperature by 4 degrees and slow his metabolism. The kid survived thanks to this measure.

From the March 2013 issue of FHM India.