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Recently, the news has been full of the intestinal ruminations of US Secretary of Homeland Security, who abruptly announced last week that he had a “gut feeling” that the US was about to be attacked by foreign terrorists.
The major media outlets and the blogosphere alike immediately ramped up an uproar, insinuating darkly that if anyone [...]
In terms of height they are worlds apart. The world’s tallest man, Bao Xishun today shook hands with He Pingping who claims to be Earth’s shortest.
But these two men actually hail from the same region of Inner Mongolia.
While Mr Xishun, 56, towers above everyone at an astonishing 7′10″, 19-year-old Mr Pingping is a mere 2′5″ [...]