1. 1,400 kg butter idol of goddess in Himachal:
Large numbers of devotees are thronging the Brajeshwari Devi temple here every day to pay obeisance and have glimpse of a 1,400 kg butter idol, temple official said Thursday. The 14 quintal butter idol, made by 18 priests, will remain on the ‘pindi’ or iconography of the goddess till Jan 20, temple official Pawan Patial told IANS.
He said the butter idol was made by using `ghee’ donated by the devotees. The priests, with a unique technique, purified it with water 108 times. According to legend, when the goddess was injured during a fight with demons, her wounds were treated with butter on Makar Sankranti by gods. The butter, when removed from the ‘pindi’ Jan 20, will be distributed among the devotees. It’s a belief that the butter treats chronic skin ailments and joint pains.
2. Australian man tries 2 remove cockroach from ear using vaccum cleaner:
Doctors had to surgically remove a 0.8 inch cockroach from a man’s ear after it crawled inside while he was asleep, according to Australian media reports. Hendrik Helmer told the state-owned Australian Broadcasting Corporation that he had unsuccessfully tried to suck out the insect using his vacuum cleaner. “I was hoping it wasn’t a poisonous spider.
I was hoping it didn’t bite me,” he said. He woke up in the middle of the night with pain in the side of his head. ”Later on, when I stood up and it happened it would sort of hunch me over and drop me down to the ground,” Helmer said. Attempts to flush the insect out failed and were repeated at the hospital where doctors tried olive oil. After 10 minutes the creature began to die so the doctor pulled it out with forceps. “Near the 10-minute mark… somewhere about there, he started to stop burrowing but he was still in the throes of death-twitching,” he said. The roach was 2 centimeters long.
3. Man spells 40 words backwards in a minute:
The 27-year-old government employee from Bangalore spelt 40 words backwards within a minute to break a previous Guinness record set by an American, who spelt 35 words in reverse in a minute. “People often ask me how I do it. I don’t know the answer. My mind just works in a strange way,” said Hathwar, breaking into a smile.
Breaking records is not new to Hathwar. In 2011, he clinched the world record for the “fastest backwards spelling of 50 words” in 1 minute and 22.53 seconds. In 2012, he set a new high by spelling 30 randomly chosen words in reverse in a minute.
“This record was recently broken. So I decided to step into the arena again,” he said. In keeping with the guidelines issued by the Guinness World Records, two officials from the Tamil Nadu Athletic Association were present at the venue to keep a tab on the time. He spelt 13 four-letter and six-letter words and 14 eight-letter words. Some of the words included quiver, humanity, Botany, fumigate, volume, filament, cylinder, sapphire and appendix.
4. Thieves steal nearly £6,000 worth of VIAGRA and other medical supplies from RAF base:
The pills, used to treat erectile dysfunction, were taken from RAF Marham in Norfolk. Thieves stole nearly £6,000 worth of VIAGRA and other medical supplies from an RAF base. The anti-impotence pills were pinched from RAF Marham in Norfolk.
Bayonets, gun parts, ammunition and even an aircraft fuselage were also among items worth more than £7 million to be swiped from military bases across the country in less than seven years.
An MoD spokesman told The Times: “The MoD takes the loss of theft of equipment very seriously and works hard to detect and deter theft.
“Where theft does occur and a suspect is identified, prosecution or internal disciplinary action will follow as appropriate.”
The spokesman added: “Viagra has other medical uses – for example it is often used to treat low blood pressure and altitude sickness.”
5. Bizarre ‘alien base’ spotted on Google Earth image of surface of Moon:
A bizarre “alien base” has been spotted on the surface of the moon.The strange craft-like shape with a row of seven light dots along the edge can be seen in a series of images on Google Earth.
The celestial object was observed by a paranormal researcher known only as WowForReel, who posted a video on YouTube.
A message accompanying the footage, entitled Alien base on Moon? read: “What IS that???
“No idea how to title this one really so went with first thing that comes to mind.
“After going there on Google Moon and staring at this thing for quite a long time I can say yes, it is really there, not faked and I have no clue what it is.
“I found nothing else like it in any of the other craters.”
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