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In Aksaray, Turkey, one family has been raising cattle for three genera- tions, Oddity Central report- ed. Izzet Kocak believes their success is linked to their will- ingness to keep up with mod- ern technology. To that end, the farmer is testing virtual reality goggles that make his cows think they’ re standing in a green field of grass in the summer.
‘Moo’-ving Along With The Technology Times
Kocak says the average yield per day from his cows is 22 liters, but, “We had two of our cows wear virtual reality glasses and watch vast green pasture all day, and the daily milk production increased up to 27 liters.”
Monkey Business
Danville, Pennsylvania, res- idents were warned to look out for three monkeys run amok after a crash between two trucks Jan. 21, The Daily Item reported. State Trooper Andrea Pelachick said a truck with 100 African monkeys on board was on its way to a laboratory when it collided with a dump truck. She tweeted that “a small num- ber of monkeys may have fled the scene” after escaping from their carriers. The three escap- ees were later located and hu- manely euthanized.
Robin Hughes teaches special education students at
“I said I want you to make me a snowman, and I want you to overnight him to me andseeifhecanmakeittothe school,” Hughes said. “I want these children in Florida to see snow.”
He said milk quality also in- creased. He ordered 10 more pairs of VR goggles, and if re- sults are similar, he plans to or- der them for all his 180 cows.
went for a swim near the Mon- ument to the Partisan Woman, a bronze sculpture of a reclin- ing woman that rests partly in and partly out of the water. Af- ter her dip, the unnamed wom- an climbed onto the monument and posed for pictures, CNN reported.
was walking by with his son at the time. “Why do people do these things in Venice that they wouldn’t do elsewhere? They probably didn’t know that the statue of the woman lying there was a dead partisan. But it’s treating Venice like a beach.”
Let It Snow
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Topless In Venice
“It’s like going to Rome, leaping in the Trevi Foun- tain and then saying, ‘What do you mean, you can’t do this?’” said Mario Nason, who
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But the agent, who was a military veteran, noticed the “rusty and dented coffin” and saw that the flag had been “crudely taped” to it. Agents explored further and found two live men, cousins, inside the coffin. One man told agents that it had been hot and hard to breathe in the box, and he
Estes said she wrapped Lucky the snowman in foil and packed him with ice in Styro- foam, and “off he went to the local UPS Store.” Hughes said her students had looks of “pure joy” on their faces when Lucky was unwrapped on Jan. 20.
Police banned the woman from Venice for 48 hours and fined her $513.
Smuggler’s Blues
had agreed to pay $6,000 to be smuggled to San Antonio.
Southshore Academy in Tam- pa, Florida, where most of her kindergarteners had never seen snow, United Press Interna- tional reported. So, Hughes got in touch with her sister, Amber Estes, who lives in Danville, Kentucky.
Zachary Taylor Blood, 33, of Galveston, Texas, plead- ed guilty Jan. 25 to trying to smuggle two men into the U.S. in a flag-draped coffin, The New York Times reported. Blood showed up at a border patrol checkpoint near Encino, Texas, on Oct. 26, where he told the agent he was hauling a “dead guy, Navy guy” when asked about his cargo.
Blood will be sentenced on May 11 and could receive up to five years in federal prison.
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