xxxNews Of The Weirdxxx
Bizarre but true stories about real people collected by syndicated columnist Chuck Shepherd.
Scientists working out of the Lawn Hill (Queensland) National Park in Australia announced in June that they had found a male Lavarack’s turtle, which was thought to be extinct but has apparently survived relatively unchanged for thousands of years. The turtle’s primary distinction is that its sex organs and its breathing apparatus are located in the anus.
In August, surgeons in Beijing successfully removed a year-old baby’s third leg, which was growing in her back and was actually her undeveloped twin’s leg.
In June, a 26-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl with one body and two heads at the Abu al-Reesh hospital in Cairo, Egypt.
In Rensselaer County, N.Y., two unrelated groups of girls out hiking discovered a turtle with two heads (Poestenkill, N.Y., May) and a frog with no eyes (Raymertown, N.Y., July). A 42-year-old salesman for Tires Plus in Athens, Ga., was charged with offering a female customer four tires for sex.
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