Girls in Tokyo are renting out their thighs as advertising space after a PR agent was looking for more inventive ways to get campaigns across. Sarah Kerr of ITN reports.
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Drivers test-drive the Renault Clio, igniting plenty of excitement in this clever, if somewhat fanciful, ad. H/T Blazing Cat Fur
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Catching online predators by posing as children is a method police have used for years. Now Spanish researchers say they’ve invented an AI honeypot that sexual predators should find irresistible. It’s a chatbot that goads pervs into professing unclean thoughts. The invention could free up thousands of police officers around the world for more important duties, such as donut inspections and marathon sitting. H/T Next Media Animation
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Michele Kobke of Germany shows off her super tiny 16-inch waist after wearing a corset every day for three years. The 24-year-old is aiming to break the record for the world’s tiniest waist.
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Three-time former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years and banned from public office for life for soliciting underaged prostitute Karima El Mahroug for romps at his bunga bunga parties. He was also convicted of abusing his office to help El Mahroug out of jail after she was arrested for theft.
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The United Kingdom has a law on the books banning female genital mutilation, but the abhorrent practice has been more commonplace, especially among African immigrants, owing to a failure to prosecute violators and to protect victims. Now, efforts are under way to bring those at risk out from behind a wall of silence. Channel 4 reports.
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Did you know that in South Africa, women walk around topless? Open your eyes and see… and don’t forget to book your flight. H/T Culturepub
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A new study from the University of Florida in Gainesville has discovered why male chickens and other birds do not have a penis. Around 97 percent of bird species have little or no phallus, even though they reproduce through internal fertilization.
Although chickens have a penis in the embryonic stages of development, it regresses over the course of maturation because of a genetic program that causes cell death at the tip of the growing penis.
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