Here’s a flavor you won’t get from your Good Humor man — we hope.
Zookeepers in Wisconsin are keeping their lions and tigers cool in this week’s nationwide heat wave by treating them to frozen blood-sicles.
The keepers at the Racine Zoo make the treat in one-foot-cube blocks by freezing blood left over from the big cats’ raw-meat meals.
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Forget Atkins; a woman in England has come up with the hottest new way to lose weight — the all-green-pea diet.
Eim Eyre has lost 112 pounds by eating nothing but peas — lots of peas — twice a day.
There is a catch. Eyre prepares them in the mushy, overcooked British style.
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Bruce Lee purists in China are angry enough to karate-chop a cinder block over the way the late action hero’s image is being used.
Though Lee eschewed alcohol, his image is being used in Johnny Walker ads in China.
The booze-maker bought the rights to Lee’s image from his daughter.
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There’s well done, and then there’s this.
A restaurant in Akihabara, Japan, is using bamboo charcoal to cook up all-black hamburgers and hot dogs — including the buns and the meat.
Local gourmands say they like the smoky taste of the “delicacies,” which are just a little difficult to stomach as a midnight snack.
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Here a legal rule of thumb — never sue someone who once killed a man with a samurai sword.
A business owner in Japan is doing just that, however, filing a lawsuit against the head of the country’s Mafia, Kenichi Shinoda, demanding the return of protection money she paid.
The woman claims she paid $109,000 to the feared Yakuza boss.
Shinoda, meanwhile, once spent hard time in prison for chopping a guy in half with a sword.