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Vienna asks dog owners to rinse pet urine off trees to protect greenery

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Karnataka artist sets Guinness World Record with 175.82-sq-metre spice painting

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Compass CEO Kabir Nath quit high-paying job to work on psychedelic pill for treating depression

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New UFO files include strange drawings of alleged ‘Skinwalker’ aliens seen in Utah

Newly-declassified US government documents show strange drawings of alleged alien sightings from Utah in 2010. Read More...

At Nanjing University in China, students call strangers as part of a popular course to build confidence

A popular course at China’s Nanjing University asks students to call random strangers as part of an unusual assignment. Read More...