When Sir Richard Branson gets into a bet, he will not back out if he loses. So when he lost a bet with AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes, he really dressed up and played the part of a flight stewardess for a charity flight from Perth to Kuala Lumpur. The two rich men bet on their F1 teams (Lotus Racing and Virgin Racing) to see who would finish with a higher score in their debut season. Virgin Racing lost.

Just for kicks, we’d like to try this pedal-powered roller coaster at the Washuzan Highland Park called the Sky Cycle.

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I’d want a pet like that. GoodLawd! Its sense rhythm is even better than mine.

A Hungarian man managed to drive himself 15 kilometers, arm in tow, to the nearest hospital after he had accidentally got his arm cut off while cleaning an industrial machine.

According to the Agence France-Presse:

“The 37-year-old man’s arm was sliced off just below the elbow by a piece of machinery in Purbach, eastern Austria, AFP reports.  He managed to retrieve the limb before driving himself 15km to a hospital in nearby Eisenstadt.  He was later flown to a hospital in Vienna where doctors worked to reattach his arm.”

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A U.N. report recently suggested that people can eat insects as one of the ways to fight the growing epidemic of obesity.

According to the U.N., there are over 1,900 species of insects that can be eaten in the world.

Scientist Arnold van Huis from Wageningen University in the Netherlands, a co-author of the report, told Reuters, “In the West we have a cultural bias, and think that because insects come from developing countries, they cannot be good.”

The U.N. report was commissioned by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization through its Forestry Department.

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