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Have A Baby, Win A Car “Gov. Sergei Morozov has decreed Sept. 12 a Day of Conception and is giving couples time off from work to procreate. Couples who give birth nine months later on Russia’s national day – June 12 – will receive money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.” --from CNN ♥, Tiffany Anne

...or the moon, but whatev. NASA Eclipse page: Total Lunar Eclipse: August 28, 2007 ♥, Tiffany Anne

A friend shared this with me literally 10 seconds ago. I had to share. I didn't really think that they ate cats. I just couldn't believe it. I was wrong. ♥, Tiffany Anne Chinese Cat Lovers Halt Truck Hauling Cats to Restaurants SHANGHAI, China — Chinese cat lovers mobilized online to save a truck load of cats from the cooking pot, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Veteran Shanghai cat rescuer Duo Zirong started off her mission of deliverance on Friday when she called police to stop a truck stuffed with some 800 live cats, the China Daily said. The standoff happened at a parking lot in a southern suburb of Shanghai. It continued for hours while cat lovers spread word of the incident online, eventually raising $1,320 in donations to buy the whole load. They now hope to place them in homes after posting their pictures and profiles on the Internet. "They were so frightened," it quoted one of the rescuers, Huo Puyang, as saying. "Some bit people when they tried to let th...

I heard itmentioned in passing, but I've forgotten about it until now. The Forever Stamp is the Postal Service's newest stamp. I just bought a book of stamps with the liberty bell on them for the price of 41¢ per stamp. Even if I don't use up all the stamps by the time the price increases again (it has increased 13 times in the past 32 years), I won't have to go out and buy 1¢ or 2¢ stamps. I still have some 37¢ and 39¢ stamps that I can't use unless I buy some stamps to supplement them, but my 41¢ Forever stamps will last, well, forever. I should stockpile them before the price goes up again. Then, when everyone is paying 99¢ for stamps, I'll still be using my 41¢ stamps that I bought way back in 2007. ♥Tiffany♥

Dr Stanley comments, ‘Towards the end of my research, I searched the web usingthe mineral’s chemical formula – sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide – and was amazed to discover that same scientific name written on a case of rock containing kryptonite stolen by Lex Luther from a museum in the film Superman Returns. The new mineral does not contain fluorine and is white rather than green, but in all other respects the chemistry matches that for the rock containing kryptonite. We will have to be careful with it – we wouldn’t want to deprive Earth of its most famous superhero!’ Superman Beware: Scientists Uncover Kryptonite from Science Daily ♥Tiffany♥

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli woman accidentally bit off part of her boyfriend's tongue during a heated French kiss, an Israeli hospital that reattached the tongue said Thursday. Nahariya Hospital said in a statement the man, injured while "passionately kissing his girlfriend," was discharged after the operation and advised to sip iced drinks and "avoid wet kisses" until the stitched wound healed. Reuters.com / Oddly Enough / Love At First Bite? ♥Tiffany♥