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Message in a bottle from Canada lands on Croatia beach 28 years later

It had been at sea for 28 years before it was discovered by a kite surfer cleaning the beach.
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A surfer found a letter in a bottle from one lover to another washed up on a Croatian beach. It had been sent from Nova Scotia, Canada, thousands of miles away 28 years ago. (Facebook/Facebook)
Croatian surfers found a message in a bottle on a beach recently with a note all the way from Canada.
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Unsurprising study finds that Heavy Metal listeners more anxious, depressed

Researchers found through a survey of college students that those who listened to heavy rock and metal had significantly higher levels of mental stress.
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A new study has shown what most people knew all along - listeners to heavy metal and its sub-genres are more depressed than others. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Heavy Metal enthusiasts tend to be more anxious and depressed than others.
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Pets play a central role in household bacterial life, study says

Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder found, among other things, that parents share much more bacteria with their dogs than with their kids.
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A new study shows that dogs are far more involved in the bacterial life of the household than once thought. (Rosie Hallam/Getty Images)
It turns out that we share more bacteria with our pets than once thought.
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African snails invade Florida... again

Giant African Land Snails are the size of small mammals and can eat through just about any material on Earth.
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A Giant African land snail is seen as the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services announces it has positively identified a population of the invasive species. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Giant African Land Snails have once again descended on Florida.
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Brutal murder caught on Google Maps?

The image was posted on the website Reddit and has stirred controversy as to what is really going on.
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The Google Maps image that has sparked debate as to what is really going on here. (Google/Google maps)
An internet user in the Netherlands found what appears to be a grisly murder on Google Maps.
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Brutal murder caught on Google Maps?

The image was posted on the website Reddit and has stirred controversy as to what is really going on.
An internet user in the Netherlands found what appears to be a grisly murder on Google Maps.
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Two human arms found on Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema beach

Two human arms were found floating in the water of Rio de Janeiro's famed Ipanema beach on Monday night.
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The sun rises at Ipanema beach, on Dec. 22, 2003. (Antonio Scorza/AFP/Getty Images)
According to the city's civil police, the arms were bound at the wrists with black tape when they were found around 7:30 p.m. local time by people passing by on the beach.
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YouTube celebrates VCR anniversary with 'tape mode’ (VIDEO)

YouTube is celebrating the 57th birthday of the first commercial Video Cassette Recorder by adding a 'tape mode' option to their videos today.
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A screenshot of a 'tape mode' video of US gymnast Mary Lou Retton on the balance beam in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. (YouTube)
The button, located at the bottom of the video player, allows viewers to watch clips as if they had gone back in time in a DeLorean and the video was being played on a VCR, fuzzy lines and all.
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Poland unveils statue of late Pope John Paul II

The statue of the late pontiff stands on a hill overlooking the southern city of Czestochowa.
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A children's choir performs during a ceremony to unveil a statue of the late Pope John Paul II in Czestochowa, Poland, on April 13, 2013. (AFP/Getty Images)
The statue of the late pontiff is said to be the largest in the world.
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Iran news agency claims scientist invented time machine, then deletes story

Iran's official Fars news agency reported that an Iranian scientist invented a time machine, but quietly took down the story after it went viral.
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Hollywood warned us about all this way back in 2009. (Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images)
“It will not take you into the future, it will bring the future to you."
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