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The Chinese government has begun a process of buying wheat around the world, a sure indication that they do not expect their winter wheat crop to survive the drought that is currently devastating central China. This is not going to affect food supplies in the United States or anywhere else in the first world, but it is going to cause severe food shortages throughout the third world, and there is likely to be extensive unrest worldwide.
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This is either a neat magic trick or a genuine mystery. The only known way a person could become magnetic would be to have magnetized iron in their blood, but, even if this was possible, the magnetism generated would not be enough to hold up a spoon, let alone a skillet. If this is for real, it’s an extraordinary anomaly.
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The mysterious Voynich manuscript, housed at Yale University, has been thought to be a forgery by some scholars (none of whom have been able to decipher it) but recent radiocarbon testing shows that its parchment pages date to the early 15th century. The book contains rows of text scrawled on visibly aged parchment, flowing around intricately drawn illustrations depicting plants, astronomical charts and human figures bathing in what may be the fountain of youth.read more

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Scientists deny that UFOs exist, despite all the evidence to the contrary, and the government keeps mum about the subject (maybe for a good reason!) But there are a surprising number of prominent people who believe they’re real. The February 11th edition of the Telegraph lists 10 of these famous "top believers."
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