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1) Diamond the size of 'chicken's egg' sells for $35.3 million
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/yNr-XSwzyMA/Diamond_the_size_of_chicken_s_egg_sells_for_35_3_million
A 507½-carat gem discovered in South Africa last year has become most expensive rough diamond ever sold.
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2) 20 Funny Apple Product Knock-Offs
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/jiAeDuYH0K4/20_Funny_Apple_Product_Knock_Offs
Manufacturing Apple product knock-offs is a million dollar business. Check out some examples......................
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3) Italy's Giuliano Razzoli wins Olympic men's slalom
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/RndozsUBhGw/Italy_s_Giuliano_Razzoli_wins_Olympic_men_s_slalom
Giuliano Razzoli has won the Olympic men's slalom, Italy's first Alpine medal in the Winter Games in 16 years.
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4) Dan Werthimer Presents Search for Aliens From Home
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/fnAAs3IOU0w/Dan_Werthimer_Presents_Search_for_Aliens_From_Home
Are We Alone? Chief SETI@home scientist Dan Werthimer discusses the possibility of life in the universe, and how to set-up your computer to possibly detect the first signal from a civilization beyond Earth.
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5) Others may know us better than we know ourselves, study find
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/LNY9KYcx3ck/Others_may_know_us_better_than_we_know_ourselves_study_find
Humans have long been advised to "know thyself," but new research suggests we may not know ourselves as well as we think we do. While individuals may be more accurate at assessing their own neurotic traits, such as anxiety, it seems friends, and even strangers, are often better barometers of traits such as intelligence, creativity and extroversion.
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6) 'Pants on the Ground' Guy -- King of Vegas
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/6m3oVrdMazM/Pants_on_the_Ground_Guy_King_of_Vegas
Move over, Frank Sinatra -- there's a new man in Sin City and he goes by the name of Gen. Larry Platt. The genius behind "Pants on the Ground" performed at JET nightclub at the Mirage Hotel last night -- and judging by the bevy of women who surrounded the General ... that song may have taken on a whole new meaning.
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7) Former Obama adviser to Glenn Beck: 'I love you, brother'
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/X0YkoBIVFRQ/Former_Obama_adviser_to_Glenn_Beck_I_love_you_brother
At the NAACP Image awards Friday night, a former special adviser to President Obama turned the other cheek to Glenn Beck.
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8) What are People Really Buying Online [Infographic]
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/DYUHKsBlE3o/What_are_People_Really_Buying_Online_Infographic
What people buy online differs substantially from what they buy in-store. According to a study by the US Census Bureau, not only are the bulk of sales still in-store, but virtually every category has more in-store purchases than online.
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9) Ethics panel clears 7 House members on earmarks
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/asFoLXI4d4k/Ethics_panel_clears_7_House_members_on_earmarks
The House ethics committee on Friday cleared seven lawmakers of improperly or illegally considering campaign contributions when steering earmarks amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars in mostly no-bid contracts to some 40 companies.
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10) US pilot who dismissed Pearl Harbor reports dies at 96
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/UJN5AD_rUDg/US_pilot_who_dismissed_Pearl_Harbor_reports_dies_at_96
"Don't worry about it", said Kermit Tyler, who thought the big blip on the radar screen on Dec. 7, 1941, was a fleet of American B-17 bombers due in from the mainland. Tyler, who was ultimately cleared of wrongdoing and was content he did all he could that morning, has has died at the age of 96.
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11) Top 10 Torrent Sites Soon Without Mininova
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/4FZvPZRy3iU/Top_10_Torrent_Sites_Soon_Without_Mininova
For the first time in five years Mininova is about to disappear from the top 10 of most visited torrent sites. This exit is due to a traffic drop that resulted from the removal of most of the site?s torrents following a lost court battle. Newcomer KickassTorrents is still gaining momentum and has already surpassed Mininova in terms of traffic.
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12) Five Things You May Know About Marijuana That Arent True
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/tXqRl2VeQ6U/Five_Things_You_May_Know_About_Marijuana_That_Arent_True
As editor of a pot website, I live and breathe marijuana (see what I did there?) every day, and have a great chance to fully inform myself. But when speaking to members of the general public, Im often struck (and stop that! It hurts) with the wide prevalence of beliefs about marijuana that have been scientifically disproven for years.
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13) Science Proves 3-D Movies Hurt Your Brain
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/7fhVGYQU7uE/Science_Proves_3_D_Movies_Hurt_Your_Brain
That's right: your favorite 3-D films are trying to kill you with migraines and crappy vision. A new study proves the relationship between 3-D and headaches. But will this stop Hollywood's slate of 32 (and counting) upcoming 3-D films?
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14) 10 Completely Batsh#% Insane Foreign Knock-Off Films
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/0VopMSCh0fk/10_Completely_Batsh_Insane_Foreign_Knock_Off_Films
Oh, foreign people. Don't ever stop making entertainingly awful versions of our Hollywood blockbusters. Love, America
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15) Global debt: We could be under siege for decades
http://feeds.digg.com/~r/digg/news/popular/~3/UlUU9E0ZFbQ/Global_debt_We_could_be_under_siege_for_decades
The very mentality that defined the housing bubbles in the United States & Britain that helped trigger the Great Recession has also defined the debt-defying high-wire acts of governments from Hawaii to Greece & in between: Buy now; pay later or perhaps not at all. Always put off till tomorrow what should be addressed today.Read more: http://w
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