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A tide of more than 30,000 students with polished résumés and high hopes surged into a job fair here so eager to meet with employers that they shattered four glass doors and splayed the side walls of an escalator in what became a near riot.
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The Ocean Dome, the world’s largest indoor beach, Kyushu Island, Japan (about 1,500 kilometers south of Tokyo) — 300 meters in length and 100 meters in width, with a height of 38 meters, it can accommodate 10,000 people.

This is taken from Neatorama's "10 Kick Ass Facts About Bruce Lee"

1. Bruce Lee’s Family Gave Him a Girl’s Name: "Little Phoenix"

Microdots are pictures of text that are shrunk down to tiny sizes to hide them - they can only be read using a microscope. They can be as small as a full stop at the end of a sentence! German spies used them in many different ways - hidden in letters, on the face of watches and even on spotted ties! Here's an example:

An ordinary watch? Not quite - look at the dot on the front of it, next to the "7" (we've drawn a red circle around it so that you can spot it)...

October 26, 2007 -- The former CEO of the leading supplier of body armor to U.S. soldiers in Iraq was charged yesterday with looting the company to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that included a $10 million bat mitzvah for his daughter.

In addition to the bat mitzvah - which included performances by Aerosmith, 50 Cent, Tom Petty, Kenny G and the Eagles - prosecutors said David Brooks got the firm, DHB Industries, to pay for other goodies.

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Local fisherman, McPherson ‘Dorson’ Wright recently landed a fish that may be heading into the world record books.

Mr. Wright said that normally one expects ‘big fish to eat down the small fish”, but the hungry little fish broke that rule in a big way.

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Reader Chloe sends us these images of what is surely a new Banksy piece in Bethnal Green. And she seems to have captured the face of the artist, hitherto unseen. (However, we've seen that flower shape before, around Shoreditch—perhaps Banksy is here teaming up with someone else.)

The work seems to be some kind of riposte to Tower Hamlets council, which recently declared it would erase all of Banksy's graffiti in the borough.

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The U.S. military tries to keep its distance from the enemy, which is why there is a lot of emphasis now on robots that can disable roadside bombs from a distance. While we know insurgents are everywhere in Iraq, we don't tend to think of soldiers encountering them head on. But they do, as this fascinating Army Times story about a soldier who survived being knifed in the forehead by an insurgent.

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According to BBC, the history of London Zoo is revealed in images published online for the first time.