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Python brings traffic to standstill
Bumper-to-bumper traffic is a common sight in most Indian cities and can cause the most patient of people to get impatient.
However, there are also instances where people display patience when required. A great example of patience and humanity was visible recently when a nearly 6.5-foot-long python slithered out of a roadside bush and made its way across a busy street.
Commuters stopped their vehicles to allow the Indian rock python, a non-venomous snake, to cross the road in peace. The incident occurred on the busy Seaport-Airport Road in Kochi last Sunday, according to The New Indian Express.
A video of the incident on YouTube featured a number of cars and motorcycles parked in the middle of the road so that they would not run over the snake while it was crossing.
A few people could be seen standing quietly, watching the snake cross the road as it vanished into the bushes on reaching the other end of the road. –ndtv.com
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Message in bottle floats from Canada to Ireland in 13 years
A message in a bottle launched by visitors to Newfoundland’s Bell Island was found washed up on an Irish beach nearly 13 years later, after apparently crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Kate Gay said she was walking a Dingle Peninsula beach this week when she spotted the wine bottle with a sheet of paper inside.
Gay showed the bottle to members of Creative Ireland NeartnaMacharaí during a meeting at her house that evening, and they broke the bottle open.
The note, written by a couple named Brad and Anita, was dated Sept. 12, 2012. The letter described the couple’s day trip to Bell Island.
There was a phone number on the letter, but there was no answer when group members tried to call.
The Maharees Heritage and Conservation group posted photos of the bottleto social media on Monday, and within an hour group members were messaging with Anita.
Group member Martha Farrell said Anita reported that she and Brad had married in 2016 and are still together to this day. -upi.com
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Woman earns world record for collection of 15,485 egg cups
A Spanish woman who has been collecting egg cups for over 50 years earned a Guinness World Record when her collection was tallied at 15,485 items.
María José Fuster recruited two witnesses to help her tally her collection at a community center in her hometown of Campo, Spain.
Fuster’s collection includes multiple patterns, colors, designs and even novelty cups bearing the images of characters including Superman, Betty Boop and Garfield.
Fuster maintains two blogs related to her hobby — one to catalog each piece, and one to list the names of the people who have donated egg cups to her collection.
Some of her most prized egg cups, about 1,143 of them, are currently on display at a local museum.
-upi.com
