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Students create hilarious “anti-cheating” hats to wear during exams
The students design fancy headgear to avoid cheating
Pictures of students wearing “anti-cheating” hats in the Phillippines have gone viral on social media.
Mary Joy Mandane-Ortiz, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Bicol University College of Engineering, shared a string of photos on Facebook, which showed the youngsters wearing their elaborate creations while taking their mid-term exams.
The students of the engineering college in Legazpi City were asked to wear headgear to prevent them from peeking at others’ papers. In response, the students created homemade contraptions out of cardboard, egg boxes and other recycled materials.
The images quickly took the internet by storm and even made the news in the Phillippines – where several other colleges also followed suit in a bid to crack down on cheating.
In an interview, Ms Mandane-Ortiz said she had been looking for a “fun way” to ensure “integrity and honesty” in her class. She claimed that her idea had been “really effective”.
She added that her engineers-in-training performed better this year, having been motivated by the strict examination conditions to study extra hard. —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
