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We decided to do a QuirkyNews item on a parody of the Wiki Leaks saga. Here is the result. Hope you enjoy our video :)

A German man who was given a tub of lard 64 years ago has recently taken it to food safety agents and suprised to find out it was still edible.

I certainly wouldnt be sure about eating it after 64 years but also eating lard out of a can? Who does that?

An Irish artist has built a home from the shredded remains of 1.4 billion euro. Frank Buckley built the apartment in the lobby of a Dublin office building that has lain vacant since its completion four years ago at the peak of an ill-fated construction boom, using bricks of shredded euro notes he borrowed from Ireland’s national mint.

This may be one of the most expensive paper mache projects ever. Frank also said he no longer has to sleep with blankets as the Euro is an excellent insulator.

A FOUR-year-old Connecticut boy brought nine wrapped bags of cannabis to his elementary school for snack time. The boy’s teacher at Hanover Elementary School, in Meriden, said the special-needs student pulled the bags from his coat pocket during Tuesday’s snack time and announced he had snacks

Conspiracy theorists have been given more ammunition for their “end of the world in 2012” claims. The sudden appearance of 20 tonnes of dead fish in Kvaenes, in the northerly district of Nordreisa is believed to be  another sign that the Mayans and Hollywood are right and that 2012 IS the year we all go to hell.

A woman in Sweden has found her wedding ring 16 years after she lost it. Lena Paahlsson went to pick carrots in her backyard and found the ring on one of her carrots. Her only explanation was the ring must of fallen into the mulcher in the kitchen and then was thrown into the garden bed 16 years ago.

A group of five friends were relaxing around a camp fire near Glen Helen, when one of them observed an orange flash making a lunge for their bags.

Joel Maher (20) yelled out that the dingo stole his iPod. They chased it with their car but it got away eventually. Luckily he didn’t also lose his wallet and mobile phone, on top of his iPod.

If this happened to me, I would also laugh about it in good faith. However, the financial cost of having to get another one if I was still using an iPod to listen to music would have been significant.

The lesson of the day. Always keep an eye on your valuables, no matter where you are. But really, would you ever think a dingo would do something like that? How weird, haha.

Jiang Bo, a dolphin at Nanjing’s Underwater World park in eastern China has had life saving surgery after swallowing a volleyball while playing in his pool. Concerned doctors initially called upon the medical expertise of Six-foot-four (1.95m) Meng Da, a professional basketball player to try and reach down Jiang Bo’s mouth and pull it out.

Doctors finally made the logical decision to airlift Jiang Bo to Nanjing Medical University, where doctors attached a medical steel wire to the ball and finally yanked it out after a three-hour procedure. I think next time it might be better to call in the medical experts, not the expertise of a basketball player.

This man takes passing the buck to a whole new level. The Wisconsin resident tried to blame a ghost for the strangle marks left on his wifes neck after an argument. I always thought that ghosts are unable to touch humans. Apparently I was wrong.

What else can you do at the toilet?

The Japanese video game company, “Sega”, have installed an interactive video game urinal (called the “Toylet”) in bars around Japan. It has been tested at the train stations of Akihabara, Soga and Ikebukuro in January, 2011. Very bizarre, right?

You may be thinking, “What could Sega be getting out of this?”. Well, the 4 games that are included in this interactive video game urinal, also contains advertisements, with the hope that men taking a piss would also pay attention to them.

The games included are:

• “Mannekin Pis” — which measures how hard you piss in milliliters (mL).
• “Graffiti Eraser” — use your urine to erase “graffiti” on the virtual wall.
• “The Northern Wind, the Sun and Me” — the harder someone urinates, the more “wind”, that makes it easier to blow up a girl’s skirt.
• “Battle! Milk From Nose!” — comparing to the last person to use the urinal, the current player wins if he pisses harder.

I guess this makes urinating a bit more interesting compared to “normal” pissing.

A British TV gardener David Domoney has claimed that Viagra gives drooping blooms a lift and can extend extend the shelf life of cut flowers. I wonder if we will start to see industrial size bags of Viagra being made for Gardening enthusiasts. I’m not sure how I would react if I saw my dad pulling a giant bag of Viagra out of the garden shed.

I think I would be hoping that it’s going to be used on the garden. Never fear for all you gardeners too embarrassed to buy Viagra, Mr Domoney claims that soluble aspirin will also add life to limp blooms.