Women Cuddles with Burglar Accidentally

A Chinese woman, Qiu, received a rude shock recently when she discovered that her night-time cuddle partner was in fact a burglar. The Changasha-based woman had pounced on the intruder in the dark, mistaking him for her husband.

Qiu had been sleeping when she was awaken by the intruder moving about in her room.

She guessed wrongly that it was her husband and had jumped on him. As for the burglar, he was all too pleased to accommodate her wishes and had started cuddling with her on the bed.

Qiu then realized that this particular person had longer hair than her husband.  This was when she turned on the lights and discovered an eager looking stranger on her bed.

What followed was a frenzy of activity which involved her alerting others about the burglar and her worried husband abandoning his mahjong game from next door to come to her rescue.

The Twins Town in India

Kodhini(India):  For decades now, Minnesotans have spoken with pride of their “Twin Cities.” “Twin” refers to the fact that the two Mississippi River-straddling towns combine into a single large urban area. But a look at the tiny Indian village of Kodhini, in Kerala state, may leave you skeptical of any other place’s claim to the word “twin.”

The reason is that Kodhini boasts at least 250 sets of twins—and that’s out of only about 2,000 families! Some families even have multiple pairs.

The number is freakishly high, nearly six times the global average, and so far no one’s come up with a plausible explanation for it.

It’s not for lack of trying: Dr. Krishnan Sribiju has studied the town for a couple of years now, but every new statistic he unearths only makes the case more baffling.

For one thing, he says, the frequency of twin births seems to grow every year.

“Also,” Sribiju says, “twins are born usually to older, more mature women. In Kodinhi that is not the case, because marriage happens much younger here, at around 18 to 20 years old, and families begin very soon after.”

Twin sisters Fatima Kutty and Kuhni Pathutty are the town’s oldest, at the age of 65. Records suggest that their birth took place at the beginning of Kodhini’s unique trend.

The year 2008 saw an impressive 15 twin births out of only 300 healthy deliveries, and 2009’s total could be even higher. At least that should cut down on the number of hospital visits by pregnant women!

Tunnel Carved Out of Hammer & Chisel

Patna (India): A villager used a hammer and chisel over the span of 14 years to carve a tunnel through a rocky mountain so that he could park his truck in front of his house.

"I could not park my truck near my house since the mountain blocked my path," Ramchandra Das, 53, who lives in eastern Bihar state's Gaya district, told Reuters.

Ramchandra Das said fear of thieves stealing his truck prompted him to work on the tunnel all by himself after authorities refused help.

"I had to leave my truck miles away, so I decided to do something about it myself," said Das.

Local villagers, who had to trek for miles to get around the mountain are using the 14 feet (4.2 metre) wide tunnel to reach their farms, and praising Das for his work.

"We rarely come across a man who can work so hard to achieve his goal," said a local government official, Prabhat Kumar Jha.