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Mermaids in a Vegas Casino? Take The Kids!

Friday, April 8th, 2011

In what may be the oddest family attraction in Sin City, the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, is employing mermaids to swim in its 117,000-gallon aquarium of tropical fish.

Human Centrifuge Whirls Back into Public View

Friday, April 8th, 2011

It was a bad end to a good story. The World’s Largest Human Centrifuge, which had reopened in Warminster, Pennsylvania, after years of neglect…

A Peach Falls, A Savior Rises

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Call it serendipity, yin-yang, or an accident of timing, but on the same day that work began on the new Touchdown Jesus, the old Peach on a Pole fell.

World’s Largest Lava Lamp, Take 3

Monday, April 4th, 2011

It’s been nearly ten years since the idea of the World’s Largest Lava Lamp first bubbled to the surface in Soap Lake, Washington.

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