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    • The woman reeled in a half-ton marlin, but required some help at the end so she won't get credit or the prize money

      There is no way Molly Palmer can extend her arms wide enough when telling people about the size of fish she recently caught off Hawaii.

      While fishing in The Big Island Invitational Marlin Tournament, Palmer, 28, reeled in a 12-foot long animal that weighed 1022.5 pounds, according to The Associated Press. It was well over the previous record of 950 pounds for a woman using a 130-pound line, but Palmer is never going to get the credit, the money or the record. She is too honest.

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      Palmer, her captain and her crewmates put up about $9,000 to enter the tournament and are saying goodbye to potential winnings because Palmer didn't land the catch by herself. According to International Game Fishing Association rules, Palmer needed to reel it in without assistance for it to be counted as a valid

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    • He popped the question right after the two allegedly tried to rob a store and she said yes

      Some men will go to great lengths to get a woman to say yes and some women will say yes even if the man proposing is in handcuffs.

      That's what recently happened in Texas, but in all fairness to the man, the woman wasn't exactly perfect in the eyes of the law. She was also in handcuffs.

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      According to police, Sean Foxx, 27, was waiting in a getaway car while his then-girlfriend, 24-year-old Treila Woods, was attempting to rob a Family Dollar Store, reports San Antonia station KSAT. Store managers tried to stop Woods as she was leaving through a broken door, but Foxx saw what was happening and went inside to help her escape.

      He saw she was in trouble, walked in through an open door and told her to follow him. Foxx then threatened the managers. Police showed up a short time later and arrested the pair and that's when the story got interesting.

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    • Cecilia Gimenez admits to botching the Elias Garcia Martinez artwork, but says the priest told her to restore it

      Three images of the Ecce Homo by painter Elias Garcia Martinez. The image shows from left to right the original version, the deteriorated version and Gimenez' restoration attempt.

      An elderly woman who ruined a 19th century painting of Jesus by trying to restore it says the priest knew what she was doing all along.

      Cecilia Gimenez, who is in her 80s, told the BBC the church always repairs deteriorating artwork in the building and says the priest told her to do it. She denies going behind anyone's back and attempting to restore the painting in secret.

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      Gimenez is not a professional restorer, but attempted to repair the painting Ecce Homo by Elias Garcia Martinez after it had deteriorated. Officials at the Sanctuary of Mercy Church in Zaragoza, where the painting was kept, are now scrambling to see if the painting can be saved.

      The painting had hung on the church walls in Spain for more than 120 years, but over the past 18 months moisture in the church had caused the artwork to deteriorate.

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    • She had to campaign for the title and is happy to earn it

      Some smaller Canadian towns do a lot to put themselves on the map. Sudbury, Ontario has the giant nickel, Shediac, New Brunswick has the World's Largest Lobster and Beardmore, Ontario has the World's Largest Snowman. A town in Alberta doesn't have the largest of anything, but it has a grouch.

      Each year, one Evansburg resident receives the honour of being named Town Grouch. The winner is licensed to pester, harass, antagonize, criticize, complain and grumble without fear of reprisal for the whole next year. The population of the town is now 880.

      "I shake my fist at everybody that walks by me. I frown as hard as I possibly can, even the little kids start crying," said newly elected Town Grouch Margaret Hodgkinson, 53, to the National Post.

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      As part of the title she receives a license to spend a whole year grouching, a street sign that says 10 Frowning St. and a bench on

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    • It's said that many people begin to mellow in their golden years, as the combination of life-earned wisdom and an aging body colludes to create a calmer, more peaceful individual.

      While that may be the case for some, two Ontario seniors recently put that theory to the test.

      As QMI Agency writes, police in Rowan Falls had to break up a violent scuffle last Thursday between a pair of men at a retirement village meeting after a discussion on the expansion of the resident clubhouse went very wrong.

      To provide some context, the clubhouse expansion has become an issue of great debate within the community.

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      Currently, residents of the complex's 326 units share access to the clubhouse, which boasts a billiards table, a whirlpool and an outdoor pool.

      If the expansion gets approved, the work would generate a $500,000 mortgage. The community is divided on whether the renovations should proceed.

      So passions were running high when a

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    • The closest most Canadians will get to royalty is standing behind a rope or barrier as one of them walks by, but one Canadian unexpectedly got up close with Prince William.

      The 58-year-old tourist was trekking in Anglesey, Wales as part of a walking holiday when she plunged down a crevice and broke her leg, reports the Daily Express. Luckily for her, the prince was nearby and swooped into action, piloting a Sea King helicopter.

      He and the crew flew to the scene of the incident, winched the tourist from a cliff on to the chopper and flew her to a hospital. She may be the only one of her friends who can now say she was saved by Prince Charming.

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      "The only way to get her out was by RAF helicopter," said a coastguard spokesman in an Express article. "The winch man had to give her pain relief."

      This is the second time in the past week the prince has come to the rescue. He and his crew rescued a 16-year-old girl after

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    • People are covering up with something that looks like a ski mask to stay pale

      The sun can be a pretty harmful thing on your skin so if you are thinking, 'somebody should do something about that sun,' we have good news. Somebody has, and it's called the facekini.

      It's essentially a cover for your face that prevents the sun from hitting your skin and makes it look like there are a gang of bank robbers on the beach. Or perhaps a scene from the movies Nachos Libre or Kick-Ass.

      This is the newest way people on the beach in Qingdao, China are preventing themselves from getting a tan while sitting on the beach.

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      NBC News reports online stores are selling the multi-coloured balaclavas at a pretty quick rate.

      "It definitely has to do with the history of China, which is largely an agricultural society," said Alina Zhoa, a college student in the U.S. who grew up in China to NBC News. "Getting tanned means you work outside in

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    • Sociologist Carolyn Hsu found those who binge drink are more satisfied with their social lives

      As students prepare to head back to University, a new study sheds some light on how to make those four...or five...or six years a happier time. Drink more.

      The authors were actually trying to draw attention to the issues of binge drinking in hopes people will stop using it to improve their social status, but found students who binge drink are happier, reports LiveScience. This especially holds true for the rich, white, male students who are in fraternities.

      The study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Denver this week, finds that 64 per cent of students are binge drinkers and these students are happier.

      Co-author Carolyn Hsu, an associate professor of sociology at Colgate University in New York, found students don't drink because they are upset or as a way to relieve anxiety, but they drink to attain a social status.

      "I would guess it has to do with

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    • She had to walk quickly as the trucks were heading toward separate tunnels

      Daredevil Nik Wallenda battled mist, the roar of the falls and Canadian border agents when he tightrope walked across Niagara Falls in June. And while the rope was twisting, moving up and down and side to side, the ends were still saying in the same spot.

      Highwire walker Faith Dickey, 23, didn't have that luxury. She also didn't have the option of taking her time. Dickey teamed up with automaker Volvo and Hollywood stunt director Peter Pedrero to walk a rope between two moving trucks as they sped toward seperate tunnels. She didn't have a balance bar, the looseness of the line changed and if she didn't get to the other side in time, she would splat into the side of the mountain.

      "I've highlined much higher than this before. I've highlined on longer lines and I've highlined in harsher winds. But I've never slacklined moving forward before," she says in a YouTube video, which has been viewed more than two million

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    • When something works, keep doing it.

      That seems to be the motto of one man who managed to successfully rob the same Winnipeg bank four different times over an eight-month span.

      Unfortunately, the long arm of the law finally caught up with him Friday and he's now being charged with five counts of robbery, reports Sun News.

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      Wearing a disguise, Glen Thomas Muskego reportedly walked into the Royal Bank branch on Sargent Avenue, demanded cash, received it and ran away without carrying a weapon. It worked so well in December that he did it three more times and also robbed another bank. While his first three attempts yielded cash and no jail time, cops caught him red-handed the fourth time, after he left the RBC branch with cash that was just handed to him by an employee.

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      The most amazing part about this story may be that the bank and the police didn't beef up security

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