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    • Toronto Batman makes people laugh during night out

      Toronto filmmakers initially set out to make another one of those "S!*& ___ Says" using a person dressed up as Batman, but lucky for us they did much more.

      According to the YouTube page on the video "Batman's Night Out", the people responsible for creating the video realized "once we got out in the world, it turned into a much, much bigger phenomenon."

      What Sean Ward, a Toronto-based comic book writer who also makes movies and shows, and his fellow filmmakers created was Batman wandering around Toronto yelling at random people, opening his cape and play fighting a kid. In many cases he says famous lines from The Dark Knight, but sometimes he just says random things like asking a TTC collector to purchase tokens.

      While some people were scared when he came out of nowhere and yelled a line, many including some cops who asked for a picture, found the act really funny.

      Toronto Batman also comes with an accompanying Facebook page and Twitter account. This isn't the first time he's been out

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    • Neil Harbisson may not be an entirely rebuilt six-million dollar astronaut, but he has become the first person to be recognized by a government as a cyborg.

      The artist has been colourblind his whole life. Now, thanks to a device he wears on his head, Harbisson can hear colours.

      The device, called an eyeborg, comes out of the back of his head and hangs down in front of his eyebrow. A chip at the back of Harbisson's head transforms the light waves into sound and he hears it though bone. C on the scale represents blue, F represents red, A represents green and so on. Harbisson can see a total of 360 colours, which is more than the human eye.

      He wears it everywhere and in 2004 the U.K. Identity and Passport Service officially recognized it as part of his body, according to the Daily Mail.

      Harbisson told his tale to Outlook on the BBC World Service.

      When Harbisson was 11, he was diagnosed with achromatopsia (a rare vision disorder) that allows him only to see shades of grey. Doctors said it

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    • Woman kicks car in apparent road rage incident

      We have all been angry at some point while driving. There's traffic, cars cutting you off and taxis pulling surprise U-turns.

      But few people actually do this.

      When the right rear of this car gets slightly bumped by a fellow motorist, it stops in between two lanes and a woman emerges from the passenger's side. She slams her door and starts kicking the other car like a WWE wrestler trying to put her opponent on the ground.

      We're not sure what the people are saying, but the woman seems pretty angry and the men in the car being kicked are getting quite a kick out of it.

      A male gets out at the same time as her and appears to go and talk to the other driver after the collision, but ends up trying to persuade the woman to get back in the car.

      After six kicks she finally gets back in her car and the man appears to go over and talk to the other driver.

      Road rage incidents are quite abundant. In the past few days alone, a U.S. man allegedly beat a woman while his child was in the car. A woman

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    • Several weeks ago I received a late Christmas present when I reached into the pocket of an my old ski-jacket and pulled out a $20 bill. That kind of good fortune is common; your old clothing can often be a forgotten gold mine. But a man in the U.S. hit the jackpot when he cracked open a safe he had purchased on eBay.

      A Bartlett, California, man bought the old safe from James Labrecque for $122.93. When the man opened the safe, he found $26,000 in cash, a revelation that will haunt Labrecque for quite some time.

      "I made a mistake, you know, that's what it boils down to," said Labrecque in a WMCTV.com story.  "And it cost me dearly."

      Labrecque, an eBay veteran of more than 15 years, saw the safe as just another product to flip since he didn't have the combination for it.

      "I thought it was empty," he said.  "I shook it and I didn't feel anything inside of it, so I figured, 'well, maybe it's just a locked safe,' you know.  So I put it on eBay."

      The man who discovered the cash had brought

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    • Twins put universe in perspective via interactive display

      Two California teens are allowing people to see many items in the universe from a whole new perspective.

      Cary Huang, 14, and his twin brother Michael have created an online interactive display that shows the scale of many things and shows how they relate to each other.

      Called "Scale of the Universe", it shows items as small as a neutrino to items as big as Eridanus Supervoid and hundreds of other things in between such as Earth, the Titanic, humans and a basketball. The page takes a few seconds to load, but once it's up and running, the user just scrolls the mouse wheel to see how various items relate to each other by size. You can even click on the items to see its size and read some interesting facts.

      Cary got the idea for the project after seeing a video in school.

      "My seventh grade science teacher showed us a size comparison video on cells, and I thought it was fascinating. I decided to make my own interactive version that included a much larger range of sizes," said Cary in an

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    • Cutting out that morning coffee could save you a bit of money, but if you get what Logan Warren ordered every weekday morning you'd save almost $5,000 a year.

      He ordered what he is claiming is the most expensive Starbucks Drink in the world and it cost $23.60.

      Warren doesn't do this every day, but wanted to see how expensive a drink he could get with his coupon for any drink he wanted.

      "It's not every day that you receive a coupon for one of the priciest beverage chains in the world!" writes Warren in a Coffee and Computers blog. "Armed with my Starbucks Rewards card, I decided to take the opportunity to find out just how much money I could pour into a Trenta."

      Trenta is Starbucks' 31-ounce cup, which is about 920 ml or just a shade smaller than the 7-Eleven Big Gulp.

      He spent about half an hour with a laughing barista working on the creation to jack the price as much as possible.

      Here's what to order if you are looking to do the same. It's one Java Chip Frappuccino in a Trenta cup, 16

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    • The Rwandan government has a plan to reduce the risk of a lake erupting while at the same time producing energy.

      Deep below the surface of Lake Kivu lies a major threat to the two million people who live around the perimeter.

      At the bottom of the lake are dissolved gases including 256 cubic kilometres of carbon dioxide and 65 cubic kilometres of methane, meaning the lake could explode if provoked, reports BBC.

      Lake Kivu, which is partly in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is in a volcanic area and the CO2 enters the lake from the volcanic rock. The methane is created when bacteria in the lake mixes with CO2. The dangerous gases are kept at bay because they are deep below the surface and at high pressure, but if the lake is shaken, such as by an earthquake, the water would shoot upwards.

      "Think of it like a bottle of fizzy drink," said Professor Brian Moss of the University of Liverpool to BBC. "The carbon dioxide has been dissolved in the drink. As long as it's under

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    • If you're looking for the perfect way to propose tomorrow, but still haven't figured it out, Pizza Hut wants you to know nothing makes a woman say yes quite like cheesy breadsticks.

      The U.S. pizza giant is hoping to help people propose with a Valentine's Day package. However, a warning to Canadian ladies: the offer is not available here so don't expect to be surprised by it tomorrow.

      The package includes:

      • A red ruby ring
      • limo service
      • flowers
      • fireworks show
      • photographer
      • videographer
      • $10 dinner box

      The dinner box includes a medium one-topping pizza, five breadsticks, marinara sauce and 10 cinnamon sticks with extra icing.

      And all of this could be yours for $10,010 sparking one comedian to joke it should also come with $9,700 in cash.

      "If we're able to fit pizza, breadsticks and desert into one box for only $10, why stop there?" asked Pizza Hut CEO Kurt Kane in a statement. "Our customers want the best of everything, from their food to memorable life experiences. So we decided to make one

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    • Snow piled 10 metres high along Japanese road

      We've dodged much of winter's wrath in Canada with higher than normal temperatures and smaller amounts of snow this year. The same can't be said for other parts of the world.

      A cold snap returned to Japan this week bringing blizzards and creating record snow piles in some areas. The city of Niigata in central Japan has already seen 13 feet of snow and the weather agency is predicting up to 25 additional inches over the next few days, reports WFMY News. The village of Okura has received more than 10 feet of the white stuff and the Hokuriku area received three feet in less than 24 hours.

      It is no wonder this road in Japan has massive snow walls on both sides. The video below shows footage from a bus travelling up the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route. Snow is as high as 10 metres above the road in some spots.

      In much of Europe, the situation is not different. The freezing temperatures have been responsible for taking hundreds of lives and transportation has all but stopped in many countries.

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    • New NASA video shows parts of Canada from space at night

      Stunning new video taken from the International Space Station shows Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick at night.

      The crew of Expedition 30 shot the time-lapse video over a 10-minute period as they flew from northern Mexico to New Brunswick on Jan. 30. The Great Lakes are clearly visible and make it easy to pick out cities like Chicago, Detroit/Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal as they emit the largest clumps of light. It is shot from about 200 miles above Earth.

      NASA also makes available a high-definition version of the video.

      Notice the northern lights, the halo of green hugging the Earth in the middle of the frame.

      "Some of these sequences of frames were taken at the rate of one frame per second," reads the NASA website. "Therefore the slower speed of the video represents a closer resemblance to the true speed of the International Space Station than previous videos."

      This is part of a series of nighttime flyover videos uploaded to NASA's YouTube page in the past few days. Other

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