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Kung fu Fan Blows out Candles
with Eyes
A Chinese martial arts enthusiast says he can blow out candles with
only his eyes.
Wearing specially made goggles, Ling Chunjiang, 35, of Kaifeng,
blows air from his eyes through a hose and can put out 12 candles in
one minute.
Lin, who started to practice kung fu with his grandfather when he
was eight years old, found he could blow air out of his eyes if he
pinned his nose.
Another one of Lin’s stunts is to hit off the bottom of a beer
bottle while keeping the rest of it intact, investigation revealed.
“I used to have a small restaurant. In my free time, I would fill
the empty bottles and strike the tops for fun. Once I was surprised
to find I could hit off the bottom without damaging the rest,” he
said.
Schoolgirl Braves Snail Trail
A nine-year-old Cheshire schoolgirl has broken the world record for
having the highest number of snails on her face at once.
Tiana Walton allowed 25 of the slimy creatures to cover her eyes,
nose and mouth - beating the previous record of 15 held by
Australian Liam Kenny.
Before her record breaking attempt, now in the Guinness Book of
World Records, Tiana’s previous personal best was just nine.
She had just one minute to put the snails on her face and then had
to tip her head forward for 10 seconds. Any snails that fell off
during that period were not counted.
Tiana said: “I am not squeamish. It is relaxing but it feels a bit
cold. They are quite smelly and you can see their big long eyes.”
Asked whether she thought her new record would be beaten, she added:
“I don’t think many people will be bothered about putting snails on
their face!”
With Tiana’s success, it would seem that record breaking runs in the
Walton family.
Her mother Tommy appeared in the Guinness Book of World Record in
1980 for growing the largest lemon in the world, which weighed in at
3lb 14oz.
Dog Adopts Kittens
A female dog is nursing a litter of kittens which were orphaned when
their mother died recently in China.
Their owner, Cai, of Jiangmen, said he has been raising cats and
dogs together for more than 10 years and they all got along together
well.
But this was the first time he had ever seen kittens being nursed by
a dog, he told journalists.
The four kittens seemed happy and content with their new mother’s
milk, while the dog was tending to its adopted family with love and
care, Cai added.
“Several days ago, the kittens’ mother died after eating a poisoned
rat, leaving behind a litter of kittens without a source of milk,”
he said.
“The kittens’ cries may have stirred the dog’s maternal nature,
since it too had recently given birth. It volunteered to take over
and feed the kittens of its old friend.”
The dog’s own puppies had been taken away by one of its grown-up
offspring.
Cai said: “That’s perhaps another reason why the dog adopted the
kittens. She lost all of her own children.”
Villagers Tunnel through Mountain
Villagers in China spent five years hammering out a tunnel through a
neighbouring mountain with primitive tools.
Residents of Matigou village took on the gargantuan task to build a
quick, safe route to nearby Shiyan city.
For generations, the only way to access the city from the village
was on foot via a dangerously narrow cliff path.
Each year, several villagers died after falling off the cliff
because of the bumpy and narrow road.
“We had to dig out a tunnel for the village’s survival,” said
Matigou village head Wen Changfa.
“The direct distance was only five miles, but it used to take at
least half a day for villagers to reach the city in order to sell
field produce and buy necessities.”
Wen said most of the time he and other villagers would hammer at the
mountain with the most primitive tools.
“From time to time, when we had some money, we would buy a small
amount of explosives to help us to proceed. The tunnel construction
went ahead very slowly. Each day we could dig less than one metre
forward.”
Although the tunnel is only 6ft by 6ft, villagers are happy that
reaching the city now takes them only half-an-hour and is much
safer.
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