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Biodegradeable Milk Bottle.

Straight to the breakfast table after opening.

Simply squeeze to get the milk out.
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I did come across an “alternative” version from Sin Chew Daily, which I am not sure where it is quoted from. Since similar resource couldn’t be located online, I will translate it to English here.

1. Swedish fish is the first (on the list) take-away snacks Google orders to its office.

2. Google celebrates Halloween every year in the office. The funniest dress-up was lava lamp in 2007, which I can’t visualize how it looks like though.

3. There are no restrictions on Googlers dress code in the office, in which pajama, ugly sweater and even super hero costume were on the records.

4. The youngest Google employee was 7 years old. (Not sure about this, the only thing searchable from the web was a 15 years old.

5. Google publishes variety of logos commemorating holidays and events. The first one on the books being a self-made “Burning Man” logo by the founders themselves.

6. The first real person that named after “Google” is a Lebanese with full name of Oliver Google Kai. He is now three years old and owns a website(!?), which is probably run by his father Walid Elias Kai, a vertical search marketing consultant.

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Swiss professional pilot Yves Rossy, the world’s first man to fly with fitted jet fuel powered wings strapped to his back, flying during his first official demonstration. Rossy flew into the history books by crossing from France to Britain on only a jet powered wing, describing afterwards, how he felt like a bird over the English Channel.

Yves Rossy 49, touched down in a field on top of the white cliffs of Dover after completing the 35- kilometer journey over one of biggest shipping lanes.

He had nothing above him but four tanks of kerosene and nothing below him but the cold waters of the English Channel. But Yves Rossy leapt from a plane and into the record books on Friday, crossing the channel on a homemade jet-propelled wing.

Rossy jumped from the plane about 8,200 feet over Calais, France, blasting across the narrow body of water and deploying his parachute over the South Foreland lighthouse, delighting onlookers who dotted Dover’s famous white cliffs, cheering and waving as Rossy came into view.

Backed by a gentle breeze, Rossy crossed the Channel in 13 minutes, averaging 125 miles per hour. In a final flourish, he did a figure eight as he came over England, although the wind blew him away from his planned landing spot next to the lighthouse.

“It was perfect. Blue sky, sunny, no clouds, perfect conditions,” the Swiss pilot said after touching down in an adjacent field. He said he wanted to show, “it is possible to fly, a little bit, like a bird.”
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Burger King said Tuesday it had parted ways with an employee who was recorded taking a soapy bath in a utility sink in one of its restaurants in a video that ended up on his MySpace page.

The nearly four-minute video, which was posted online Thursday, shows the man taking the bath to celebrate his birthday. In the video, shot by another worker, the employee refers to himself only as “Mr. Unstable” and appears to be naked.

Timothy Tackett, 25, told WDTN-TV in Dayton that he is the sink-bather and that he made the video for his MySpace page. The video had been removed by Tuesday night. Tackett said he regretted taking the bath because it led to the firing of the employee who did the recording, as well as the restaurant’s shift manager.

Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said earlier Tuesday that two employees involved in the incident were fired and a third quit. She declined to identify the employees or say whether the man who took the bath quit or was fired.

Tackett said he was fired.
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1. The only fresh foods that astronauts are allowed to take into space are pecan nuts.
Is it because they’re astro-nuts?

2. There are ten human body parts that are only three letters long; eye, hip, leg, arm, toe, ear, rib, jaw, lip, and gum.
Even ‘ten’ is three letters.

3. The daily heat output of the average man would boil 30 litres of freezing water.
Add another 10 litres if he watched Jessica Alba daily.

4. By 70 years old an average person will have shed 105 pounds of skin.
How much in dollars?

5. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown so keep smiling it saves energy.
So constant frowning is a good exercise for the facial muscles.

6. Canned food was invented for the British Navy in 1813, but the first can opener wasn’t invented until 1870.
This may actually provide a clue to solving the puzzle – which came first, the chicken or the egg.

7. Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, is enough to kill the average human.
Not if it’s Starbucks, because no one can afford 100 cups.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.
So that’s why some women act fishy.

9. The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime. I think that should read “The average non-American walks… “

10. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our noses and ears never stop growing.
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Almost half of us have been romantically tied to someone from work, and many more would like to find amour in a neighboring cubicle. You’ve got to be smart about this, you have to really think about what you’ve got to lose and what you’ve got to gain.

There are co-workers who meet and fall in love at the office – or, maybe, just have a fling. And then there are married co-workers who meet and fall in love at work – or, maybe, just have a fling.

If the first camp presents ample opportunities for workplace distraction and drama, just think of the dust storms the second camp can kick up – you know, angry spouses showing up in the lobby.

It may be difficult to see what there is to lose when diving into a relationship with the love of your life (for real, this time). But in the worst-case scenario a soured romance could damage your professional reputation, cost you your job or result in sexual harassment charges. Be prepared for office gossip, jealousy, tension and a lack of space, not to mention the possibility you’ll have to keep working with your sweetheart after a breakup.

Find out if your company has policies on dating. It may forbid or strongly discourage relationships between certain people in the company or require you to report the relationship when it begins.

A lot of employers pretty strongly discourage romances because if there is a breakup or spat it affects everyone else in the office.
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Last week on my way to office, a gentleman stopped me in a nearby lane. He said that he was a cheat and he wanted to confess.

Struggling to overcome my shock, I asked him the reason for his confession.

“I recently met a better cheat than me. It is only because of him that I am now standing in front of you,” he said.

Did he ask you to confess, I inquired.

“Yes. Being a thorough professional, he believes that a cheat must once in a while confess instances of his successes as a swindler. Like self-help writers who always ask readers to recall instances of success for motivation, cheats too should do the same.”

“But why me? I’m a poor journalist,” I pointed out.

“It’s best to confess to a journalist,” he replied.

“But I could expose you to the whole world as a cheat, and that could be a big threat to your career,” I warned him.

Displaying a contemptuous smile, he replied: “On the contrary. The day you publish my story I will right away deny it. Of course, being a victim, people will believe my version because every reader is aware of how newspapers sensationalise stories these days!”
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