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Over at Forbes.com, there is a cool little slideshow of the ten tallest buildings in the world.

According to News of the Weird, some kid from Ottawa, Illinois felt that in order to make his life "memorable", he had to get 1,016 piercings in one sitting just to get in to The Guinness Book of World Records.

Scientists are claiming that a substance called mucilage, which gets extracted from cactus plants, can change contaminated water in to fresh, drinking water. Science News for Kids

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