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Ministers to consider raising the speed of light

‘The 300-million-metres-per-second speed limit was introduced at the beginning of the universe and is clearly now out of date,’ he said. ‘What we would be doing is bringing a number of neutrinos which routinely flout the limit back on the right side of the laws of relativity.’

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Egyptian hieroglyphs ‘were early examples of Facebook status updates’

far more poking going on than was strictly necessary‘If a pharaoh wanted to let his friends know how he was, he’d just instant message them by carving a status update like ‘wavy line, owl, big eye, smiley face’ onto his wall.’

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NASA to end 49-year-ban on clowns in space

clowns' discoveries of water in space by the bucket load turned out to be scraps of paperThe US national space agency today announced the long-expected reversal of their previous ban on clowns being allowed on manned space missions. Although it was relaxed in 1995 to a ‘Don’t Laugh, Don’t Tell’ policy, it still placed heavy restrictions on overt tomfoolery.

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32% rely on smartphone to cross a road

totally reliable unless the battery runs out‘Smartphones even seem able to predict when cars will screech to a halt or other people will dive out of the way.’

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New species of badger discovered with vital organs on the inside

It has been observed walking around instead of just lying at the side of the road bleeding while being eaten by birds, and is also around a foot higher.

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