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新奇事件簿 男子自制“禁止停车”标志
A man in New Zealand has taken road traffic safety into his own hands. For the past 20 years, Russell Taylor has been illegally painting yellow parking-restriction lines on the road outside his house. Mr Taylor told the BBC news agency that the reaso
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新奇事件簿 YouTube计划打击网络恐怖主义
YouTube has announced a plan to fight online terror. One of the things YouTube says it will do is to find dangerous videos and delete them. This includes videos on how to make fire-bombs and other deadly devices. Google, which owns YouTube, announced
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新奇事件簿 时髦的名字让蔬菜看上去更美味
Researchers have discovered that people eat more vegetables if the veggies have trendy labels. A research team from Stanford University in the USA found that sales of vegetables increased by 25 per cent after they were given trendy-sounding names. Th
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新奇事件簿 NASA新岗位——防止外星人入侵
America's space agency NASA has an exciting new job opening to protect Earth from aliens. The position is for a Planetary Protection Officer (PPO). The successful applicant will be responsible for making sure no life forms from outer space come to Ea
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新奇事件簿 慈善机构劝告不要上传儿童照片
A child protection charity in the UK is urging parents to ask their children for permission before uploading photos and videos of them on social media. This follows a study by Ofcom, a communications watchdog, revealing that parents are divided on wh
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新奇事件簿 孤独已经成为重大健康隐患
New research suggests that loneliness and social isolation may increase the risk of dying early by 50 per cent. The research is from Brigham Young University in the USA. Researchers tried to find out how loneliness affected the risk of early death. T
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新奇事件簿 2020年奥运会将增加男女混合项目
There will be more mixed-gender events and more women at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said men and women would compete together in archery, athletics, judo, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, and triathlo
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新奇事件簿 超强纳米芯片瞬间修复器官
The medical world sees another example of science fiction coming true. Scientists have revealed a breakthrough technology that repaired cells and organs in mice and pigs with a 90 per cent success rate. Researchers at Ohio State University in the USA
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新奇事件簿 特朗普引燃朝鲜核紧张局势
U.S. President Donald Trump has given North Korea another warning over its plans to fire its weapons. The war of words between Mr Trump and North Korea's president Kim Jong-un is escalating. Countries in the region and around the world are worried th
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新奇事件簿 交通拥堵德国男子游泳上班
A German man has started swimming to work after he got fed up with commuting. Benjamin David, 40, got tired of being stuck in traffic every day in the German city of Munich. He now beats the traffic by swimming 2km down the city's Isar River. He puts
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新奇事件簿 微笑表情符号危害职业
New research suggests that using smiley face emojis in work e-mails could jeopardize your career. Researchers from a university in Israel report that people inserting emojis in work-related mail are likely to be deemed stupid and incompetent. The res
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新奇事件簿 世界比一年前更加和平
A new report says the world is slightly more peaceful than it was a year ago. The report was made by an organization called the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). The IEP has reported on world peace for the past 10 years. Every year, it publish
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新奇事件簿 部分香港穷人住宅比牢房还小
A new study shows that some poor people in Hong Kong live in tiny homes. Residents from ahousing alliance found that 204 families in their area live in homes that are smaller than prisoncells. The families live in the Kwai Chung area of Hong Kong. Th
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新奇事件簿 澳大利亚宽带网络被鸟群袭击
Australia's high-speed, state-of-the-art broadband network is under attack from thousands of birds. The birds doing the damage are Australia's ubiquitous and colourful cockatoos. They have taken a liking for chewing the broadband cables that criss-cr
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新奇事件簿 可存放更长时间的冰淇淋即将问世
Scientists may have discovered something that could be very welcome news for ice cream lovers around the world. Their discovery is a new ingredient that could slow down the rate at which ice cream melts and gives the ice cream a smooth texture. It is
