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MAN FOR SALE - PRICE: $60 SYDNEY, Wednesday - A 34-year-old widower with four children, a furnished house at Newcastle, New South Wales, and a car, has offered to `sell' himself in marriage to a woman willing to pay him $60, the newspaper Newcastle Sun said today. The man says the woman should be between 28 and 36, `No beauty queens need apply'. - Evening Standard

Located in the Funny But True Stories section
Added: 04-04-2003

Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.

Located in the Fascinating Facts & Figures section
Added: 04-29-2008

Man Recovering After Fatal Accident

Located in the Funny Newspaper Headlines section
Added: 10-05-2006

Braille - which enables blind people to read was invented by Frenchman, Louis Braille around 1829.

Located in the Fascinating Facts & Figures section
Added: 05-02-2008

The other morning you reported that a small quantity of washing powder put in a duckpond would make all the ducks'sink to the bottom. My neigbbour's little boy put a whole packet in, but the ducks still went on swimming. It makes you wonder if you can believe everything you read in the newspapers. - Letter in Birmingham Gazette

Located in the Funny Peculiar Stories section
Added: 04-04-2003

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Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors.

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