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2. Rob Ford's spectacular fall from grace
Toronto mayor Rob Ford seems to be good for a story a day at the moment. Yesterday, his misdemeanour was to charge at a heckler during a heated political debate, only to knock over a female councillor en route to his target.
Here's Ford's 'greatest hits' in four scandal-riddled minutes.
3. How many of your memories are fake?
There are 50 people in the US with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory - an advanced and uncanny ability to remember dates and events.
Yet, as new research has shown, memory is fallible and prone to imagined embellishment. Even those with an apparently heightened sense of recollection are constantly filtering reality; providing their take on it.
Where does this leave us as existential humans using our memory to grip the world around us? And what are the consequences for the justice system, which puts such emphasis on the import of the eye-witness testimony.
4. The five best Monty Python sketches
Comedy troupe Monty Python are to reunite for a new stage show, which means you have ample excuse to sit back and watch each sketch in this collection of their best work .
5. Sit tight, it's a long way down
This could well be the most terrifying car journey ever. The video was posted by Mick Fowler on his Facebook wall .
6. Buildings that don't exist
WebUrbanist have found a succession of 'fake houses' in Paris, London and New York. The houses are actually just facades - normally to hide massive industrial air vents.
7. Niche-zsche interest site of the day
NietzscheFamilyCircus.com takes individual Family Circus cartoons and puts them against a random quote by Friedrich Nietzsche.
The results are frequently wonderful:
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