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In honor of 2010, here are 10 unusual traditions observed by different countries around the world.

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On Top of the World's Tallest Building (Video)

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If Friday the 13th is unlucky, then 2009 has been an unusually unlucky year. But your luck is about to change. Today is the last of three Friday the 13ths you'll have to endure this year.

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Four teenagers were cited by police after they rapped their order to a McDonald's drive-through.

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A sickly piglet who was saved from death by an animal rescue charity has befriended six dogs who helped raise her.

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It was full of details about a holiday in the sun but the only problem was the news was 40 years old.

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What better celebrity to bring in young viewers for the MTV Music Video Awards than President Obama? His soaring oratory awed starry-eyed teens across the nation in 2008, filling stadiums and hearts with hope. Obama was an easy choice to receive Video of the Year honors, even if Kanye West didn't agree.

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If you've ever been embarassed at something you've done while sleeping, say farting or wetting the bed, get ready to feel like a total lightweight compared with these folks.

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In today's instant gratification, news and gossip at our fingertips, it seems everyone wants their 15-minutes of fame. Their moment in the sun and their piece of the pie. And anyone with a webcam, iPhone, video recorder or any recording device, and access to a computer, can become an Internet sensation. Do you remember some of these?

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Horror flicks peddle in fear of the unknown. That's just how they work. And zombies are reliable precisely because we think they could never be; but could we be wrong? There's no actual proof to, well, prove that zombies could never come into being. On the contrary...

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A woman walked into a crowded Miami mall on Thursday and lit herself on fire as shocked shoppers watched in horror. The unidentified woman walked around the Mall of the Americas while lit and eventually made it out of the mall and into the parking lot, according to witnesses. Several concerned people who saw the amazing and disturbing sight were..

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Yeah.... this might just be the greatest picture in the HISTORY OF THE INTERNET!!!

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For the bar-headed goose, migration is a high-altitude adventure. Spring and fall it flies between Central Asia and India, a route that takes it over the highest mountains in the world, the Himalayas. The bird has been known to reach altitudes of 30,000 feet.

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Every couple of months you hear about some new, futuristic, awe-inducing building being built. And by

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Basically, the housemates had to pass a metal ring over a twisting electrified bar, and if the ring touched the bar, other housemates got an electric shock (hence the ridiculous suits, I believe). One of the guys just repeatedly touches the ring to the bar, intentionally shocking his housemates over and over again.

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At barely the height of a tea cup, Maltese terrier pup Scooter could well be the smallest dog in world!

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The Reebok Pump Omni Lite has suffered a great many injustices since Dee Brown won the 1991 NBA Slam Dunk Contest in the basic black-and-whites way back in 1991. But this Gremlins pack, inspired by the 1984 movie, may just have to jump straight to the top (or bottom) of the list.

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The water bottle was a nice touch

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Conspiracy theories have been around for generations but the internet has been a catalyst for thousands of theories about the world we live in, who is running it and why. From alien landing cover-ups to murder plots and tin foil hats, here are ten historical conspiracy theories still advocated today.

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An Ohio man said he chipped away loose material to prepare a pothole for repair and thought he was helping the city, not breaking the law. An undercover police officer spotted 81-year-old James Stacy in the street near Stacy's home with a pickax and a broom last week. Stacy said he cleared the 3-foot-wide hole because he expected a crew to patch it

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