Weird but true
This is your brain on Twitter.
Doctors at UCLA Medical Center took social media to a new height Thursday when they live-tweeted surgery to implant a pacemaker in the brain of a patient suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
They used Vine, Twitter’s new video-sharing service, to broadcast the operation on the 39-year-old patient.
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Folks on the town council in Ypsilanti, Mich., got fed up when their colleagues avoided making decisions on key issues by abstaining when they voted.
So they took up a resolution that would require council members to vote either “yes” or “no” on each issue, unless they had a financial or professional conflict.
The resolution failed when two members voted “yes,” two voted “no” — and three abstained.
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Bring me the head of Abraham Lincoln.
Officials at Lincoln HS in Portland, Ore., are investigating a school prank that dismembered a statue of the 16th president.
They suspect that students dropped the statue in the school gym when they tried moving it from the foreign-language wing on Wednesday night.
Now school officials say they plan to hire an artist to restore the head and repair the damage.
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It’s pie in the sky — all for a good cause.
A delivery of 30,000 pizza pies to military personnel in Afghanistan has been designated by Guinness World Records as the largest-ever pizza delivery.
The nonprofit group Pizza 4 Patriots was behind the donation.
Many of the pies were actually air-dropped to troops.
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You probably knew that Hans Olav Lahlum is a Norwegian historian, crime-novel author and chess master.
No? Well, now you know he’s the world-record holder for longest interview.
Lahlum, 39, spent more than 30 straight hours chatting in an online show for a Norwegian tabloid that ended Thursday. His final topic? US presidential elections since 1912.

